Bell Lane Primary School’s Newsletter Issue: 02 Date: 27/11/2015

School Journey Year 6 had a fantastic week on the school journey where we got up to all manner of things. The children got to try orienteering, shelter building and archery amongst other activities. The staff who went on the trip agree that the children represented our school brilliantly and I know they all thoroughly enjoyed the school journey and wished we could go back!

Meeting For Your Childs Assessment

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The cheetah is the fastest land

animal in the world. They can

reach a top speed of around

113 km per hour.

Thank you to all parents who attended our parents’ consultation evenings; this was a good opportunity for you to be

informed about your child’s progress and attainment. As you are now aware the use of ‘levels’ to report your child’s

attainment has been removed by the government.

I would like to invite you to an Assessment Meeting at Bell Lane Primary School in order to present the way in which

we now track your child’s attainment and report their progress throughout the year, in the absence of levels. This will

ensure that you are well informed in preparation for the spring and summer parents’ consultations with your child’s

teacher. This will give you greater understanding about how well your child is learning in reading, writing, mathematics

and science. We will be holding the meetings for assessment during the spring term and will provide dates nearer the

time.

Bullying is a behaviour which is openly discussed with our children and is taken very seriously when we

become aware of its occurance. Children MUST be encouraged to tell a trusted adult , parent or teacher

who is able to bring the act of bullying to the attention of Miss Wilson. We work with both the child who

is bullied and the child who is carrying out this cruel act in order for the behaviour to stop. Every child has

the right to a safe and happy day of learning at school!

In Year Six, we have been reading the book ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ as their stimulus for English lessons. Both classes had a writing competition. They had to write a newspaper article, based on the outbreak of World War Two. The prize for the best piece of writing, was a signed copy of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, by the famous author, John Boyne. The winner was Angelica, in 6R! Well done to you, for your excellent journalistic writing!

Outstanding Writing

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In the News

Halloween Disco A big 'thank you' to everyone who attended and helped at the Halloween Disco and especially to Mr

White, the former manager at Brent Street Tesco, who donated all the nibbles and drinks! It was a total

success! The total amount of money raised including the £1.00 non-uniform day contributions was

£321.17 !!! Well Done Bell Lane!!!

Your heart beats around 100000 times a day

From October 2015, all children in Years 1 and 2 across England will be offered a flu vaccination in the form of a nasal

spray.

Flu can be a very unpleasant illness in children. Annual immunisation not only provides important protection to individual

children but also reduces the spread of flu to their families and the wider community. This aims to also protect younger

siblings, grandparents and others who are at increased risk of becoming seriously ill from flu.

You can download the information from

www.gov.uk/government/collections/annual-flu-programme

Flu Immunisation

Meeting with the Headteacher If you would like to meet with the Headteacher please book

an appointment with the school office.

Safeguarding We treat the safety of our children as our number

one priority. All staff receive appropriate training

and we are continually reviewing our policies and

procedures to ensure they are as robust as

possible. Ms Wilson is the Designated

Safeguarding Officer in school. If you have any

concerns about a child’s safety or security, please

contact her. Our Safeguarding and Child

Protection Policies are on the school website.

Mr White

£480.35

Well done and thank you to

everyone who contributed.

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Children in Need

In the News

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School Council

On Thursday 12th November 2015, the Key

Stage 2 School Council visited the Place of

Westminster. Luckily they had a full tour and

visited the House of Commons where the MPs

have their debates and Prime Minister’s

question time.

In addition, they discovered that the Houses

of Parliament are made up of three components: The Queen, the House of

Lords and the House of Commons. They learnt a lot of interesting facts that

they will share with the school during assembly.

Visit to the Houses

of Parliament

Wow!

On Friday 13th November we held a pyjama day for:

We raised:

E-Safety It has been brought to our attention that a number of children are playing 18 rated computer

games and we felt it is important to advise parents that children under 18 should not play

them. 18 certificate games have the same adult themes that you would find in 18 films. They

also depict graphic violence, adult situations and use explicit language. Whilst it is a parent’s

decision whether or not to allow their children to play these games they can cause problems

in schools where children copy the poor language or act out the violent scenes. We therefore advise caution when

deciding what game your child plays, ideally playing it yourself first.

It is really important we have emergency contact numbers for you, so please ensure you always update us on changes in telephone numbers.

Updating Contact Numbers Magma is the hot liquid rock under the

surface of the Earth, it is known as lava after

it comes out of a volcano

Dates for your Diary

Visits

2nd December- Mill Hill Observatory 5C

Events

30th November - Parent E-Safety workshop Year 6 - 9:15am

10 December– KS1 Nativity play 2:00pm

16th December– Christmas Winter Fair 3:30pm

18th December– Last Day of Term 2:00pm

In the News

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All school meals must be paid for in advance.

From 3rd November - 18th December the

total due is £73.10p

Sharks have outstanding hearing. They can hear a fish

thrashing in the water from as far as 500 metres away.

Remember, school registers take place at 8:55am and children need to be at school before that time.

Children must be ready to learn on time. Remember our target is 100% attendance.

Attendance percentages for October 3rd to 19th November 2015

Attendance & Punctuality

Nursery AM Nursery PM RD RS

91% 90% 95% 93%

Year 1U Year 1A Year 2K Year 2Y

96% 97% 98% 98%

Year 3T Year 3W Year 4B Year 4D

96% 97% 97% 96%

Year 5C Year 5G Year 6R Year 6S

96% 98% 97% 98%

Absence and requests for holiday during term-time We empathise with parents who want to take term-time leave for their children, however, it is illegal and we are

not able to support such requests.

School Attendance : All requests to take children out of school during term time for holiday purposes will be

refused. Request for absence for exceptional circumstances may be approved by the Headteacher providing they

are accompanied by supporting evidence. You will have to book an appointment with the Headteacher to discuss

this further. All children are expected to attend 190 days of school, by the government and the school. This leaves

considerable time for holiday in the remaining 175 days.

When unauthorised absences total 1 day or more, will lead to a fine issued by the local authority.