Dear
Parents/Carers,
Although
a four day week, we’ve packed a lot in....
Farewell celebration
Mrs
Speak and Miss Cowles leave us today. Both ladies have had a long lasting
impact on literally hundreds of children at Cookridge Primary school, and both
leave with our hearty thanks for all their hard work and our very best wishes
for the future. It was wonderful to join parents on Wednesday afternoon to
celebrate with Mrs Speak. Enormous thanks to Governors Mounia Gazanayi and
Hanadee Kurdee and our Arabic community, who provided delicious food and
presented a gifts on behalf of the community in thanks of Mrs Speaks work.
There are a few photos on the blog as a memento of this very special event!
Easter Egg Competition
The
entries for the annual ‘decorate an Egg’ competition were pretty spectacular!
Our children certainly are creative geniuses when they put their minds to it –
and it was very hard to choose winning entries from the many fantastic designs
on show, so much so that I couldn’t do it single handed. Congratulations to
everyone who entered and to those who won the lovely egg-tastic prizes! Enjoy...
Parent Consultations
Enormous
thanks to all parents who are able to attend consultations this week. Staff
have thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to talk about your children with you –
there is a great deal of pride in the quality of learning that is happening in
school and there is nothing more special than sharing the secrets contained
within a child’s book. A quick comparison between page one and the most recent
learning really tells the story of your child’s learning between September and
now. On behalf of all adults in school, can I thank you for your incredibly
positive feedback to teachers during these consultations. Your kind words
really do matter, and I have spoken
to many teachers across this week who have been utterly thrilled with something
kind that has been said.
Thanks
also for all those parents who took the time to chat with school governors
and/or complete a questionnaire. This feedback will be compiled and the
findings shared with you after the Easter break. The feedback is overwhelmingly
very positive, but inevitably matters are flagged which we are able to address
as a school. Homework still appears to be the main source of disquiet and this
is a matter we want to get right.
Finally,
my apologies to parents of children in both Class 1 and Reception whose
appointments were cancelled as a result of staff illness this week. We will
reschedule those meetings as soon after Easter as we are able to.
Y4 Robin Wood residential
assembly
Enormous congratulations to
Miss Carroll, Miss Glendinning and the Y4 children who presented an excellent
assembly for parents this week. The residential was great fun and the children
shared the details of each of the activities they enjoyed during their three
day stay – and there were LOTS! We hope to share the magical experience of
Robin Wood with a further group of Y4 children next year (this year’s year 3
pupils). Parents are invited to an
information session where you can find out more about this fantastic trip. The session will be led by Miss Glendinning
in Class 6 on Thursday 18th April @ 3.15. We need to confirm our booking with Robin
Wood soon after Easter and if we do not have sufficient numbers, I’m afraid the
visit cannot go ahead - which would be a great shame. If you are undecided, please
come along to the information session to find out more.
Y6 residential assembly
Miss Fowler and Y6 formally
invite parents along to their assembly to celebrate their Caythorpe capers. All
welcome on Thursday 18th from 2pm...
Sports News
Thank
you to all parents and children who have returned slips and payment for the
brand new Kick boxing club. There are still a few places available so if your
child is interested then please see either Mrs Hyde or Mr Gamble ASAP.
Due
to the training day first week back, football club will resume on Monday 22nd
April...Weather permitting.
The rearranged date for the Y5 tag rugby tournament is the first Tuesday back, 16th April. All children involved will have received a letter.
The rearranged date for the Y5 tag rugby tournament is the first Tuesday back, 16th April. All children involved will have received a letter.
After school sports clubs change after the Easter break. Please log onto the school sports blog, http://cookridgeschoolsport.blogspot.co.uk/, for an updated list of clubs and signed up children. If you are interested in any club, please see Mr Gamble or Mrs Hyde.
Attendance
I
trust you all received your termly attendance updates this week and found these
informative. There are exactly 13 school weeks left this academic year (!) and
so it is still possible to transform an amber position into a green one before
the year is out with 130 sessions of attendance up for grabs. On Monday, it
took around ten minutes to present those children with 100% attendance their
coveted certificate. Children are awarded 100% certificates for each term – and
a very high number were presented for this Spring term. A subset of those
children were awarded a different certificate for their fantastic achievement
of 100% across two terms so far. Remember – if you manage to maintain 100%
across the year, you will be going on the very special annual attendance trip
to the movies, so keep it up.... !
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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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91.2%
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95.2%
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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 91.1%
B 82.6%
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92.8%
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88.2%
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93.5%
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92.0%
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92.7%
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89.5%
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87.2%
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96.4%
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96.2%
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Coffee Morning
The
next coffee morning will be on Wednesday 24th April @9am and will be
led, this time, by our newly appointed SENCO Mrs Dawson. Mrs Dawson is very
committed to her new role and looks forward to finding a million different ways
we can help our families to thrive, whatever the need – help is out there, if
only we ask for it. Please use this
opportunity to come in and speak with Mrs Dawson about anything you like...
Don’t
forget, we return to school on Tuesday
16th April after the
Easter holidays as there is a staff training day on Monday 15th.
Have
a wonderful break..
Mrs Bailey
