We come to the end of yet another school term and time seems to be flying. Once again it has been a very busy, yet productive term and I am pleased to report on the school’s continued successes in the following areas:
• An increasingly improving reputation within the local community, with long waiting lists at all year groups.
• The continuing good behaviour and attitude of our pupils.
• The continued support and engagement of parents and the local community in the school’s drive for improvements and in fundraising events.
• The recent and past CFA/school events and the Diversity Celebration Event—what a great response!
• The stable staff team and the governing body that remains committed to furthering the work of the school and it’s achievements.
Our priorities remain:
• Improving children's reading, writing and mathematics skills.
• More able pupils to achieve higher grades.
• Parking!! Improving the behaviour of some parents in the car park.
• Attendance.
• Our journey to outstanding.
Spring Break Please remember that the last day of term is Thursday 28th March and school will finish at the usual time. The summer term will begin Monday 15th April.
Congratulations to the following writers of the week: Aleena Khawaja, Rabia Latif, Alexia Pokam Demoussinga, Maria Hoque, Ria Sharma, Bavneet Sagoo, Eshal Ahmed, Eliza Younis, Isha Uddin, Dayan Mustafa, Prince Lilitha Tingwe, Yusuf Ahmed, Haaris Usman, Jasbir Lohia, Aliyah Kokkoz, Isa Mahroof and Iqra Mahmood.
Gold Awards were received by Ismail Khalil, Dua Sheikh, Mahdi Khan, Khaleel Mamsa, Jourdain Jhagroo– Bryan, Maya Parzysz, Amaan Sayed, Zohaib Mehmood, Omshiv Thakeha, Kasturi Rasakumar, Ranco Mahmood, Darsshini Akula, Abit Bhullar, Taibah Shaikh, Sophia Digwa and Dharam Singh.
‘Mathletes’ awards were received by Mohammed Younas Hussain, Sophia Ullah, Hajrah Shehzadi, Abdul Basit Siddiqui, Lakshmidar Brahma, Maryam Bint Imran, Sanjieth Bala, Eesha Vashisht, Iveta Pohlodkova, Izan Bhullar, Vinay Patel, Taha Chowdhury and Maya Paul.
Well done to all of you, keep up the good work, children!
Staffing Update This week we say a fond farewell to Ruth Williams, an outstanding music teacher, Harriet from the school office, who is moving onto new pastures, and Martha, who starts her maternity leave. I am sure you will all join me in wishing them well.
Attendance Figures For Last Week
Rec Blue 94.5% Yr 3B 93%
Rec Green 89% Yr 3G 94.3%
Rec Red 79.8% Yr 3R 95.7%
Rec Yellow 89.3% Yr 3Y 96%
Yr 1B 94.5% Yr 4B 91.4%
Yr 1G 86.3% Yr 4G 91.4%
Yr 1R 95.7% Yr 4R 96.7%
Yr 1Y 86.9% Yr 4Y 96.2%
Yr 1Ra 96.5% Yr 5B 96.3%
Yr 2B 94.5% Yr 5G 94.8%
Yr 2G 90.3% Yr 5R 89.7%
Yr 2R 91.4% Yr 5Y 92.7%
Yr 2Y 91.3% Yr 6G 91.6%
Yr 6R 95.3%
Attendance Well done to class 4 Red who achieved 96.7%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 92.4%.
Fronter Don’t forget to login to Fronter at www.fronter.com/redbridge.
Holidays Any holidays taken during school time will not be authorised by the Headteacher. The Local Authority will issue a fine (per child) of £60 which will increase to £120, if not paid within 28 days.
Cycling Events Update We ran further Dr Bike and Beginners Cycling sessions yesterday and the final sessions will take place on Wednesday 17th April. Slips went home yesterday for those children who are invited to attend Dr Bike. Thank you for taking part in our cycling events this term. We are hoping to launch further cycling initiatives in the near future including a cycling club and loaning our pool bikes. Watch this space!
Sainsbury Vouchers We are collecting the Active Kids vouchers from which will allow us to obtain free sports equipment for the school. Please send them in with your child or hand them into the school office.
Have a great Easter break, everyone!
