3rd November 2010
Newsletter No.33
I would like to welcome you all back and we are all very excited about the term ahead. It was great to see everyone dressed so smartly in their uniforms yesterday which gives us all a real sense of pride in our school. The term ahead will be another busy one with many events taking place across the school so please make sure that you take a few moments to read these weekly newsletters so that you don’t miss any important information and dates.
International Evening It was wonderful to see so many of you coming along to the International Evening at the end of last half-term which was a big success. The Mayor came along to give us his support and it was great for him to see our school and the amazing talents of many of our pupils who took part. Thankyou to all of you who donated your time and food to the event and a special thank you to Junaida who organised not only the evening but many different workshops and activities for the children throughout our ‘Diversity’ week.
Beijing Visit This week sees the return of Helen, Mark (year 2) and Samina (year 4) from their weeks visit to Beijing as part of our international links. They are already sharing their exciting experiences with us all. The week was spent in a school, meeting other teachers and children and setting up links with them which we will be able to develop over the coming year. They also spent time teaching in the school which proved to be quite different to teaching at Cranbrook! Their Chinese hosts were wonderful throughout the week and we have passed on our thanks to them for looking after them so well. Watch out for a display of their visit and watch this space as this will be an ongoing relationship!
Rainbow Arts Festival You will remember that a number of our children performed at the ‘Rainbow Arts Festival’ arranged with the Gants Hill Extended Partnership of which we are a member. Apologies to Naval Agraval in year 5 who stunned us all with his drumming schools but got missed of last terms newsletter…sorry Naval, you were great!
PTA Hallowe’en Event On Thursday we will be having the PTA Hallowe’en event taking place in school. This will mean there will be no clubs running after school on Thursday. Missed sessions will be rearranged by the club leader. If you have bought your child a ticket for the event then they will be able to come to school in their fancy dress and there will be a prize for the best Hallowe’en costume. Please make sure you collect your children promptly after the events if they have a ticket for the events:
Nursery and Reception at the normal time (3.15)
Year 1 and 2 at 4.45pm
Years 3,4,5 and 6 at 5pm
If you haven’t bought a ticket but wish to come in fancy dress/ non-school uniform on Thursday your child can do so with a £1 donation. Thank you to the PTA members for all of their time and work in preparing for the event and raising money to be spent on our children.
Year 6 Meeting A reminder to the parents of our Year 6 children of the meeting on Monday at 2.30pm to hear more about the year ahead, SATs, the residential trip and the curriculum. The meeting will take place in the dance studio. Please come to the main office entrance to sign in.
Book Fair The Book Fair was a big success and it was wonderful to see so many of our children buying books to enjoy at home. You bought so many that the Book Fair company will also be donating lots of books to add to our school library. Thank you to Oriel for organising these events.
Children’s author Hannah Shaw visit We will also be having a visit from the well known children’s author Hannah Shaw. She will be in school on Friday 12th November and will be signing and selling copies of her books in the small hall from 3.10pm.
Collection from After School Club If you are collecting your child from an after school club, could you please make sure that you come into the school to collect them rather than staying in your car in the car park. The teachers running the clubs need to make sure they are handing over your children safely to you at the end of the session.
Diwali We would like to wish all of you celebrating Diwali later this week a happy time. Please let the school know if your child will be absent on Friday for this. This day will be authorised.
Attendance Please keep up the good work on attendance but we are noticing that a lot of children have been arriving late on a regular basis which gives an interrupted start to their school day. The class with the highest percentage were 4 Red with 99.3%! Well done! The overall percentage for the whole school was 93.8% .
Percentages for other classes were as follows:R Blue 95.3% R Green 89.3% R Red 93.0% R Yellow 82.7%
Yr 1 Blue 94.3% Yr 1 Green 91.7% Yr1 Red 96.2% Yr 1 Yellow 94.8%
Yr 2 Blue 92.7% Yr 2 Green 98.6% Yr 2 Red 95.3% Yr 2 Yellow 95.9%
Yr 3 Blue 91.4% Yr 3 Green 96.3% Yr 3 Red 95.0% Yr 3 Yellow 95.2%
Yr 4 Green 91.4% Yr 4 Red 99.3%
Yr 5 Blue 89.7% Yr 5 Yellow 96.7%
Yr 6 Red 96.0%
Poppy Appeal Poppies will be on sale in school over the next couple of weeks raising money for the Royal British Legion poppy appeal. There is no fixed cost for a poppy so please give what you feel is appropriate.
Shoe Box Appeal Thank you to all of you who so kindly donated items for the Shoe Box Appeal. Claire from the Nursery has worked over half-term to create over 60 boxes that will make a lot of children very happy when they receive them. The staff are raising more money between them to help raise the additional money needed to transport these to the countries.
Councillor Visit On the 9th November, Councillor Weinberg will be visiting the school to see what is happening here and to visit classes. We look forward to him coming and sharing some of the ‘Cranbrook spirit’.
Dates for your diary:PTA Hallowe’en Entertainment 4th November
Year 6 Parents Information Session 8th November
Councillor Weinberg visit 9th November
Author Hannah Shaw visit 12th November
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Eid Assembly 15th November
Christmas Performances 7th (Nursery), 8th (Reception) and 10th (Year 3) December
Last day of term 20th December, finish at 2pm
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Thursday, 6 January 2011
20th October 2010 Newsletter No: 32
20th October 2010
Newsletter No: 32
Drummers I am thrilled to report how impressed and pleased I was with the performance of our drummers: Santana (5B), Tyler (3G), Riddhi (3G) Wakaris (3B) and Deniz (3G) when they represented the school at last week’s Art Festival at Ilford Ursuline High School. Although I am biased, I thought they put on a stunning performance with immense confidence. Please look out for this week’s edition of the Ilford Recorder where there will be an article and pictures.
Year 6 Residential Trip Unfortunately, only 14 parents have confirmed they would like their child to go. As the minimum number we need to confirm the booking is 16, I would urge remaining parents to have another think and let Rhonda in the School Office know by the end of tomorrow. I will send out a letter to the 14 parents with an update on Friday.
Beijing Trip Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai are in Beijing this week meeting our partner school. Please log on to the website to follow their progress and post comments for them! The website address is cranbrookprimary.blogspot.com. They are visiting Hepingli Number 2 primary school which is currently in a temporary building because their own school building is having some structural work done to strengthen it, so that it can be safe if there is an earthquake! They are talking about school competitions and their involvement in the Olympics.
Cultural Dress Day It has been lovely to see the children dressed in their cultural costumes of heritage today. Thank you everyone for making such an effort.
International Evening Tickets We are thoroughly looking forward to this event which will be attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Redbridge. Tickets are now sold out. Your donations of food and drink will be gratefully received tomorrow.
