Dear Parents/Carers,
International Day
The children had a fantastic day on Friday sharing various experiences in
different classes with each other across the school. This day was only successful
thanks to the staff and much appreciated help of the following parents on the day;
Sahar Shah, Chandra Kancharlapalli, Kerry Picton, Nicola Beal, Deepalaxmi
Bellad, Radha Venkataramaiah and Kulveen Goindi
Dance Assembly
These are the children who performed their ‘Bollywood’ routines during the International Assembly:-
Boys Group: Zac Ibrahim, Harry Bugg, Luis Footitt, Ranjeet Dhaliwal-Gordon,
Nihal Goindi and Jacob Barrett.
Girls Group: Jessica Thompson, Priya Singh, Paige Curzon, Ria Griffin, Abigail
Halloway and Carla Fry,
International Trophy Winners: Liam Baker, James Inchley, Ellen Ferguson, Ei Lwin and Jessica Haining
Farmyard Animals
The two saddleback pigs have now gone to market having being collected by our local friendly farmer Mr Potts. If any parents would be interested in various organic cuts of meat or sausages for a voluntary contribution please see Mr Owens or Mrs Gilbert.We shall ‘in return’ be taking deliveries of some new piglets in about 2 weeks plus some additional laying hens.
Tree and Garden Works
Neil Moore (husband of Rebecca who is one of our Midday Supervisors) is currently helping with some landscape design and tree work in and around the kitchen gardens and new eco-classroom.
This eco classroom and an additional classroom are near to completion. The external grounds work may take a little longer and Neil is supporting the school in his capacity as a tree surgeon. Mike Cox has provided the monies towards a new polytunnel and Neil has helped clear and prepare the grounds ready for
installation – again in a few weeks. The mini greenhouse has arrived courtesy of the Morrison’s voucher scheme and I could do with some volunteers to help put the greenhouse together. The ground is prepared and already slabbed. Hopefully everything will come together ready for just after Easter.
B J Owens
Head Teacher
Mon 22 February
INSET DAY
Tue 23 February
12.15pm School Council
12.15pm FS and KS1
Spanish Club
12.15pm KS1 Choir
Wed 24 February
12.15apm Marimba Band
3.35pm Mad Science Club –
in Hut
Thurs 25 February
RAGTEX CLOTHING
COLLECTION
12.15pm Eco/Gardening
Club – Years 3 – 6
12.15pm KS2 Choir
3.30 - 4.40pm Dance Club –
Yr 1 – Y6
Fri 26 February
10.25am Hazel and Oak
Classes Swimming
12.30pm Christian Club
(Lime)
12.30pm Chess Club
SCHOOL DINNERS
£1.95 per day
£9.75 per week
£46.80 for the half term
Mid-morning Café
Toast 20p a slice
Mini Pizza 35p each
Flavoured Milk 50p
Cookie 35p
Fruit Cuplette 30p
and after Half Term
crumpets will be on
the menu
E.P.S.P.A.
VALENTINE DISCO
This event raised a
magnificent profit of
£331.72 for school.
Thanks to everyone
who supported and
attended.
Marimba Band
Marimba band will now be moving to a Wednesday lunch taking place in Rowan class. If you enjoy taking part in a band and playing percussion please come along.
Spanish Visit
Carlos Crespo arrived safety back in Spain on Sunday. He thoroughly enjoyed his stay and really appreciated the warm reception that school and the hosting families provided for him. We have received a letter of thanks from his tutor Fernando who said “the students have, without a single exception, been given a unique opportunity to experience the real school life at work and they have all gained much from role models of excellent practice in your classrooms and schools”. We look forward to hosting another student next year from Avila.
Good Work Assembly
This takes place on a Friday morning at 9.15am. Each class teacher(s) selects 2 children as a rule who have performed really well in class either in an academic subject or because they have demonstrated excellent attitudes towards others or indeed their learning.
These are the children who have featured in our recent Good Work Assemblies.
