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Fairfield Junior School
Fairfield Junior School
Show Racism the Red Card
Autumn Term Calendar 2012
EVENT
DATE
Tue
2/10/12
Tue
9/10/12 Parent‟s Evening
Sponsored Steeplechase
Wed
10/10/12 Year 6 Blue Planet Trip
Fri
19/10/12
Mon
29/10/12 School Opens
Fri
Wed
9/11/12
14/11/12
Wed
Year 4 - 1st half Fiddlers Ferry
5/12/12 Year 5 - Cadbury World
Thur
20/12/12 School Closes
Mon
7/1/13 School Opens
ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL
All absences have to be recorded in School.
If your child is ABSENT they DO require a note
(or notification by telephone)
Otherwise they are recorded as an
“UNAUTHORISED ABSENCE”
on the School Report.
Telephone School on 424 0123 and leave a message
on the answer phone if your child is ill
and absent from school.
Uniform & Appearance
Reminder!
In order for us to maintain our high standards of dress we would ask for the support
of parents in ensuring that their child is
correctly dressed for school.
Polo shirts and gingham dresses are
for the summer Term only.
Black Shoes NO Trainers
Bracelets and other Jewellery is not
allowed in school
Children may wear stud-type earrings
Loop or dangly earrings are not allowed
for health reasons
Hairstyles should be suitable for school
and not a fashion statement!
Thank you for your help and support
School Uniform, caps, hats and bags may be purchased from
M & R Fashions, 31 Alforde Street, Widnes WA8 7TR
School Disco‟s
A food bank is being set up by 25 churches in
Widnes. A food bank is designed to help individuals and families in crisis, through the provision of emergency food supplies. For further
details: [email protected] or call
Clare on: 07771777762 We will be supporting the charity. More details will follow.
Autumn Term
October 2012
Newsletter
The Staff and Governors offer a very warm
welcome to all our children and parents/
carers to the start of the new academic year
2012/13, especially to our new children and
parents in Year 3. We are looking forward
to a prosperous and exciting year of learning
opportunities for our children and we will be
keeping you informed about new initiatives
and developments in the curriculum.
Class 3 Assembly
28/11/12 Year 4 - 2nd half Fiddlers Ferry
Learning for Life
Welcome
School Closes
Fri /Sat 16-17/11/12 Year 3 Conway Centre Visit
Wed
In recognition of the effort and participation in “show
racism the red card” competition, Fairfield Junior
School has been awarded the certificate of merit. We
are extremely proud of this achievement.
START: 5:30 PM - END: 6.55PM
ADMISSION £2.00
POP AND CRISPS ON SALE
Can parents please ensure that they
collect their children on time from the
disco, particularly on the forthcoming
dark evenings.
Flyer with date to follow!
Aspire, Believe, Succeed
This year we also welcome two new members
of staff to join our dedicated team. Mr Dan
Pendleton has joined the year 4 teachers and
Mr Paul Robson is employed as a Teaching
Assistant. Mr Pendleton has many specialist
teaching qualifications, including ICT, drama and
is a karate instructor. Both Mr Pendleton and Mr
Robson have many teaching skills that will be
real asset to the School.
Celebrating Special Achievements
I am very proud to report that a number of our children have made a significant
effort in representing Fairfield Junior School in unique and special ways.
Kelsey (Year 5) has won first prize for showing her fantastic creative
skills in a sign-making competition run by the Widnes Vikings and
Sure Move Estate agents. Hundreds of youngsters across the borough
entered the competition, with Kelsey the eventual winner. Kelsey had
a chance to meet the Widnes Viking players and get their autographs
as part of her prize.
Ryan and Bradley (Year 5) made the very admirable decision to
organise, and take part in a fund raising
opportunity to support the Downs
Syndrome Association. Ryan and Bradley walked up Moel Famua in
Wales to raise an astonishing £850. They then presented the money
raised to Mrs Nicola Houghton who is one of our parents, and also
works hard to support the Downs Syndrome Charity. This was a
wonderful act of charity of which all of the staff and governors
are extremely pleased to report and is an excellent example of good
citizenship of which we are very proud.
After many weeks of hard work and dedication, Matthew (Year 5) represented
Fairfield Junior School at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Matthew was a key member of the Liverpool Signing Choir led by Katherine
Hegerty. Katherine has worked in our School on a number of occasions and has
offered all our children the opportunity to join the signing choir. Those who took
this chance to be involved have gained many fantastic experiences. In Matthew’s
case, he watched George Michael and the Spice Girls perform and had his
name and picture in the Olympic Brochure, as well as appearing on television.