Non-Uniform Day This has been cancelled, as the children are in non-uniform today.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your application forms to Lynton House by 22nd October or your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
Half Term The Half Term break is Monday 25th to Friday 29th October.
Inset Day Monday 1st November The school will be closed for staff training. Please note: there will also be no Breakfast or After School Club on this day.
Mr Marvel, PTA Hallowe’en Event, 4th November Tickets are still available but must be purchased by this Friday for this exciting, fun event for the children. If you are paying by cheque, please make it out to Cranbrook Primary PTA. Please note: there will be no Clubs on this day.
Year 6 Parents Information Session Year 6 parents are invited to attend an Information Session on Monday 8th November at 2:30-3:15pm. This will include curriculum information and an update on SATS. Please do make every effort to attend.
School Dinners Price Increase The cost of School Dinners will increase to £1.95 per day, £9.75 per week as from 2nd November 2010.
Eid Assembly Year 5 will be leading our Eid Assembly on ¬¬¬¬15 November at 2:30. Year 5 parents are invited to join us in celebrating Eid-ul-Adha with song, dance and presentation. It promises to be a lot of fun.
Other Performances Nursery, Reception and Year 3 parents are invited to attend their Christmas performances on 7th,8th and 10th December respectively. Years 1, 2, 4 and 6 will be performing for their parents in the Spring or Summer term.
Early Closure on 20th December The school will close at 2pm on 20th December and there will be no Clubs or After School Club.
Attendance I am thrilled to report that last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95.7% which is just above the national average of 95%. The classes with the highest percentage were Year 1 Red and Year 4 Red with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up after Half Term.
Percentages for other classes were as follows:R Blue 95.3% R Green 95.2% R Red 97.1% R Yellow 87.3%
Yr 1 Blue 95.7% Yr 1 Green 93.3% Yr1 Red 99.3% Yr 1 Yellow 98.5%
Yr 2 Blue 97.3% Yr 2 Green 94.6% Yr 2 Red 90.0% Yr 2 Yellow 99.0%
Yr 3 Blue 95.8% Yr 3 Green 98.3% Yr 3 Red 97.9% Yr 3 Yellow 96.3%
Yr 4 Green 95.5% Yr 4 Red 99.3%
Yr 5 Blue 95.0% Yr 5 Yellow 95.7%
Yr 6 Red 94.0%
Reception Yellow – I really do need to see an improvement in your percentage after Half Term please.
Donations of fabrics, material, saris We would be pleased to receive any donations of fabrics, material or saris for use in class and for making costumes. Please give these to your child’s teacher.
Dates for your diary:
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
Cultural Dress Day 20th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Hallowe’en Entertainment 4th November
Year 6 Parents Information Session 8th November
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Eid Assembly 15th November
Christmas Performances 7th (Nursery), 8th (Reception) & 10th (Year 3) December
Last day of term 20th December, finish at 2pm
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Newsletter No: 32
Drummers I am thrilled to report how impressed and pleased I was with the performance of our drummers: Santana (5B), Tyler (3G), Riddhi (3G) Wakaris (3B) and Deniz (3G) when they represented the school at last week’s Art Festival at Ilford Ursuline High School. Although I am biased, I thought they put on a stunning performance with immense confidence. Please look out for this week’s edition of the Ilford Recorder where there will be an article and pictures.
Year 6 Residential Trip Unfortunately, only 14 parents have confirmed they would like their child to go. As the minimum number we need to confirm the booking is 16, I would urge remaining parents to have another think and let Rhonda in the School Office know by the end of tomorrow. I will send out a letter to the 14 parents with an update on Friday.
Beijing Trip Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai are in Beijing this week meeting our partner school. Please log on to the website to follow their progress and post comments for them! The website address is cranbrookprimary.blogspot.com. They are visiting Hepingli Number 2 primary school which is currently in a temporary building because their own school building is having some structural work done to strengthen it, so that it can be safe if there is an earthquake! They are talking about school competitions and their involvement in the Olympics.
Cultural Dress Day It has been lovely to see the children dressed in their cultural costumes of heritage today. Thank you everyone for making such an effort.
International Evening Tickets We are thoroughly looking forward to this event which will be attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Redbridge. Tickets are now sold out. Your donations of food and drink will be gratefully received tomorrow.
Non-Uniform Day This has been cancelled, as the children are in non-uniform today.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your application forms to Lynton House by 22nd October or your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
Half Term The Half Term break is Monday 25th to Friday 29th October.
Inset Day Monday 1st November The school will be closed for staff training. Please note: there will also be no Breakfast or After School Club on this day.
Mr Marvel, PTA Hallowe’en Event, 4th November Tickets are still available but must be purchased by this Friday for this exciting, fun event for the children. If you are paying by cheque, please make it out to Cranbrook Primary PTA. Please note: there will be no Clubs on this day.
Year 6 Parents Information Session Year 6 parents are invited to attend an Information Session on Monday 8th November at 2:30-3:15pm. This will include curriculum information and an update on SATS. Please do make every effort to attend.
School Dinners Price Increase The cost of School Dinners will increase to £1.95 per day, £9.75 per week as from 2nd November 2010.
Eid Assembly Year 5 will be leading our Eid Assembly on ¬¬¬¬15 November at 2:30. Year 5 parents are invited to join us in celebrating Eid-ul-Adha with song, dance and presentation. It promises to be a lot of fun.
Other Performances Nursery, Reception and Year 3 parents are invited to attend their Christmas performances on 7th,8th and 10th December respectively. Years 1, 2, 4 and 6 will be performing for their parents in the Spring or Summer term.
Early Closure on 20th December The school will close at 2pm on 20th December and there will be no Clubs or After School Club.
Attendance I am thrilled to report that last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95.7% which is just above the national average of 95%. The classes with the highest percentage were Year 1 Red and Year 4 Red with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up after Half Term.
Percentages for other classes were as follows:R Blue 95.3% R Green 95.2% R Red 97.1% R Yellow 87.3%
Yr 1 Blue 95.7% Yr 1 Green 93.3% Yr1 Red 99.3% Yr 1 Yellow 98.5%
Yr 2 Blue 97.3% Yr 2 Green 94.6% Yr 2 Red 90.0% Yr 2 Yellow 99.0%
Yr 3 Blue 95.8% Yr 3 Green 98.3% Yr 3 Red 97.9% Yr 3 Yellow 96.3%
Yr 4 Green 95.5% Yr 4 Red 99.3%
Yr 5 Blue 95.0% Yr 5 Yellow 95.7%
Yr 6 Red 94.0%
Reception Yellow – I really do need to see an improvement in your percentage after Half Term please.