Ash Class
Andy Galea - Posey Pig writing work
Matthew Davis - Posey Pig writing work & labelling dinosaur drawing
Jacob Burton - T-Rex writing and drawing
Ben Brown - Buzz Lightyear painting
Liliana Reader - Woody writing and drawing
Cara Abasspour - Toy writing
Milli-Jo MacDonald - Toy writing
Eliza Shah - Independent writing and picture
Eden Turner - Independent writing and picture
Angus McWilliams - Labelling dinosaur drawing
Pharrell Thomas - Super phonics
Harleen Dahia - Super phonics
Saplings Class
Charlotte Coombs - Dinosaur writing
Cassia Byles - Dinosaur writing
Peter Heron - Handwriting
Joshua Asher - Reading nearly every day
Holly Baxter - Writing
Sana Bashir - Shapes picture
Holly Class
Hassan Ai - Making rockets 3D collage, writing instructions
Will Russell - Making rockets 3D collage
Rafael Lafayette - Chalk firework picture
Zac Hill - Writing instructions, science work (light)
Pallavi Gohil - Little Rabbit Foo Foo writing
Loui Coxon - Little Rabbit Foo Foo writing
Matthew Kay - Digger painting and plan, independent writing
Jacob Warren - Digger painting and plan
George Chant - Independent writing
Eleanor Roberts - Rocket model for ‘space’ project
Tilly Rowley - Rocket model for ‘space’ project
Emma Shaw - Science work (light)
Oak Class
Laura Haywood - Pirate story, elephant painting
Kiran Dhaliwal-Gordon - Pirate story
Joel le Mare - Getting on by themselves
Edward Littler - Getting on by themselves
Charlie Grice - Getting on by themselves, Bumble bee painting
Callum Burrows - Wasp painting
Oliver Hicks - Bumble bee painting
Alex Wainman - Ant painting
Joe Kerry - Ant painting
Amelie Kletz - Elephant painting
Nyrobi Beckett-Messam - Improvement in work and attitude
Nathan Walford - Determination with Maths
Poppy Fisher - Writing, painting and working hard
Leo Shelley - Aliens Love Underpants – design work
Elm Class
Edi Terzic - Maths problem solving
Amelie Brown - Maths problem solving
Eleanor O’Raw - Maths
Carla Fry - Food pyramid
Charlotte Blatherwick - Aboriginal paintings
Ben Sampson - Aboriginal paintings
The Whole Class - Participation in the Rushcliffe Gymnastics Festival
Ei Lwin - Science
Luis Santos - Science
Indi Watson - Working hard and spellings
Jasper Chambers - Maths and working hard
Ethan Coxon - George Stevenson model
Melissa Kilner - George Stevenson model
Lime Class
Jim McCann - Outstanding spellings
Nam Au Shun - Beautiful writing work
Liam Dobinson - Time work
Ruki Okabe - Good writing
Jemima Chambers - Always neat presentation
Georgie Brocklehurst - Science work, literacy - instructions
Shakira Thomas - R.E
Lauren Crane - R.E
Connor Richardson - Literacy – instructions
Bayley Atton - Detailed story
Jordan Sills - Detailed story
Rowan Class
Alex Brocklehurst - Fantastic times tables/reading
Oliver Kletz - Numeracy
Sofia Hastings - Egypt work
Kira Damianos-Bennett - Writing
Harry Blackwell - Egyptian good writing
Oliver Moffett - Superb model requiring great skill
Jordie Avery - Geography
Sofia Farrell - Maths
Cam Fraser - Imaginative Literacy work
Caitlin Walker - Instructions works – ‘potions’
Ailsa Turner - Always working hard and helping others
Hazel Class
Ethan Barrett - Effort in literacy, trying hard
Charlotte Owadally - Effort in literacy
Raeesa Shah - Islam work
Aysha Tariq - Islam work
Raul Rana - Working hard
Ria Griffin - Working hard
Paige Curzon - Literacy
Rhianna Carruthers - Always working hard
Riley Vernon - Always working hard
Quentin Phillips - Story, super description
William Shaw - Trying hard, good writing
Maple Class
Harvey Kilner - Maths, excellent tables
Meg Hudson - Maths, Descriptive writing
Megan Beck - Marbling, Literacy (poetry)
Charlotte Lee - Marbling
Ellie Owadally - Descriptive writing
William Trevethick - Literacy (poetry)
Eleanor Warrington - Newspaper report – weather
Thomas Jaycock - Newspaper report – weather
James Inchley - Design for a house for a particular climate
