Friday, January 27, 2012

newsletter 26th January 2012

PAWS Non-Uniform Friday 10th February Red theme. £1 donation each child please. All money to go towards new playground equipment.

Lost Glasses If your child has lost a pair of reading glasses. Please come to the school office as we have several pairs. Thank you.

Year 4 Trip Roald Dahl Museum Last Thursday the children in Year 4 visited the Roald Dahl Museum. It was a great day and the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Redbridge Mini Gala Good Luck today to all our children taking part in the swimming gala at Fulwell Cross. We will update you next week about the events and results.

Year 2 walk to Barkingside Methodist Church The children in Year 2 will be visiting the Church tomorrow. Please ensure that you have sent in the permission slip for this visit. Thank you.

Sessions for Home/School Training
These sessions have been well attended.Information will be put on FRONTER if you missed your child’s class.

Holocaust Memorial Service Tomorrow,Friday 27th January. Staff and some pupils from Year 5 are participating in the annual Holocaust Memorial Service at Valentines Park. Pupils in KS2 are doing work around this theme in their classes. This will be shared at Friday’s Good Works Assembly.

Chinese New Year Well done to Ryan Chan who participated in the Dragon Dance in London’s China Town.
In school this week the children have been involved in various activities linked to this celebration, including a special lunch on Monday prepared by our kitchen staff.

Friday, January 20, 2012

newsletter 19th January 2012

Sessions on Home/School Training Please note that these sessions are part of the usual class talks where you will be finding out about what your child will be doing in class next term and will take place during the week of 23rd January 2012.
Early Years Classes RS and RC—Monday 23rd January
KS1 Classes 1O,1J,2P,2M—Tuesday 24th January
Lower KS2 Years 3 and 4—Wednesday 25th January
Upper KS2 Years 5 and 6—Thursday 26th January
These meetings will start at 3.40pm in the classrooms. We will be focussing on phonics in EYAS/KS1 and Grammar and Spellings in KS2.
Please note parents attending the swimming gala on Thursday 26th, who may not get back to school in time are invited to a session at 8.30am on Friday 27th January.

PAWS AGM The Annual General Meeting of our PAWS association is being held tomorrow at 1.30pm. Please come along to the meeting and make a difference. Children welcome!

School Lunch On Monday 23rd January our school kitchen will be serving up a special menu to celebrate Chinese New Year, the year of the Dragon.
The menu will comprise of sweet and sour chicken with steamed rice or quorn and vegetable stir fry with egg noodles or broccoli salad. Then ginger and carrot cake or pineapple upside down cake served with custard. The price will be the same as usual and there is no need to pre-book, your child can just let their teacher know in the normal way on the day.

Sign2sing Your child should have brought home a letter regarding the Sign2sing event that will see us attempting to break the world record for simultaneous singing across all schools. We asked for a contribution of £1 for the charity ’Signhealth’. Please send this money into the school office towards raising money for this very worthwhile charity.

DRIVE SAFELY It has been reported by a concerned parent that some of our parents are driving without strapping their children in their cars. For the safety of your children please ensure that you drive with due care for all passengers. This includes using booster seats if necessary and adequate straps relevant for your child’s age and size.
It has also been reported that some parents are using our staff car park. Please do not do this!

Year 3 Fundraiser A huge Well done to the children in year 3 who raised a staggering £158.50 for Barnados when they held their Victorian Christmas Day. Thank you also to all the parents/carers for their support and to Mrs Currey and Mrs Maryon who helped make the event so special. Year 3 have written letters to Barnados telling them about this wonderful day.

Junior Librarian We have installed a computerised system called ‘Junior Librarian’ to log all our books and resources. This is a quick and efficient system that recognises individual finger prints against pupil names when loaning books from the library.
It is our intention to insert pupil finger prints on the system to develop the use of the library. There is no other purpose to take the finger prints.
Should you have any objection to your child’s finger print being used please contact the office by Friday 20th January as we will be implementing the system during the week of 23rd January.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

newsletter 12th January 2012

Year 4 Trip The children in year 4 will be visiting the Roald Dahl Museum on 19th January. Please send in the permission slip and payment if you have not yet done so.