Donations of fabrics, material, saris We would be pleased to receive any donations of fabrics, material or saris for use in class and for making costumes. Please give these to your child’s teacher.
Dates for your diary:
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
Cultural Dress Day 20th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Hallowe’en Entertainment 4th November
Year 6 Parents Information Session 8th November
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Eid Assembly 15th November
Christmas Performances 7th (Nursery), 8th (Reception) & 10th (Year 3) December
Last day of term 20th December, finish at 2pm
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Monday, 18 October 2010
13th October 2010
Newsletter No: 31
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Inclement Weather As the weather is getting colder, please ensure your child brings a weatherproof coat and appropriate footwear, as we would like the children to go out at playtimes as much as possible.
Year 6 Residential Trip. I was disappointed that some parents have still not returned their reply slip. It is very important that we know how many children wish to participate so that we can confirm if this trip will go ahead as there is a minimum number of children needed for us to make a booking.
Book Fair Today is the last day of our Book Fair so come along to the Small Hall after school to have a look at the books on sale. Every book you buy helps to buy books for the school.
Open School It was lovely to see such a good turnout at our Open School on Monday. Thank you for your positive feedback.
Year 5 Trip Year 5 had a fantastic time on their trip to Hyde Hall on Monday. The children learnt lots about the life cycles of plants and are now ready to start planning their own vegetable garden in school. I was very pleased to hear how well behaved they were.
Beijing Trip Next week, Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai will be visiting Beijing to meet our partner school. They will meet staff and children, observe and teach lessons and discuss how the link can benefit both schools. Please note that 2G and 4G will be covered by Sophia Gypsiotis and Baha Uddin from within the staff team when Mark and Samina are away. A website has been set up so that we can all follow Helen, Mark and Samina’s progress and we can also post comments for them! The website address is cranbrookprimary.blogspot.com
Cultural Dress Day The children are invited to dress in their cultural costume of heritage on 20th October. We are looking forward to seeing the colourful costumes.
International Evening Tickets Please come along to our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. This is a celebration of Black History Month and promises to be a great evening. Please return the slip and monies in an envelope as soon as possible as only 200 tickets are available and will be issued on a first come first served basis. Do remember to note on the slip if you are able to donate food or drink. We rely on your generous donations at these events.
Non-Uniform Day This has been cancelled, as the children will be in non-uniform on Wednesday.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your application forms to Lynton House by 22nd October other wise your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
Half Term The Half Term break is Monday 25th to Friday 29th October.
Inset Day Monday 1st November School closed. We will be closed for staff training. Please note: there will also be no Breakfast or After School Club on this day.
PTA Hallowe’en Event A letter was sent home yesterday with details of the exciting events planned by the PTA on 4th November. Please return your reply slip and money in an envelope as soon as possible as we are expecting a big response. Mr Marvel has sold out in the past! This will also be a non-uniform day for all children and staff. Please note: there will be no Clubs on this day.
Attendance I am thrilled to report that last week’s overall attendance percentage was 96.2% which is above the national average of 95%. The class with the highest percentage was Year 3 Green with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
R Blue 96.6% R Green 93.3% R Red 93.5% R Yellow 92.2%
Yr 1 Blue 96.7% Yr 1 Green 96.0% Yr 1 Red 97.1% Yr 1 Yellow 98.4%
Yr 2 Blue 97.3% Yr 2 Green 99.2% Yr 2 Red 96.7% Yr 2 Yellow 98.6%
Yr 3 Blue 94.9% Yr 3 Green 99.3% Yr 3 Red 92.4% Yr 3 Yellow 96.3%
Yr 4 Green 96.6% Yr 4 Red 96.4%
Yr 5 Blue 99.0% Yr 5 Yellow 96.6%
Yr 6 Red 92.7%
RY, 3R and 6R – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
Donations of fabrics, material, saris We would be pleased to receive any donations of fabrics, material or saris for use in class and for making costumes. Please give these to your child’s teacher.
Waitrose Vouchers We are collecting Waitrose vouchers which we can exchange for garden tools. Please send any vouchers into class with your child.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Book Fair 4th - 13th October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
Cultural Dress Day 20th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Hallowe’en Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Newsletter No: 31
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Inclement Weather As the weather is getting colder, please ensure your child brings a weatherproof coat and appropriate footwear, as we would like the children to go out at playtimes as much as possible.
Year 6 Residential Trip. I was disappointed that some parents have still not returned their reply slip. It is very important that we know how many children wish to participate so that we can confirm if this trip will go ahead as there is a minimum number of children needed for us to make a booking.
Book Fair Today is the last day of our Book Fair so come along to the Small Hall after school to have a look at the books on sale. Every book you buy helps to buy books for the school.
Open School It was lovely to see such a good turnout at our Open School on Monday. Thank you for your positive feedback.
Year 5 Trip Year 5 had a fantastic time on their trip to Hyde Hall on Monday. The children learnt lots about the life cycles of plants and are now ready to start planning their own vegetable garden in school. I was very pleased to hear how well behaved they were.
Beijing Trip Next week, Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai will be visiting Beijing to meet our partner school. They will meet staff and children, observe and teach lessons and discuss how the link can benefit both schools. Please note that 2G and 4G will be covered by Sophia Gypsiotis and Baha Uddin from within the staff team when Mark and Samina are away. A website has been set up so that we can all follow Helen, Mark and Samina’s progress and we can also post comments for them! The website address is cranbrookprimary.blogspot.com
Cultural Dress Day The children are invited to dress in their cultural costume of heritage on 20th October. We are looking forward to seeing the colourful costumes.
International Evening Tickets Please come along to our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. This is a celebration of Black History Month and promises to be a great evening. Please return the slip and monies in an envelope as soon as possible as only 200 tickets are available and will be issued on a first come first served basis. Do remember to note on the slip if you are able to donate food or drink. We rely on your generous donations at these events.
Non-Uniform Day This has been cancelled, as the children will be in non-uniform on Wednesday.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your application forms to Lynton House by 22nd October other wise your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
Half Term The Half Term break is Monday 25th to Friday 29th October.
Inset Day Monday 1st November School closed. We will be closed for staff training. Please note: there will also be no Breakfast or After School Club on this day.
PTA Hallowe’en Event A letter was sent home yesterday with details of the exciting events planned by the PTA on 4th November. Please return your reply slip and money in an envelope as soon as possible as we are expecting a big response. Mr Marvel has sold out in the past! This will also be a non-uniform day for all children and staff. Please note: there will be no Clubs on this day.
