Headteacher Newsletter: Issue 6
FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 6
Friends of Clavering
The Friends of Clavering have been very busy organising events for Christmas. The Christmas Fayre is taking place today and on Monday 15th December there will be the Christmas Shopping morning for the children.
Parent Consultations and Tray Day
Parent Consultations took place last week and Tray Day yesterday. Thank you to all the parents for attending. We hope you found the occasions informative and that you enjoyed looking at your child’s work and classroom displays during Tray Day.
Lost Property
A large amount of lost property is collecting. If your child has lost any clothing please could you have a look through the collection to see if any of it belongs to you. It will be displayed in the main entrance Monday to Wednesday of next week (8th – 10th December). After this time it will need to be re-cycled.
Bad weather
In the event of severe weather conditions and possible school closure a notice will be placed on the school website.
This year BBC Essex and Heart FM will not be announcing or publicising via websites. Parents will be notified via our new school website or the Essex County Council on the ‘Emergency School Closures’ page: http://www.essex.gov.uk/Education-Schools/Schools/Dates/Pages/Emergency-School-Closures.aspx.
Please note that when the school is open in bad weather a path will be cleared to enable you to gain access to the school but care does still need to be taken.
Snow Patrol
It’s getting to that time of year again – if you would like to volunteer your services to help Mr Docking to clear the school grounds in the event of snow, please let the office know so that we can compile a list of names. We are very grateful for any offers of help, so that school can, where possible, remain open.
ACHIEVEMENTS
STAR OF THE WEEK
Week ending November 21st
Reception Elizabeth Balaam – always keeping the Golden Rules and being a fabulous “Golden Buddy”.
Year One Hermione Barker – for being an enthusiastic happy and hard working member of class
Year Two Jayden Jones – for working very hard writing numbers and reading.
Year Three Ruairi Dillon – great engagement and prediction listening to our class text, The Witches
Year Four George Macfadyen – for being a wonderful group member, supportive and encouraging
Year Five Megan Carter – for her perceptive responses to reading tasks
Year Six Daisy Collett – for effective World War 1 writing, considering carefully audience and purpose
Week ending November 28th
Reception Rosie Cooper – for always sitting beautifully and being ready to learn
Year One Cameron Bower – for enthusiastic, independent work when trying to join paper together
Year Two Bella Birch – for being really focussed and confident during our Prickly Hay rehearsals
Year Three Christian Kelly – for super spelling work adding adverb endings
Year Four Molly Hood – for writing rousing military call and response cadences
Year Five Finlay Anderson – for the effort he made to write a neat 50 word story
Year Six Thomas Berrett – for very sensitive and mature writing about World War 1
IT DIDN’T GO UNNOTICED AWARD
5.12.14 Rose Denyer for picking up all the coats in the hall without being asked. Thank you
THE TIDIEST CLASSROOM OF THE WEEK!
Our cleaners are judging the tidiest classroom each week. The winners are announced in assembly on a Friday. The class that has won the most times at the end of a term will be awarded an afternoon with an activity of their choice or an extra playtime.
Winners:
Week beginning –
8.9.14: Year 6
15.9.14: Year 2
22.9.14: Year 5
29.9.14: Year 3
13.10.14: Year 1
20.10.14: Year 2
3.11.14 Reception
10.11.14 Year 4
17.11.14 Year 1
24.11.14 Year 6
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
December 5th Christmas Fayre
December 6th Spirit of Christmas for school choir – pm
December 10th KS2 dress rehearsal – 9.45am
December 10th KS1 dress rehearsal – 2pm
December 11th KS1 performance – 2pm
December 11th KS2 performance – 7pm
December 11th Reception Nativity play – 11am
December 15th Christmas Shopping Morning
December 17th Christmas lunch
December 19th Term ends for Christmas – 3.15 pm
January 5th Spring term starts
REMINDERS:
Swimming for this term is for year 2 and 3 on Mondays. Please make sure your payments are up to date, the cost is £4.00 per week, £52.00 per term. Please make cheques payable to Clavering Primary School.
If you have any questions at any time then please feel free to make an appointment.
Have a good weekend
Rosalind Allsop
Headteacher