Another eventful week in school has seen our first
ever Christmas Crafts event in Reception, children participating in a rugby
tournament, a whole school pantomime, children visiting Cookridge Methodist
Church to decorate ‘our’ tree, children performing at the Leeds Town Hall AND
today we have all been dressed in red for the day on behalf of LGI’s Children’s
Heart Unit. Just an ordinary week at Cookridge! On Saturday, our
inter-generational choir will be making their debut at the Methodist Church
LGI SOS - Save our Surgery
Thanks to all children and parents who have
dressed in red and donated their pocket money towards this worthwhile cause.
Governors also nominated this as the charity they would be supporting this year
and have been generous in their donations. We will tot up our total and let you
know how much was raised by next week.
Reception Christmas Crafts
We have been delighted to welcome into school this
week all our Reception mums, dads and even grandparents who have put time aside
to come into school for an afternoon and make decorations with their child. The
event was even supported by Starbucks, the Village, who supplied a barista and
coffee for the afternoons. It was wonderful to see parents, teachers and
children work side by side to create not only fantastic quality tree
decorations that I’m confident will hang proudly on some trees for well over a
decade (!) but also really memorable learning experiences for our children –
they will not forget the day that mum, dad or grandma came into school so
thanks very much for playing your part! Thanks also to the Reception team for
getting this organised – Miss Hobson, Mrs Fletcher, Mrs Arnott, Mrs Riley and
Mrs Colefax really are doing some wonderful things together this year!Our inter-generational choir also makes its debut on Saturday. This is a new initiative led by Mrs Fletcher who has actively encouraged local, ‘older generation’ folk to come into school and sing with our children. It is beautiful to see, and sounds pretty good too! The choir will be performing from 11.40am on Saturday, and have a whole set to do. Good luck to them all!
Twitter, blogs and all that
stuff!
Our Twitter account is growing, with daily tweets
about our school days here https://twitter.com/CookridgePrimar . If you haven’t already, have a look or – even
better – become a follower for frequent updates about our school. We’ve got
just 12 followers to date – I’m ambitious for more though so get on board!
The blogs are also a great way of keeping up to
date and seeing for yourself what is happening in your child’s class. Every
class in school now has a blog and there are some amazing ones with almost
daily posts, photos and links to online learning for your child. Again – have a
look! They’re really rather good.... http://www.cookridgeprimaryschool.org.uk/children/blogs.php My blog
also includes the newsletter each week, in case ‘pupil post’ should fail on any
one Friday! It now has over 10,000 hits and a steady stream of ‘traffic’ every
single day, and is just one of the ways we aim to provide information for
parents. If any parents have searched the website or blogs for information that
is not – as yet – provided, please drop me an email and let us know. baileys06@leedslearning.net
Awards
So far this half term, each of our team point
teams have earned over 1500 team points each, since September 170 children have
earned their bronze award (25 team points) and 36 children have earned their
silver award (100 team points) and every day I award around 20 Head teacher
awards to those children who have secured ‘5 team points in any one day’. Our
job in school every day is punctuated by taking the time to recognise when
children are making the right choices and meeting the Cookridge Code – rule number
one of which is simply ‘be the best that we can be’. It is testament to the
calibre of our young people that we are awarding in excess of 6000 team point
each half term. If each team point is awarded with individual acts of
industriousness, effort, politeness, kindness or friendship – that’s a whole
lot of ‘good’ slushing around our school!
Next week, the time has come for each class to
nominate their class Learnatic for
this half term – highly prestigious recognition for the children awarded by the
people that matter: their peers. Good luck to all of you, and I look forward to
our pizza lunch on that final Tuesday.
Pre-school assistant required
Pre-school
are looking for an assistant and invite applicants from within our community.
The post is full time, 8.30 – 3.00 Mon-Fri. If you are interested, please
contact pre-school for more information and an application form.
Christmas Dinner
Our school meals service continues to go from
strength to strength, with more pupils and staff taking school dinners every
day than ever before. Next Thursday 13th December is Christmas
Dinner day – so if your child has signed up for a one-off school lunch don’t
forget to take a day off the lunchbox routine!
Friends
Our Friday Friends group were busy today, getting
practical and creative in the run up to the Christmas Fayre. It is wonderful
for the Friends group to be finding new membership and new momentum and I am
sure that the Fayre and future events will be magnificent.
Don’t forget – next Friday is the day to bring in
donations of bottles, chocolate and gifts for the stalls and tombolas. Next
Friday is a non-uniform event to mark this occasion - so bring your goodies in
readiness for the Fayre - it is only a staggering 11 days away! See the Friends
blog for more details and if you want to come along to Friday Friends – please
do! I am delighted to announce that Cameron Palmer
(Class 9) and Alya Nadheri (Class 3) are the winners of our Christmas Fayre
poster competition – Congratulations and well done girls!
Sports News
On Wednesday, a team of 12 children from Year 5/6
travelled up to a freezing Broadgate Primary to compete in a Leeds Rhinos Tag
Rugby Tournament against other local schools. We narrowly missed out on a
semi-final spot after two losses and solitary win. Notable performances came
from Elliott Coultas, Darcy Bucknell, Taylor Barron and Sarah Khalfan. The man
of the tournament, from our perspective, was Liam Jones. He scored 8 out of our
9 tries, was ferocious in defence and was an excellent and inspirational
captain on the field. A BIG well done to you all!
Attendance
Our first terms 100% attendance certificates will
be awarded on 17th December – keep up the good work if you are still
in the running! Attendance this week is the lowest it has been this academic
year, a fact which sadly immediately impacts on our year to date figure. Please
help us to maintain higher levels of attendance by ensuring your child is in
school unless they are too ill to do so – children can still attend school if
suffering a common cough and cold, and medicines can be administered during the
school day if your child is on the tail end of an illness that has required
penicillin to aid recovery – just see Mrs Hyde in the school office.
National Minimum
‘Good’ Expectation
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Target
2012-13
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Attendance this
week
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Year to date
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95%
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96%
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94.7%
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96.1%
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Class attendance
figures for this week are:-
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Rec
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Class 1
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Class 2
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Class 3
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Class 4
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Class 5
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Class 6
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Class 7
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Class 8
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Class 9
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A 90.9 %
B 92.7 %
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86.9 %
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96.0 %
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93.9 %
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98.2 %
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96.6 %
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91.3 %
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97.0 %
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97.6 %
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99.3 %
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It’s finally arrived – performance week! Don’t miss
your child performing next week :
Reception
production: Friday 14th December 2pm-3pm
KS1
Christmas production: Tuesday 11th
December 2pm-3pm
LKS2
Christmas production: Wednesday 12th December 2pm-3pm and Thursday
13th December 6pm-7pm
UKS2
Christmas production Wednesday 12th December 6pm-7pm and Thursday 13th
December 2pm-3pm
Next Wednesday 12th December @ 9am is
also our next date for the coffee morning. Come along – you might just enjoy
yourself and if I don’t know you by now: I should!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs Bailey
