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World Book Day

posted 1 Mar 2010 12:41 by Office MIS   [ updated 1 Mar 2010 13:25 ]

Thursday 4th March is World Book Day !!

 
To celebrate our love of books, your child is invited to bring a favourite book to school on this day to share with their friends (named if possible please !).
 
Is your favourite story 'The Gruffalo' ?
 
Do you enjoy fairy tales such as 'Cinderella' ?
 
Maybe you love your non-fiction book about Dinosaurs !
 
The day is a wonderful opportunity for your child to further explore their enjoyment of books and reading. They will be bringing home a World Book Day £1 book token which can be exchanged for one of 6 special books or redeemed against any other book at participating bookshops. It can also be used at the book fair at school from 16th-19th March.
 
We look forward to learning more about your favourite books !

Spring (1) 2010 - Newsletter

posted 1 Mar 2010 12:23 by Office MIS   [ updated 5 Mar 2010 12:51 by Web Administrator ]

Half way through the year already!!

£10 DONATION FOR ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES

So far only 51 families have made this donation and we are now struggling to sustain visitors and activities that bring our learning to life. If you possibly can please make the donation to ensure we can maintain our exciting curriculum, please enclose with the reply slip.
Thank you
 

Children and Family Centre

Building work is progressing very well. Until the centre is open Jo Bish, Manager, is delivering some services for children aged 0-5 from within the infant school from
10.30-11.00 as follows:
 
 Thurs 4th March Storytime and singing
 Thurs 11th March                      Parenting drop-in 
 Fri 12th March  Information session
 Thurs 18th March Parenting drop-in
 Fri 19th March Storytime and singing
 Thurs 25th March Parenting drop-in
 Fri 26th March Information session
 Tues 30th March Parenting drop-in
 
From April onwards the centre hopes to be ready to deliver groups and activities from the lovely new building
 

PARKING

I must insist that you do not park in the staff car park or along the drive at drop off and collection times. There have been a couple of near misses where drivers have tried to reverse onto the main drive. Also please use the pedestrian gates to come into the playground.
It is not safe to walk through the car park. 
 

Scooters

We have several scooters that have been left in the scooter park for months!
We will collect them in and keep them until Friday March 5th so if you’ve lost a scooter we could have it! 
 

THANK YOU!

Our Christmas performance was another fantastic success and raised £500 for Evelina Childrens’ Hospital.
 

HAITI

Our school non-uniform day and nursery pyjama day raised £550.
Our children have really understood how the Haitian children have lost many of their rights because of the disaster and have been very keen to continue to help.
Many thanks for your generosity.                


CAR FREE FRIDAYS

Walk to school each Friday and win a trip to Waterlea Adventure Playground for your class.
Miss Jones’ class is the one to beat. Come on – walk or park and stride!!

TAI CHI

Our karate teacher will be running a Tai Chi evening class for mums on Monday evenings at 7p.m. after karate.
For further information telephone Mick on 07743 826944.
 

Reminders

P.E.  Earrings may only be covered for 6 weeks after piercing. Thereafter either remove earrings on P.E days or teach your child to remove and replace them independently. This is West Sussex County policy.
 
                                                        

                             

 

Dress down for Haiti

posted 21 Feb 2010 12:11 by Web Administrator

Thank you all for your generosity, the dress down day on Friday 5th February helped to raise £550.00.
 
 

Miss Kelly's class assembly photographs

posted 13 Feb 2010 04:36 by Office MIS   [ updated 13 Feb 2010 04:43 ]

Please have a look at the photos of Miss Kelly's wonderful space assembly.
 
Everyone worked very hard and the assembly was enjoyed by all !
 
 

Uniforms - NEW Online form

posted 10 Feb 2010 09:48 by Office MIS   [ updated 10 Feb 2010 09:59 ]

In view of the high demand for school uniform throughout the day, unfortunately it has now become necessary for us to limit the time in which we will be available for sales.  It has been necessary, therefore, to limit the time to 3.00 - 3.30 p.m. daily for sales from half term onwards.

In order to make it easier, we have made available a form which you can print off, complete and hand in to the office with payment.

 

Hope for Haiti

posted 28 Jan 2010 12:19 by Office MIS

During our School Council meeting last week the councillors and I were discussing the earthquake in Haiti and the impact that it is having on the people and particularly the children.
 
We realised that many of the children's rights and needs have been taken away by the disaster. The coucillors identified the following :
 
  • Clean drinking water
  • Nutricious food
  • A family
  • Medicine and medical help
  • Play
  • An education...........to name a few
We are very keen to help in any way we can as we understand that we all have a responsibilty.
 
The councillors have planned to have a 'dress down' day when we can wear any clothes that we already have on Friday 5th February. Please contribute at least £1 to help Haitian children and their families survive.
 
Yours sincerley
 
A M Collins
Headteacher

Consultation evenings

posted 28 Jan 2010 12:13 by Office MIS

Dear Parents and Carers,
 
Our consultation evenings this term will be on March 24th starting at 5pm and March 25th startibg at 3:30 p.m.
 
Lists to sign up for an appointment time will be displayed either in the cloakrooms or outside the door to the unit Monday 8th March.
 
Each appointment is for 10 minutes, and we ask you for your co-operation in trying to keep to your time. Your child's written work will be available in the shared areas for you to browse either before or after your appointment.
 
