Northwold Primary School Weekly newsletter 21 October 2016| Issue 111

News and events from Northwold Primary School

IN THIS ISSUE

‘Keep Clear’ Signs Outside School

Wednesday Coffee Morning – Maths – 9.11

Half-Term Activities

e-Safety – SMART Rules Review

School Trip Dates

Get in touch

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Half-Term We wish you all a restful and fun half-term. The children have settled extremely well into the new school year, they have worked incredibly hard and they deserve a good rest. There are a couple of items in the newsletter about activities happening this half-term. We hope you can take advantage of them. We look forward to seeing you back at Northwold at 8.55am on Monday 31st October.

Golden Achievement Pupils Congratulations to the following pupils for being the golden pupil of the week this week:

Class Pupils

N Mexico Panna Singh

N Pakistan Kerece Campbell

R Ireland Ammaarah Batha

R Somalia Rayyan Muhammod

1 Bangladesh Samiha Hussain

1 Ghana Lore Goulbourne

2 Barbados Unique Matthew

2 Poland Alexandra Quispe Mita / Oguzhan Kel

3 Spain Jadesola Akande

3 Nigeria Elijah Ashraf-Haynes

4 Brazil Bethany Ewiah

4 Jamaica Julia Szpakowska

5 Turkey Olasubomi Akande

5 Russia Shayden Weekes-Miller

6 China Cem Doldur

6 India Nikolay Tachev

First Week Back at Northwold – w.c. 31.10.16 Here are the key events happening at Northwold in the first week after half-term:

Day Event (Class/Year)

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday Turkey – RE trip – St Paul’s Cathedral

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Parking Outside School – ‘Keep Clear’ We have made numerous and successful efforts over the past few years to make the roads around our school safer for children and families to use. In addition to these efforts, from November onwards, Hackney Council will be actively enforcing the School Keep Clear markings outside our school through the use of their own CCTV cameras. The cameras will record any contraventions that take place. Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) will then be issued to motorists who do not conform to the rules. It means that motorists may not wait, stop or even drop children off to school on the yellow zigzag lines. Please be aware that the rules will apply to the road markings in Northwold Rd as well as in Geldeston Rd. We thank you for your cooperation in this.

Wednesday Coffee Mornings Every Wednesday from 9.00-10.00am there will be a coffee morning held in the Canteen. Each week, one of the school’s leaders will be talking about their area of responsibility. The next meeting is on 9th November. Mr Williams, the Maths Coordinator, will be leading the session talking about Maths in the school. More details will follow in our next newsletter.

Year 6 Parents – Secondary Transfer 2017 REMEMBER: The national deadline for completed applications is Monday 31st October. Please click below to see the new admissions booklet for Hackney Schools secondary transfers for the year 2017 – https://issuu.com/hackneylearningtrust/docs/hlt16_secondary_issuu/1?e=0/15314814 . You should have a hard copy of this as well. Parents can start applying for schools using the online application form at www.eadmissions.org.uk and The City of London Academy Shoreditch Park, the new academy opening in September 2017 at https://learningtrust.formstack.com/forms/colsp. (See next item below for more information.)

Half-Term Activities Have you been to the top of The Shard? There’s a great view of London from the top. There’s also a great deal for children this half-term. Each paying

adult can take two children for free. It’s a special half-term offer, running from 22nd to 30th October. For more details and to book tickets, visit the website - https://www.theviewfromtheshard.com/ Or for something more down to earth, maybe a free storytelling session at the Museum of London. It is 350 years since The Great Fire of London. Listen to the story of how a new London grew from the ashes of the old London, just as the phoenix rose from the ashes of its nest - http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london . Finally, the brilliant Why festival closes on Sunday 23rd October. Focused on celebrating the rights of children and young people, there are several creative and performance workshops happening at the South Bank Centre. Be a comedian, jam with a pram or discover new outdoor games, there’s something for all ages and interests. For more information, visit the Why website - http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/why .

P.E. – Correct Kit and P.E. Day A number of children are still coming to school with incorrect P.E. kit. Please see the list below for the correct kit. In particular, children are wearing leggings or jogging bottoms that aren’t black. On your child’s P.E. day, your child will come to school in their P.E. kit* (NOT SCHOOL UNIFORM) and wear it for the whole day. Your child needs to wear the school’s P.E. kit: Black school hoodie (with your child’s name in

house colour)

House colour T-Shirt with your child’s name

Plain black jogging bottoms (Leggings, jogging

bottoms in other colours or with logos are not

acceptable)

Plimsolls or trainers

The P.E. day for each year group is as follows: Monday: Year 2 Tuesday: Nursery & Year 5 Wednesday: Reception, Years 1 & 4 Thursday: Year 3

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Friday: Year 6

* Nursery to Year 4 children MUST also come to

school in their P.E. kit on Forest School days. The teachers have sent letters to you about this.

