Friday, May 18, 2012

newsletyter 18 may 2012

Road Safety There have been several incidents of dangerous driving outside school in recent weeks . Please drive with consideration and care for the safety of all our pupils. In future registration numbers will be taken and reported to the Police. PAWS On line shopping Please don’t forget this website if you shop on line www.easyfundraising.org.uk. We can raise funds for the school without costing you a penny! Support Your School Please check at home with family and friends for any unwanted mobile phones or used/empty computer printer cartridges. Each item we receive contributes to valuable funding for our school. This money will be used for new outdoor play equipment. Please hand in any unwanted mobile phones and printer cartridges to the school office. PAWS Movie Night-tomorrow 18th May 3.45-5.45pm As something new for children we have organised a Movie night tomorrow which will be held in the main hall for Key Stage 1 and Lloyd Hall for Key Stage 2 children. The movies that we are showing are Puss in Boots (certificate U) for KS1 and Johnny English Reborn (certificate PG) for KS2 .A drink and popcorn are included in the ticket price of £2.50.Refreshments will also be on sale during the event. Key Stage 1 children MUST be accompanied by an adult. Letters have been sent out—so please return the slip with the required amount in a clearly named envelope. All monies raised will go towards new playground equipment. Key Stage 2 tickets: sold out. Key Stage 1 tickets: still available. Summer Fair Saturday 7th July 2012 from 12-3.30pm. The Summer Fair is fast approaching and we are busy preparing for our biggest fundraising event of the year. If you would like to hire a stall for the day please leave your name and contact details at the office. The cost for each table is £15 if you are a parent/carer of a child at the Glade, if not £20 per table. PAWS Meeting-Friday 25th May at 9am Come along and help make a difference. Everyone welcome! Scooter Skills Wednesday 27th June 2012. For children in years 1-5, children must have their own scooter. Limited spaces, please let the office know if you would like your child to take part. More details will be given to those attending nearer the time, we must have a minimum number of children for these classes to go ahead so please do not delay let us know as soon as possible if your child is interested. Mr. Merchant FaceBook We urge parents not to allow their children to access FaceBook. The FaceBook terms of service dictate that members be at least 13yrs old to setup an account. It causes unnecessary problems between children and can lead to school dealing with issues in the classroom. PLEASE EXERCISE PARENTAL CONTROL. Help! If you have any good condition CD Walkman’s at home that you no longer want or any good condition ‘Harry Potter’ books we would love them for our school library. Parent Governor Vacancies REMINDER— If you are interested in becoming a parent governor, nomination forms for both vacancies should be returned to school by 12noon on 18th May 2012. (tomorrow) Clothes Recycling Bin The recycling bin in the main school hall is to be used only for clothes. Please do not put rubbish in this bin! Good Works Assembly-tomorrow For this week only the Good Works Assembly is cancelled. This is because the Year 6 children are doing their SAT’S tests and so we need to keep disruptions to a minimum within the school corridors, etc. Thank you for your co operation with this. Toddler Group There will be no toddler group on the afternoon of Wednesday 23rd May. This is because both the school halls are in use on this day. Reminder Group and team photographs 22nd May. Library Sessions For Parents After the half term holiday the library will be open to parents on a Monday and Thursday afternoon from 3.30-4.30pm, everyone is welcome. The first session will be Thursday 14th June. Money Coming into School When sending money in to school it must be in an envelope with your child’s name, class, amount and what it is for. Neither the school office , nor the catering company will be responsible for any money not sent in correctly.