Attendance I am thrilled to report that last week’s overall attendance percentage was 96.2% which is above the national average of 95%. The class with the highest percentage was Year 3 Green with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
R Blue 96.6% R Green 93.3% R Red 93.5% R Yellow 92.2%
Yr 1 Blue 96.7% Yr 1 Green 96.0% Yr 1 Red 97.1% Yr 1 Yellow 98.4%
Yr 2 Blue 97.3% Yr 2 Green 99.2% Yr 2 Red 96.7% Yr 2 Yellow 98.6%
Yr 3 Blue 94.9% Yr 3 Green 99.3% Yr 3 Red 92.4% Yr 3 Yellow 96.3%
Yr 4 Green 96.6% Yr 4 Red 96.4%
Yr 5 Blue 99.0% Yr 5 Yellow 96.6%
Yr 6 Red 92.7%
RY, 3R and 6R – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
Donations of fabrics, material, saris We would be pleased to receive any donations of fabrics, material or saris for use in class and for making costumes. Please give these to your child’s teacher.
Waitrose Vouchers We are collecting Waitrose vouchers which we can exchange for garden tools. Please send any vouchers into class with your child.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Book Fair 4th - 13th October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
Cultural Dress Day 20th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Hallowe’en Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
6th October 2010
Newsletter No: 30
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Year 6 Residential Trip Thank you to those parents who attended the meeting last week. A letter was sent home on Friday with details and we need to receive reply slips no later than this Friday, so that we can confirm that this trip will go ahead.
Harvest Assembly Thank you so much for your donations of tins and packets of food. These will be distributed to the Redbridge Night Shelter and the local Elderly.
Late Children If your children are late for school, please do not just drop them off at the gates as they will be locked out or in the playground as the doors will be closed. Children must be escorted to the School Office and signed in so that we know they are in school and can enter them on the register.
School Office Please note that from now on the School Office will be closed between 10-11.00 am and 1.30-2.30pm to ensure that all office staff have the required breaks. Please also help by sending in any money in labelled envelopes with your child rather than queuing up each day to pay it into the office.
Book Fair Please come along to our Book Fair which is taking place each day until Wednesday 13th October after school in the Small Hall. The children have had a preview of the books which are available to buy. Do come along – the children are very excited about our Book Fair! Every book you buy helps to buy books for the school. Thank you for all your support so far.
Open School Reminder: all parents and carers are invited to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on 11th October between 3:30 and 4:15pm. Please note, as previously this is not a formal meeting with the class teacher but rather an opportunity for the children to show their books to their parents. Formal meetings to discuss your child’s progress with the class teacher will take place during the week beginning 15th November.
International Evening Tickets You are invited to join us in celebrating diversity at our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. Please return the slip and monies in an envelope as soon as possible as only 200 tickets are available and will be issued on a first come first served basis.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your applications to Lynton House by 22nd October other wise your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
PTA Entertainment The PTA has arranged an afterschool Halloween Disco with Mr Marvel for KS2 and Year 2 and Mr Marvel to entertain Nursery to Year 1 classes, during the day on 4th November. There will be Clubs that day.
Attendance Last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95% which is the national average. The class with the highest percentage was Year 4 Red with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
R Blue 95.9% R Green 91.4% R Red 92.5% R Yellow 91.9%
Yr 1 Blue 94.0% Yr 1 Green 96.7% Yr1 Red 98.6% Yr 1 Yellow 96.8%
Yr 2 Blue 97.0% Yr 2 Green 87.7% Yr 2 Red 97.3% Yr 2 Yellow 93.5%
Yr 3 Blue 93.3% Yr 3 Green 97.3% Yr 3 Red 90.3% Yr 3 Yellow 98.5%
Yr 4 Green 95.5% Yr 4 Red 99.3%
Yr 5 Blue 97.5% Yr 5 Yellow 92.8%
Yr 6 Red 97.3%
2G and 3R – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school from 3.15-3.45pm.
Parking The local Police and PCSO team will be patrolling around the school regularly. They will be issuing parking tickets and penalty notices to drivers parked illegally – this includes blocking driveways.
Clubs Update Many of our Clubs started as planned this week with the exception of Cricket and Dance (Thursday) which starts next week, ICT which starts after Half Term and Karate which is being arranged directly by the Karate teacher. We have tried to allocate each child to a club and will prioritise places next term to those children, who were not able to get a place this term. Please remember to enclose your money with the Permission Slip. We are hoping to be able to offer further clubs later in the year and would like to thank you for your support as well as the members of staff who are giving their time to organise and run the clubs for your children.
Waitrose Vouchers We are collecting Waitrose vouchers which we can exchange for garden tools. Please send any vouchers into class with your child.
RHS Campaign for School Gardening We are currently registering with this scheme which will provide help and ideas to get our children gardening. As we complete each of the 5 benchmark stages we will receive a certificate and prize. We can’t wait to get started!
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Book Fair 4th - 13th October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Newsletter No: 30
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Year 6 Residential Trip Thank you to those parents who attended the meeting last week. A letter was sent home on Friday with details and we need to receive reply slips no later than this Friday, so that we can confirm that this trip will go ahead.
Harvest Assembly Thank you so much for your donations of tins and packets of food. These will be distributed to the Redbridge Night Shelter and the local Elderly.
Late Children If your children are late for school, please do not just drop them off at the gates as they will be locked out or in the playground as the doors will be closed. Children must be escorted to the School Office and signed in so that we know they are in school and can enter them on the register.
School Office Please note that from now on the School Office will be closed between 10-11.00 am and 1.30-2.30pm to ensure that all office staff have the required breaks. Please also help by sending in any money in labelled envelopes with your child rather than queuing up each day to pay it into the office.
Book Fair Please come along to our Book Fair which is taking place each day until Wednesday 13th October after school in the Small Hall. The children have had a preview of the books which are available to buy. Do come along – the children are very excited about our Book Fair! Every book you buy helps to buy books for the school. Thank you for all your support so far.
Open School Reminder: all parents and carers are invited to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on 11th October between 3:30 and 4:15pm. Please note, as previously this is not a formal meeting with the class teacher but rather an opportunity for the children to show their books to their parents. Formal meetings to discuss your child’s progress with the class teacher will take place during the week beginning 15th November.
International Evening Tickets You are invited to join us in celebrating diversity at our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. Please return the slip and monies in an envelope as soon as possible as only 200 tickets are available and will be issued on a first come first served basis.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your applications to Lynton House by 22nd October other wise your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
PTA Entertainment The PTA has arranged an afterschool Halloween Disco with Mr Marvel for KS2 and Year 2 and Mr Marvel to entertain Nursery to Year 1 classes, during the day on 4th November. There will be Clubs that day.
