Newsletter No. 11 19th November 2014

Congratulations to the following Writers of the Week:

Zoha Ayub, Zarin Zara, Kayshhan Bala, D’mari Reid, Zara Chaudhury, Moez Zaman, Olivia Grzesiakowska, Masfee AhmedHudeyfah Mohamed, Ibraheem Abou-El-Seoud, Talia Mishkin, Tasfiq Mohammad, Aliyah Awan, Eesha Vashisht, Julia Kaluzna, Sameer Shah, Hamza Ahmed, Maya Radu, Umar Patel, Shanzay Khan, Aman Singh Birdi, Laiba Ahmed, Daren Sungalee, Aliya Patel.

 

‘Mathlete’ awards were received by: Habeel Khan, Rishan Roy, Usman Mian, Aatif Goni, Sara Hussain, Tania Rahman, Sukhraj Paul, Evelina Kaupaite, Sarim Safraz, Amani Miah, Mohammed Harris, Disha Bose, Maharshi Parekh, Mindaugas Larcenka, Jack Bowen, Mohammad Zayyan Malik, Nicolas Vatafu, Madiha Nadeem, Akeesha Sultana, Sana Naushad , San Aiden Singh, Rasha Safraz, Nawaz Mumin, Yuvraj Singh, Daniaal Mahmud, Saad Khan.

 

Headteachers award was received by: Walid Hassan (RB) and Pavanveer Landa (RB)

Well done to you all!

 

Children In Need was a huge success! Thank you to all who supported us in all our activities, we raised approximately £3000!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all staff who gave up their personal time to stay overnight for the Year 5 Sleepover last Friday.

 

Well done to Aiza Ahmad, Mariyam Malik and Wiktoria Gruszcynska from Year 6 Red who raised £71.42p for Children In Need from family and friends.

 

Well done to everybody!

 

Attendance Figures For Last Week:

 

Rec Blue       75.3%             Yr 3Rain    96.3%

Rec Green  91.9%               Yr 3Y         96.3%

Rec Red        94.7%             Yr 4B        98.6%

Rec Yellow   96.3%             Yr 4G        97.2%

Yr 1B              94.3%             Yr 4R       96.7%

Yr 1G              98.3%             Yr 4Y       92.7%

Yr 1R              89.0%             Yr 5B       93.1%

Yr 1Y              96.0%             Yr 5G       96.5%

Yr 2B              94.8%             Yr 5R       98.3%

Yr 2G              91.6%             Yr 5Y        98.3%   

Yr 2R              92.4%             Yr 6B       96.7%  

Yr 2Y              89.7%             Yr 6G       98.1%  

Yr 3B              97.2%             Yr 6R       98.7%  

Yr 3G              99.0%             Yr 6Y       96.5%

Yr 3R              94.5%

 

Attendance Well done to class for Year 3 Green achieving 99%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 94.8%.

 

Makaton/Communicating Focus There will be a coffee morning on the 1st December at 9am, especially for the nursery and reception parents. This will be an opportunity to learn about the use of sign language and how it develops your child’s spoken language.

 

Autism Friendly Shopping Event There will be a special event in every Toys R Us stores on 30th November from 9am to 11am. This is a great chance to enjoy some Christmas shopping with your children, it is exclusive to parents with children with additional needs.

 

Hand Gel Reminder It has come to my notice that some children are bringing in hand gel that is alcohol based. Parents, please make sure you do not give such items to your children, as some children are passing them around to their friends. Staff will confiscate them if they see a child with it.

 

Parent Questionnaire Please go on the school website link to ‘Parent View’ where you can confidentially give your views on the school’s strengths and weaknesses.

 

Please also note, if you wish to speak to a governor, contact details can be obtained from the school office.

 

We value your input in our strive towards further school improvement.

 

Date Error for the CFA Movie Night On the 11th December, once again we will be organising a Movie Night for the children as our CFA Fund Raising Event this term. The wrong date went out in previous communication, for which I would like to apologise.

