Friday, January 28, 2011

newsletter 27th jan 2011

Paws AGM The meeting on Tuesday led to the election of key positions in the Paws group:
Chair Tamara Peggs
Vice Chair Sara Rivas
Joint Treasurer Bev Craggs and Catherine Mahesh
Secretary Shaheen Mehmood.
We wish to thank Sammy Cannning for her time and commitment as Chair of the Paws group last year.

Parent Governor We will have a vacancy for a parent governor from February 2011. Anyone interested please enquire at the school office for more information.

Year 6 Trips—Non-Residential As per the letter that went home unfortunately we have had to cancel the trips that were booked for Lambourne End and Aquaslpash. This was because of lack of interest.

Outdoor PE Lessons Whilst the weather is cold please provide your child with long tracksuit bottoms and a sweatshirt for when they do outside PE lessons. Thank you.

Redbridge Mini Games Swimming Gala Good Luck to all our swim team as they compete today in the Redbridge Gala. We will update you next week!

Family Learning at Glade—Art with the Redbridge Institiute of Adult Education This is a wonderful opportunity for parents/grandparents to learn/improve their artistic skills and knowledge alongside their children (minimum age 5 years).
It is a free 5 week course, held at Glade starting on Tuesday 8th March 2011 from 3.45-5.15pm and is led by a local professional artist/tutor.
For further information and to register, please enquire at the school office (places are limited—1st come, 1st served).

James Caan Foundation We are very proud to have received a personal letter of thanks as well as a certificate from James Caan for all our hard work raising money for Pakistan “Build a Village” project. Well done to everyone!

Cleaner Vacancy If you have had an application form for this post please note the closing date is next Tuesday 1st February at 3.30pm. Any forms received after this time will not be considered.

Issues with Children If you have any issues with children other than your own please do not take it upon yourselves to speak to them. Any problems must be addressed through the classteacher. Thank you for your co-operation with this.

Sign2sing Just to remind you all that this event is taking place in school on 9th February. Please send in a contribution (suggested amount £2) for SignHealth, which is a national charity dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of deaf people.

Fun and Fitness—Your support needed! Thank you to all of you who have already signed up but we still have a long way to go to meet our target! Glade have joined a scheme which enables us to get FREE sports equipment for the school with YOUR support! Please go to www.havenfunfitness.com and in the bottom right-hand side box enter our postcode IG5 0PF. Then click Register your support and fill in details and you are done! If you have any problems with the website please let me know. Thank you for your support. Mr. Merchant.

Sainsburys Active Kids The popular Sainsburys Active Kids scheme begins on Wednesday 9th February. Last year we managed to purchase a large amount of equipment from the scheme and this year we hope to collect more vouchers than ever before! Please support us when you do your shopping and spread the word to friends and family. Your help is much appreciated.