Dates For Your Diary
29th Mar– 12th April Spring Break
15th April School re-opens
23rd April St. George’s Day (non-uniform red or white)
6th May Bank Holiday
24th May Inset (school closed to pupils)
27th -31st May Half-term
24th July Last day of term
25th July Inset (school closed to pupils)
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Thursday 14 March 2013
Newsletter No 24 13th March 2013
Congratulations to the following writers of the week: Nicole Rozycka, Romziyah Mohammad-Noah, Jack Bowen, Alisha Jahangir, Jameela Macmillan, Imam Ahmed, Abdurraheem Shoaib, Mahliqa Zubair, Taaj Mohammad Akbari, Junaid Sheikh, Jawad Islam, Lakshya Kumar, Jannah Khan, Yusuf Rahman, Alvi Hussain, San Aiden Singh, Omshiv Thakeria, Uzair Hussain, Isa Dadabhai, Taha Amin, Taha Chowdhury, Lina Khemili and Amar Kaur-Butterfield who was one of the writers of the week last week.
Gold Awards were awarded to Tauhid Islam, Kawsar Ahmed and Wali Mustafa.
A WOW Class Of The Month Award For Walking To School was awarded to class 6 Red.
Well done to all of you!
Diversity Celebrations As you know our diversity celebrations will take place over two days and will end with an International Extravaganza on Tuesday 19th March from 3-5pm. Tickets will include sample food tasting, arts and crafts activities and entry to the Cranbrook Variety Show which will begin at 4pm. Tickets will be available to purchase on the day if the event is outside. Due to the weather we are unsure whether the event will take place in the main hall or playground, therefore a reduced number of tickets have been released. We will release more when we know more about the weather. Please note - as the event begins at 3pm, school will finish at 2.45pm for all pupils. If the event is held in the playground classes will be dismissed from the front or side of the school and NOT the playground - please see the plan (which is on a separate A5 sheet). If the event is held in the main hall dismissal will be from the usual place for classes and entrance to the event will be via the main hall in the car park. If you are not able to collect your child at 2.45pm please inform the class teacher, so that we may make arrangements for him/her.
Attendance Figures For Last Week
Rec Blue 92% Yr 3B 92.8%
Rec Green 92.7% Yr 3G 94%
Rec Red 91.6% Yr 3R 94.1%
Rec Yellow 88.8% Yr 3Y 93.3%
Yr 1B 91.5% Yr 4B 94.6%
Yr 1G 95% Yr 4G 93.4%
Yr 1R 93.5% Yr 4R 91.7%
Yr 1Y 90.9% Yr 4Y 94.6%
Yr 1Ra 90.8% Yr 5B 94.3%
Yr 2B 92.9% Yr 5G 93.5%
Yr 2G 92.2% Yr 5R 90.8%
Yr 2R 93.3% Yr 5Y 92.7%
Yr 2Y 91.6% Yr 6G 92.9%
Yr 6R 93.4%
Attendance Well done to class 1 Green who achieved 95%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 92.7%.
Car Park I am absolutely appalled at the behaviour of a minority of parents with their dangerous driving, parking and atrocious behaviour towards one another. Once again we have had complaints and observed this ourselves. HAVE SOME DECENCY, PEOPLE!! :(
Parents’ Evening for Nursery - Year 5 Please remember that parents evening is on Thursday 14th March.
World Book Day It was fantastic to see so many children dress up as their favourite book character last week. The classes took part in lots of literary related activities. A great time was had by all! I would like to take the opportunity to thank all staff for their contribution, especially the literacy team led by Aine, Ian and Samantha.
Fronter Have you logged onto Fronter? Have you tried any of the activities? What do you think of the activities? We would like to hear your views. If you can share your experience of Fronter and tell us what you like or make any suggestions, please come to outside the Year 2 Green classroom during parents evening to complete a mini survey and post in the Fronter box.
The Big Pedal Thank you to the 78 children who cycled and scooted to school on Friday. Our very first Biker’s Breakfast was popular, Dr Bike was busy fixing bikes and some of our Year 3 children enjoyed Beginners Cycling Sessions.
Our next Big Pedal event is on Wednesday 20th March and again, all children who cycle or scoot to school will receive a raffle ticket and are invited to join our Biker’s Breakfast in the small hall from 8.30am. The Dr Bike session is now full and slips have been sent home to those allocated a place. If your child has not received a slip, you do not have a place. Bikes should be clearly labelled and left in the gym area in the playground. Beginners cycling sessions will take place for more of our Year 3 and 4 children.
We will be running another Dr Bike session and more beginners sessions so that all who signed up can take part at a later date.
