All the latest news from School!

• Mind Up Presentation @ 6pm - 6th February

  Fri 26 Jan 2018

  On Tuesday 6^th February at 6.00 pm, Claire Farrell who some of you know from our Growth Mindset work, will be leading a session to explain the principles of MindUp and how we are rolling out the programme with your children. It will be a fascinating talk with lots of useful ideas that can be used at home to help with your child’s wellbeing. The session will last approximately 1¼ hours and it will be followed by ‘Innovates’ food tasting session.

   

  We are very pleased with the impact that we are already seeing in classrooms and are really looking forward to sharing the programme with you.

   

  Please return the reply slip in your child’s bookbag to give an indication of numbers. Thank you.

• Sponsored Ready Steady Read ...

  Fri 12 Jan 2018

  Dear Parents/Guardians

   

  To encourage a lifelong love of reading at home and school, we will be running a school sponsored read between Monday 15^th to Sunday 21^st January.
   

  The project is being organised in conjunction with our local Usborne Representative, Lisa Colley, and all the money raised will go towards brand new books for our school.
  
  In addition to the sponsorship money, Usborne will donate up to 60% of the total raised in EXTRA FREE BOOKS to the school. So if we raise £600, we will get an extra £360 in FREE Usborne books!

   

  Please help us to enhance our reading resources for pupils by encouraging your child to spend a small amount of time each day either reading to themselves, to others, or being read to. They can read anything with words (for example comics, recipes, magazines) for as long or as little as they like.

   

  Should you wish to support our sponsored read, please find enclosed a sponsorship form for your child, which includes a reading log to record the minutes they have spent reading.

   

  After the sponsored read, please send all the sponsorship money that your child has raised to the school by Friday 26^th January.

   

  Cheques should be made payable to Lisa Colley.

   

  Please support our sponsored read so that your child has more books to read, share and enjoy.

   

  

• Bike Security/Marking

  Wed 10 Jan 2018

  Bike Security/Marking

  PCSO Denise Hawkes from Beaconsfield Neighbourhood Team will be coming to school on Tuesday 16 January and Thursday 18 January from 2.30pm to 3.45pm to carry out bike marking. If you would like your child’s bike marked, please bring them to school on these days. They can be put in the school bike racks or bring them when you collect your child. Please fix a label onto your child’s bike with your house number and postcode. When they have been labelled, you will be able to register them on line. Details of how to do this will be given when they have been marked.

• MindUp Programme

  Fri 05 Jan 2018
  On Wednesday, a wide range of our staff had training in the ‘MindUp’ Programme. This is a whole school programme designed to help children develop ways to think more positively, be able to respond to situations by thinking rather than reacting irrationally and improve their focus and engagement in school. Over the next week, classes will be introduced to the first three lessons which focus on understanding how the brain works, being able to focus attention and being mindful. Claire Farrell, who some of you may remember from our work on ‘Growth Mindset’ is delivering the training and a session for parents and interested parties on the evening of 6th February. More details to follow.

  

• Normal operation Wednesday 13th December

  Tue 12 Dec 2017

  School & Preschool will be fully open on Wednesday 13th December with usual start times. Thank you for your patience over the last two days. 

• Later opening today 12th December

  Tue 12 Dec 2017
  Due to the icy conditions of the roads and paths and the safety of our pupils and staff, school and preschool will open at 10am today.  Apologies for any inconvenience.

• Parent Tour Cancelled 12th December

  Tue 12 Dec 2017
  Due to the adverse weather, we have had to cancel the planned parent tour today. This will be rescheduled at a later date, apologies for any inconvenience.

• School & Pre-School Closure

  Sun 10 Dec 2017
  Due to the continuing adverse weather conditions and for the safety of both our staff and pupils the school will be closed tomorrow Monday 11th December.  The school will reopen as usual on Tuesday morning.

• Stationery donation for our sister school ...

  Fri 08 Dec 2017

  Many of you may not be aware that we have a sister school in Kenya that we have supported over the years. Among the many things that we have helped to fund for them was a new toilet block which caused much excitement. There is a team of volunteers going out to visit in January and we would like to send some gifts to them. If you would like to make a stationery donation could you please send them into school before the end of term. They will be very grateful for any pencils, pens or notebooks. Thank you for your support.

• PrimarySite Parent App

  Fri 08 Dec 2017

  We are very excited to introduce the new PrimarySite parent app as our future way of communicating to you all. As an eco-friendly school we are striving to cut down on our paper costs, this will replace the need for both paper and emails. Your messages and the website, which has all the information you need eg. Parent letters, calendar dates, timetables, phonics resources, photos, PTA information and lots, lots more, will now all be in one place to make your busy lives easier. 

   

  All you need to do is follow the instructions to download the app, select our school and choose which classes you wish to receive messages for, everyone is automatically subscribed the the whole school. It really is as easy as that! 

   

  If you have any problems please come into the office as soon as possible - we will be using this way of communicating with effect from the 13th December.