Friday, May 11, 2012

newsletter 10th May 2012

SAT’s Week Next week in school it is Sat’s Week for our children in Year 6. Please make sure that your child attends school each day and is in on time. PAWS On line shopping Please don’t forget this website if you shop on line www.easyfundraising.org.uk. We can raise funds for the school without costing you a penny! Support Your School Please check at home with family and friends for any unwanted mobile phones or used/empty computer printer cartridges. Each item we receive contributes to valuable funding for our school. This money will be used for new outdoor play equipment. Please hand in any unwanted mobile phones and printer cartridges to the school office. PAWS Movie Night-Friday 18th May 3.45-5.45pm As something new for children we have organised a Movie night on Friday 18th May which will be held in the main hall for Key Stage 1 and Lloyd Hall for Key Stage 2 children. The movies that we are showing are Puss in Boots (certificate U) for KS1 and Johnny English Reborn (certificate PG) for KS2 .A drink and popcorn are included in the ticket price of £2.50. Refreshments will also be on sale during the event. Key Stage 1 children MUST be accompanied by an adult. Letters have been sent out—so please return the slip with the required amount in a clearly named envelope. All monies raised will go towards new playground equipment. Summer Fair Saturday 7th July 2012 from 12-3.30pm. Scooter Skills Wednesday 27th June 2012. For children in years 1-5, children must have their own scooter. Limited spaces, please let the office know if you would like your child to take part. More details will be given to those attending nearer the time, we must have a minimum number of children for these classes to go ahead so please do not delay let us know as soon as possible if your child is interested. Mr. Merchant Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers Please continue to save these and bring them into school for us as they are due to finish soon. The more vouchers we collect the more equipment we will receive for the children to use in school. Thank you. Help! If you have any good condition CD Walkman’s at home that you no longer want or any good condition ‘Harry Potter’ books we would love them for our school library. Thank you Mrs Ward and Mr King would like to thank all the swim/triathlon team children and parents for their generosity and kindness. Diamond Jubilee Lunch On Thursday 31st May the school kitchen will be doing a special lunch for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The menu will be a hot buffet menu comprising of BBQ Drumsticks, Margarita pizza or Nachos with salsa and sour cream, carrot and cucumber sticks, cherry tomatoes, Cajun potato wedges, fruit bar, fresh bread, then ice-cream or Victoria sponge finger. If your child would like to have this meal there is no need to pre-book , the price will be the same so they just need to book a school lunch in the normal way on this day. School Choir Our school choir sang beautifully yesterday when they visited Birchwood residential home in Barkingside and performed for the residents. Parent Governor We now have a second vacancy for parent governor. If you are interested please collect information from the school office. Nomination forms for both vacancies should be returned to school by 12noon on 18th May 2012. Late Collection of Children The school day ends at 3.30pm and so children should be collected at 3.30pm. If you are continually late in picking up you may incur a charge.

Friday, May 4, 2012

newsletter 4th may 2012

Gifted and Talented Assembly Pupils performed at our termly Talents Assembly this morning and as always amazed us with their skill and confidence. Thank you to Mr Merchant for organising the event. Governors Day Governors visited the school today. They attended a viewing of the Triathlon Team performance, the Talents assembly as well as visiting classes and meeting staff and pupils. They were impressed with the behaviour and attitude of our pupils and the broad and balanced curriculum available at Glade. Bags2School Please don’t forget we have this next Thursday 10th May 9am prompt. PAWS have organised another textile collection with bags2school in order to raise funds for new outdoor play equipment. By getting involved you will have the opportunity to spring clean as well as de-clutter your wardrobes and cupboards and donate unwanted textiles in the bag provided. Bags 2school will be collecting on Thursday 10th May at 9am prompt. Please bring your bag/or bags! to the bike shed and help us have a really good collection. Please note the bags cannot be left prior to this date. Please note because of this it is not possible to store bikes and scooters in the shed next Thursday morning. PAWS On line shopping Please don’t forget this website if you shop on line www.easyfundraising.org.uk. We can raise funds for the school without costing you a penny! PAWS 100 Club The 100 Club has been cancelled due to lack of applications. All money will be returned ASAP. Support Your School Please check at home with family and friends for any unwanted mobile phones or used/empty computer printer cartridges. Each item we receive contributes to valuable funding for our school. This money will be used for new outdoor play equipment. Please hand in any unwanted mobile phones and printer cartridges to the school office. PAWS Movie Night-Friday 18th May 3.45-5.45pm As something new for children we have organised a Movie night on Friday 18th May which will be held in the main hall for Key Stage 1 and Lloyd Hall for Key Stage 2 children. The movies that we are showing are Puss in Boots (certificate U) for KS1 and Johnny English Reborn (certificate PG) for KS2 .A drink and popcorn are included in the ticket price of £2.50. Refreshments will also be on sale during the event. Key Stage 1 children MUST be accompanied by an adult. Letters have been sent out—so please return the slip with the required amount in a clearly named envelope. All monies raised will go towards new playground equipment. Summer Fair Saturday 7th July 2012 from 12-3.30pm. Scooter Skills Wednesday 27th June 2012. For children in years 1-5, children must have their own scooter. Limited spaces, please let the office know if you would like your child to take part. More details will be given to those attending nearer the time, we must have a minimum number of children for these classes to go ahead so please do not delay let us know as soon as possible if your child is interested. Mr. Merchant Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers Please continue to save these and bring them into school for us as they are due to finish soon. The more vouchers we collect the more equipment we will receive for the children to use in school. Thank you. Year 5 Science Museum Trip Last week the children in Year 5 had a wonderful time when they visited the science museum. They had a question and answer session with astronaut Helen Sharman. Staff Toilets Please note that the staff toilets are for staff only. No children should be using them even if with an adult. Thank you.