Sessions on Home/School Training Please note that these sessions are part of the usual class talks where you will be finding out about what your child will be doing in class next term and will take place during the week of 23rd January 2012.
Early Years Classes RS and RC—Monday 23rd January
KS1 Classes 1O,1J,2P,2M—Tuesday 24th January
Lower KS2 Years 3 and 4—Wednesday 25th January
Upper KS2 Years 5 and 6—Thursday 26th January
These meetings will start at 3.40pm in the classrooms. We will be focussing on phonics in EYAS/KS1 and Grammar and Spellings in KS2.

Primary School Applications These forms must be completed and submitted to Lynton House by 15th January. Any received after this date will then be considered as a late applicant.

Our New Library The ‘Mathias Room’ is now set up and is being used by all pupils across the school. Classes have been visiting each week and pupils from year2-6 take it in turns to visit during dinner time.
We are now at the next stage of development of this room—visiting the library to loan books.
We have installed a computerised system called ‘Junior Librarian’ to log all our books and resources. This is a quick and efficient system that recognises individual finger prints against pupil names when loaning books from the library. It is our intention to insert pupil finger prints on the system to develop the use of the library. There is no other purpose to take the finger prints.
Should you have any objection to your child’s finger print being used please contact the office by Friday 20th January as we will be implementing the system during the week of 23rd January.

School Uniform We still have a stock of the old style sweatshirts in school, mainly larger sizes. They are being sold off at £5. If you would like to purchase one they can be ordered through the school office.

PAWS AGM The Annual General Meeting of our PAWS association is being held on Friday 20th January at 1.30pm. Alongside this letter there is a form on which you can nominate for the relevant positions that will be available. Please come along to the meeting and make a difference. Children welcome!

School Lunch On Monday 23rd January our school kitchen will be serving up a special menu to celebrate Chinese New Year, the year of the Dragon.
The menu will comprise of sweet and sour chicken with steamed rice or quorn and vegetable stir fry with egg noodles or broccoli salad. Then ginger and carrot cake or pineapple upside down cake served with custard. The price will be the same as usual and there is no need to pre-book, your child can just let their teacher know in the normal way on the day.
Thank you.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

newsletter 5th January 2012

School Dinner Increase Please note that from January 2012 school lunch prices have increased to £1.99 per day, this is an increase of 4p. Thank you.

Class 4H Swimming This will commence tomorrow. Please ensure that your child brings their swimming kit into school. If you have not yet signed a permission slip and sent in the money please do so as soon as possible. Thank you.

Year 4 Trip The children in year 4 will be visiting the Roald Dahl Museum on 19th January. Please send in the permission slip and payment if you have not yet done so.

Sessions on Home/School Training Please note that these sessions are part of the usual class talks where you will be finding out about what your child will be doing in class next term and will take place during the week of 23rd January 2012.
Early Years Classes RS and RC—Monday 23rd January
KS1 Classes 1O,1J,2P,2M—Tuesday 24th January
Lower KS2 Years 3 and 4—Wednesday 25th January
Upper KS2 Years 5 and 6—Thursday 26th January
These meetings will start at 3.40pm in the classrooms. We will be focussing on phonics in EYAS/KS1 and Grammar and Spellings in KS2.

Primary School Applications These forms must be completed and submitted to Lynton House by 15th January. Any received after this date will then be considered as a late applicant.

Unwanted Items/Gifts/Christmas Cracker Toys If you have any unwanted gifts or toys from your Christmas Crackers, etc that you do not need we would be very grateful if they could be donated to school. Examples of items needed are small tongs, old shirts—larger size, plant sprayer, plastic containers, empty toothpaste tubes, jenga, pegs (not plastic), plastic drinking cups, Etch a Sketch, small containers screw top, plastic snap lids, spinning tops, balloon pump and balloons, tweezers (not sharp though). Thank you.

Confusion re school opening Just to confirm that main school is open as usual tomorrow and morning nursery.
Afternoon nursery is closed tomorrow.

There seems to be some confusion within certain year groups.

MEND Programme The Mend programme gets children healthy and fit in only 10 weeks and helps them stay that way. If you would like more information please call Alex Band on 0844 406 9000 ext 7395.