Dear
Parents/Carers,
What
a week! The snow storm brought Wednesday to a premature end – and it seemed
that most of Leeds spent at least an hour
sitting in traffic on Wednesday evening... What fun. It is fair to say that
school was bedlam from 2pm onwards, with Mrs Hyde frankly unable to answer the
door for answering the phone! Please resist the urge to ring us in the event of
poor weather – if a decision to close is to be made we will make it and news
will break via Twitter, the school Blog and using Parent Mail’s text messaging
service. In the event of early collection of the volume we experienced on
Wednesday, class doors will be manned so that children can be collected via
their usual exits. We are not trying to keep you out in the cold; it is just
not possible for that many parents to come into school whilst we are trying to
account for everyone’s safe departure home. Thanks for your understanding...
Cross everything: SURELY that’s it for this year?!
Friday
8th March we will be celebrating World Book Day. This event will be marked in
school with class based activities around a chosen book – a favourite book
chosen by the adults in the class. To enjoy this event, children are encouraged
to bring their own favourite book into school to share with a friend during a hot chocolate, marshmallows and pyjama
afternoon. That’s right – pyjamas! Children may wear their pyjamas to
school allllllllllllll day long or change into them if they prefer.
Alternatively, they might choose to dress up for the day as a favourite
character: Book Day wouldn’t be Book Day without a few Buzz Lightyear’s and
Disney Princesses knocking around!
As
part of World Book Day all children are given a £1.00 voucher towards the cost
of a book. To allow you and your child to spend your voucher, we have a
Scholastic Book Fair in school from Monday 11th March until Thursday 14th
March. The stalls will be open from 8.30 each morning and once again at 3.05
each night. Remember – each pound spent at the Book Fair also earns money for
our school library!
Movie Night!
This
week’s high excitement around the movie night sadly came to nothing, falling as
it did on the eve of the freak snow storm that rendered Leeds
at a standstill. Literally hundreds of children were gutted that their planned
night out ended up being a night in... As were we. We will, of course, be
re-scheduling movie night so please put your tickets somewhere safe. Friends are due to meet again on Thursday
28th February and a new date will be set then around next terms
residentials, magic show and Easter disco – we will keep you posted.
In
the meantime, let us begin organisation for our next planned Friends event! ‘Mark’s Magic Show’ is a family night
out with the intention that mum’s, dad’s and the kids come out and marvel at
the hocus pocus perfected by our visiting magician. Please note – this is not
an event for children to attend unaccompanied!
Date
of event: Wednesday 20th March
Time:
6.15- 7.30pm
Price:
£3.00 per ticket, or £10.00 for a family of four.
Refreshments
will be available to buy on the night...
If
you plan to come, please speak to the ladies in the school office by Friday 15th March. Thank you.
What
we are trying to do with our Friends events currently is get a good raft of
family friendly social events going in our community – these events are not
about profit but good, clean fun! If you have any ideas for future events, or
feedback on the events that have been organised to date – please get involved.
Come along to our next meeting: the newly established committee would LOVE to
welcome new members.
Parking
Can I please remind all parents to park with due consideration
when dropping off and collecting their children. During the treacherous
conditions on Wednesday, I was stunned to see the manner in which one driver in
particular had – literally – abandoned their car. This makes for very dangerous
conditions on Tinshill Drive
Key dates for
next half term
It’s a short but busy term ahead! Keep a note of the following
key dates and events:
Monday 25th
February – return to school. Y6 Residential.
Thursday 28th
February – Friends meeting @ 6.30
Monday 4th
March – Y4 Residential
Friday 8th
March – World Book Day
Friday 15th
March – Red Nose Day
Wednesday 20th
March – Coffee morning 9-10
Wednesday 20th
March – Mark’s Magic Show
Monday 25th
March – Decorate an egg competition week/Parent consultation week
Thursday 28th
March – Break up. Easter Disco
Once
again, you’ve worked your magic and attendance has risen by 0.1% We are
achieving this steady rise back to our target 96% as a result of the sustained
attendance above 96% overall. This is absolutely brilliant: if we keep this up,
this year’s attendance could be our best ever....
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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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96.3%
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95.3%
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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 90.4%
B 97.5%
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97.7%
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99.3%
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96.6%
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94.6%
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98.5%
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95.2%
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95.7%
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96.3%
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97.0%
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Have
an absolutely wonderful weekend, a fabulous half term break and we will see you
all on Monday 25th February.
Mrs Bailey