Bradley Rice - Design for a house for a particular climate
Beech Class
Finley Owen - Great effort with reading
Shanice Kilburn - Descriptive writing work, working hard, literacy - newspaper report, climate change – non-chronological report
Faith Wragg - Effort, settling in
Byron Griffin - Science work
Daniel Cook - Quest story
Jordon Coxon - Literacy – newspaper reports, climate collage
Harry Bugg - Climate Change – non-chronological report
Jessica Haining - Climate collage
Willow Class
Ewan Vernon -Outstanding writing
Lorenza Squitieri - Positive attitude
Elaine Harris - Descriptive writing
Annabelle Allen - Descriptive writing
Libby Avery - Effort in maths
Shania Farrell - Effort in maths
Charlotte Malfesi - Geography
Daniel Paterson - Geography
Charlie Koczalski - Climate change writing
Priya Singh - Climate change writing
Matthew Butler - Handwriting
Mohamed Dembele - Always working hard
KS2 – revised test timetable
The test timetable has been revised for 2010:-
Monday 10th May English reading
Tuesday 11th May English writing
Wednesday 12th May Mental mathematics and Mathematics paper A
Thursday 13th May Mathematics paper B
Friday 14th May Science sampling tests (for selected pupils/schools)
Swimming
Hazel and Oak Classes will be swimming from Friday 26th February for 5 weeks. Please send your contributions towards transport to the office as soon as possible.
Home Access Scheme: Free Laptops for Low Income Families
The Home Access Scheme is a £300 million government programme that aims to provide 270,000 low-income families across the UK with a free computer and broadband access. The scheme is part of a drive to close the digital and educational divide between rich and poor and to help towards keeping parents in touch with their child’s progress.
Home Access computers will be loaded with a suite of software to support literacy and numeracy for all the family, following successful pilots that showed pupils could improve by two GCSE grades with a computer at home, whilst also making it easier for unemployed parents to apply for on-line jobs and gain better computer skills.
Families with children between the ages of 7 and 14 years will be able to apply for a grant to buy a computer and broadband connection from an approved supplier. However, they must also either be entitled to free school meals or the household receives one of the following qualifying benefits: income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, Child Tax Credit (not Working Tax Credit) and an income of less than £16,040, income-based Employment Support Allowance or the Guaranteed element of the Pension Credit. Applicants will also have to meet the following eligibility criteria:
- They have a child aged between 7 and 14 years
- They attend a state-maintained school in England or have
- their place paid for by an English Local Authority or the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
- They have not benefited under the Home Access or Computers for Pupils schemes in the past.
No minimum or maximum grant sizes are specified.
Looked after children up to the age of 18 will also receive laptops, and the scheme will offer bespoke packages to provide more support for children with special educational needs. Further information, along with application forms to apply for a Home Access Grant, is available at: www.homeaccess.org.uk
MORE MONEY FOR YOU AND THE KIDS
– information from Nottinghamshire County Council From November 2009 more families will be able to get help with paying rent and Council Tax. Why? Because Child Benefit will be ignored as income when working out who qualifies for Housing and Council Tax Benefit. Families on a low wage or on certain benefits will now get extra help for the first time. Could you and your kids be better off?
Call your local council to find out if you can now get Housing or Council Tax Benefit.
Rushcliffe Borough Council 0115 981 9911
