Newsletter March 2016 - Church Road Primary School

Church Road Primary School
Newsletter March 2016
Staff news
We have a new caretaker starting at school. Mr
Jonathan Hughes will be joining us before Easter.
We know you will all make him very welcome.
A big thank you to our temporary caretaker, Mr
Lathwell who has been a super star!
Miss Prudence will be starting her maternity leave
in the next few weeks, and we wish her all the
best. Miss Amatt will cover her class after Easter.
Our two students, Danielle Smith and Adam Cox
will return to us for the summer term.
Thank you all for your lovely support during our recent
Ofsted inspection. The inspectors were really
impressed with your lovely children and the quality of
education we provide for them. The report is available
to read on our website and on the Ofsted website. If
you would like a printed copy of the report, please
call into the school
Thank you for your understanding during the recent
snowy weather. As long as the school is accessible on
foot, we will be open. Please don’t ring the school to
check if we are open. If we can’t open for any reason
we will let you know by text message, on Facebook and
through the Bolton.gov website.
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Year 5 Easter Experience at St Peters Church
Year 6 Easter Experience at St Peters Church
Year 2 walk Barrow Bridge- 1pm
Maths Evening for Parents
Easter Bingo 6pm
Spring KS2 Concert- 9:15am
Moss Bank Park – Cross Country
5G family assembly 9:15am
Training day for staff
School re-opens for the summer term 8:50am
Year 2 Visit to Blackpool Zoo
Oral Health Team for EYFS
Keep Safe
Please be aware that there will be no School
Crossing Patrol Officer on Church Road on
the morning of Wednesday 20th April.
Please be vigilant and ensure children are
crossing the road safely.
Happy Birthday to all our children celebrating in March
Diana Hegedus
Emilia Robinson
Madison Gorman
Niall Stringfellow
Aston Taylor
Lexie Oldham
Marley Kelly
Daniel Vacca
Breshna Amiri
Isobelle Quinton
Mathew Wildman
Lucia Boaro
Harry Twist
Harvey Claridge
Rihanna Pomfret
Ruby Wigley
Jazmin Nemeth
Erika Wolstencroft
Luca Boaro-Walch
Katie Orduna
Noah Smith
Leon Webber
Fatima Cordeiro
Theo Duffy
Matthew Chen
Alfie Atherton
Syeda Bukhari
Joshua Entwistle
Good news for school lunches
We are delighted to be able to share with you that the council
have decided to
maintain the £1.25 price for school meals for another year. This
represents great value for money. Children in reception, Y1
and Y2 have free school meals. Children in KS2 will only pay
£1.25 per day , £6.25 per week
Please pay any lunch money on Mondays in a clearly marked
envelope. If you would like to pay for lunches half a term at a
time, we are able to arrange that. Next half term is eight
weeks, two training days, bank holiday and local elections
which equates to
37 days x £1.25 = £46.25
As many of you know, the school gets additional money for
those children who are entitled to free school meals As children
in Reception, Y1 and Y2 automatically get free meals, not all
families are registering their entitlement. This means the school
may not be getting all the money we are eligible for. If your
family are in receipt of any of the following benefits, please
take a few minutes to check that you are registered.
Many thanks.
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Income Based Job Seekers Allowance
Income Related Employment Support Allowance
Attendance
Our attendance figure for this term is 95.9% which
is below the National average of 96.1%.
During next term we need a big push to
increase our attendance figure and with your help
we can.
Mr Mills and Mrs Lamb are Learning
Mentors in the school. If you need any help,
support or advice in raising your child’s
attendance level then make an
appointment at the office to meet with them.
Low attendance does affects children's learning,
achievement and successes in school.
Give your child the best chance by increasing their
attendance!
Income Support
Universal Credit
Child Tax Credit only with an annual income of less than
£16,190
Pension Credit - Guarantee Credit
Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum
Act 1999
For more information and to register, you can either:
log onto the following website
www.bolton.gov.uk/website/pages/
Freeschoolmealsandschoolclothingallowance.aspx
visit the ‘One Stop Shop’ located in the Town Hall (can be accessed through the west entrance on Le Mans Crescent),
Or, call the Bolton benefits team on 01204 331590.
The process is very straight forward and registering is really
quick and easy, so if your child is eligible, please register today,
to allow us to start receiving the funding.
Appointments
We do understand that sometimes
appointments during the school day are
unavoidable. Please could we ask that such
appointments are kept to a minimum?
Please show the children’s appointment card/
letter when you collect them from school.
Thank you
Building work around school
New school logo and motto
You may have seen the children bringing home a
leaflet about a new school badge. We are tapping
into their creativity and asking them to come up with
a new school badge that reflects our new school
motto
Church Road School - Our Place to Shine
We will use the new logo on our website, school
books and planners this year.