Attendance Last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95% which is the national average. The class with the highest percentage was Year 4 Red with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
R Blue 95.9% R Green 91.4% R Red 92.5% R Yellow 91.9%
Yr 1 Blue 94.0% Yr 1 Green 96.7% Yr1 Red 98.6% Yr 1 Yellow 96.8%
Yr 2 Blue 97.0% Yr 2 Green 87.7% Yr 2 Red 97.3% Yr 2 Yellow 93.5%
Yr 3 Blue 93.3% Yr 3 Green 97.3% Yr 3 Red 90.3% Yr 3 Yellow 98.5%
Yr 4 Green 95.5% Yr 4 Red 99.3%
Yr 5 Blue 97.5% Yr 5 Yellow 92.8%
Yr 6 Red 97.3%
2G and 3R – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school from 3.15-3.45pm.
Parking The local Police and PCSO team will be patrolling around the school regularly. They will be issuing parking tickets and penalty notices to drivers parked illegally – this includes blocking driveways.
Clubs Update Many of our Clubs started as planned this week with the exception of Cricket and Dance (Thursday) which starts next week, ICT which starts after Half Term and Karate which is being arranged directly by the Karate teacher. We have tried to allocate each child to a club and will prioritise places next term to those children, who were not able to get a place this term. Please remember to enclose your money with the Permission Slip. We are hoping to be able to offer further clubs later in the year and would like to thank you for your support as well as the members of staff who are giving their time to organise and run the clubs for your children.
Waitrose Vouchers We are collecting Waitrose vouchers which we can exchange for garden tools. Please send any vouchers into class with your child.
RHS Campaign for School Gardening We are currently registering with this scheme which will provide help and ideas to get our children gardening. As we complete each of the 5 benchmark stages we will receive a certificate and prize. We can’t wait to get started!
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Book Fair 4th - 13th October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Monday, 4 October 2010
29th September 2010
Newsletter No: 29
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Year 6 Parents Meeting (Residential Trip) This will take place on the 30th September at 3.15pm. Please do make every effort to attend.
Harvest Assembly Our Harvest Assembly will take place on Friday 1st October. Donations of tinned or packets of food will be greatly appreciated and can be brought in all week. Our donations will be distributed between the Redbridge Night Shelter and the local Elderly.
School Office Please note that from now on the School Office will be closed between 10-11.00 am and 1.30-2.30pm to ensure that all office staff has the required breaks. Please also help by sending in any money in labelled envelopes with your child rather than queue up each day to pay it into the office.
Open School Once again, I would like to invite all parents and carers to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on 11th October between 3:30 and 4:15pm. Please note, as previously this is not a formal meeting with the class teacher but rather an opportunity for the children to show their books to their parents. Formal meetings to discuss your child’s progress with the class teacher will take place during the week beginning 15th November.
Beijing I am thrilled to announce an exciting link that the school has recently established with a partner school in Beijing. This link is aimed at developing teachers professionally and we hope that in the long term there will be pupil to pupil conferencing etc. To start the link, 3 teachers from Cranbrook Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai will be visiting our partner school during the week 16th October. They will meet staff and children, observe and teach lessons and discuss how the link can benefit both schools. Please note that 2G and 4G will be covered y other staff from within the school when Mark and Samina are in Beijing. Updates will be provided on this exciting project in future newsletters.
International Evening As part of our focus on “Black History Month”, we will be celebrating diversity at our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. 200 tickets will be available on a first come first served basis and a letter will go out this week with more details. This will be followed by a non-uniform day on 22nd October when the children and staff will be invited to wear their “costume of heritage” or blue, white and red clothes.
Attendance Last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95.2% which is just above the national average of 95%. The class with the highest percentage was Year 3 Green with 98.7%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
Yr 1 Blue 92.7% Yr 1 Green 96.0% Yr1 Red 96.4% Yr 1 Yellow 94.4%
Yr 2 Blue 95.7% Yr 2 Green 90.4% Yr 2 Red 98.0% Yr 2 Yellow 94.1%
Yr 3 Blue 95.6% Yr 3 Green 98.7% Yr 3 Red 94.8% Yr 3 Yellow 91.5%
Yr 4 Green 95.9% Yr 4 Red 98.6%
Yr 5 Blue 95.0% Yr 5 Yellow 93.5%
Yr 6 Red 96.7%
2G and 1B – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
PTA Entertainment The PTA has arranged a Halloween Disco with Mr Marvel for KS2 and Year 2 and Mr Marvel to entertain Nursery to Year 1 classes on 4th November. In addition, the PTA is also arranging a pantomime which will be on the 16th December.
Cache Level 2 There are still places available on the Cache Level 2 course at the Children’s Centre - this is a training course for Teaching Assistants and takes place on Thursdays from 10am to 3pm. For more information, come along to the session on Thursday.
Pakistan Appeal Our fundraising for the Pakistan Appeal was a great success and last week we reported we had raised £870.00. We are pleased to announce that Mr Yousaf’s family and friends raised a further £360 for the appeal bringing the grand total to £1238.85. Well done and Thank You to everyone who helped!
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school from 3.15-3.45pm.
Parking I am very disappointed to have received complaints from residents on The Drive. Please do not block their driveways when you are dropping or collecting your children from school. Our neighbours have children to take to school and jobs to go to and our parents are making them late. This cannot continue and has been reported to the local Police who will be patrolling regularly. They will be issuing parking tickets and penalty notices to drivers parked illegally – this includes blocking driveways.
Football Team Congratulations to our football team who won 7:2 against St Bede’s on Monday. A great home win - well done to everyone who played : Saif who scored 3 goals, Smaran, Timi and Ibrahim who scored one goal each, our Captain Zaki and the rest of the team – Waliur, Junaid, Bruno, Santana, Abishiek.
Clubs Confirmation Letters These will be sent home on Thursday and Clubs will start next week.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Newsletter No: 29
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Year 6 Parents Meeting (Residential Trip) This will take place on the 30th September at 3.15pm. Please do make every effort to attend.
Harvest Assembly Our Harvest Assembly will take place on Friday 1st October. Donations of tinned or packets of food will be greatly appreciated and can be brought in all week. Our donations will be distributed between the Redbridge Night Shelter and the local Elderly.
School Office Please note that from now on the School Office will be closed between 10-11.00 am and 1.30-2.30pm to ensure that all office staff has the required breaks. Please also help by sending in any money in labelled envelopes with your child rather than queue up each day to pay it into the office.
Open School Once again, I would like to invite all parents and carers to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on 11th October between 3:30 and 4:15pm. Please note, as previously this is not a formal meeting with the class teacher but rather an opportunity for the children to show their books to their parents. Formal meetings to discuss your child’s progress with the class teacher will take place during the week beginning 15th November.
