Wednesday 8 January 2014

Newsletter No.16 8th January 2014


Welcome back and a happy new year to you all. I hope you had a lovely Christmas break and wish you all a happy, healthy and successful 2014!
Priorities This Term We continue to work on improving the children’s understanding of mathematical language and their reading comprehension skills. We would ask that parents support us with this at home when reading with your child or discussing mathematical word problems with them. If you would like further information about this, please do not hesitate to ask the class teacher.
Congratulations to Aadhi Velmurugan and Ryan Phelan (both in nursery) who were awarded Headteachers awards.
Class Information Sessions As usual, these will begin next week and will take place at 9.10am in the main hall. The session will provide you with information about this term’s learning theme for your child’s class. Please make every effort to attend. The dates for year groups are as follows:
13th January - Year 1                                              
14th January - Year 5                                               
15th January - Year 4                                               
16th January - Reception classes                               
17th January - Year 3                                              
20th January - Year 2                                                   
21st January - Year 6 (including SATs workshop)
Clubs We will be holding a Club Enrolment Day on Thursday 9th January (between 3.15-3.45pm) in the main hall. If your child has been allocated a club, this will give you an opportunity to meet the club providers and pay any monies due. If your child has not been allocated a club, there are still places available in some clubs. Please come along and check availability and register.

Attendance Figures For The Last Week Of Term
Rec Blue       91%                Yr 3R  92.3%
Rec Green    98%                Yr 3Y  99%
Rec Red        94.3%             Yr 4B  94%
Rec Yellow   95.7%             Yr 4G  95.7%
Yr 1B              91.9%             Yr 4R 98%
Yr 1G              92.4%             Yr 4Y 91.3%
Yr 1R              90.7%             Yr 5B 92.3%
Yr 1Y              97.9%             Yr 5G 93%
Yr 2B              95%                Yr 5R 97.4%
Yr 2G              92%                Yr 5Y 97.7%   
Yr 2Ra           86.2%             Yr 6B 90.3%  
Yr 2R              87.9%             Yr 6G 87.1%  
Yr 2Y              89.4%             Yr 6R 85.2%  
Yr 3B              94%                Yr 6Y 96.7%
Yr 3G              95.6%
Attendance Well done to class 3 Yellow for achieving 99%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 93.2%.
Unauthorised Absence I would remind parents that if your child has 12 sessions of unauthorised absence recorded throughout the academic year, the Local Authority will issue you with a penalty notice. The notice incurs a fine of £120 which is reduced to £60 if it is paid within 21 days. Penalty notices may be considered in the first instance for leave of absence taken without permission of the Headteacher which will result in £120 fine per parent, per child (reducing to £60 per parent, per child if paid within 21 days).
Open school All parents will have the opportunity to come into school on Tuesday 21st January to view their child’s books with him/her and find out what targets he/she is working on. I hope that you can come along to this event.
 
Colour Assemblies will commence from Thursday 23rd January and will be as follows:
9.10am-9.35am - Red classes (Hall) Yellow classes (Dance studio)
2.40-3.05pm - Blue & Rainbow classes (Hall) Green classes (Dance studio)
Please note the changes above.
Important - Change of Inset Date Please note that the school will be closed to pupils for Inset on 24th February, NOT the 14th February. Apologies for any inconvenience that this change of date may cause.
Uniform Please ensure that your child comes to school in uniform (jade sweatshirt or plain grey jumper/cardigan, white polo shirt and grey trousers/skirt). Headscarves should be plain black or white, not printed. No jewellery should be worn, unless for religious reasons.
Birthday Treats If you are sending in sweet treats for the class in celebration on your child’s birthday, please ensure that they are vegetarian and nut free, as we have a number of children who have allergies or dietary requirements.

Dates For Your Diary
21st January Open School
24th January CFA meeting (2pm)
5-6th Feb       Y1 trip to the Toy Museum
17-21st Feb  Half term (school closed)
24th February Inset (school closed to pupils)
7th-18th April  Spring Break (school closed)
21st April        Bank Holiday (school closed)
5th May           Bank Holiday (school closed)
23rd May         Inset (school closed to pupils)
26th-30th May Half term (school closed)
24th July        Summer break begins (school closed)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 

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