Friday, April 20, 2012

newsletter 19th april 2012

I hope you all had a good Easter break and have returned rested and ready for our final term of this academic year.

With the changing weather conditions lately please ensure that your child comes to school a suitable jacket/coat.

School Uniform Glade pupils are looking particularly smart in their school uniforms this week, and we are pleased to see that generally the school uniform code is followed by most of our pupils. There are however, a few pupils who have returned to school wearing non-uniform items such as hoodies, non-school caps and bright fashion trainers.
We will be reminding pupils about this over the next week and ask that parents support us in the following uniform code:
Yellow polo shirt/white shirt
Green sweatshirt with logo
Green cardigan with logo
Yellow/green check dress
Black/grey trousers
Grey skirt/pinafore/shorts
Black shoes/trainers
Green caps

Class Talks These will be taking place next week after school to inform parents about key areas of learning for their child during the Summer term.
Monday 23rd April Reception classes
Tuesday 24th April Years 1 and 2
Wednesday 25th April Years 5 and 6
Thursday 26th April Years 3 and 4

Bags2School 10th May now—details to follow.

PAWS On line shopping Please don’t forget this website if you shop on line www.easyfundraising.org.uk. We can raise funds for the school without costing you a penny!

Good Works Assembly-tomorrow Classes RS, 1J, 2P, 3C, 4L, and 5F at 10am. Please note the year 6 class will not be attending this week .

Reminder School Lunch Arrears School dinners need to be paid for unless your child receives free school meals. If you cannot pay weekly please provide a packed lunch.

Scooter Skills Wednesday 27th June 2012.
For children in years 1-5, children must have their own scooter. Limited spaces, please let the office know if you would like your child to take part. More details will be given to those attending nearer the time. Mr. Merchant

Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers Please continue to save these and bring them into school for us. The more vouchers we collect the more equipment we will receive for the children to use in school. Thank you.

Family Literacy These sessions begin on Friday 27th April from 12noon-3pm and run for a total of 11 weeks. They are for parents of reception and year 1 pupils with the idea of being able to help out more with Reading and Writing with your child at home. If you are interested in joining these classes please come to the office and let us know.

Drumming Performance Our year 4 children will be doing a drumming performance on Wednesday 25th April. Class 4L will be performing at 1.45pm and Class 4H at 2.50pm. Parents welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you all!

Music Tuition Vacancies We have vacancies for violin and brass tuition. If your child would be interested in having lessons they are £4 please write into school expressing your interest. Thank you.

Music Events— The children and staff enjoyed hearing our Choir perform a few songs from the recent choral festival at the Royal Albert Hall. We will now be working towards an Evening of Song and Music (a wonderful event if last year’s performance is anything to go by!!) which will take place at Glade on Thursday 5th July and will involve KS1, KS2 and Staff Choirs. If your child is interested in taking part in this Concert, weekly rehearsals will take place on Mondays 12.30– to 1.15 in 4L (KS2), or Wednesdays 1.55 to 2.15 in 2P (KS1)

Friday, March 30, 2012

newsletter 29th march 2012

Bags2School 10th May now—details to follow.
PAWS On line shopping Please don’t forget this website if you shop on line www.easyfundraising.org.uk. We can raise funds for the school without costing you a penny!
Please also find accompanying letter redarding recycling.