Homework Package – Years 1-6 All homework books have arrived and have been distributed. Please ensure that you pay your £5 contribution towards the homework package in the office to help us to continue to provide the homework package at a considerably reduced cost. The homework package includes: Handwriting book

English book

Mathematics book

Access to online programmes- Mathletics,

Reading Eggs and Spellodrome. Your child will

be given a username and password to access

these websites. Please note that you do not

need to pay extra money to access these

websites.

Spelling book with weekly spelling list

A Reading book with a Reading record log for

parents to complete will be given to pupils

weekly.

Free Packed Lunches for all – School Trips On all school trips the school will provide a free packed lunch for every child. Your child will be given a choice of sandwich fillings. The sandwiches are individually prepared, so there is no need to worry if your child has allergies. In addition, the packed lunch will consist of a biscuit, an apple and a bottle of water. There is no need for any food to be brought from home. Class Coffee Mornings

Class coffee mornings resume in the second week after the half-term break with Year 1. There’s one every Monday and Friday at 9.00am in the Canteen. A full timetable is published below. It’s a great chance for parents to meet the class teacher and one another. We look forward to seeing you there.

Week beginning

Class

Monday Friday

Half Term

31.10.16

7.11.16 Ghana Bangladesh

14.11.16 Jamaica Brazil

21.11.16 Somalia Ireland

28.11.16 Mexico Pakistan

5.12.16 No Coffee Morning 12.12.16

19.12.16

Class Assemblies The next class assembly will be hosted by Poland. It’s in the second week after half-term. This year sees a change to class assemblies. Each class will do ONE assembly per year. It will still be on a Friday. The assembly will start at 9.30am and last up to half an hour. Below is the timetable for the whole year, so you can put the dates and time in your diaries. It really makes a big difference for children to see their family in the audience; we hope you can make the time for them.

Autumn 2016

Week beginning Class 7.11.16 Poland

21.11.16 Barbados

5.12.16 Russia

Spring 2017

Week beginning Class

16.1.17 Spain

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30.1.17 Ghana

27.2.17 Jamaica

13.3.17 Brazil

27.3.17 Bangladesh

Summer 2017

Week Beginning Class

24.4.17 Somalia

8.5.17 Ireland

22.5.17 India

12.6.17 China

26.6.17 Pakistan

3.7.17 Mexico

E-Safety – Half-Term Top Tips

It’s half-term. That might mean your children will have a bit more time on the computer. Have you set out clear boundaries about how long they can spend, what sites they can visit and what to do if something unpleasant happens? Revisit the SMART rules with them – Safe, Meeting, Accept, Reliable and Tell. Focus on the rules that are appropriate to them – with younger children it might be more about being Safe (with personal information) and not Accepting messages from strangers and with older children about Meeting people they don’t know in the real world. Visit the Kidsmart website for more ideas and information - http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/beingsmart/ . If there are any areas of e-Safety you want to know more about, please feel free to discuss it with Mr Braune, your child’s teacher or one of the school’s leaders.

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School Trip Dates – Autumn Term 2016

Key trips this term linked to your child’s Cornerstones and RE topics have been booked. Please add the dates to your calendars.

R.E. trips

School Trip Dates – Spring Term 2017

Key trips for the Spring term linked to your child’s Cornerstones topics have been booked. Please add the dates to your calendars.

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First Week Back’s Menu

Week 1 Please note that there are also different salad options on different days.

Term Dates for 2016-17 Below are dates for our 195 teaching days, including 5 days for the purpose of teachers’ staff development (INSET). These days can be taken as INSET days or equivalent twilight sessions. Academies, free schools and voluntary-aided schools are able to set their own dates but have been asked to set the same or similar dates in the interest of parents who may have children at different schools.

Summer Term 2017

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Tuesday 18th April 2017

Monday 29th May to Friday 2nd June 2017

Friday 21st July 2017

63 (28 first half term, 35 second half term)

Autumn Term 2016

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Tuesday 6th September 2016

(Staff INSET – Monday 5th September 2016)

Monday 24th October to Friday 28th October 2016

Wednesday 21st December 2016

72 days (34 first half-term, 38 second half-term)

Spring Term 2017

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Monday 9th January 2017

(Staff INSET – Tuesday 3rd January – Friday 6th January 2017)

Monday 13th February to Friday 17th February 2017

Friday 31st

March 2017

59 (29 first half term, 30 second half term)