From September 2017 it will also be used on our
school uniform.
We would like to start a dialogue about school
uniform. We are prepared to listen to all ideas
(although we can’t promise to use them all)!
What is school uniform for? What would be the best
combination? How can we make sure it’s
affordable/durable/practical and how can we cut
down on the lost property pile?
We will probably be sticking with green and
yellow, but there are many different shades of these
colours we could use.
We will open up a forum to discuss this on our blog.
We are at the start of a programme to develop
parts of the school. The work should start during
the Easter holidays with the demolition of the
old Nursery building on the EYFS playground. At
various times during the next seven months
there will be work to:
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Extend the school kitchen
Move the main entrance to the “Moorland
Grove” side of the school
Extend the school car park
Replace the boundary walls
Develop the playgrounds.
As much as we would like to get the work done
in the holiday periods, this is not going to be
possible and we are going to have to ask for
your patience and understanding over the next
few months. It will look very smart when it is all
finished.
When we have more news and details we will
let you know.
Parent teacher association
Our first evening meeting of the PTA went well. We had a few new parents along, and as we hoped,
we had some new ideas put forward. We are going to try that again to see if we can get even more
parents and staff involved. The main out comes of the meeting were:
A decision to run two Easter Bingo evenings if the numbers were sufficient, so that no one is disappointed.
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We would look at local firms to see whether anyone would be willing to sponsor a sports kit for the
school
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The summer fair would be a bigger affair this year with more attractions and advertising
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The PTA will look into organising a large raffle to try to raise money from outside our school community
Allotment
Easter Bingo
Easter bingo was a terrific success. Thank you
to all those who attended. Your continued
support is invaluable! We will let you know the
total funds raised on our next Newsletter.
Now the sun is shining classes are beginning to
make their way down to the allotment. Year 1
will be planting leeks, Year 2 are trying out
beetroot while Year 5 have onion sets to plant.
Each year group has potatoes chitting ready to
plant in a potato sack. We all hope to grow a
sunflower too!
Don’t forget offers of help are always
appreciated. Please do consider getting in touch
with Mrs Rigby or Mrs Porter to help out.
A big thank you for all your kind cake
donations!
Breaking news!
Mrs Schofield’s brother has agreed to sponsor a sports
kit for the school. That’s great news. Thank you very
much to “Meadow House Interim Management”. As a
growing school , we could do with two strips, so keep
asking around your friends and family if they have a
business that could sponsor a kit.
Parking
We have some new zigzag lines around school. They look very smart, but that is not their purpose. They are there
to keep your children safe.
We have had a complaint from a member of the public who drives past the school
regularly at 3:30pm. she has also provided several photographs which show people
parking and collecting children in very dangerous places and situations. We have
asked the police to monitor the situation, but really it shouldn’t take that. Please don’t
cut corners with child safety. We do understand it’s only a few parents/carers/taxi drivers
who are causing the problem. Thank you so much to the many, many others who are
thoughtful and keep all children safe.
NEVER park on the zigzag lines outside school, not even “for one minute to drop off”.
They are there for a reason. Children and parents need to be able to see cars moving.
Our school was never designed to manage such traffic and we all need to take