Good Works Assembly-tomorrow Classes RC, 1O, 2M, 3M, 4H, 5E and 6W at 10am.

Reminder School Lunch Arrears School dinners need to be paid for unless your child
receives free school meals. If you cannot pay weekly please provide a packed lunch.

Year 3 Claybury Forest Visit The children in Year 3 had a wonderful day on Monday when they spent the day at Claybury Forest.

Year 2 Claybury Forest Visit Year 2 also visited Claybury Forest on Tuesday morning. The weather was great and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Year 5 Concert We were treated to a wonderful performance on Tuesday of this week . The children in year 5 did us proud, they sang, danced and acted brilliantly!

Glasbury Trip Our year 6 children arrived back safely last Saturday after having a good time on their residential trip.

Queen’s Visit The competition winning children and members of staff went along to see the Queen today as she visited Valentines Mansions in Ilford. They were very excited and the atmosphere was fantastic.

Royal Albert Hall Last Thursday evening several children from Glade went along to participate in the Redbridge Choral Festival at the Royal Albert Hall. It was a wonderful evening enjoyed by all who attended. A big thank you to Mrs Robinson, Mrs Hartley and Mr Crouch and a very big Well Done to all the children!

Scooter Skills Wednesday 27th June 2012.
For children in years 1-5, children must have their own scooter. Limited spaces, please let the office know if you would like your child to take part. More details will be given to those attending nearer the time. Mr. Merchant

Family Literacy These sessions begin on Friday 27th April from 12noon-3pm and run for a total of 11 weeks. They are for parents of reception and year 1 pupils with the idea of being able to help out more with Reading and Writing with your child at home. If you are interested in joining these classes please come to the office and let us know.

Easter Assembly We had a lovely Easter Assembly this morning led by Rob from the Christian Education Project.

Guitar Performance Our year 5 children gave us another treat this week when they did a guitar performance showing us what they have been learning during their lessons in school.

Music Tuition Vacancies We have vacancies for violin and brass tuition. If your child would be interested in having lessons they are £4 please write into school expressing your interest. Thank you.

Finally may I wish you all a lovely Easter Break and look forward to seeing you on 16th April at 9am.

Friday, March 23, 2012

newsletter 22nd march 2012

NUT STRIKE Wednesday 28th March. As part of the fight against pension cuts the NUT are calling members of the union to participate in strike action.
Unfortunately the school will have to close on this day due to the number of teachers participating in this action. We apologise for the short notice and the inconvenience this will cause. We will be sending out a letter with further information.

WARNING-Jequirity Bean Bracelets The school has received an alert about the above bracelets which have been on sale. They are red and black and made from the jequirity bean. They contain poisonous toxins which are very dangerous. If your child has purchased one from somewhere please bag it , wash your hands and avoid touching your eyes.
If you are unsure about what these bracelets look like please come into the school office where we have a picture displaying one. Thank you.

Easter Fair Thank you to everyone who helped, baked cakes or came along to support our Easter Fair last Friday. We raised a fantastic £1000! Thank you, Tamara– PAWS Chairperson.

Glade School 100 Club By joining Glade 100 club you can help our school as well as having the chance to win cash prizes every month!
Glade 100 club is a private lottery and is open to all parents, staff and friends of Glade Primary (anyone aged 16 or over can join). Your child would have brought home a letter about this last week. If you are interested please return the completed form and payment in a clearly marked envelope to the school office by tomorrow– Friday 23rd March.

Bags2School 10th May now—details to follow.

PAWS On line shopping Please don’t forget this website if you shop on line www.easyfundraising.org.uk. We can raise funds for the school without costing you a penny!

Good Works Assembly-tomorrow Classes RS, 1J, 2P, 3C, 4L, and 5F at 10am.

Reminder School Lunch Arrears School dinners need to be paid for unless your child receives free school meals. If you cannot pay weekly please provide a packed lunch.

Year 4 Barbican Trip The children had a wonderful time yesterday on their trip. They watched a performance by The London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.

