December 2015 - Highbury Quadrant Primary School

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December 2015
Straw and Order! End of Year Performance
Our children in Key Stage 1 were
involved in our end of term school
production of Straw and Order. They
put on a fantastic performance of
acting and singing whilst our Year 3
classes entertained us with playing
their recorders. It was brilliant to see
so many of our children demonstrate
such commitment to learning and
practising their lines and music. It
was a wonderful way to begin the
holiday season and we look forward
to exploring how different cultures
celebrate New Year.
Many thanks to Mrs Pieterse, Mrs Martins-Mitchell and all of the other adults
involved, for all of their hard work.
KS1 Playground Makeover
We would like to say a BIG THANK you to the “Friends of Highbury Quadrant” a group of parents who have
worked tirelessly to improve the play area in KS1 playground. Over the past year they have held events to raise
funds for the improvements. In the last few months we have seen them working over a number of
evenings and weekends to paint a beautiful mural on the Nursery wall, install a Play House and a Climbing Wall.
(See pictures above)
The children absolutely love the new play equipment. It is a real joy to see them playing so nicely during break
and especially during Lunchtimes
Funding has been secured and is continually being raised for a new project for KS2 playground, we know that in
the future our children in KS2 are going to enjoy their playground as much as our children in KS1.
The HQSA held their annual AGM on 20th November 2015 this year, the meeting was
delayed by a few weeks due to the refurbishment works of the school house.
We would like to thank all who attended.
Czech School Without Borders gave a wonderful presentation about our partnership
over the last few years, we would like to continue this partnership in the coming years.
Change of committee membership:
Flora Gashi stepped down from the role of Treasurer, we would like to thank Flora for all her hard work and
dedication to HQSA over the years.
Kerrianne James also stepped down from the role of secretary, again we would like to thank Kerrianne for all
her hard work. Two new members were therefore voted in.
Tanya Bryan is now treasurer, and Siobhan Smith is our new secretary.
Miss Lovell's Greengrocer kindly donated our school
Christmas tree this year which is located by the Play
centre. Four children went along and picked the tree
out and carried it back!
Miss Lovell's Greengrocer also kindly donated a fruit
hamper to our Christmas raffle! Thank you so much.
HQSA have successfully secured a £5000 grant from Schuh, towards installing storage and renovating the floor
in the small hall, we still have £9000 to raise to complete the project.
The HQSA has also raised almost £3000 towards the KS2 playground and have received a very kind parent
donation of £3000 towards this project so that’s almost £6000 so far!
We hope to push forward with this project in the new year.
Our Winter Extravaganza took place on Friday 11th December once again it was a great success.
Santa visited us in the grotto, our photographer took some lovely
photos, please remember to pick up your fridge magnets from the school office.
We had wonderfully cooked food, by our own committee members, and some lovely donations
We would like to thank Tesco's Highbury Corner, Sainsburys Dalston, Rio Cinema Dalston, Nando's Dalston,
Godfreys Butchers Highbury Barn, Barnabys Highbury Barn, and Tiger Angel, and the parents, for their kind
donations.
Our new secretary Siobhan did a great job selling the raffle tickets and her husband Ben kindly helped by
calling the raffle out! Both did a brilliant job thank you so much.
Our DJ for the night was Mr1Elusive And Joss.
Thank you to all who helped on the night.
Highbury Quadrant Male Parent/Carer Group
A big 'thank you' to all of you who attended our first male
parent/carer group of the academic year.
We hope that you will enjoy playing crazy eights, using the set of cards
that you took away, during the holiday period and don't lose too often!
(We have been told by some children that they are champions as they
have continued winning at home!)
The next group will be held at 9.15am on Friday 5th February 2016.
More details to follow in the New Year.
Very Best Wishes
Adrian Samuel and Miss Clements
Coming in January Highbury Quadrant Family Kitchen!
Family Kitchen is a six weeks afterschool project for children and family
members to come and have fun learning to cook, taste new foods and eat
healthy meals together.
The family kitchen programme give children and family members the opportunity to:
•
Develop more positive attitude to healthy food
•
Be able to choose and buy healthy ingredients
•
Gain confidence and skills to cook healthy meals
•
Learn to cook healthy recipes from range of cultures and back
grounds
•
Eat together, socially
•
Get to know other group members
We are currently recruiting for Support Staff positions at the school,
the following are required for Spring 2016
All positions are Term Time Only
Midday Meals Supervisor x 3 Mon to Fri, 7.5 hrs per week
Out of School Hours Learning Manager/HLTA Mon to Fri, 32.5 hrs per week
Qualified Early Years Nursery Education Worker for 2 Year Old Provision Mon to Fri, 17.5 hrs per
week
Closing Date—Monday 4th January 2016 at midday.
Interview Date—Week commencing Monday 11th January 2016.
To apply, please do so online at www.islington.gov.uk/jobs
Green Behaviour Autumn Half Term 2 - 2015
School Dates
A huge well done to all of those classes who had the highest
number of children stay on Green this half term. As you can
see from the table of results below, we have some very impressive results for some classes.
Week
KS1
(percentage of
pupils who
stayed in
Green)
Lower KS2
(percentage of
pupils who
stayed in
Green)
Upper KS2
(percentage
of pupils
who stayed
in Green)
2nd – 6th
November
1Q Bank
86%
3H King’s Cross
97%
5Q Covent
Garden 78%
9th – 13th
1Q Bank
3H King’s Cross
5H Oxford
November
90%
96%
Circus 100%
16 – 20
1Q Bank
5H Oxford
November
86%
4H London Bridge
90%
23 – 27
November
2Q Baker Street
84%
3H King’s Cross
92%
5H Oxford
Circus 90%
30th November
– 4th December
1H Westminster
82%
3H King’s Cross
93%
6H Wembley
Park 79%
7th – 11th
December
1Q Bank
79%
3H King’s Cross
93%
6Q St Pauls
84%
th
rd
th
th
Most improved class over the half term in
KS1
Most improved class over the half term in
KS2
Circus 78%
2Q Baker Street
(improved by
30%)
4H London
Bridge
(improved by
23%)
Each of these classes has received a further reward of 10
minutes extra of playtime to celebrate their teamwork as a
class.
Christmas Break
The last day of school is Friday 18th
December 2015
School re-opens after the Christmas
break on Tuesday 5th January
2016.
Spring Half Term
Monday 15th February 2016 to
Friday 19th February 2016
Easter Break
The last day of school is Thursday
24th March 2016.
School re-opens after the Easter
Break on Tuesday 12th April 2016.
May Bank Holiday
Monday 2nd May 2016
Polling Day
Thursday 5th May 2016
Summer Half Term
Monday 30th May to Friday 3rd
June 2016
The academic year ends on
Wednesday 20th July 2016.
Autumn Term
School re-opens after the Summer
Break on Wednesday 7th September
2016.
Autumn Half Term
Thursday 20th October 2016 to
Friday 28th October 2016
Christmas Break
The last day of school is
Mrs King
Deputy Headteacher
Wednesday 21st December 2016
School re-opens after the Christmas
Break on Tuesday 3rd January
2017.