Friday 29th April 2016

Friday 29th April 2016
Head Teacher: Mr. Paul Sansom
NPQH, BA (Hons) QTS
It’s a bug’s life...
It has been another super busy week for everyone at Chad Vale and we have been trying
our best to get out and about despite the extreme April shower weather conditions. The
weather doesn’t stop us enjoying our outdoor learning here at Chad Vale! We held our
first Wildlife Club this week with the children and Mr Clark out hunting for different types
of wildlife in our school grounds. They have been constructing insect hotels (I hope they
were 5 star) and are looking to construct a small pond to encourage other forms of
wildlife to come and join us as part of the Chad Vale family. Reception also joined in the
fun by creating their own bug houses. Great work everyone! As the weather is still so
unpredictable please could you ensure that your child comes to school with a coat to
enable them to go out for learning and play whenever possible.
Miss Sohal, Mrs Cutts and the Big Read Team also began work on our new reading bench.
It will be unveiled later on in the term and when it is completed will be situated
somewhere in our school grounds for us all to enjoy!
A SAFETY NOTICE:
Unfortunately there are still Parents who are choosing to park inconsiderately. The double
yellow lines on the roads outside school have been placed there to keep the areas around our
school safe for our children. There are also Parents who are continuing to park in the turning
circle and on the drive to pick up from school clubs. Again, this is a safety issue and often
causes inconvenience for other road users so please refrain from doing so.
IMPORTANT CALENDAR UPDATES
We are updating our emails and calendars in school meaning the public calendar link on the
website is currently out of action. Whilst this work is completed we will be posting
important dates for your diary and events on the front page of the website to ensure that
you are kept up to date.
PLEASE NOTE: NEXT WEEK SCHOOL IS CLOSED ON MONDAY FOR BANK
HOLIDAY AND ALSO CLOSED ON THURSDAY FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS.
Tennis
Vale increased their lead in the overall standings to 5 points with an excellent display in this
week’s inter form tennis competition. All three of the opining rubbers were closely
contested, but 4 Vale opened up an unassailable 3-0 lead taking each rubber 8-6. 4 Chad
fought back to claim the fifth rubber, but Vale completed a dominant performance by
winning the final rubber and win the match 4-1.
Vale now lead the overall standings 45-40.
Perry Beeches Indoor Athletics Competition
On Wednesday two teams from 5 Chad travelled to the NIA to compete in an indoor
athletics event hosted by The Perry Beeches Trust. Competing in a variety of individual and
team races both teams qualified for the final taking place on Wednesday 25th May. We look
forward to letting you know how they got on.
Congratulations!
Last Friday Sajjan Gill was crowned as the Chad Vale
Archery Champion 2016. The Archery competition has
been run by Premier Sport during the after school
Archery Club on Thursday afternoons. Sajjan has
demonstrated both impressive accuracy and consistency
in his performances throughout the competition and is a
deserved winner. Well done Sajjan!
Finally, we would like to say very well done to Lucas Parkes. He is an outstanding sportsman
and has captained both our Y4 football and hockey teams to success this season. Last week
he was awarded the ‘Player of The Season’ award by Mahal FC U10s, who he plays for at the
weekends. Keep up the good work Lucas!
If your child takes part in sport outside of school and has achieved something impressive
that you would like to share, please forward the information to Mr. Bowen at
[email protected] and he will endeavour to recognise the achievements in
our weekly newsletter.
This week’s
RC
Attendance (%) 97.0
Lates (number)
RV
1C
1V
2C
2V
3C
3V
4C
4V
5C
5V
6C
96.2
96.6
100
98.3
94.0
98.7
96.3
99.3
100
99.0
95.3
91.7
3
0
3
1
4
3
6
4
0
3
0
5
3
Supervision of collected children on
the school drive at home-times
Could parents and carers please
ensure that they walk with their
children (and younger siblings not
yet at Chad Vale) at home-times. We have lots of
children running on ahead of their parents after
collection which makes it very difficult for the senior
staff to check that they are with a ‘safe adult’ at the
bottom of the drive. Please note—Scooters/bikes are
not to be used on the drive. Your help with this would
be much appreciated. Thanks.
Dates for your Diary
Event
Monday 2nd May 2016
May Day Bank Holiday—SCHOOL CLOSED TO PUPILS
Tuesday 3rd May 2016
Y2 Vale trip to Pizza Express
Wednesday 4th May 2016
Y4 Trip to Severn Valley Railway
Thursday 5th May 2016
Local Elections—SCHOOL CLOSED TO PUPILS
Friday 6th May 2016
SEN Parent group meeting
Week 2
Week 3