Children do not accompany you to talk with teachers. I will run a creche in the studio if you are unable to make your own childcare arrangements.
 
We look forward to seeing you.
 
Yours sincerely.
 
 
AM Collins
Headteacher
 
 

Willow structures installed

posted 25 Jan 2010 02:31 by Office MIS   [ updated 25 Jan 2010 02:38 ]

The willow structures have now been installed, thanks to the £1000 won by Madison Potter (Y2) in the County Mall Easter Egg hunt during the Easter holidays 2009.
 
Please click here to view photos.
 
To refresh your memory on how we decided the money should be spent, please click here.
 
We hope the children will enjoy playing in them and a big thanks to Madison !
 

Spring (1) - 2010 Newsletter

posted 13 Jan 2010 05:35 by Office MIS

What a start to 2010!

Following early closure at the end of the Autumn term due to staff being unable to travel to school safely through the snow we then found ourselves in the same situation after only one day of the Spring term!
Decisions to close schools are not taken lightly and I thank you for your understanding as I know the implications, especially for those of you who work.


TEAM WORK

Many, many thanks to those of you and your children who were able to come and help clear pathways to make it possible to open on Monday.
 

Now some good news!

We are delighted announce the happy arrival of Mrs Kirkham’s daughter born before Christmas. Amy Carole is an absolute beauty and has already been introduced to Mrs Kirkham/Mrs Reeve’s class.
 

A Story for Christmas

What a fantastic performance the children produced. I do hope that those DVDs ordered arrived with you in good time.
I am thrilled to let you know that you generously raised £500 for Evelina Children’s Hospital.
THANK YOU !
 

School Disco

We raised £239.50 fun was had by all!
 

The Christmas Fair

Another superbly organised event by the Friends of Maidenbower Infant School and Nursery,
£4629.19 was raised to share between The Brook School, Maidenbower Junior School and ourselves.
ANOTHER THANK YOU!

Ofsted

Did you spot our Outstanding Ofsted logo?
We are so proud to be able to present it on our stationary and website.
We also have a certificate which is framed and displayed in the library.
 

PARKING

PLEASE do not park in the staff car park. We had another near miss last term when a parent reversed out of the car park and almost hit a mother and her three children. The car park is for staff and deliveries ONLY.
Please help us to keep everyone safe.
 

Drop-In Coffee mornings

Parents who ‘drop-in’ to the coffee morning find these informal gatherings of huge benefit. The school nurse often attends as does the Family Link Worker. Both have been able to give fantastic advice on a range of issues from fussy eaters to parenting tips. The group also give each other support. They would love more of you attend if at all possible and plan to hand out flyers and talk to you in the playground.

School Plan

Part of our plan is for our locality schools to gain UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools status. Briefly, this is about our children understanding the Rights of the Child; understanding the difference between wants and needs and their responsibility, within school, to ensure that all children receive their rights. For example, we all have the right to learn and therefore it is our responsibility to enable others to learn by behaving well and working hard.
Year 1 and 2 are part of a drama project, facilitated by Bigfoot, which is proving to be an excellent way for our children to learn and understand these quite challenging concepts.
Locality schools’ staff are also being trained to be Forest Schools leaders. This will enable us to provide many opportunities for Year 1, Year 3, Year 5 and Year 7 pupils to experience team work and learn about our world in an outdoor, exciting environment.
You will have read in our Ofsted report that although we make good provision for Community Cohesion we can further improve by developing the national aspect. To this end we are creating links with an inner city school in London. I have already visited St Alban’s Church of England Primary School and the headteacher will be visiting us this month to plan a way forward for the children from both schools to learn more about each other and their schools.
An exciting venture!!
 

Class Assemblies

During the Spring and Summer terms the children in Year 1 and 2 will present an assembly for their parents/carers. These assemblies are held on a Friday morning at 9.15 a.m.
You will receive an invitation to attend nearer the time.


Books

 
We spent our INSET day reorganising our guided read packs. Each guided read book has a label with a G on it. We still have several incomplete packs. Would you please ensure that books with a G label that are brought home to share with you are returned to the classteacher and not put back into the book box.
THANK YOU.
 

School Library

As part of our library improvements we have recently bought some books for parents and carers to borrow. The books offer advice on different issues from supporting left-handed children to dealing with behaviour issues and general advice on parenting. They are by the Magpie Tree and have purple stickers on them.
All parents and carers are welcome to borrow the books; all we ask is that you sign them out by leaving your name and your child’s class in the notebook in the library. There is no time limit for borrowing the books but we do ask that you return them promptly when you have finished so they are available for others to use.
 
Please come and have a look! We hope you find them helpful.
(Mrs Tomkins and Mrs Reeve)

And finally…………..

Please make sure that your children have their PE kits in school every day.
 
If this weather is to continue children need to come to school with adequate clothing. Playtimes can be cold! The children need a coat every day and probably hats and gloves. They will also need wellies or waterproof boots and a change of shoes for indoors.

Dairy dates for the spring term.

Can be found on the home page events calendar and in the main calendar.
 

NEW Gallery

posted 12 Jan 2010 12:26 by Office MIS   [ updated 27 Jan 2010 05:36 ]

A new gallery has been created on our website, although it is somewhat limited at the moment we hope to add to it throughout the year ! 
 
You can access it though the navigation bar at the side of the website or click here.

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