15/11 Newsletter

Attendance

Swan Class Y2S (98.81%), Mink Class Y3G (97.32%) and Red Fox Y4P (97.22%) met the target of 96% attendance this week.

Overall our school attendance was 91.5% this week.

Punctuality

 All classes had some children arriving late again this week! Oh no!

Overall, there were 8 hours and 50 minutes of lates.

Lessons start promptly at 8.50am.

Events this week

·         A number of parents were able to attend the KS1 Lego robotics course.

·         Thank you to those who supported the Royal British Legion for Armistice Day on Monday. Mrs Hardman led an assembly for the children so that they could understand the significance.

·         A visitor from BFC came to work with Y3 to promote healthy drinks and the impact of fizzy drinks on our teeth.

·         Y4 had a trip to the cinema on Thursday.

·         Sanderson’s Dance worked with Y3 this week.

·         Friday 15^th November – thank you for your contributions for BBC Children In Need today.

Events Coming Up

·         Family Learning Workshop on Wednesday 20^th November at 9:15-11:15am on Lego robotics. This course is now full. If you have signed up, please ensure that you attend. You will need to complete a registration form prior to attending. Please note that pre-school children and babies cannot attend this event.

ICT session

On Tuesday 26^th November at 9:30am, Y5 and Y6 are watching an online assembly related to Online Safety. We are inviting any parents of Y5 and Y6 children to come into school to watch the assembly in the hall at the same time as the children.

If you would like to attend this session, please call or send a message to Mrs Iqbal, so we can have enough chairs set out in the hall for you.

We can also send this link to you to watch at home if you wish to.

Christmas Fair

We will be having our Christmas Fair on Thursday 12^th December to raise vital funds for the school. We will be asking for chocolate donations nearer the time, but we are also hoping to get good quality donations for raffle prizes.

If anyone is able to donate anything or works for a company who would be able to do so, please let me know. We would be looking for anything suitable that our families would like to win. This could be vouchers, gifts or other quality items.

We have had a couple of responses so far – thank you.

Even if your company is not able to offer vouchers for their services, they could donate an Amazon or Love2Shop voucher.

Parent Governor Election

Thank you for all the votes that were cast. Mr Khaleel Baig received the highest number of votes and is therefore now on the governing body along with Syeda Zesmin, our other parent governor.

Just a reminder that Mr Baig and Mrs Zesmin’s role is not to bring concerns from other parents, but to represent the views of a typical parent.

Tuck Shop

Just a reminder about our regular Friday tuckshop. We will be selling small food items on a Friday after school every week now, to raise money for various items in school, including our potentially life-saving anaphylaxis kit.

We will be selling cakes, biscuits and drinks for 50p to £1. This will start on Friday 15^th November.

If it is raining, the tuck shop will take place in the hall.

Nativity

Our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children will be taking part in our annual nativity show on

-Monday 9^th December from 2.15pm

And

-Tuesday 10^th December from 2.15pm

The Reception and Year 1 children are performing the nativity and Year 2 will be supporting with singing and each Y2 class will perform a song.

There is an allocation of 2 tickets for each child, which will cost £1 per ticket

Families can buy both tickets for one of the performances or you can choose to have one ticket for each of the two performances.

Tickets will be available to buy from your class teacher from Monday 18^th November – Friday 29th November.

Tickets are limited to two per child due to fire regulations in the hall. However, if not all the tickets have been purchased by Monday 2^nd December, then the spare tickets will become available for families to purchase an additional ticket if they wish to.

Awards

Many children from Y4 Otter class have received Headteacher Awards from me this week as they have been working really hard on Mathswhizz and have made lots of progress. I have never given out so many Headteacher Awards in one class before!

Aaqib from Reception has achieved his Platinum Times Table Award. We have never had a child in Reception before achieving one of these awards! Well done Aaqib!

Some of our girls took part in the club final of a football tournament and were runners up. They played really well. Qaswa won a trophy for fair play and for being the most improved player.

They also got to meet some of the Ladies BFC team.

Well done Hawa, Zainab, Rua, Douaa, Qaswa, Eshal, Aleeza and Aceier.

School Photographs

If you want to buy your child’s school photograph, please ensure that the money is in school no later than 9.30am on Tuesday 19^th November.

Establishing Routines

There are still a few places available on the course for parents which is running in school on Thursday 21^st November from 1.45pm to 3.15pm. The focus is on developing good routines, to take away some of the stresses that we all feel when trying to get anything done in the home!

It is free to attend and will be supportive and non-judgemental. There is a leaflet below. If you want to book on, please call the school office.

Key Dates

·         Monday 18^th November – Tickets go on sale for the Nativity performance.

·         Tuesday 26^th November  - Parents of Y5/6 invited to assembly on online safety at 9:30am

·         Friday 29^th November – We are asking for donations of chocolate for the tombola for the Christmas Fair

·         Monday 9^th December and Tuesday 10^th December 2.15pm YR, Y1, Y2 nativity – entry with tickets only

·         Thursday 12^th December – Christmas Fair 3.45 – 4.45pm

·         Friday 13^th December – Children’s Christmas dinner

·         Friday 20^th December – Christmas themed non-uniform day. Bring £2 for school.

·         School will be closed from Monday 23^rd December for the Christmas holiday, and reopen on Tuesday 7^th January.