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Safeguarding Children As part of their curriculum, the children learn how to keep themselves safe. The following website has been set up by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to offer parents and schools advice on how to raise safeguarding awareness with children. There is a notable section called ‘The Underwear Rule’ which is of particular support and guidance to parents. The website also offers advice regarding ‘online safety’ and how to obtain support or advice regarding the safeguarding of children. www.nspcc.org.uk
Uniform Information & School Uniform Purchases The Primary uniform can be purchased through the Khalsa Schoolwear website or can be bought at Khalsa Schoolwear shop in Bethnal Green. To save on the cost of delivery charges, Khalsa Schoolwear does a school delivery once every month. You can find further details of the delivery dates on their website or you can ask the reception office staff.
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We expect every child to be in full uniform every day with their top button done up and wearing their tie All coats must be plain black Shoes must be plain black – no trainers, plimsolls or boots! If you are not sure about the types of shoes that are part of our uniform policy, please ask. Please label every item of clothing One pair of plain stud earrings can be worn Nail polish is not allowed Jewellery is not permitted Long hair for both boys and girls must be tied back. Hair decorations must be small and plain and match the school uniform
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Schools starts at 8.45am (8.35am for Year 3 & Year 4). It is important that your child arrives on time every day so that the teachers can start the lesson promptly. The school gate will be open from 8.25am and will close at 8.45am.
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School finishes at 3.45pm (3.35pm for Year 3 & Year 4) every day other than Tuesday when we finish at 3.00pm (2.50pm for Year 3 & Year 4).
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If any of your details have changed e.g. your address or phone number – please ensure you contact the office to inform us, so that we can update our records and contact you in case of an emergency.
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Please ensure your child attends school every day and on time. If your child is sick then you must call the office to let us know by 8.15am. If your child has a medical appointment you must let us know in advance.
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From Tam Broadway – Primary Headteacher
It has been an incredible end to the term with so many lovely events taking place. The children and staff have worked extremely hard to make it a wonderful term. On behalf of all the Primary staff we would like to thank you for your tremendous support this term and take this opportunity to wish you all a restful break and Happy New Year and look forward to working with you all in 2019. The children return to school on Tuesday 8th January at the usual time of 8.45am. The Pupil Progress Reports will also be sent out to you on Friday 11th January and the Parent Progress Meetings will take place on Tuesday 15th January, school will finish at 12.15pm on this day. Please make sure you have booked your time slot using the online system. Your log in is the same as the one used for booking enrichments. Please call or pop into the office if you need any assistance. Time slots can be booked online from Friday 21st December and will close on Friday 11th January.
Home Learning We would encourage that your child practises their reading, writing and maths skills for a short while every single day to help ensure no learning is lost over the break.
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End & Start of the School Day Arrangements Please be reminded that Year 3 & 4 children are expected to start their day 10 minutes earlier than other year groups at 8.35am and finish their day 10 minutes earlier at 3.35pm. It is important that this valuable 10 minutes is not lost every day as this soon mounts up to a considerable amount of learning time lost each week. As we are now finding ourselves in the winter months there is an increased chance that it will be raining at the end of the day. Therefore, when we encounter rain, we have put in place the following plan to dismiss the Year 2 and 3 children from the stairwells and hall doors rather than have them lining up on the playground
Year 2 Year 2 will be dismissed at their usual time with Pythagoras exiting from the double doors by the hall. Fibonacci will use the stairwell nearest to the library and Al-Kashi will use the stairwell nearest to the Reception classes.
Years 3 and 4 Year 3 will be dismissed at their usual time with Ellington and Nicks exiting from the stairwell by the reception classes. Shankar and Ramanujan will exit from the stairwell by the library and Lovelace and Mirzakhani exiting by the double doors nearest the hall. This will take longer to give out the children as the teachers will only be able release one child at a time, so we ask that you remain patient while we check everyone goes home safely. Thank you in advance for your support.
Absences immediately before or after a school holiday If your child is absent before or after a school holiday we must see evidence for the absence. This may be medical evidence if your child is unwell, or evidence of flight delays or circumstances beyond your control. We cannot authorise any absences before or after a holiday without this evidence and you risk being issued with a penalty notice.
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Message from the Year 4 Team Next half term, Year 4 will be designing and creating their own chocolate boxes in line with our topic: What are the origins of chocolate? For the first topic lesson of the term, the classes will be evaluating pre-existing chocolate box designs. In order to do this, we would greatly value any donated, empty chocolate boxes that you have spare. Due to pupils with nut allergies in our year group, we would ask that we only receive empty chocolate boxes for chocolates without nuts.
Breakfast and Afterschool Club Every parent has Wisepay details and a password, which will enable you to book a place for ‘Breakfast Club’ or ‘After School Club’. Payments must be made in advance. If you experience any problems, please contact Ms Chaggar who will be happy to help. Breakfast is available each day from 7.45am and costs just £2.50 per day. The children enjoy a range of cereals, toast and different topping, juice or milk and fruit. Any child attending must be brought to the main reception area by 8.20am at the latest. After School Club runs from 3.45pm – 6.00pm (3.00pm – 6.00pm on Tuesdays) and costs just £5.50 per hour. The children enjoy a range of snacks each evening and a variety of games and activities.