Beijing I am thrilled to announce an exciting link that the school has recently established with a partner school in Beijing. This link is aimed at developing teachers professionally and we hope that in the long term there will be pupil to pupil conferencing etc. To start the link, 3 teachers from Cranbrook Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai will be visiting our partner school during the week 16th October. They will meet staff and children, observe and teach lessons and discuss how the link can benefit both schools. Please note that 2G and 4G will be covered y other staff from within the school when Mark and Samina are in Beijing. Updates will be provided on this exciting project in future newsletters.
International Evening As part of our focus on “Black History Month”, we will be celebrating diversity at our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. 200 tickets will be available on a first come first served basis and a letter will go out this week with more details. This will be followed by a non-uniform day on 22nd October when the children and staff will be invited to wear their “costume of heritage” or blue, white and red clothes.
Attendance Last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95.2% which is just above the national average of 95%. The class with the highest percentage was Year 3 Green with 98.7%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
Yr 1 Blue 92.7% Yr 1 Green 96.0% Yr1 Red 96.4% Yr 1 Yellow 94.4%
Yr 2 Blue 95.7% Yr 2 Green 90.4% Yr 2 Red 98.0% Yr 2 Yellow 94.1%
Yr 3 Blue 95.6% Yr 3 Green 98.7% Yr 3 Red 94.8% Yr 3 Yellow 91.5%
Yr 4 Green 95.9% Yr 4 Red 98.6%
Yr 5 Blue 95.0% Yr 5 Yellow 93.5%
Yr 6 Red 96.7%
2G and 1B – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
PTA Entertainment The PTA has arranged a Halloween Disco with Mr Marvel for KS2 and Year 2 and Mr Marvel to entertain Nursery to Year 1 classes on 4th November. In addition, the PTA is also arranging a pantomime which will be on the 16th December.
Cache Level 2 There are still places available on the Cache Level 2 course at the Children’s Centre - this is a training course for Teaching Assistants and takes place on Thursdays from 10am to 3pm. For more information, come along to the session on Thursday.
Pakistan Appeal Our fundraising for the Pakistan Appeal was a great success and last week we reported we had raised £870.00. We are pleased to announce that Mr Yousaf’s family and friends raised a further £360 for the appeal bringing the grand total to £1238.85. Well done and Thank You to everyone who helped!
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school from 3.15-3.45pm.
Parking I am very disappointed to have received complaints from residents on The Drive. Please do not block their driveways when you are dropping or collecting your children from school. Our neighbours have children to take to school and jobs to go to and our parents are making them late. This cannot continue and has been reported to the local Police who will be patrolling regularly. They will be issuing parking tickets and penalty notices to drivers parked illegally – this includes blocking driveways.
Football Team Congratulations to our football team who won 7:2 against St Bede’s on Monday. A great home win - well done to everyone who played : Saif who scored 3 goals, Smaran, Timi and Ibrahim who scored one goal each, our Captain Zaki and the rest of the team – Waliur, Junaid, Bruno, Santana, Abishiek.
Clubs Confirmation Letters These will be sent home on Thursday and Clubs will start next week.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
8th September 2010
Newsletter No: 26
Dear Parents/Carers,
I would like to welcome all of our new children, parents and staff, and of course, welcome back all of our existing children and parents. This is an exciting year for our school and it has been lovely to see children and staff return with such enthusiasm.
This week we have focussed on establishing key routines and I would particularly ask for your support in ensuring that teachers have sufficient space in the playground to hand over children safely to parents and carers at the end of the school day. To ease the congestion by the door for Years 1 and 2, we will be dismissing Year 2 classes from the seating area. Please do not take your child until the teacher has dismissed him/ her to your care.
Pupil Achievements A belated well done to Meenakshee Sungalee for achieving her Gold Award at the end of last term.
Uniform/ Jewellery This year I would like us all to ensure that we have a smart school, and I would remind you that it is school policy that all children wear uniform every day unless it is an agreed non-uniform day. If headscarves are worn they should be plain black or white and no jewellery should be worn except for religious observance. Flashing trainers and shoes with heels should not be worn to school.
Breakfast and Afterschool Childcare Provision These sessions are now full. Please note that After School Club is open until 5pm with a view to increasing to 6pm when we are Ofsted registered. This provision is based in the Children’s Centre.
Clubs Although Karate has already begun, other school based clubs will begin the first week of October. A letter will be coming home early next week with details of the clubs we will be running and a slip for you and your child to express your preferences.
Healthy Schools Week Next week, we are celebrating Healthy Schools Week. We would like to encourage you to walk to school if possible and to send in a healthy packed lunch. The Food in Schools team will be giving class talks and leading assemblies on Wednesday. As a school we are working towards the Healthy Schools Award and hope to obtain it this year.
Information Sessions
Year 1 14th September 9.00-9.30am
Year 2 15th September 9.00-9.30am
Year 3 16th September 9.00-9.30am
Year 4 17th September 9.00-9.30am
These sessions are for parents only and we will look after the children in a separate room.
Pakistan Appeal We will be fundraising for the Pakistan Appeal on Friday 17th September. Children and staff are invited to pay £1 to come to school in non-uniform. All parents are invited to come along to our cake sale at 3pm in the Small Hall. Donations of cakes are very welcome and can be given in that morning.
Grounds Development We are really excited to be developing our grounds further this year and are looking for CRB’d volunteers to help us dig and plant. As part of Children’s planned learning experiences, all classes will be developing an identified outdoor area. Please contact the School Office if you would like to help us. Any donations of plants or bulbs will be very welcome as soon as possible so that we can make the most of the planting season.
Security Update I am pleased to report that the work to secure the school was completed during the Summer Holidays. If you wish to visit the School Office or are dropping off/ collecting a late child please buzz the School Office to be let in. Please note that parents will not be able to drive into the small car park.
Attendance It is very important that the children attend school every day and that any absence is reported to the School Office. The national average for attendance is 95% and last year Cranbrook’s average was 93.2%, which was very disappointing and largely due to holidays during term time or Reception parents not bringing their child to school regularly. We really need to see an improvement this term.
Rosh Hashanah/ Eid Please note that only one day will be authorised for the Rosh Hashanah/ Eid celebrations. School will be open as usual for all other children.
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Healthy Schools Week 13th- 17th September
Open School 11th- 15th, 18th- 22nd October
Half term break 25th- 29th October
School re-opens 2nd November
Last day of term 20th December
Staff training day 1st November
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Newsletter No: 26
Dear Parents/Carers,
I would like to welcome all of our new children, parents and staff, and of course, welcome back all of our existing children and parents. This is an exciting year for our school and it has been lovely to see children and staff return with such enthusiasm.
This week we have focussed on establishing key routines and I would particularly ask for your support in ensuring that teachers have sufficient space in the playground to hand over children safely to parents and carers at the end of the school day. To ease the congestion by the door for Years 1 and 2, we will be dismissing Year 2 classes from the seating area. Please do not take your child until the teacher has dismissed him/ her to your care.
