Dear Parent / Carers,
Last Day of Term
Reminder that the last day of term is Thursday 28th March with children being collected at 1.45.
Year 5 and 6 Participate in Growing Against Violence Workshops
Children in Years 5 and 6 participated in a workshop about social media on Wednesday. The children discussed the pros and cons of social media, whilst being taught how to best ensure that they safeguard themselves and others if they are using it. They were also told a number of possible real-life events and made to discuss with each other how they would deal with these situations. They all took an enormous amount from it and hopefully learnt lots of useful tips.
Year 4 Pottery Workshop
Year 4 were very fortunate to have Firing Up London’s Imagination come in. They had the opportunity to look at real life Roman pottery from over 2000 years ago! They learned about the different style of pottery and how it is found today. The children then made their own Roman Poppy Head Beakers. It was a fantastic (and messy!) day enjoyed by all!
Years 1 and 2 Enjoy Tennis Taster Day with Highgate Tennis Club
Years 1 and 2 had the opportunity to enjoy playing some tennis with coaches from Hight tennis club. They had a great time learning how to hit the ball consistently and create some amazing rallies! If your child is interested in tennis Highgate Tennis Club are hosting a FREE Open Session on Sunday 24th March at 4pm at Highgate Tennis Club. This is open to all year groups. To find out more information please check out their leaflet.
World Book Day
It’s been a fabulous World Book Day celebration once again! A huge thank you for all your efforts towards wonderful costumes and participation with the competitions – we think the children have really enjoyed them this year. There have been lots of exciting activities linked to World Book Day happening in the classrooms today, including KS2 getting creative with their story jars. In our assembly this afternoon, we heard all the winners announced and presented with their prizes for the Infant competition and the Readathon event, which happened throughout the month of February:
Our winners for the Infant World Book Day competition are:
Aisha in Gainsborough – Matilda
Ethel in Gwen John – The Gingerbread Man
Alex in Ofili –Tutankhamen Treasures
Evie in Moore – Alice in Wonderland
Our KS2 winners will be announced in next week’s newsletter.
Our Readathon winners:
Top Minute Readers from each class:
Gainsborough – Esme E.
Gwen John – Grace T.B.
1 Riley – Luke T.
1 Ofili – Miles P.E.
2 Hepworth – Isaac T.
3 Hockney – Elvin R.
3 Cameron – Ieuan H.
4 Whiteread – Rafi F.
5 Turner – Samuel A.
5 Thompson – Emil B.
6 Himid – Pip D.
6 Shonibare – Beatrix O.M.
Our overall minute readers:
From the Infants: Helen B in 2 Moore
From the Juniors: Arthur R in 4 Kapoor
A huge well done to all our winners but most importantly the wonderful participation from everybody which makes these events and competitions so successful! We will be sharing with you the final figure raised from the Readathon in next week’s Newsletter; our HSA members are busily tallying it all up. Thank you so very much for all your donations and encouragement with the children’s reading and a massive thank you to our wonderful HSA for driving and organising this event, in particular to Alex Lawson and Jasmine Hyman who took the reins on this. I know the children thoroughly enjoyed this event and hopefully a number of them have discovered the amazing places that reading can take them!
Campsbourne Celebrates Difference
The week of 5th June we will be holding our second “Campsbourne Celebrates Difference” week. Children will have the opportunity to participate in activities throughout the week and we will celebrate these on Friday the 9th June. We’d like to extend these celebrations to you all from 3.30-5.00pm on the upper KS2 playground. Tastes of dishes from around the world will be available along with music and an art exhibition. Everyone is encouraged to wear traditional dress or colourful attire. Your help is needed! Please contact your HSA representatives if you are able to contribute a dish, so we can include as many different tastes of the world as possible.
Amendment to Term Dates for 2024/2025
We have had to make a change to one of our INSET days for 2024/2025. We have moved an INSET day from 2nd June 2025 to 4th November 2024. 2024 – 2025 Term Dates
Unwanted Keyboards
Do you have a piano keyboard that your child has grown out of? We are hoping to collect any spare keyboards so we can lend them out to children who are learning the piano but have no instrument at home to practice on. Currently we have none spare! We need to build up stock. So over to you. Start the spring clean early!
Easter Holiday Club
You can find details of activities which are being planned for the Easter Holiday Club in the following link / attachment. Easter Holiday Holiday Club Timetable 2024 You can book places on Scopay. https://www.scopay.com/login
Tax-Free Child-Care Vouchers
You can also use tax free child care vouchers. To check if you are eligible and to create an account please click on the following link. https://www.gov.uk/get-tax-free-childcare. If you pay with tax-free childcare, please make the payment and then contact the school office to reserve the days’.
INSTAGRAM CHECKLIST
Instagram is very popular amongst children and young people. South West Grid for Learning have developed a checklist which you can use to make sure that you and your family are safe when using it.
New Instagram Privacy Checklist Updated for 2024 | SWGfL
Weekly Attendance and Punctuality
Congratulations to Ofili and Hepworth classes in the Infants and Cameron and Kapoor Class in the Juniors for registering the highest attendance! Well done to Reception in the Infants and Kapoor and Whiteread in the Juniors for 99% punctuality! THANK YOU!
| Infant Class | Attendance | Punctuality | Junior Class | Attendance | Punctuality |
| Gainsborough | 87.33% | 98.67% | Cameron | 95.71% | 98.21% |
| Gwen John | 95% | 98.67% | Hockney | 94.14% | 98.62% |
| Ofili | 97.78% | 95.19% | Kapoor | 95.77% | 99.62% |
| Riley | 96.79% | 98.21% | Whiteread | 93.57% | 99.29% |
| Hepworth | 97.24% | 98.28% | Thompson | 95.24% | 97.14% |
| Moore | 94.33% | 98.33% | Turner | 92.38% | 97.14% |
| Himid | 94.81% | 98.89% | |||
| Shonibare | 90.74% | 98.89% |
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Jonathan Smith
Head Teacher
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