Welcome to our Weekly Newsletter 5th March 2012

Than you for the great costumes the children wore for World Book Day and well done to the children who then went to John Ryland to be filmed for Blue Peter, catch it tonight at 4:30 pm on BBC1. Jayne Kennedy

Diary Events for the week commencing 5 March 2012 Mon Celebration Assembly Assessment Week KS 1 Art Club 3:05 4:05 KS2 Craft Club 3:054:05 Karate 3:054:05 (KS2) Tues Breakdancing 3:054:05 (KS2) (Infant Hall) Garageband 3:05 4:05 (KS2) (Miss Evans Room) Dodgeball 3 4:30 (Y1-6) (Junior Hall) Wed: Network Choir at Oswald Road MCFC 6 a side football tournament Etihad Stadium Arabic Club (3pm 4pm) Cooking Club 3:054:15 (Y5 +6) Football Club 3:05 pm4:15 pm Thurs Computer club3:05 4 (Y5 and Y6) FriMaths Coffee Morning 9am (Parents of Y1/2)

Future Diary Events Mon 12 Mar Y3/4 Cricket Chorlton High 3:15 pm Wed 14 MarIndividual and class photos Mon 26 Mar Y5+Y6Basketball/trampolining Chorlton High3:15pm Wed 28 Mar Possible 1 day school closure (see ALERT below) Thurs 29 MarchMasquerade Disco Fri 30 MarBreak Up for Easter 2PMNO AFTER SCHOOL CLUB Mon 16 AprilSchool restarts 9 am. Thurs 19 April:Family and Community DayWhat Britain means to me Wed 25 AprilParents Evening Nursery Thurs 26 AprilParents Evening Rec to Y6 Thur May 3School Closed Polling Day Fri 4 MaySchool closedINSET DAY Mon 7 May School closedMay Day Bank Holiday Mon 14 May Start Y6 SATS Fri 1 JuneSchool break up 3pm

WEEKLY ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY UPDATE - For the week ending 10/2/12 Whole School Attendance: 96.0% Winning Class for Attendance last week Unauthorised Absence.: 1.1 % FS: Reception - Purple No. of late children: 29 Key Stage 1: 1/2 AB Key Stage 2: Year 6

CHILDREN OF THE WEEK Nursery:Yellow Suliman Red Dante Blue Snyder REC: Orange: Fajr 1/2 DP: Ousman Manneh Khan 3/4AR: Alfadel Al-Hassan 1/2 ADS: Faris Habibullah 3/4 KE: Samantha Guthrie 1/2 AB: Leon Barry 3/4JRN: Taha Zaheer Purple: Iqraa M Green: Caitlyn Year 5: Wasan Almakhlafi Year 6: Bobby Hogg

ALERT
I have been informed by teaching staffs unions that it is highly likely that unions will hold a day of industrial action on Wednesday 28th March. Although I am unable to confirm whether school will be closed I wanted to give parents prior notice that this is a possible school closure date. I will confirm as soon as I can. Jayne Kennedy

SPOTLIGHT
Maths Coffee Morning Our KS1 Assistant Head, Mrs Susanne Budgett, will be holding a Maths coffee morning on Friday morning for parents of Year 1 and Year 2 children to attend. The coffee morning will start at 9:05 and will explain how children are allocated into different sets and how we teach maths to your child. You are very welcome to come along to find out more.

Assessment Week
Next week is Assessment week at Barlow Hall for KS1 and KS2 so please could you help your child to do their best by getting them to bed early and ensuring they eat their breakfast so they arent distracted during their tests. This is also a good opportunity to get in some reading, spelling and times tables practice with your child and to help them to stay relaxed.

Help required
If anyone has any good condition Small World resources that they no longer need please could they let Mrs Budgett or any of the KS1 staff know. This can include dolls houses, garages, play airports etc. Donations will be gratefully received. Unattended Children We still have a small number of children being dropped off early at school and left outside the front of the building. Please can we remind you that children should not be left outside school on their own and if they arrive before the school gate opens at 8:45 they will need to go to breakfast club as the area outside school is not supervised before this as is open for traffic to access school and the Sure Start Centre. Any children found to be outside school without a parent will be sent to breakfast club