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Primary Winter Concerts Thank you to all the pupils for entertaining us with their festive songs over the last few weeks, they were truly fabulous and made everyone watching and listening very proud! A huge thank you to Mr Morgan and the music department for their hard work and support with the organisation of the events!
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Reception Nativity Play Well done to the Reception children for what was a fantastic Nativity performance. The pupils had worked very hard to learn their lines and words to so many songs and looked wonderful in their performance costumes. Thank you to Reception team for organising such a wonderful event for our children. It was great to see so many parents supporting, I know the children enjoyed seeing you all there.
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Christmas Lunch & Christmas Jumper Day Everyone looked fabulous in their Christmas non-uniform attire last Friday. Thank you for your ÂŁ1 donations, we managed to collect a whopping ÂŁ401.23 for Save the Children. A big thank you to the School Council for researching information about the charity and explaining to classes how their money will support children both in the UK and overseas.
A big thank you to Ms Gilley & Mr Khellas for preparing a great Christmas lunch and to all the lunch staff for making the dining hall and lunch a great experience for all our children.
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Year 4 @ The Secondary Winter Concert
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Lovely Learning Reception – Ginger Bread Making The Reception children were very busy this week making Ginger Bread Men in the cooking room. They had great fun measuring and weighing out the ingredients whilst developing their fine motor skills of mixing. The best and most fun part will be getting to eat them! Thank you to all the parents who were able to help out.
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Year 1 – Great Fire of London Science Lesson To wrap up their learning about the Great Fire of London in an exciting way, Year 1 pupils visited the Secondary school to watch an experiment comparing the burning rates of wood, brick and metal. From this memorable experience, the children found out that one of the main reasons for the quick and wide spread of the Great Fire of London was that the houses were built out of wood, a material that catches light easily and burns quickly. A huge thank you to the Science department for organising such an informative and exciting lesson!
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Year 2 Victorian Theatres Year 2 pupils have been creating their own Victorian theatres this half term and enjoyed acting out the Nativity scene.
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Year 4 – Making Waves During Science this week, year 4 represented sound waves using art. Using their understanding of how pitch and volume are represented, they etched their own sound waves on a canvas coloured with crayons and paint. They then explained what each sound wave represented.
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n Thursday 10th December, 2018, the children in Year 3 and 4 got together to perform a KS2 Winter Concert. There was a huge range of performances – we can’t believe we fit so much in! Below, we will take you through the amazing array of performances that took place, and the wonderful instruments that we got to use!
Big Band The trumpet performance was amazing! Mr Beasley taught us the trumpet, and he did a fantastic job with his teaching of the song ‘Love Yourself’ by Justin Bieber. This performance was loved by all – many thanks to Mr Beasley. The trombone performance was very enthusiastic and energetic, due to the fact that a few children did an introduction, and seemed really happy about their performance. Beforehand, Year 4 had been learning all about how to manipulate the trombone’s sound. The Year 4 students played ‘Oh When The Saints’ – which was joined by lots of big movements and gestures! Thank you to Mr Coughlin for helping Year 4 students with this. The dhol drum performance was very loud, but was very good! Mr Kampanos did a fantastic job of teaching the dhol group different beats (such as the ‘cool’ beat!).
Enrichment Club Performances The Djembe performers (who were taught by Mr Mansell) performed a sequence of tapping, rubbing and hitting. Everyone performed a drumming pattern of their own, and they made an exquisite sound! The recorder club (taught by Ms West) performed Christmas songs, such as Jingle Bells (which got some audience participation!) they also used egg shakers to add to the recorder joy. Thank you to Ms West and Mr Mansell who have worked really hard this term to perfect these performances.
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21 December 2018 Individual Year Group Performances During the winter concert, the Year 4 song was ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’. Six students from Mirzakhani class made up their own moves, they also had their own stage! During the Year 3 performance, the children performed ‘Jingle Bells’ using egg shakers, glockenspiels and ukuleles. Mr Morgan taught each year group their songs, so a big thanks to him for making the performances as amazing as they were! Mr Morgan also created the ‘BRIDGES of INA’ song which was a great addition to the concert and a very informative song.
Joint Performances We also had some joint KS2 performances. We really loved the way that everyone remembered the tricky moves during the Waka Waka song. We also loved how everyone at the end punched the air in unison, we thought that looked great! As a joint group, we also performed ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ together, which was very exciting and a great way to end the show. We think all of the music teachers worked very hard to help us to create this amazing winter concert, and we would like to congratulate them as without them, it would not be possible. Also, a huge thank you to everyone who was involved, including teachers, students, and parents.