Instrument Lessons If your child receives violin lessons from Bradley , he will not be teaching on Tuesday 26th March as he will be acting as an examiner for the Music Service.
14th March Parents’ Evening
15th March St. Patrick’s Day (non-uniform—Green theme)
19th March Talent show
27th March Y1 Performance
29th Mar– 12th April Spring Break
15th April School re-opens
6th May Bank Holiday
24th May Inset (school closed to pupils)
27th -31st May Half-term
24th July Last day of term
25th July Inset (school closed to pupils)
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Newsletter No.23 6th March 2013
Congratulations to the following writers of the week: Tariq Khemili, Alexia Pokam Demoussinga, Sara Seedat, Yaseen Khan, Surenthiran Kavin, Hannah Uddin, Fatima Achha, Tharun Vivekanandarajah, Mahir Jabir, Amaan Ahmed, Deva Nandan Cherukat, Hafsa Bint-Imran, Megan Evans, Hamza Siddique, Iqra Tasnia, Noor Wahid, Zaara Ayub, Ritika Bisht, Alvi Hussain, Yusuf Rahman, Kiran Lalli, Sharufa Musuyi, Ishma Shaikh & Sai Gadvi.
Maths Awards were received by: Zara Ross-Sattar, Jayden Jacobus, Harnij Singh, Jayashanthan Saravanan, Jessica Okworu, Rikhwit Rajan, Virandeep Khosa & Jawad Islam. Gold Awards were received by Kasturi Rasakumar, Priya Khosla, Aditya Verma, Lina Khemili, Stefan Benjamin & Ailyya Aziz. Headteachers awards were awarded to Muhammed Zohaib Rashid (1Y), Said Ahmadi (RG) & Shayaan Younis (2R).
Well done to all of you!
Staffing Update Following Patrick’s departure from the school office, I am pleased to inform you that we have been successful in appointing replacements, not only to carry out reception and first aid duties, but also to target monitoring of attendance. I am also pleased to report that 2 class teachers have been appointed to cover Julia’s (RG) and Martha’s (1Y) maternity leave, which will begin towards the end of April. I hope you will join me in welcoming Jasjeet, Satti, Richard and Bienth to the admin team, and Anisah and Denise to the teaching team.
Celebration Day Thank you for supporting our “Red Day” in celebration of St. David’s Day. Our next date to note in your diary is “Green Day” on Friday 15th March, where we are inviting pupils to wear non-uniform with a green theme in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day (which is on 17th March).
Parking We have yet again received complaints from neighbours regarding the behaviour of our parents. Please do not park across the driveways of residents. We also received a complaint of a parent throwing cans out of their car window and driving away. Please show some consideration for others and be a positive role model for your child.
Attendance Figures For Last Week
Rec Blue 89.5% Yr 3B 91.7%
Rec Green 95% Yr 3G 96.7%
Rec Red 89.6% Yr 3R 95%
Rec Yellow 93.3% Yr 3Y 92.5%
Yr 1B 96.1% Yr 4B 96.7%
Yr 1G 90% Yr 4G 95.7%
Yr 1R 97.5% Yr 4R 94.8%
Yr 1Y 83.3% Yr 4Y 97%
Yr 1Ra 84.3% Yr 5B 93.8%
Yr 2B 93.1% Yr 5G 93.3%
Yr 2G 95.7% Yr 5R 93.5%
Yr 2R 94% Yr 5Y 94.4%
Yr 2Y 94.6% Yr 6G 91.1%
Yr 6R 92.5%
Attendance Well done to class 1 Red who achieved 97.5%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 93.1%. Congratulations to class 3 Green who received £10 for achieving the highest attendance for February 2013. Well done!
Colour Assembly Please remember that the class assemblies are now as follows:
9.10am: Green classes (main hall), Blue & Rainbow classes (dance studio)
2.40pm: Yellow classes (dance studio), Red classes (main hall)
Parents’ Evening for Nursery - Year 5 If you have not already done so, please can you complete and return your child’s slip so that a time can be allocated for the meeting on Thursday 14th March.
Redbridge Mini Games 46 children from the school took part in the Redbridge Mini Games on Wednesday 27th February. The children participated in football, netball, handball, tri-golf, hockey and basketball. This resulted in the children successfully securing 10 wins against the other schools. As always, the children were all extremely well behaved and demonstrated excellent teamwork and sportsmanship. A number of other school teachers and some of the referees commented on how well the children represented Cranbrook. Well done everyone!