Pupil Achievements A belated well done to Meenakshee Sungalee for achieving her Gold Award at the end of last term.
Uniform/ Jewellery This year I would like us all to ensure that we have a smart school, and I would remind you that it is school policy that all children wear uniform every day unless it is an agreed non-uniform day. If headscarves are worn they should be plain black or white and no jewellery should be worn except for religious observance. Flashing trainers and shoes with heels should not be worn to school.
Breakfast and Afterschool Childcare Provision These sessions are now full. Please note that After School Club is open until 5pm with a view to increasing to 6pm when we are Ofsted registered. This provision is based in the Children’s Centre.
Clubs Although Karate has already begun, other school based clubs will begin the first week of October. A letter will be coming home early next week with details of the clubs we will be running and a slip for you and your child to express your preferences.
Healthy Schools Week Next week, we are celebrating Healthy Schools Week. We would like to encourage you to walk to school if possible and to send in a healthy packed lunch. The Food in Schools team will be giving class talks and leading assemblies on Wednesday. As a school we are working towards the Healthy Schools Award and hope to obtain it this year.
Information Sessions
Year 1 14th September 9.00-9.30am
Year 2 15th September 9.00-9.30am
Year 3 16th September 9.00-9.30am
Year 4 17th September 9.00-9.30am
These sessions are for parents only and we will look after the children in a separate room.
Pakistan Appeal We will be fundraising for the Pakistan Appeal on Friday 17th September. Children and staff are invited to pay £1 to come to school in non-uniform. All parents are invited to come along to our cake sale at 3pm in the Small Hall. Donations of cakes are very welcome and can be given in that morning.
Grounds Development We are really excited to be developing our grounds further this year and are looking for CRB’d volunteers to help us dig and plant. As part of Children’s planned learning experiences, all classes will be developing an identified outdoor area. Please contact the School Office if you would like to help us. Any donations of plants or bulbs will be very welcome as soon as possible so that we can make the most of the planting season.
Security Update I am pleased to report that the work to secure the school was completed during the Summer Holidays. If you wish to visit the School Office or are dropping off/ collecting a late child please buzz the School Office to be let in. Please note that parents will not be able to drive into the small car park.
Attendance It is very important that the children attend school every day and that any absence is reported to the School Office. The national average for attendance is 95% and last year Cranbrook’s average was 93.2%, which was very disappointing and largely due to holidays during term time or Reception parents not bringing their child to school regularly. We really need to see an improvement this term.
Rosh Hashanah/ Eid Please note that only one day will be authorised for the Rosh Hashanah/ Eid celebrations. School will be open as usual for all other children.
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Healthy Schools Week 13th- 17th September
Open School 11th- 15th, 18th- 22nd October
Half term break 25th- 29th October
School re-opens 2nd November
Last day of term 20th December
Staff training day 1st November
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
21st July 2010
Newsletter No: 25
Dear Parents/Carers,
Pupil Achievements It is a pleasure to congratulate the following pupils for being awarded the Gold Award for their success in class: Alisha Mahmud in Reception Red and Kreeya Shah in Year 1 Blue. Well done Alisha and Kreeya! I hope you enjoy the books you chose as your prize.
Attendance Last week’s overall school attendance percentage dropped again to 91.9%. This is well below the national average of 95% and we really need to see an improvement next term. The class with the highest percentage – 98.6% - was Year 4 Yellow. Well done!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
Rec Blue 88.7% Rec Green 92.3% Rec Red 92.0% Rec Yellow 93.8%
Yr1 Blue 94.0% Yr 1 Green 97.2% Yr 1 Red 83.6% Yr 1 Yellow 81.7%
Yr2 Blue 85.9% Yr 2 Green 92.7% Yr 2 Red 90.7% Yr 2 Yellow 98.6%
Yr3 Green 93.8% Yr 3 Red 93.8% Yr 4 Blue 84.7% Yr 4 Yellow 97.5%
Yr5 Red 93.3% Yr 6 Yellow 94.1%
Sports Day We were very lucky with the weather and the children enjoyed a fun, healthy competition. The winning team for Key Stage 1 was Green, for Key Stage 2 was Yellow and the overall winning team was Green. The Year Group winners were:
Reception: Boys: Ismail Patel- Green and Girls: Aliya Patel- Green
Year 1: Boys: Raulnelle Skeete-Anglin- Green and Girls: Izabela Grzesiakowska - Red
Year 2: Boys: Jourdain Jhagroo-Bryan- Yellow and Girls: Shanae Sinclair - Green
Year 3 and 4: Boys: Chukwudi Appah-Okwuone- 3 Green and Girls: Joana Aukstuolyte- 3 Red
Year 5: Boys: Mohammed Zaker and Girls: Franceska Vevere
Year 6: Boys: Miroslav Hristov and Girls: Barbra Atieno
Year 6 Olympic Awards will be presented during their Leaving Assembly on Thursday for the following areas: Inspiration, Excellence, Determination, Friendship, Equality, Courage, and Respect.
Open Exhibition It was lovely to see so many parents at our Open Exhibition on Monday. This will now be a termly event.
Class Swaps The children had the opportunity on Monday to meet their new class teacher and see their new classroom.
Coloured Strings Thank you to those parents who attended the final lesson on Tuesday.
Musical Afternoon Tea The local old people enjoyed their Afternoon Tea with musical entertainment today. Thank you to Year 6 who provided the entertainment and to Beverley who helped Year 6 organise this event.
Year 6 Final Assembly All Year 6 parents are invited to come along to their Final Assembly on Thursday at 9.30am. This will be followed by refreshments. We hope many of you will be able to join us at this special event. In addition, as an end of year treat, we have organised a disco for our Year 6 pupils from 2.30-4.30pm (no parents allowed) for which they can bring party clothes.
My Last Day This Term My last day this term will be Thursday, as I will be attending my final assemblies at Glade Primary School on Friday and become full time substantive Head at Cranbrook from September.
Non-Uniform Day Friday will be a non-uniform day. The children have been talking and learning about children in Africa. Through our learning we found out that many children in Africa cannot go to school, do not have clean water or enough food. To help with this we have decided to help raise money for ‘Self Help Africa’. We appreciate any donation, but would ask for a 50p donation to come to school in non-uniform.
Ramadan/Eid When we return in September, it will still be Ramadan. We have therefore arranged for only Yrs 5 & 6 pupils to fast during school. The library will be available and supervised for these pupils at lunchtime. Please note, only 1 day will be authorised for Eid.
Breakfast (8-9am)/Afterschool Club (3.15-5pm) Please note that this childcare provision will be available from 6th September, term-time only.