Last year in total we raised over £14,000! The money was used to develop the Adventure Playground for all children to enjoy doing their time at the school.

This year we would like to build on this success and will send out a letter with more details by the end of the week.

 

Reception Admissions 2015 If your child’s birthday is between 1st September 2010 and 31^st August 2011, you can now apply online for a primary school place by visiting the Redbridge website www.redbridge.gov.uk and use the link to eAdmissions. If you are not a Redbridge resident you will need to apply via your own Council (even for a Redbridge school). The deadline for online applications is Thursday 15th January 2015 at 11.59pm. Please note, you will only be allocated a place if your child meets the admissions criteria. Please read it carefully.

 

Change of date for the Christmas Performance for Nursery and Reception Classes Unfortunately, due to clashes in the school diary, we have had to change the    performance date to 10th December 2014, the times are:

10am Morning Nursery and Reception Red and Green.

2pm Afternoon Nursery and Reception Yellow and Blue.

I would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.             

Dates For Your Diary

 

19th/20th             Year 2 trip to The Monument

25th/26th             Year 1 trip to The Toy Museum

1st Dec               MAKATON Coffee morning 9am Nursery and Reception Parents

10th Dec              Nursery and Reception Performance                                                                            10am Nursery AM and Reception Red and Green    

                             2pm Nursery PM and Reception Yellow and Blue        

11th Dec              CFA Event

W/B 15th Dec       Christmas Parties

22nd Dec-4th Jan    Christmas Break

5th Jan                   Pupils return to school     

16th-20th Feb         Half-term (school closed)

23rd Feb                 Inset (school closed to pupils)

3rd - 17th April        Spring Break (school closed)

4th May                   Bank Holiday (school closed)

25th-29th May         Half-term (school closed)

1st June                  Inset (school closed)

23rd July                 School closed

Newsletter No.10 12th November 2014

Congratulations to the following Writers of the Week: Ifrah Khan, Amrit Assi, Hafsah Moosa, Kristen Caynes, Fareed Kirode, Ridwan Hussain, Mohammad Sarim Safrz, Rishana Maninathan, Amrita Jutley, Eesha Vashist, Mindaugas Larcenka, Christina Mataj, Fallou Diaby, Mohammad Rafay, Laiba Ali, Adam Ahmed, Hassan Kazmi, Asha Birdi, Anisha Ahmed.

 

‘Mathlete’ awards were received by: Mustavi Emdad, Dilpreet Singh, Saanvi Hosmani, Karandeep Singh, Adas Sarkunas, Hamdan Hamdan, Safiya Basit, Haalah Anwar,Sahr Ahmed, Rozia Bibi, Afsana Uddin, Hammad Rashid, Viria Quifica Da Silva, Mehreen Rashid, Kuwaysah Tariq, Maariya Jamil, Isha Choudhury, Akif Latif, Danial Mahmood.

 

Headteachers Awards was received by: Zaina Kazmi (NPM)

 

Well done to you all!

 

Children In Need On Friday, all children are invited to come in non-uniform dressed as ‘super heroes’ and donate money for Children In Need. Pizzas, samosas and cakes will be on sale at the end of the day. In addition, a limited number of Year 5 pupils will be staying over for a sleepover and other fun activities in the hall. There are a few spaces still remaining. Please let the office have your child’s name by Thursday if you are interested.

 

Please help us beat our record of £3000 from last year. We will also be doing a ‘money trail’ and children are invited to bring in any loose change that you can spare. The class that raises the highest amount will receive a prize. Year groups will also be running activities over the following week, please support them and give generously.