Diversity Celebrations As you know our diversity celebrations will take place over two days and will end with an International Extravaganza on Tuesday 19th March from 3-5pm. Tickets will cost 50p for a child and £1.50 for an adult ticket. Your ticket will include sample food tasting, arts and crafts activities and entry to the Cranbrook Variety Show which will begin at 4pm. Tickets are available to purchase after school from our CFA members and class representatives (they will be wearing yellow jackets). Due to the weather we are unsure whether the event will take place in the main hall or playground, therefore a reduced number of tickets will be released. We will release more when we know more about the weather. Hurry to snap up the last few tickets!
Attached to this letter will be a cooking homework project. No additional homework will be given over the next two weeks (except for Year 6).
Class Representatives If you are a class rep, there will be a meeting on Wednesday 13th March at 9.10am.
Fronter Most of you should be familiar with Fronter and using some of the activities that have been set up for your child. We will be looking to see who has participated in class forums and the results of any voting activities where applicable. Please log onto www.fronter.com/redbridge.
ISS Caterhouse Further to press reports regarding the provision of meat in school lunches, ISS Caterhouse have reassured us that they will continue to ensure that all their products meet the Silver Award guarantee. An update from ISS will be placed on our website for parents information.
A Reminder If your child takes a packed lunch to school, please can you remember NOT to send food items in glass containers.
The Big Pedal Thank you to all the children who cycled or scooted to school on the first Big Pedal Day last week. This week, Big Pedal Day is on 8th March and again, we would like children to cycle or scoot to school. Everyone who cycles or scoots will be given a raffle ticket for our prize draw and is invited to come along to our first Bikers Breakfast in the small hall from 8.30am. Dr Bike will be in the playground servicing and repairing the bikes of those children in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 who returned their forms on Monday and Tuesday. Finally, we are offering beginners cycling sessions to children in Years 3 and 4. This will be during class time and bikes will be provided by the school. What an exciting day! The final Big Pedal Day is on 20th March and will include raffle tickets, Bikers Breakfast, Dr Bike for those children in Reception, Years 1 and 2 who returned their forms on Monday and more cycling sessions for Years 3 and 4. Please be aware that the Dr Bike session is fully booked and only those children who returned slips on Monday have a place. We are hoping to arrange another session for those who missed out. The prize draw will take place in assembly on Friday 22nd March.
Dates For Your Diary
14th March Parents’ Evening
15th March St. Patrick’s Day (non- uniform—Green theme)
19th March Talent show
27th March Y1 Performance
29th Mar– 12th April Spring Break
15th April School re-opens
6th May Bank Holiday
24th May Inset (school closed to pupils)
27th -31st May Half-term
24th July Last day of term
25th July Inset (school closed to pupils)
Maths Awards were received by: Zara Ross-Sattar, Jayden Jacobus, Harnij Singh, Jayashanthan Saravanan, Jessica Okworu, Rikhwit Rajan, Virandeep Khosa & Jawad Islam. Gold Awards were received by Kasturi Rasakumar, Priya Khosla, Aditya Verma, Lina Khemili, Stefan Benjamin & Ailyya Aziz. Headteachers awards were awarded to Muhammed Zohaib Rashid (1Y), Said Ahmadi (RG) & Shayaan Younis (2R).
Well done to all of you!
Staffing Update Following Patrick’s departure from the school office, I am pleased to inform you that we have been successful in appointing replacements, not only to carry out reception and first aid duties, but also to target monitoring of attendance. I am also pleased to report that 2 class teachers have been appointed to cover Julia’s (RG) and Martha’s (1Y) maternity leave, which will begin towards the end of April. I hope you will join me in welcoming Jasjeet, Satti, Richard and Bienth to the admin team, and Anisah and Denise to the teaching team.
Celebration Day Thank you for supporting our “Red Day” in celebration of St. David’s Day. Our next date to note in your diary is “Green Day” on Friday 15th March, where we are inviting pupils to wear non-uniform with a green theme in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day (which is on 17th March).
Parking We have yet again received complaints from neighbours regarding the behaviour of our parents. Please do not park across the driveways of residents. We also received a complaint of a parent throwing cans out of their car window and driving away. Please show some consideration for others and be a positive role model for your child.
