Newsletter No.34 11th June 2014

Congratulations to Junaid Sheikh from 3 Green who received a gold merit.

 

‘Writer of the week’ award was received by Isra Sher-Khan from 4 Blue.

 

‘Mathelete’ award was received by Daria Chiriacescu from 4 Yellow.

 

Staff Updating

I am pleased to welcome Joe Wilson, our new Assistant Headteacher, who joined the staff team last week. Joe has joined us from a very large     successful school from Newham. I am sure you will all welcome him along with the staff and children, and wish him well.

 

Yr 6 Glasbury Residential Trip

We saw our Year 6 children and staff return from this week long residential trip on Sunday, looking very tired after the very many physical activities. I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank all the staff who gave up their personal time, to take the children and for looking after them so well — Jade, Sheena, Aine, Sharifa, Jacob and Chris.

 

CFA Summer Fair Thurs 19th June 3.15pm-5pm

Plans are well underway for our Summer Fair. Once again, we will have a range of fun and exciting stalls for you to peruse and to help us raise money for the playgrounds. The theme this year is ’Traditional British’. Children are invited to bring in £1 and come dressed in non-uniform (red, white & blue), or in traditional old English attire. Year 5 children can bring in their donations of cupcakes from 16th-18th June.

 

If it rains, the event will be cancelled, as the school is now too big to move such an event inside.

 

Thank you for your donations of drinks, chocolates, crisps and prizes. Please continue to send them this week. We would welcome more donations, if you have not already sent anything in.

 

Please note Tokens for all Games will be on sale in the playground from this afternoon. They are 50p per token or £2 per strip of 5 tokens.

 
Attendance Figures For Last Week

Rec Blue          95.7%      Yr 3R    94.3%

Rec Green        96.7%      Yr 3Y    94.5%

Rec Red            96.2%      Yr 4B   99.3%

Rec Yellow       99%         Yr 4G   99.4%

Yr 1B                96.6%      Yr 4R   95.7%

Yr 1G                99.3%      Yr 4Y   98.2%

Yr 1R                94%         Yr 5B   98.1%

Yr 1Y                98.7%      Yr 5G   97.2%

Yr 2B                99%         Yr 5R   94.5%

Yr 2G                96.3%      Yr 5Y   95.7%   

Yr 2Ra              98.7%      Yr 6B   98.4%  

Yr 2R                95.9%      Yr 6G   99.6%  

Yr 2Y                93.3%      Yr 6R   98.7%  

Yr 3B                96.7%      Yr 6Y   99.3%

Yr 3G                96.2%     

 

Attendance

Well done to 6 Green for achieving 99.6%. Excellent! The overall percentage for the whole school was 97%, which is an improvement on last week. Well done. Keep it up!

 

Hot weather / Water bottles

Please may I remind parents and carers to send your child into school with a water bottle as it now seems to be getting hotter. Also, if your child suffers from hayfever, please give their medication before coming to school or leave the medication in the office with a member of office staff not with your child.

 

Redbridge Mini Games

On Wednesday 4th June children in Year 4 & Year 5 represented the School at the Redbridge Mini Games. All children thoroughly enjoyed the day and represented Cranbrook with pride and effort. Overall, we finished 20th out of 40 schools, which is a great improvement. I would like to personally thank all the children who participated in this event.

New Electronic Registering

From September 2014, all children in Reception, Year1 & Year 2 in state funded schools will receive a free school meal. In order to prepare for this we have implemented Electronic Dinner Registration which will be processed in class each morning, in order for the kitchen staff to have correct and accurate numbers to prepare lunch meals.

 

Annual Arts Festival

The following children will be representing the School tonight at our Annual Gants Hill Partnership Arts Festival. The School who are in the Alliance include Gearies, Highlands, Fullwood and St. Augustines Primary school: Hannah Uddin, Nicole Rozycke, Kamile Sarkaite, Dulce Jets, Kearon Caynes, Sofiya Khan-Ringshaw, Mehreen Rashid, Kajus Pilukas, Matthew Pokuah, Noor Jamil, Soumya Agrawal, Jannat Gol, Noholi Nisha, Maryam Ali, Jade Pokuah, Janvi Parekh, Sruthiga Premkumar, Manpreet Multani and Gursimran Kaur. Many thanks to Preeti for preparing the programme and the Dance Troup.

 

IT Workshop

Cranbrook is hosting an IT Workshop on 23th June from 9.30am-11am. If you would like help to set up an email account, download free apps, understand Facebook, finding out about how to keep track of what your child is looking at on the internet, set up parental controls and understand privacy settings. Please come along. Refreshments will be provided and certificates and goody bags will be awarded. To reserve a place or to find out more, please contact Beverley on 0208 518 2562.

 

E-Safety on the Internet

Parents, please monitor your child’s use of the internet as incidents of e-bullying are on the increase nationally.

 

Parent Survey

As stated in last week’s newsletter, the Staff Team and Governing Body are very grateful for any feedback we receive from parents, positive and negative, which enables us to identify our strengths and areas for improvement. You can provide your feedback by going to the school website and to the link for the Parent Questionnaire or by visiting the OFSTED website Parent View link. If you would like a paper copy of the survey, please ask the school office.

 

Colour Assemblies

There are no colour assemblies this week due to the ‘Happy Puzzle Company’, and next week due to the Summer Fair. Colour assemblies will resume on 19th June.

 

Uniform / Jewellery 

All Parents and Carers are reminded to send your child to school in uniform.    Recently, I have been disappointed to see that hoodies and jeans are being worn to school by some children.  

 

Nursery Sports Day / Teddy Bear’s Picnic

This year’s Sports Day for Nursery is 26th June from 10.30am-11.15am for AM children and 2.20pm-3.05pm for PM children. There will be a Teddy Bear’s picnic for nursery children on Wednesday 9th July.

 

Mountain Bike Display

On Monday, the children enjoyed an extreme mountain bike display. We were lucky to have champions performing stunts in our playground.

 

Dr Bike

Dr Bike will be visiting school on Friday 13th June to service the bikes for   children in Years 4, 5 & 6 who have returned reply slips. We hope to run further Dr Bike sessions for Years 1, 2 and 3 in the near future.

 

National Bike Week

As next week in National Bike Week, we will be entering a virtual bike race competing against 8 other Redbridge Bike. It would be fantastic if we can win so please encourage your child to cycle or scoot to school every day next week. We earn 1 point per cycle/scooter and can earn double points for the following:

·         Monday— BMX bikes

·         Tuesday— Mountain Bikes

·         Wednesday— Racing Bikes

·         Thursday— any French Decorated Bikes

·         Friday — if a family member cycles too

 

The winning Redbridge school will win a trip for 20 pupils to the Olympic Velopark Stratford for a coached cycle session and all competing pupils will be treated to a Bumper Biker’s Breakfast at school. Get cycling everyone!!

 

Dates For Your Diary

 

18th June   4R & 4B to British Musuem

18th June   Y6 to Hargreaves (2 classes)

19th June   Y6 to Hargreaves (2 classes)

19th June   Summer Fair (3.45-5pm)

20th June   4G & 4Y to British Musuem

24th June   Sports Day (am - Years 1-3 pm - Years 4-6)

26th June   Nursery Sports Day

9th July      Year 6 performance

9th July      Reception Sports Day

14th July    Y1 Southend (2 classes)

15th July    Whole school exhibition

16th July    Y4 Greek Day

16th July    Y1 Southend (2 classes)

17th July    Y2 performance to parents

18th July    Last day for nursery

23rd July    Year 6 final assembly (10am)

23rd July    Last day of school (finish at 2pm)

24th July    Summer break begins (school closed)