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Music of the Fortnight
Jean Michel Jarre
For the fortnight after the break we will be listening to and learning about Jean Michel Jarre as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Jarre in preparation for the coming weeks. You can find out some facts and hear some of his music on the following links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Jarre http://jeanmicheljarre.com/
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Headteacher’s Lunch Well done to the following pupils who have been nominated for the Headteacher’s Lunch for next Friday11th January 2019. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Panthpreet Singh - Curie Tahsinah Begum - Britten Gurjas Dhanjal - Al-Kashi Qirrat Sobia - Curie Yousuf Javed - Fitzgerald Jeevan Hunjan - Shankar Zakariyya Rahman - Maxwell Aagia Durhailay - Glennie Sohana Nila Hoque - Ellington Viraaj Saini - Maxwell Tanush Handa - Pythagoras Aysha Islam - Nicks Abdul-Qadir Rajput - Newton Samuel Thomas Chamberlain Nuhitu Hasan - Lovelace Fibonacci Sri Aneesh Saravanan Ghiyas Elahi - Mirzakhani Newton Emaan Hassan - Ramanujan
Merits The following pupils have received 25 merits since September for making good choices and moving up to gold on the class ‘good choice chart’ – this is fantastic achievement. A special ‘bronze’ certificate will be presented during the Celebration and Awards Assembly. Alisha Ali Inshirah Nabeel Sumayya Jamil Amanah Ali Imani Salim Alvina Adeel Maira Nasir Inayah Hussain Maryam Nawaz The following pupil has received 50 merits since September for making good choices and moving up to gold on the class ‘good choice chart’ – this is fantastic achievement. A special ‘silver’ certificate will be presented during the Celebration and Awards Assembly. Vianna Mahendra 21 December 2018
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BRIDGES in the Primary Phase “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.� Isaac Newton BRIDGES are habits of mind or learning characteristics that develop a pupil's character and learning power and enable him/her to grow into a well-rounded individual and resilient learner. There are seven BRIDGES habits that we will be working on, which will rotate on a weekly cycle throughout the year. The BRIDGES habit of the week will always be introduced at the beginning of the week during the Monday assembly and reinforced throughout the week across the curriculum. Each class teacher will award a certificate to a pupil that they feel has demonstrated the BRIDGES focus for the week. Each week we will update you on the BRIDGES habit that will be introduced in the coming week and offer some top tips on how to reinforce the habit at home too. Please also refer to the Primary BRIDGES wheel below.
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Week commencing 8th January 2019
Bravery Bravery comprises five dispositions: Leadership Optimism
Risk-taking
Courage Experimentation
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We encourage the children to try new things and experiment every day whether it is a food that they have not tried before or new activities that they may not normally choose during the afternoon sessions. For Year 1 and 2 we would encourage the children to try different reading books or authors/topics they might not normally consider reading or to experiment with the paint during art – trying to create different effects etc. We always encourage the children to have courage when they fall over and hurt themselves and to remain as calm as possible while we help them. We aim for all pupils to demonstrate their leadership skills by helping others, being smart in their appearance, being kind, having good manners and generally demonstrating all their BRIDGES characteristics. We encourage some of the quieter pupils to have the courage to share their ideas in class and to have work with optimism and develop a real ‘can do’ attitude.
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Encourage your child to try as many different things as possible – whether it is food, different enrichment clubs, books etc. Support your child to develop their own mind and not just follow what everyone else is doing. It is important that the pupils are able to try things without worrying about getting it wrong or worrying about what other people think. Celebrate the fact that by making mistakes we are always learning. Give examples of times when you have had to be brave and try something for the first time, or when something did not go so well the first time but you learned from the mistakes you made and got better. Help remind your child at home about being smart in their appearance and rolemodelling good behaviour through their leadership skills. Allow your child to help with jobs and roles at home, taking on the responsibility for cleaning their room, keeping their books or toys organised etc.
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Key Dates for
Spring Term 2019 Friday 4th January - Friday 5th April 2019 Half Term: Monday 18th - Friday 22nd February 2019 INSET Days: Friday 4th January, Monday 7th January & 11th March 2019 Friday 4th January 2019
INSET - No school for students
Monday 7th January 2019
INSET - No school for students
Tuesday 8th January
Back to school for students
Thursday 10th January
Reception Information Evening 6.00pm – September 2019 intake
Friday 11th January
Pupils Progress Reports sent home
Tuesday 15th January
Maths with Parents Meeting - Year 1 and Year 2 – 9.00 & 11.30am
Tuesday 15th January
Parent Progress Meetings – pupils finish at 12.15pm
Wednesday 16th January Tuesday 22nd January
English SATs Information – Year 2 Parents - 9.00am & 6.00pm Relationships & Sex Education Information – Year 4 Parents – 9.00am & 6.00pm
Friday 25th January
Lovelace Class Assembly – Year 4 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 25th January
Al-Kashi Class Assembly – Year 2 – 10.20 – 10.40am
Monday 28th January
Wonderful Handwriting Week
Wednesday 30th January
FOINA Meeting – 7.00pm
Thursday 31st January
Maths SATs Information – Year 2 Parents - 9.00am & 6.00pm
Wednesday 6th February
Parent Coffee Morning & E-Safety Workshop – 9.00am
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