responsibility for the safety of all the lovely children in school.
Congratulations to all these children who had 100% attendance in the
month of February
Juwaria Akbar
Mohammed Akbar
Iraj Ali
Hamza Ali
Sally Aljandel
Bailey Allen
Marcus Allen
Ali Amjad
Alfie Atherton
Poppy Atkinson
Isabelle Banner
Abbie Barker
Lia Basar
Adassa Beaufort-Harwood
Imaan Begum
Ruhma Begum
Oliver Beswick
Rowan Beswick
Georgia Billington
Hollie Birmingham
Norbert Bocian
Megan Bowden
George Bowen
Maisie Bowen
Danny Bradshaw
Sheldon Bray
Alexia Brett
Kayden Brett
Kaden Brooks
Kurtis Brooks
Brooke Brown
Alexander Bruce
Bethany Bryson
Blake Butler
Harvey Butler
Keira Butler
Maisie Butler
Annalise Butterworth
Mckenzie Campbell
Milly Campbell
Tiffany Campbell
Ella Cann
Luca Carpenito
Rhys Carter
Lissy Chadwick
Kiara Chapman
Matthew Chen
Leon Chinakwe
Izza Choudry
Harvey Claridge
Paige Claridge
Abigail Colderley
Abby Cooke
Jake Cooke
Deacon Coombs
Ashton Lee Cooper
Fatima Cordeiro
Jack Critchley
Mia Crompton
Isaac Crossley
Reuben Crossley
Ryan Cunliffe
Chantelle Dawson
Isabelle Dawson
Ebony Day
Lacey Derbyshire
Catherine Devine
Ellen Dixon
Gareth Dobson
Jessica Dobson
Leland Dobson
Hannah Doran
Lydia Downs
Paige Downs
Tyler Doxey
Theo Duffy
Lanie Dunn
Callum Enright
Joshua Entwistle
Shane Entwistle
Izzi Ettenfield-Rutley
Jasmin Farooq Flynn
Jack Finch
Stephanie Garner
Julia Gaweda
Przemyslaw Gaweda
Szymon Gaweda
Eduardo Gherghelas
Thomas Michael Goodram
James Goodwin
Lacey Gorman
Madison Gorman
Kayden Gould
Aaron Gray
Veronica Hargraves
Lily Mae Harper
Jessica Harrison
Michael Hayes
Jack Hennessey
Julian Henry
David Holden
Macey Holden
Annabelle Holgate
Jacob-James Holgate
Summer-Louise Holmes
Eli Hopkinson
Ronnie Hopkinson
Daniel Howarth
Tia Howarth
Max Hudson
Amelia Humphries
Austin Humphries
Ruby Rose Humphries
Summer Humphries
Mason Hurst
Kelsey Jackson
Kayden Jackson-Bond
Alicia Jones
Jacob Jones
Ryan Jubb
Indiana Julien
Wojtek Kalan
Bethany Karimi
Jessica Karimi
Madisson Kay
Jayden Kelly
Marley Kelly
Renae Kelly
Isha Khan
Soe Hee Kim
Astin Kingham
Chloe Kinsella
Holly Kinsella
Sam Kinsella
Rae Laing
Tyron Laniyan
Lara Latham
Chloe Leach
Ollie Lomax
Calum Lonnie
Ellis Lovick
Hannah Lovick
Ebony Lowe
Andreea Lupu
Mercedesz Major
Amelia Malloy
Annabel Malloy
Ella Malloy
Ryley Marsden
Luke Martindale
Harley Mason
Kenzie Mather
Monroe McCarthy-Pomfret
George Milao
Layla Mistry
Evie Mohammed
Imani Mohammed
Leoni Monteiro
Ava Mort
Saim Muhammad
Chi Chi Mulenga
Jacob Mulraney
Max Murray
Robyn Murray
Madiha Nasir
Jayden Naylor
Shay Naylor
Amygrace Neasham
Jack Neasham
Jamie Nugent
Acey Nuttall
Olivia Nuttall
Cameron Ogden
Lexie Oldham
Emily Orduna
Katie Orduna
Justin Orton
Ruby Ottley
Amelia Picketts
Jazmin Pico Martinez
Jennifer Pico Martinez
Lewis Pierce
Lily Pitfield
Hannah Olivia Platt
Jessica Pollitt
Jocelyn Pollitt
Lexi Pollitt
Dan Porter
Grace Porter
Alexander Prescott
Sam Prescott
Emily Quinton
Isobelle Quinton
Alicia Quinton Taylor
Amelia Quinton Taylor
Annabell Rainford
Molly Reay-Court
Grace Reddyhough
Linden Rice
Tristan Rice
Jonathan Rice-Fletcher
Jack Richardson
Emilia Robinson
Jacob Robinson
Leonii Robinson
Ella Sadikeen
Finlay Sadikeen
Grace Sagoe
Alfie Sandiford
Cameron Sandiford
Ernie Schofield
Gene Schofield
Poppy Scott-Settle
Jayden Shah
Kaneez Shah
Khadija Shah
Mya-Krishna Shah
Leon Shepherdson
Oliver Slater
Abigail Smethurst
Amy Smith
Evie Smith
Madison Smith
Noah Smith
Lucas Snowden
Jack Spendlove
Joseph-Lewis Stanley
George Stoddart
Cain Stott
Niall Stringfellow
Joshua Sudding
Aela Tariq
Mohaib Tariq
Angel Taylor
Aston Taylor
Lacey Thomas-Platt
Logan Thomas-Platt
Courtney-Lei Torkington
Ellie Torkington
Clary Toto
Molly Travers
Jayden Tully
Robert Turnbull
Harry Twist
Huda Uddin
Daniel Vacca
Michael Walker
Gracie Walsh
Alfie Ward
Brayden Watson
Korben Watson
Leon Webber
Morgan Weber
Adam Whitehouse
Alexander Whittle
Alex Wigley
Ruby Wigley
Matthew Wildman
Jessica Willcox
Katie Willcox
Lauren Willcox
Imogen Williams
Declan Wood
Samuel Woodall
Kyle Worswick
Ethan Worthington
Olivia Wright
Oscar Wright
Gabrielle Yates
Aiden Young
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