 

Attendance Figures For Last Week:

 

Rec Blue       93.8%             Yr 3Rain  96.7%

Rec Green    92.9%             Yr 3Y        92.5%

Rec Red        98.8%             Yr 4B       98.7%

Rec Yellow   99.2%             Yr 4G       89.1%

Yr 1B              89.2%             Yr 4R       97.1%

Yr 1G              100%              Yr 4Y       97.9%

Yr 1R              91.3%             Yr 5B       97.8%

Yr 1Y              97.9%             Yr 5G       89.5%

Yr 2B              96.4%             Yr 5R       95.7%

Yr 2G              90.3%             Yr 5Y        91.7%   

Yr 2R              94.0%             Yr 6B       97.9%  

Yr 2Y              99.2%             Yr 6G       85.9%  

Yr 3B              97.4%             Yr 6R       99.2%  

Yr 3G              95.0%             Yr 6Y       96.0%

Yr 3R              97.8%

 

Attendance Well done to class Year 1 Green for achieving 100%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 95.1%. Well done!

 

Colour Assemblies will restart on Thursday 13th November. Instead of running assemblies every week, they will take place fortnightly as follows:

13th November                                            

9.10-9.35am Dance Studio-Blue & Rainbow classes                                                       

9.10-9.35am Main Hall - Green classes

20th November

9.10-9.35am Dance Studio -Red classes

9.10-9.35am Main Hall-Yellow classes

All parents are invited to attend.

Paperless Newsletter We have now stopped sending paper copies out. Please remember, if you still want a paper copy of the newsletter, you may collect one from the school office. The newsletter will be on the school website by the end of each Wednesday.

 

Sibling Photographs All children should be in full school uniform for the photographs on the 17th November. This is for children where there is more than 1 child at the school.

 

Reporting Absences Parents, please remember that you can report your child’s absence by text message to 07860004994. Please note this number is only used for reporting absences and not to be used for general messages. Absences must be reported on the morning of the first day of absence. In some cases we will request medical evidence if the absence is lengthy or too frequent.

 

I would like to remind parents that if your child has 12 sessions of unauthorised absence recorded throughout the half term period, the Local Authority will issue you with a penalty notice.

 

All holidays during term time, also lead to a fine of £120 per child per parent.

 

Reception Admissions 2015 If your child’s birthday is between 1st September 2010 and 31st August 2011, you can now apply online for a primary school place by visiting the Redbridge website www.redbridge.gov.uk and use the link to eAdmissions. If you are not a Redbridge resident you will need to apply via your own Council (even for a Redbridge school).The deadline for online applications is Thursday 15th January 2015 at 11.59pm. Please note, you will only be allocated a place if your child meets the admissions criteria. Please read it carefully.

 

Parent Questionnaire Thank you so much to all parents who completed the paper copy of the feedback survey at the Parents Evening this week. We will also have copies at next week’s session of Parents Evening. You can also collect a copy from the school office.

I would also encourage you to go on the school website link to ‘Parent View’ where you can confidentially give your views.

Please also note, if you wish to speak to a governor, contact details can be obtained from the school office.

Parking Please can the owners of the following vehicles not park illegally on the double yellow lines or be so inconsiderate of others:

Silver four door car BK54 BKO

Black Range Rover MA09 JKF

 

Dates For Your Diary

 

11th / 18th Nov          Parents meetings

14th Nov                    Non-uniform for children

17th Nov                    School Sibling Photographs

11th Dec                    Nursery and Reception Performance

11th Dec                    CFA Event

22nd Dec-4th Jan       Christmas Break

5th Jan                        Pupils return to school       

16th-20th Feb              Half-term (school closed)

23rd Feb                      Inset (school closed to pupils)

3rd - 17th April             Spring Break (school closed)

4th May                       Bank Holiday (school closed)

25th-29th May          Half-term (school closed)

1st June                    Inset (school closed)

23rd July                    School closed

Newsletter No. 9 4th November 2014

Welcome back! I do hope that you have all had a restful and enjoyable half-term break. As always, our children have returned enthusiastically.