Olympic Week We had a great Olympic week last week with children taking part in a wide range of activities including Karate, Capoeira, Speedstacking, Nintendo Wii, Hockey and Parachute Games. It ended with a teacher’s challenge in Good Works assembly on Friday. We raised a terrific £145.50 for the Sports Relief fund so a big thank you for all your support. Mr. Merchant.
Throughout the week children were asked to choose two children from their class who were best at displaying the Olympic values. All these children received a special medal. Well done!
RC Devonyaye and Sydney RS Tahir and Sobia
1J Marcus and Maryam 10 Kingsley and Angel
2M Shaamil and Kayleigh 2P Varoon and Christy
3C Kevin and Laibah 3M Adarssh and Liana
4L James and Hannah 4H Ashton and Alys
5F Anu and Kulvinder 5E Megan and Adam
Year 6 will be announced after they return from Glasbury.

Year 2 Claybury Forest Visit Year 2 will be visiting Claybury Forest on Tuesday morning.Please ensure that you return your child’s reply slip by tomorrow if you have not yet done so. Children need to come to school dressed in old clothes and wellies on this day and bring their uniform in a bag to change into upon our return. Children who are not in old clothes/wellies will unfortunately be unable to attend as it will be muddy.

Friday, March 16, 2012

newsletter 15th March 2012

Queen’s Visit to Redbridge –Competition Results
Overall Winner Maryam Khan (4L)
Second place Rebecca Welch (6R)
Am Nursery Harry Elia Pm Nursery Noor Baig
RS Ammarah Vohra RC Maryam Vohra
10 Judah Martin 1J Ayra Malak
2M Caitlin Pickering 2P Gerard Kasprzycki
3M Meerab Mokal 3C Imaan Jobe
4H Manraj Bansal 4L Samah Moughal
5F Swastika Surendran 5E William Hughes
6R Lucia Goodman 6W Jada Phipps-Brumant
Well done children!

Eggtastic Easter Fair-tomorrow-Friday 16th March 3.45-5.30pm
Join us tomorrow for this year’s Easter Fair!
We have lots of eggtastic activities planned for you to enjoy, so don’t miss out on the fun.
Easter egg hunt, Easter egg tombola, Face painting, Nail painting, Temporary tattoos, Buzzer game, Crafts, Badge making, Refreshments, Home made cakes and lots more.
Cake Donations All cake donations for our Easter Fair greatly appreciated. They need to be delivered to the school office tomorrow morning . Thank you.
Bags2School 3rd May—details to follow.
PAWS On line shopping Please don’t forget this website if you shop on line www.easyfundraising.org.uk. We can raise funds for the school without costing you a penny!

Good Works Assembly-tomorrow Classes RC, 1O, 2M, 3M, 4H, 5E and 6W at 10am.
Olympic Week The children have had a fun filled week in school this week and tomorrow they are invited to bring in a £1 to come dressed as a sporting hero. The Good Works assembly will also have a sporting theme—parents invited as per the relevant classes above.

Reminder School Lunch Arrears School dinners need to be paid for unless your child receives free school meals. If you cannot pay weekly please provide a packed lunch.

Year 4 Barbican Trip This trip will take place on 21st March. Your child should have brought home a second letter giving details about the trip. Even if you have already signed the first letter we need a signed copy back of the second one as soon as possible. If we do not get this your child will be unable to attend the trip as we need it to sort the transport arrangements. Your child must also wear school uniform and have a packed lunch. We are meeting at South Woodford tube station, Sainsbury’s side at 8.45am on 21st March and the children must also be collected from this point at 2.30pm in the afternoon Thank you.

Optician Appointments The school nurse would like to advise parents that if they have concerns about their child’s sight they can make an appointment to see a local optician as this is a free service for children and more comprehensive than the eye test she would be able to do. If you have concerns about your child’s hearing please let the school office know as soon as possible and the nurse will arrange a test for your child sometime in the next two weeks.

Year 6 Hargreaves Scout Camp Reminder that this trip is tomorrow. The children will be picked up from school at 8.40am promptly so please make sure they are in school at 8.30am for registration. They will be brought back to school at lunchtime.

Glasbury We hope those children in Year 6 going to Glasbury on Sunday have a wonderful time and look forward to receiving updates from their visit during the course of the week!