Weekly Newsletter

• Mon 3rd March - Fri 28th March - Year 4 Swimming (Class Teachers will share further info)
• 11th/12/13th March - Parents Evening

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Whole School Attendance this week - 94.4%

We are aiming for at least 97% - let's work together to make this happen!!

Please remember that if your child is going to be absent from school you should call school before 8.30am to report this. If they are off for multiple days, you should call school each day that they are off. If your child is suffering from something such as a cough or cold we do recommend that you send them into school and see how they get on. It is amazing how many children perk up once they get into school and we can assure you that if it becomes evident that a child should not be in school we will make contact with yourself as parent/carer.

As a school, our attendance has greatly improved over the last year and this is all thanks to you and the effort you are making in getting your children into school every day.

This week’s word is ‘Honesty'. Ash Wednesday (5.3.25) is a day when we can all be open and honest, admit our guilt and walk into tomorrow with a clear conscience.

On this day, it is traditional for Christians to admit how easy they find it to make mistakes. Sometimes, they have their foreheads marked with the sign of the cross in wood ash. This means that they are saying sorry for what they’ve done wrong and getting ready to make a fresh start. It takes some courage to do this, to be humble and admit that we’ve got things wrong in our lives. However, it does help us to acknowledge that we all get things wrong and that none of us are perfect! It can also be a sign that we are willing to make a new start.

In the Church calendar, Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent - a season of 40 days before Easter. This is a time for Christians to stop and reflect on the attitudes of their hearts, priorities and spiritual life as they prepare for Easter. There are special services held in churches during Lent, special times of prayer and special readings from the Bible.

In the Early Church, there were also strict Lenten laws to help with this ‘spiritual spring clean’. It was suggested that to abstain from all meat and animal products was a helpful discipline. All the body needed was a very simple snack in the evening.

Nowadays, many Christians still consider it helpful to give something up during Lent as a reminder of the sacrifices Jesus made, the temptations he resisted during his time in the desert and that they are reflecting on the important things in life. Many people give up eating chocolate or biscuits or watching TV or playing computer games. Others try to make more time in the day to think about God and pray.

This week we have we celebrated all the LANGUAGE STARS across school. Each teacher chose one child from their class that had impressed them!

Year 1:

Fatima, for teaching Mrs Scott how to speak in Arabic.

Konstantin has been trying really hard to learn numbers and colours in Spanish.

Year 2:

Bianca for teaching the class how to say things in Portuguese!

Elaine for knowing her numbers in Spanish up to 11 !

Year 3:

Antonia for being able to speak in Chinese and Arabic

Year 4:

Safa for translating a known poem into Spanish independently.

Angelina for translating a poem from English into Chinese. Well done!

Year 5:

5GB language star is Ahmad. Ahmad has shown great participation and engagement within his language lessons.

Tife in 5JW is our language star. She has put alot of effort and creativity when learning the arabic numbers.

Year 6:

6ND: Nathan for being so keen and eager to teach his peers Spanish and Portuguese.

6MB: Tera for speaking Spanish in class and also having the confidence to help us learn Spanish phases.

Top Tips on use of phones

Talk with your child about responsible use of their phone

Discuss what is okay and not okay to use their phone for. Talk about time limits and expectations of where the device can and cannot be used, this could include things like the phone being charged outside their bedroom overnight.

Discuss what to do if something upsetting or worrying happens

Give them the strategies they need in case something concerning happens whilst they are using their device. This could be to lock the screen and tell an adult, to make a report to the platform they are using, or to block the user.

Explore parental controls

Take a look at the controls available both on the phone itself and on your home Wi-Fi. Talk these through with your child too. Parental controls are a helpful tool, but an open conversation with your child is the most important thing.