Congratulations to the following Writers of the Week: Nojus Matekonis, Romziyah Mohammed-Noah, Rabia Latif, Madiha Yasmin, Andile Vundhla, Sherry Satti, Nasrullah Mirza, Zara Ismail, Virandeep Khosa, Eesha Vashisht, Rumaysa Amin, Christina Mataj, Mehreen Rashid, Maariya Jamil, Meleddie Williams, Anita Bushati, Layla Khan-Ringshaw, Michal Nickel, Sayed Sohaib Amaan.

 

‘Mathlete’ awards were received by: Saffa Ihsan, Mahnoor Naeem, Hafsa Siddique, Hafsa Mahmud, Shadman Ahmed, Adwita Gupta, Sidra Nawaz, Aliyah Begum, Amaan Iqbal, Hafsa Tahir, Jack Bowen, Shahrab Burney, Ajuni Kaur, Sarah Sowole, Taha Amin, Nihal Hoque, San Aiden Singh, Rasha Safraz, Nawaaz Mumin, Prince Lilitha Tingwe, Abi Srikanthan.

 

Well done to you all!

 

YEAR 3 Diwali Assembly There will be a performance for Year 3 parents on 6th November at 2.15pm in the main hall. I do hope that you will be able to join us.

 

Reporting Absences From 10th November 2014, we will be introducing a new way in which parents/carers can report their child’s absences. Parents/carers should send their messages on 07860004994. Please note this number is only used for reporting absences and not to be used for general messages. Absences must be reported on the morning of the first day of absence.

 

I would like to remind parents that if your child has 12 sessions of unauthorised absence recorded throughout the half term period, the Local Authority will issue you with a penalty notice.

 

Attendance Figures For Last Week:

 

Rec Blue       92.5%             Yr 3Rain   99.0%

Rec Green  94.6%                Yr 3Y        91.7%

Rec Red        97.0%              Yr 4B       96.1%

Rec Yellow   92.3%              Yr 4G       97.5%

Yr 1B              91.7%             Yr 4R      96.0%

Yr 1G              98.7%             Yr 4Y      97.0%

Yr 1R              92.7%             Yr 5B       94.1%

Yr 1Y              96.3%             Yr 5G       92.9%

Yr 2B              97.7%             Yr 5R       95.5%

Yr 2G              96.5%             Yr 5Y        98.0%   

Yr 2R              97.2%             Yr 6B       95.8%  

Yr 2Y              97.4%             Yr 6G       94.3%  

Yr 3B              97.9%             Yr 6R       97.7%  

Yr 3G              94.5%             Yr 6Y       94.2%

Yr 3R              96.8%

 

Attendance Well done to class Year3 Rainbow for achieving 99%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 95.6%. Well done!

 

Parents Evening Please remember to send in your reply slip for Parents Evening, so that teachers can allocate time slots.

 

Colour Assemblies will be cancelled this week, as the hall is being used for the Year 3 Diwali Performance.

 

Poppies for sale Once again as a lead up to Remembrance Day next week, poppies will be on sale each day. Children are invited to bring in donations for a poppy.

Sensible Shoes/Coats Now that autumn has truly set in, please ensure that your child brings a coat to school every day, as all children do go out for play and lunchtimes daily. Please also ensure that sensible shoes or trainers are worn to school.

 

Paperless Newsletter/Homework As mentioned previously, we will stop sending paper copies out after half term, (from November). Please remember, if you still want a paper copy of the newsletter, you may collect one from the school office.

 

Sibling Photographs All children should be in full school uniform for the photographs.

 

Cranbrook Friends Association (CFA) The next meeting will be held on Wednesday 12th November at 9.30am in the small hall. All parents welcome.

 

Children In Need Next Friday, all children are invited to come in non-uniform dressed as ‘super heroes’ and donate money for Children In Need. Pizzas and samosas will also be on sale at the end of the day. All money raised will be going to the charity. In addition a limited number of Year 5 pupils will be staying over for a sleepover in the hall and donating money for this cause. There are a few spaces still remaining. Please let the office have your child’s name by Thursday if you are interested. Please help us beat our record of £3000 from last year.