Attendance Figures For Last Week
Rec Blue 89.5% Yr 3B 91.7%
Rec Green 95% Yr 3G 96.7%
Rec Red 89.6% Yr 3R 95%
Rec Yellow 93.3% Yr 3Y 92.5%
Yr 1B 96.1% Yr 4B 96.7%
Yr 1G 90% Yr 4G 95.7%
Yr 1R 97.5% Yr 4R 94.8%
Yr 1Y 83.3% Yr 4Y 97%
Yr 1Ra 84.3% Yr 5B 93.8%
Yr 2B 93.1% Yr 5G 93.3%
Yr 2G 95.7% Yr 5R 93.5%
Yr 2R 94% Yr 5Y 94.4%
Yr 2Y 94.6% Yr 6G 91.1%
Yr 6R 92.5%
Attendance Well done to class 1 Red who achieved 97.5%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 93.1%. Congratulations to class 3 Green who received £10 for achieving the highest attendance for February 2013. Well done!
Colour Assembly Please remember that the class assemblies are now as follows:
9.10am: Green classes (main hall), Blue & Rainbow classes (dance studio)
2.40pm: Yellow classes (dance studio), Red classes (main hall)
Parents’ Evening for Nursery - Year 5 If you have not already done so, please can you complete and return your child’s slip so that a time can be allocated for the meeting on Thursday 14th March.
Redbridge Mini Games 46 children from the school took part in the Redbridge Mini Games on Wednesday 27th February. The children participated in football, netball, handball, tri-golf, hockey and basketball. This resulted in the children successfully securing 10 wins against the other schools. As always, the children were all extremely well behaved and demonstrated excellent teamwork and sportsmanship. A number of other school teachers and some of the referees commented on how well the children represented Cranbrook. Well done everyone!
Diversity Celebrations As you know our diversity celebrations will take place over two days and will end with an International Extravaganza on Tuesday 19th March from 3-5pm. Tickets will cost 50p for a child and £1.50 for an adult ticket. Your ticket will include sample food tasting, arts and crafts activities and entry to the Cranbrook Variety Show which will begin at 4pm. Tickets are available to purchase after school from our CFA members and class representatives (they will be wearing yellow jackets). Due to the weather we are unsure whether the event will take place in the main hall or playground, therefore a reduced number of tickets will be released. We will release more when we know more about the weather. Hurry to snap up the last few tickets!
Attached to this letter will be a cooking homework project. No additional homework will be given over the next two weeks (except for Year 6).
Class Representatives If you are a class rep, there will be a meeting on Wednesday 13th March at 9.10am.
Fronter Most of you should be familiar with Fronter and using some of the activities that have been set up for your child. We will be looking to see who has participated in class forums and the results of any voting activities where applicable. Please log onto www.fronter.com/redbridge.
ISS Caterhouse Further to press reports regarding the provision of meat in school lunches, ISS Caterhouse have reassured us that they will continue to ensure that all their products meet the Silver Award guarantee. An update from ISS will be placed on our website for parents information.
A Reminder If your child takes a packed lunch to school, please can you remember NOT to send food items in glass containers.
The Big Pedal Thank you to all the children who cycled or scooted to school on the first Big Pedal Day last week. This week, Big Pedal Day is on 8th March and again, we would like children to cycle or scoot to school. Everyone who cycles or scoots will be given a raffle ticket for our prize draw and is invited to come along to our first Bikers Breakfast in the small hall from 8.30am. Dr Bike will be in the playground servicing and repairing the bikes of those children in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 who returned their forms on Monday and Tuesday. Finally, we are offering beginners cycling sessions to children in Years 3 and 4. This will be during class time and bikes will be provided by the school. What an exciting day! The final Big Pedal Day is on 20th March and will include raffle tickets, Bikers Breakfast, Dr Bike for those children in Reception, Years 1 and 2 who returned their forms on Monday and more cycling sessions for Years 3 and 4. Please be aware that the Dr Bike session is fully booked and only those children who returned slips on Monday have a place. We are hoping to arrange another session for those who missed out. The prize draw will take place in assembly on Friday 22nd March.
Dates For Your Diary
14th March Parents’ Evening
15th March St. Patrick’s Day (non- uniform—Green theme)
19th March Talent show
27th March Y1 Performance
29th Mar– 12th April Spring Break
15th April School re-opens
6th May Bank Holiday
24th May Inset (school closed to pupils)
27th -31st May Half-term
24th July Last day of term
25th July Inset (school closed to pupils)
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