Head teacher: Irene Hodkinson
Fairfield Junior School, Peel House Lane, Widnes WA8 6TH Tel: 0151 424 0123 Fax: 0151 420 0856
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Olympic
Opportunities!
Two fantastic opportunities have been
given to our children that have been
organised by our teaching staff. Mr Roberts and Mrs
Gilbert gave a day of
the summer break to
take two of last year‟s
Year 6 children to
watch the Women‟s
Football at Old Trafford. It was a wonderfull experience enjoyed
by all!
After winning the prize
draw, Cameron and
Thomas (Year 5) travelled to London with
Miss Gannon and Mrs
Seddon to watch the
Paralympics.
The children thoroughly
enjoyed their experience
and had the opportunity
to watch many Athletics
events, including the blind triple and long jump events
and wheelchair races.
Cameron said: “It was an experience I will never forget”.
Rebecca Murphy is our Safeguarding
and Child Protection Officer
Messages for Children
A significant amount of our Office Staff’s time is
being taken up by them having to give children last
minute messages about arrangements for
home time. Unless this is a matter of real emergency,
arrangements for home time need to be made BEFORE
the children come to School in the morning.
A great concern of mine is that, because of the
number of messages, (often at a late time during the
day), the Office Staff will not have enough time to
give children messages. This could cause children to
become anxious if the arrangements have been
changed and they have not been told.
Safeguarding
After consultation with our Parent Forum
and Governors, a decision was made to install
a fence that would encompass the playground.
The main aim of the installation of the fence
was to keep our children safe.
However, it will also demarcate an area that we
can develop with play equipment. This project will be led by Miss Kate Little over the
forthcoming academic year.
All the recent funds raised by parents and
forthcoming funds will go towards the
equipment.
Home Learning
All children have a
HOME LEARNING DIARY
Children should be completing HOME
LEARNING at home every school night —
it is a very important part of your child‟s
education.
PARENTS - HOW YOU CAN HELP?
Please help your child by hearing them
READ NIGHTLY, check they’re doing their
HOMEWORK and sign their HOME
LEARNING DIARY at the end of each week
to indicate they have completed their home
learning assignments and reading.
Also, please keep an eye on attendance and sign
your part of the Home-School Agreement.
Thank you!
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Fairfield Junior School
Mad Science Day!
“Kinetic Kathryn” visited the school and wowed
the children with some amazing interactive
Scientific Experiments.
Please note children are
NOT allowed to have
mobile telephones in School.
ALSO —
Please no Trainers in school.
ALSO no “Mohecan” hairstyles for boys,
or “Tram Lines”.
Aspire, Believe, Succeed
came in to talk to our Year 6 chil-
dren about the „Power of the Mind.‟ This followed his successful visit last year. This
workshop gave the children an insight into how important it is to have strong resilience and determination to overcome any problems or issues that
are part of life and
learning.
The children had
the opportunity to
build their team
working skills and
to solve problems
together.
Silver Kitemark
Using the inspiration from the summer of Olympics and Paralympics, the children of Fairfield
Juniors have shown a great enthusiasm towards sport and achieving
goals through hard work. Excitingly, we
had the opportunity to apply for a Sports
Kitemark award that brings great recognition
of our dedication and love of sport. Due to
the commitment of our children in after
school sports clubs and competitions, we have
been awarded the Silver Kitemark award.
This is a great achievement and will only spur
the staff and children on to experience a wide
range of new sports as well as enjoy the sports
they already love. Keep up the sporty effort!
Dinner Money
Your child’s dinner money
(£2.10 per day)
Must now be paid in
the Hall each day.
PACKED LUNCHES
HEALTHY EATING!
NO glass bottles or fizzy drinks and no sweets or
chocolates Thank you!
We cannot guarantee children sitting in the same places
if they swap from packed lunch to dinner and vice versa.
Healthy Eating
To promote “healthy eating” every playtime one of
the following items will be on sale:
Banana Half - 20p
Grapes - 25p
Orange Half - 20p
Apple Half - 20p
POP IN TIME!
Every Thursday
3.00
3.00--3.30p.m.
Mobile Phones
Jeff Moran
Come and see your
child learning!
Class Assemblies
Friday mornings … Enjoy your child’s
class assembly and stay afterwards working
with your child and the other mums and dads.
It‟s great fun - educational too!
Toast is available
everyday.
Milk, Milk Shake
and water are the
only drinks allowed. Milk and Milk Shake can be purchased from School. Our Governors have considered
play time food and have decided that only toast, fruit
and vegetables, such as carrot sticks, should be eaten at
playtime. Parents may wish to send their child with
their own Milk or Milkshake. NO OTHER FOODS
AT PLAY TIME PLEASE
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