Dear Parent / Carers,
I hope you had a restful and enjoyable half-term holiday. Over the final few weeks of this school year we have a range of exciting trips and workshops which our dedicated teachers have been planning. You can find dates for all of these events at the end of this newsletter but I would like to remind you of a few important dates and events coming up:
Infant Class Rep Meeting
12th June 2024 – 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Junior Class Rep Meeting
19th June 2024 – 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Summer Fair
Saturday 22nd June 2024 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Sports Day
12th July 2024 Approximately 9.30 – 12.30
Sports Day (Back up)
19th July 2024
Final Day of Summer Term (Early Finish)
24th July 2024
NB: Please remember that there is no after school provision on the final day of term
SEND children Parent/Carer Coffee Morning
All families and carers are invited to attend our SEND parent coffee morning on Wednesday 12th June at 9am (after morning drop off) hosted by Morgan Currie. Please sign in at the main office. Come and join us for a coffee/tea and a chat. This term we will host Zoe Buxton from CAMHS who will discuss her role with supporting children at our school and “Brain Buddies”. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible.
Latest from the HSA
Summer Fair
It’s been a busy start to the half term and we know there are a lot of demands and requests being put upon families as we lead up to our Summer Fair event and Online Auction. We simply can’t run a whole school event without a wide range of help and support and the HSA team is working extremely hard behind the scenes to prepare and support the class reps as well. Your class rep should have been in touch about what volunteer roles we need plugging, so please help out where you can (and if they haven’t, give them a gentle nudge)!
We all REALLY appreciate your help and do contact your class rep or an HSA member on Classlist if you have any questions or suggestions.
A HUGE thank you to all the donations that have already been arriving and a reminder that the Summer Fair Donation Box is opposite the school office.
To ensure our summer fair is packed full of fun prizes for all, we need some help collecting the following items:
Campsbourne Online Auction
Our school online auction will be going LIVE on the 14th of June and we need YOUR help! We’ve already collected an amazing range of big and small prizes including:
We want to know if you have a service or product that you can donate to help raise vital funds for our wonderful school. For example, you could offer to bake a cake, donate a piece of artwork, create graphic design, offer a night of babysitting, or DIY services – you get the idea!
The deadline for donations is this Monday, the 10th of June, so contact Becky Lupton (1 Ofili/5 Thompson) or Raj Kotecha (Gwen John) if you can help!
See our attached poster for more details! Parent Auction Information
June Activities at Hornsey Library
Hornsey Library are hosting a wide range of activities for younger children including craft workshops and storytelling sessions. More details can be found here.
Alexandra Park Cricket Club – Junior Taster Sessions!
Hope you are well. We would like to invite your son / daughter to take part in some FREE outdoor Cricket Taster Sessions run by Alexandra Park Cricket Club.
We are keen to continue to grow our thriving Junior Section and require some more participants to make this happen! We have come in, through Middlesex in the Community, to deliver some sessions in your school and would love to get more children playing at cricket clubs.
We are offering your child 2 FREE Cricket Taster Sessions, in conjunction with the work we are doing with your school, in the hope that they would like to continue with cricket throughout the Summer!
Our sessions run at Alexandra Park Cricket Club, N22 7AX at 18:00 – 19:30 on Thursdays – the last free session is on Thursday 13th June 18:00 – 19:30
If you are interested in taking us up on this opportunity and getting involved, please contact Johan de Silva, Director of Junior Cricket at Alexandra Park CC.
Weekly Attendance and Punctuality
Congratulations to Gainsborough in the Infants and Cameron in the Juniors for registering 100% attendance respectively! Well done to Gwen John and Moore Classes in the Infants and Cameron class in the Juniors for such good punctuality! THANK YOU!
| Infant Class | Attendance | Punctuality | Junior Class | Attendance | Punctuality |
| Gainsborough | 100% | 97.92% | Cameron | 100% | 99.55% |
| Gwen John | 97.08% | 99.58% | Hockney | 96.55% | 97.84% |
| Ofili | 98.61% | 98.61% | Kapoor | 92% | 97.50% |
| Riley | 95.98% | 94.19% | Whiteread | 95.98% | 98.21% |
| Hepworth | 84.20% | 98.66% | Thompson | 97.82% | 97.62% |
| Moore | 99.58% | 99.17% | Turner | 95.63% | 97.49% |
| Himid | 97.22% | 98.61% | |||
| Shonibare | 93.52% | 98.61% |
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Jonathan Smith
Head Teacher
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