Bronze for our Kurlers!
Congratulations to our Year 4 Kurling Team who played very well and had lots of fun and success winning a bronze medal at the Inter School Kurling Competition at Alexandra Palace....
24 January, 2024
Dear Parent / Carers,
New Dates Below
Please check dates below with new dates for summer term added.
FEBRUARY IS READING MONTH!
Reminder to read all you can in February, for the Campsbourne Read-a-Thon! Children can ask their parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends, and other special grown-ups to sponsor them per minute of reading in February (grown-ups, feel free to set a cap!) and all of the proceeds will go to the school for new classroom books, school equipment, and activities! At least 10% of the earnings from each class will go directly to their classroom library, with prizes for top readers in the Infant and Junior school!
World Book Day
We are extremely excited as we build up to World Book Day 2024, which we will be celebrating on Friday 22nd March, due to our Year 6’s being on their residential on the national date for WBD. We have lots of activities planned and of course we will be dressing up. This year we thought it might be nice to go with a theme…….’Goodies and Baddies’ so we would love to see children dressed up as either a hero or villain from a story (dressing up is optional and children are not restricted to dressing up as a goodie or a baddie).
As part of the WBD celebration, we will be running a ‘decorate a paper plate’ competition for EYFS and KS1 where every child will be given a paper plate to take home this week and decorate following the theme of a book. The deadline for entries will be Friday 15th March and winners will be announced in our assembly on Friday 22nd March with some great prizes up for grabs! Please ensure your child’s name and class has been written on the back of their paper plates.
For KS2 the children’s competition will be a ‘Story Jar’. The children will need to source their own jar and begin to collect items which could go inside their jar to represent a book. The children will need to make sure they have their jars in school on Friday 22nd March when they will be creating their jars in the classroom. They will have the opportunity to design anything they want to add to their jar, together with any other objects they have already collected. The winners will be announced the following week in our final assembly of the term.
Parents Evening Portal Now Open
Parent evenings are taking place after half term. As with last year two evenings are devoted to children without special needs and 2 evenings are devoted to children with special needs. The dates are:
Children with Special Needs
Monday 4th March
Wednesday 6th March
Please note that due to Pendarren the Year 6 meetings will be taking place on Monday 26th and Wednesday 28th February.
Children without Special Needs
Monday 18th March
Wednesday 20th March
Please note that Year 1 Ofili Class meetings will take place on Monday 18th March and Tuesday 19th March.
These meetings are taking place online. The portals to book your meetings are now open. There is a portal for the Infants and a separate portal for the Juniors.
| Infants | Juniors |
| https://campsbourneis.schoolcloud.co.uk/ | https://campsbournejr.schoolcloud.co.uk/ |
To access the portal you will be asked to put your details in. To login the parents first name, surname and your child’s date of birth must match the details we have on our system. You can find a guide on how to login attached to this email.
Parent Guide for Parents Evening (Infant School)
Parent Guide for Parents Evening (Junior School)
Online Safety and Extremism Parent Workshop
Please find attached a flyer inviting you to a free online workshop around Online Safety and Extremism on March 5th (Tuesday) from 5pm-7pm. It is best suited for parents whose children are in upper KS2 and above due to the content.
Instagram is one of the most used platforms among young people and adults alike. Over the past decade, the platform has become ubiquitous and is an excellent source of entertainment and information for people globally. The global reach of the platform though, can be a cause for concern for those who have children or work with under-18s. The programme is principally a digestion source focused on images and videos, with a private chat function which for many is the sole reason for its use. In today’s image focused society, it can be an outlet for how people wish to be perceived physically or in regards to their personality. As a result, it actively encourages people to post about their personal life, in a way that would be detrimental should everyone have access to it. Privacy is optional on Instagram, and there is a wide spectrum of privacy options. To understand these options better the Southwest Grid for Learning has published resources aimed at achieving this goal which are attached to this email.
Weekly Attendance and Punctuality
Congratulations to Gwen John and Hepworth class in the Infants and Thompson Class in the Juniors for registering the highest attendance! Well done to Gainsborough and Moore Class for 99% punctuality and to Camron for 100% punctuality! THANK YOU!
| Infant Class | Attendance | Punctuality | Junior Class | Attendance | Punctuality |
| Gainsborough | 93% | 99.67% | Cameron | 95% | 100% |
| Gwen John | 96.33% | 98.33% | Hockney | 93.77% | 98.27% |
| Ofili | 92.86% | 96.67% | Kapoor | 93.85% | 99.62% |
| Riley | 91.43% | 98.57% | Whiteread | 97.86% | 97.86% |
| Hepworth | 96.55% | 97.93% | Thompson | 98.57% | 98.67% |
| Moore | 90% | 99% | Turner | 96.46% | 98.48% |
| Himid | 97.41% | 98.52% | |||
| Shonibare | 93.31% | 99.63% |
I hope you have a lovely half term.
Jonathan Smith
Head Teacher