 

Reception Admissions 2015 If your child’s birthday is between 1st September 2010 and 31st August 2011, you can now apply online for a primary school place by visiting the Redbridge website www.redbridge.gov.uk and use the link to eAdmissions. If you are not a Redbridge resident you will need to apply via your own Council (even for a Redbridge school).The deadline for online applications is Thursday 15th January 2015 at 11.59pm. Please note, you will only be allocated a place if your child meets the admissions criteria. Please read it carefully.

 

School Dinner Reminder Can I urge all parents to pay their child’s outstanding dinner money arrears by the end of this week. Also may I remind you that all dinner money from next half term needs to pay in advance, before your child has a school meal. Payments are £2 per day or £10 per week. 

It is parents/carers responsibility to clearly mark dinner money with child’s name, class and amount they are sending into school in a sealed envelope.

Online payments can be made on:

http://host.cypad.net/ISSEducationRedbridge/  

Telephone payments can also be made on 0844 583 5754                                                 

 

Dates For Your Diary

 

5th Nov                      School Individual Photographs

6th Nov                      Year 3 Diwali Performance

11th / 18th Nov          Parents meetings

14th Nov                    Non-uniform for children

17th Nov                    School Sibling Photographs

11th Dec                    Nursery and Reception Performance

12th Dec                    CFA Event

22nd Dec-4th Jan      Christmas Break

5th Jan                       Pupils return to school       

16th-20th Feb            Half-term (school closed)

23rd Feb                    Inset (school closed to pupils)

3rd - 17th April           Spring Break (school closed)

4th May                      Bank Holiday (school closed)

25th-29th May            Half-term (school closed)

1st June                     Inset (school closed)

23rd July                    School closed

Newsletter No.8 22nd October 2014

Congratulations to the following Writers of the Week:

Emma May Bullman, Sophia Ullah, Navraj Manku, Evelina Kaupaite, Ellion Saka, Aliyah Hosenally, Hanuv Garg, Grace Ochieng, Sophia Khan, Arjun Mann, Jeremy Sapani, Huzaifa Omar, Samia Ahmed, Manha Shah, Shaheen Ali, Noor Imran Wahid, Kajus Pilaukas, Haseeb Tahir, Diya Ahmed, Bisma Tahir and Rayan Alam.

 

‘Mathlete’ awards were received by: Jamie Ramasamy, Amrit Assi, Marwan Badawy, Imaad Awan, Eliza Younis, Abdul Basit, Fatima Nawid, Fiza Mohanmmad, Parker Samuel, Daria Chiriacescu, Rishita Karpakalingeswaran, Tehreem Abid, Arjun Mann, Jahin Ayeman Shah, Asim Sajjad Satti, Tahmid Kawser, Huzaifa Hamid, Taqwa Ahmed, Aiza Ahmad and Haseeb Tahir.

 

Headteachers Awards were received by: Vaibhav Shandilya (RG) and Nafeesa Ahmad (RY). An award was also received by Humza Malik (6Y) for his electric science project.

Well done to you all!

 

INSET Day Please remember that school will be closed on Monday 3rd November for staff training. The school will be open to pupils as usual on Tuesday 4th November.

 

Reception Admissions 2015 If your child’s birthday is between 1^st September 2010 and 31^st August 2011, you can now apply online for a primary school place by visiting the Redbridge website www.redbridge.gov.uk and use the link to eAdmissions. If you are not a Redbridge resident you will need to apply via your own Council (even for a Redbridge school).The deadline for online applications is Thursday 15th January 2015 at 11.59pm. Please note, you will only be allocated a place if your child meets the admissions criteria. Please read it carefully.

