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.   

Celebration 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). No donations are to be made by children. Please do not send in a change of clothes for your child during the day as this is disruptive to the office staff and your child’s class.

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.

Payments Please remember to send payments in separate envelopes for dinner money and any school trips etc. Dinner money should be paid in advance and put in a clearly marked envelope (child’s name, class and amount).  Please remember there is a box in the office where you can bring in school dinner payments and “drop and go”.

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)