9 Oct 2009 - Newsletter No 35
Ravenor
News
No:
35
ATTENDANCE -
Evidence shows that children who have excellent attendance at Primary School ‘do
better’ at High School!
Ourtarget for attendance throughout the year is 98%
For
the weeks
We
have two weeks left before half term. Please ensure that children are at
school each day for the next ten days!
The
children look forward each week to see
which classes have won the attendance
trophies
which are proudly displayed in the winners classroom for the week!
Winners
for the last two weeks have been
Foundation Stage Award - Raindrop Group
Key
Stage One Award - Blue Class -for
both weeks
Blue
Class had 100% Attendance Week 21st—25th
September . Congratulations!
Key
Stage Two Award
14th -18th
September 3H
21st - 25th
September 5P
Attachments
· Please note that copies of school meal menus are available from the
school office
· If you would like to comment on plans by Ealing Council to increase the
number of places for children of Primary school age please collect an
information letter and
pamphlet from the school office.
We hope that all parents/carers enjoyed reading the
Curriculum Information
published by each year group this week and found the ‘how
you can help your child’
sections helpful. If you did not receive a copy please
ask at the school office.
Please note that teachers would like to meet with
parents during the week of
19th -23rd October and appointment times will be
offered during the next school week.
Care and Courtesy in our Community!
Several members of our community living close to
school have shared their concern and anger about careless and dangerous parking
by parents of Ravenor pupils.
These
concerns include:
· Parking across and blocking driveways
· Stopping cars in the middle of the road blocking the road for all other
drivers
· Parking carelessly across two spaces
· Parking illegally on the school zigzag markings
Please ensure
that you park legally and considerately when you drop off or collect your
We will work with parents, members of our community
and local groups to improve parking near the school by:
· Requesting regular ’visits’ to the site by parking enforcement cameras
which have the power to issue fines for dangerous/ illegal parking
· Requesting regular police patrols
at the beginning /end of the school day to monitor
· Including in Newsletters from the next issue registration details of
cars seen to be
· Developing our school travel plan to encourage ‘park and stride’
schemes, cycling to school, groups walking to school ,to enable us to cut down
on the number of cars used to drop off and collect pupils .We hope that
working together we can improve the conditions for all members of our school
community in and around our school.
·
UNIFORM REMINDER
Please note that in the interests of Health and
Safety children should remove ear rings before they come to
school. We ask children with large ear
rings to remove these and ask you to collect them from the school office at the
end of the school day.
Thank You.
School Meals
Members of our School Council having been asking the children’s
opinions on school meals.
The children made some suggestions for
improvements that they would like to
see.
These included the availability of Halal Meat and
Packed Lunch each day.
The catering managers have agreed with both these requests. Halal meat will be
available each Monday and Tuesday, a fish option will
be available for all each
Wednesday, and non Halal Meat will be available each
Thursday and Friday. We will
communicate the children’s wishes to the caterers and
hope that these new
arrangements will be in place following the half term
break.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED TO CHILDREN FOR
POLLING ON 6TH MAY 2010.
FOUNDATION STAGE NEWSLETTER
Dear Parents/Carers of children in Sunshine, Raindrop
and Snowflake Groups,
Thank You.
Welcome to the first of our regular newsletters. We
are delighted by the way that the
children are settling in and enjoying their busy sessions. Thank you for all
your help, encouragement and support which has made this
possible.
A Key Person for your child; a Key person for you to
contact!
Your child now has a ‘key person’ who knows them well
and keeps a careful track on their well being and progress. This person is also
available to speak with you about any issues/ information about your child.
Please check the photographs on the display boards outside the
classrooms to see who is the ‘key person’ for your child.
Time to Talk!
In Foundation Stage Two (Raindrop and Snowflake) we
value the opportunity to speak with parentscarers between 8.40 and 8.55 each
morning. Please do stay with your child in the outside area during these times
and help your child to settle into the early morning routines.
A Quick Change
We would be very grateful if you could pass on any
spare clothes that you may have which
are of a suitable size for the children
in our classes .
From time to time children may need to change clothes
during the day and spare clothes are a great help
Could you please
donate any unwanted empty boxes, packets, magazines for the children to use in
the classroom.
‘Reading For Fun’ Meeting for parents of children in
Raindrop and Snowflake Groups.
You are warmly invited to join us on Wednesday 21st
October at
Could we
please ask you to provide a box of
tissues for use in the classroom
(as we discussed at our induction meeting). We do
encourage children to have
tissues at hand and practice ‘Catch It, Bin It, Kill
It’ to keep the spread of colds etc to
a minimum.
Could your child
please bring a plastic water bottle to
school with a 'pull up top' labelled with their name. We will be
encouraging all the children to remain hydrated and to develop healthy habits
and routines in this important first year at school.
Thank You again for your co-operation and support in
ensuring such a positive start to the school year for your child. We look
forward to seeing parents/carers at our reading meeting on 21st October and of
course to chatting with you each morning before the start of the day.
Mr. A Lovegrove
Foundation Stage Co-ordinator
And the Foundation Stage Team