 

Attendance Figures For Last Week:  

Rec Blue       95.7%             Yr 3Rain  97.3%

Rec Green  95.6%               Yr 3Y       93.4%

Rec Red        92.3%             Yr 4B       97.9%

Rec Yellow   94.0%              Yr 4G       97.1%

Yr 1B              98.0%             Yr 4R       94.0%

Yr 1G              95.3%             Yr 4Y       95.7%

Yr 1R              91.7%             Yr 5B       98.6%

Yr 1Y              98.0%             Yr 5G       95.2%

Yr 2B              94.5%             Yr 5R       95.3%

Yr 2G              98.1%             Yr 5Y        99.0%   

Yr 2R              96.1%             Yr 6B       94.7%  

Yr 2Y              98.1%             Yr 6G       97.7%  

Yr 3B              96.6%             Yr 6R       95.3%  

Yr 3G              95.9%             Yr 6Y       98.1%

Yr 3R              99.3%

 

Attendance Well done to class 3 Red for achieving 99.3%. The overall percentage for the whole school was 96.2%. Fantastic!

 

Non-Uniform Day Friday 24th October To celebrate Black History Month, children are   invited to come dressed as their favourite black ’hero’ or historical figure, such as Mary Seacole, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Jessica Ennis and Bob Marley (just to name a few!). Please bring in a £1 donation. We are raising money to support a school in Africa.  

 

Parents Evening Please remember to send in your reply slip for Parents Evening so that teachers can allocate time slots.

 

Uniform/Jewellery As always I would ask for your support in ensuring that children follow the school’s uniform policy each day and that they wear no jewellery to school. No jewellery should be worn, other than for religious observance.

 

Sensible Shoes/Coats Now that autumn has truly set in, please ensure that your child brings a coat to school every day, even if you drive him/her to school as all children do go out for play and lunchtimes. Please also ensure that sensible shoes or trainers are worn to school.

 

Year 3 Diwali Assembly There will be a performance for parents on the 6th November at 2.15pm in the main hall. I do hope that you will be able to join us.

 

Paperless Newsletter/Homework As mentioned previously, we will stop sending paper copies out after half term (from November). Please remember, if you still want a paper copy of the newsletter, you may collect one from the school office. If you require a paper copy of your child’s homework, please request this from the class teacher in advance.

 

Lost property Please check the lost property for any items lost this week, as we will be emptying them after half term. Unclaimed items will be given to charity.

 

Bollywood FuZion & Zumba Classes for Ladies Bollywood FuZion is a Bollywood fitness dance and Zumba (Latin based) class which will be in our Dance Studio as follows:

Mondays 7.30pm - Zumba

Wednesdays 7.30pm Bollywood & 8.30pm Zumba

Saturdays 10am -Zumba (last 10 minutes stomach exercises, so bring a mat).

Classes are £6 pay as you go.

Please contact Nino 07830 455 823.

 

Cranbrook Friends Association (CFA) The next meeting will be held on Wednesday 12th November at 9.30am in the small hall. All parents welcome.

 

Secondary Transition for Year 6 A reminder to you that all online application forms should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014.

School Dinner Reminder Can I urge all parents to pay their child’s outstanding dinner money arrears by the end of this week. Also may I remind you that all dinner money from next half term needs to pay in advance, before your child has a school meal. Payments are £2 per day or £10 per week.                                                        

You can pay online at www.feedinghungrykids.com

Happy Diwali to all our families who are celebrating this week.

Have a great half term everyone!

Dates For Your Diary

24th Oct                                 Non-Uniform day

27th - 31st Oct                      Half-term (school closed)

3rd Nov                                  Inset (school closed to pupils)

5th Nov                                  School Photographs (pupils)

6th Nov                                  Year 3 Diwali Performance

11th / 18th Nov                      Parents meetings

14th Nov                                Non-uniform for children

17th Nov                                School Photographs (siblings)

22nd Dec-4th Jan                  Christmas Break

5th Jan                                   Pupils return to school       

16th-20th Feb                        Half-term (school closed)

23rd Feb                                Inset (school closed to pupils)

3rd - 17th April                      Spring Break (school closed)

4th May                                 Bank Holiday (school closed)

25th-29th May                       Half-term (school closed)

1st June                                 Inset (school closed)

23rd July                                School closed