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the School Office. Any items remaining at the end of term will be donated to charity.
Staffing Update I am thrilled to announce that we are fully staffed for September and that the staff team remains stable. Please join me in welcoming our 6 new Class Teachers who joined this month ready to take over their class positions in September – Tracey and Jasmina in Reception, Chloe in Year 1, Harman in Year 2, John in Year 4 and Ian in Year 5. We also welcome Pavan as SEN co-ordinator, Mark and Darshan as Deputies both of whom are bringing a wealth of experience with them and Adam and Paul, Teaching Assistants in Year 2 and 6 respectively. Sadly, we say a fond farewell to Alex who is leaving to pursue alternative career options, Megan who is starting her new position in a Secondary school in September and Becca who is getting married in the summer and relocating to Amersham. I am sure you will join me in wishing them well and thanking them for all their hard work and commitment during their time at Cranbrook.
Baby News Congratulations to Clare Hall (Year 6 Teacher) on the birth of her son, George, on Tuesday 13th July and to Naz Duru-Ahmet (School Office) on the birth of her twin sons, Kaan and Karem on 3rd July.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your continued support and positive feedback.
I wish you all an enjoyable summer break and look forward to seeing you again on Monday 6th September, when school re-opens for pupils.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton, Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Final Assembly & Drinks Reception 22nd July, 9.30am
Year 6 Disco 22nd July, 2.30-4.30pm
Last day of the school year 23rd July
First day of the school year 6th September
Newsletter No: 25
Dear Parents/Carers,
Pupil Achievements It is a pleasure to congratulate the following pupils for being awarded the Gold Award for their success in class: Alisha Mahmud in Reception Red and Kreeya Shah in Year 1 Blue. Well done Alisha and Kreeya! I hope you enjoy the books you chose as your prize.
Attendance Last week’s overall school attendance percentage dropped again to 91.9%. This is well below the national average of 95% and we really need to see an improvement next term. The class with the highest percentage – 98.6% - was Year 4 Yellow. Well done!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
Rec Blue 88.7% Rec Green 92.3% Rec Red 92.0% Rec Yellow 93.8%
Yr1 Blue 94.0% Yr 1 Green 97.2% Yr 1 Red 83.6% Yr 1 Yellow 81.7%
Yr2 Blue 85.9% Yr 2 Green 92.7% Yr 2 Red 90.7% Yr 2 Yellow 98.6%
Yr3 Green 93.8% Yr 3 Red 93.8% Yr 4 Blue 84.7% Yr 4 Yellow 97.5%
Yr5 Red 93.3% Yr 6 Yellow 94.1%
Sports Day We were very lucky with the weather and the children enjoyed a fun, healthy competition. The winning team for Key Stage 1 was Green, for Key Stage 2 was Yellow and the overall winning team was Green. The Year Group winners were:
Reception: Boys: Ismail Patel- Green and Girls: Aliya Patel- Green
Year 1: Boys: Raulnelle Skeete-Anglin- Green and Girls: Izabela Grzesiakowska - Red
Year 2: Boys: Jourdain Jhagroo-Bryan- Yellow and Girls: Shanae Sinclair - Green
Year 3 and 4: Boys: Chukwudi Appah-Okwuone- 3 Green and Girls: Joana Aukstuolyte- 3 Red
Year 5: Boys: Mohammed Zaker and Girls: Franceska Vevere
Year 6: Boys: Miroslav Hristov and Girls: Barbra Atieno
Year 6 Olympic Awards will be presented during their Leaving Assembly on Thursday for the following areas: Inspiration, Excellence, Determination, Friendship, Equality, Courage, and Respect.
Open Exhibition It was lovely to see so many parents at our Open Exhibition on Monday. This will now be a termly event.
Class Swaps The children had the opportunity on Monday to meet their new class teacher and see their new classroom.
Coloured Strings Thank you to those parents who attended the final lesson on Tuesday.
Musical Afternoon Tea The local old people enjoyed their Afternoon Tea with musical entertainment today. Thank you to Year 6 who provided the entertainment and to Beverley who helped Year 6 organise this event.
Year 6 Final Assembly All Year 6 parents are invited to come along to their Final Assembly on Thursday at 9.30am. This will be followed by refreshments. We hope many of you will be able to join us at this special event. In addition, as an end of year treat, we have organised a disco for our Year 6 pupils from 2.30-4.30pm (no parents allowed) for which they can bring party clothes.
My Last Day This Term My last day this term will be Thursday, as I will be attending my final assemblies at Glade Primary School on Friday and become full time substantive Head at Cranbrook from September.
Non-Uniform Day Friday will be a non-uniform day. The children have been talking and learning about children in Africa. Through our learning we found out that many children in Africa cannot go to school, do not have clean water or enough food. To help with this we have decided to help raise money for ‘Self Help Africa’. We appreciate any donation, but would ask for a 50p donation to come to school in non-uniform.
Ramadan/Eid When we return in September, it will still be Ramadan. We have therefore arranged for only Yrs 5 & 6 pupils to fast during school. The library will be available and supervised for these pupils at lunchtime. Please note, only 1 day will be authorised for Eid.
Breakfast (8-9am)/Afterschool Club (3.15-5pm) Please note that this childcare provision will be available from 6th September, term-time only.
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the School Office. Any items remaining at the end of term will be donated to charity.
Staffing Update I am thrilled to announce that we are fully staffed for September and that the staff team remains stable. Please join me in welcoming our 6 new Class Teachers who joined this month ready to take over their class positions in September – Tracey and Jasmina in Reception, Chloe in Year 1, Harman in Year 2, John in Year 4 and Ian in Year 5. We also welcome Pavan as SEN co-ordinator, Mark and Darshan as Deputies both of whom are bringing a wealth of experience with them and Adam and Paul, Teaching Assistants in Year 2 and 6 respectively. Sadly, we say a fond farewell to Alex who is leaving to pursue alternative career options, Megan who is starting her new position in a Secondary school in September and Becca who is getting married in the summer and relocating to Amersham. I am sure you will join me in wishing them well and thanking them for all their hard work and commitment during their time at Cranbrook.
Baby News Congratulations to Clare Hall (Year 6 Teacher) on the birth of her son, George, on Tuesday 13th July and to Naz Duru-Ahmet (School Office) on the birth of her twin sons, Kaan and Karem on 3rd July.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your continued support and positive feedback.
I wish you all an enjoyable summer break and look forward to seeing you again on Monday 6th September, when school re-opens for pupils.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton, Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Final Assembly & Drinks Reception 22nd July, 9.30am
Year 6 Disco 22nd July, 2.30-4.30pm
Last day of the school year 23rd July
First day of the school year 6th September
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