Weekly Newsletter

Avonmore Primary School

Weekly Newsletter

14.12.18

BUSY, BUSY BETHLEHEM

EYFS and KS1 transported Avonmore to a very busy Bethlehem with their lively retelling of the Nativity story on Thursday. A huge thank you to all the children and adults who helped make this such a wonderful performance.

In assembly this week, we looked at how much waste there is at Christmas time. We have been working hard, with advice from Eco-council, to reduce our waste this year so far. With this in mind, if children would like to exchange cards we are asking that each child only brings one card addressed to the whole class rather than one for each of their friends as this will help us to meet our target. Click here for Newsround's tips for a greener Christmas.

EVENTS NEXT WEEK

Day	Event
Monday	Infant Choir to perform at White City Place
Tuesday
Wednesday	NO Year 4 swimming
Thursday	School Disco
Friday	Last day of term - children may wear own clothes School finishes at 2pm NO AVONMORE PLAY

SCHOOL DISCO - THURSDAY 20TH DECEMBER

The end of term disco for the children will take place on Thursday 20th December. Tickets cost £2 and the optional extra activities (fruit kebabs, lucky dip, festive transfers etc.) cost 50p each up to a maximum of £3 (£5 in total). Please bring in the exact money (apologies but we cannot give change) on Thursday and hand it to your class teacher.
Children in EYFS and KS1 should arrive at school in their party clothes. Children in KS2 should bring their party clothes to school to change into later . Please collect your child as normal at 3.30pm (unless they are booked in to Avonmore Play)

If you have any extra or unwanted decorations don't throw them away!
Donations of Christmas decorations will be gratefully received in the office next Monday-Wednesday to allow us to decorate the hall and school in time for the disco!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Tuesday 8^th January 2019	First day of Spring Term 1
18^th – 22^nd February 2019	Spring Half Term
Monday 25^th February 2019	First day of Spring Term 2
Friday 5^th April 2019	Last day of Spring Term 2 School finishes at 2pm
Tuesday 23^rd April 2019	First day of Summer Term 1
27^th – 31^st May	Summer Half Term
Monday 3^rd June 2019	First day of Summer Term 2
Wednesday 5^th June 2019	INSET – School closed (Eid)
Friday 19^th July 2019	Last day of Summer Term 2 School finishes at 2pm

Learning around Avonmore this week

Well done Nursery for a super performance ….. effort, enthusiasm and enjoyment in abundance!

In literacy this week, Reception have been focusing on the visual literature unit 'The Snowman'. The children have enjoyed designing their own snowmen and using their phonics to label their pictures.

The whole school have been blown away this week with Year 1's amazing performance in the Christmas concert. We are very proud of them all.

This week in Year 2 we said goodbye to our student teacher Miss Whitley as she goes back to her other school next week. We will miss her very much! We also rehearsed and performed our brilliant Christmas production.

Year 3 have been working hard selecting reports and pictures to go into the class encyclopaedia.

This week in Year 4 we have started working on our new DT unit - designing and evaluating our own Christmas cards!

Year 5 have enjoyed all the Christmas themed learning and activities, including Christmas Jumper Day to raise funds for Save the Children.

Year 6 are already excited about their next Reading Gladiators Book Club! All parents from Year 2 upwards should please check their child’s book bag for all the details.

STARS OF THE WEEK
Reception Star : Yuneeb
Year 1 Star: Reece
Year 2 Star : Jeff
Year 3 Star : Jaafar
Year 4 Star : Mary
Year 5 Star : Jasmin
Year 6 Star : Charlotte
Reading Star : Wissam (Year 4)
Sports Star : Yasmine (Reception)
French Star : Ahmed (year 3)

Year	Attendance this week	Attendance since September
Reception	97.1%	94.6%
Year 1	95%	96.6%
Year 2	99%	97.2%
Year 3	90%	96.6%
Year 4	96.3%	97.1%
Year 5	95.7%	96%
Year 6	96.7%	97%
Whole school	95.6%	96.5%

CALLING ALL NURSERY PARENTS
30 hours free childcare entitlement

Please check your entitlement to see if you can claim for the extended day. All children receive 15 hours and some will be entitled to 30 hours. Please check the link below and bring your codes into the school office before January 17th.

We are dependent on this information for our budget allocation in March.

Please click here for more information and to register

Term Dates 2019-2020
Autumn Term
Tuesday 3rd September - Friday 18th October 2019
Tuesday 29th October - Friday 20th December 2019

Spring Term
Tuesday 7th January- Friday 14th February 2020
Monday 24th February- Friday 3rd April 2020

Summer Term
Monday 20th April- Friday 22nd May 2020
Monday 1st June - Friday 17th July 202

AVONMORE PLAY
Avonmore is delighted to be able to offer ‘Avonmore Play ‘our after school provision, the service is now established and is open to all children from Reception upwards.

Each day there will be a different theme as well as an opportunity to play, read and catch up with home learning:

Mondays – performing art
Tuesdays – art and craft
Wednesday – art and sports
Thursdays – cooking
Fridays - science and games

Sessions run from 3.45 – 4.45pm and from 4.45 – 5.45pm. Each session costs £3 per child and must be booked and paid for in advance on School Gateway. You must register 24 hours in advance as we need to be able to plan and resource the sessions. There may be space for some emergency places but we cannot guarantee them. If your children attend, please note there are only two pick up times; 4.45pm and 5.45pm.

After half term, you will no longer be able to book in person or on the phone, only online so if you have any problems, please come and see Mrs Hammerton in the office.

SCHOOL GATEWAY FOR CLUBS AND DINNER MONEY PAYMENTS
School Gateway sign up information:
Download the app: If you have a smartphone, please download School Gateway from your app store (Android and iPhone). The app shows the same information as the website PLUS you can send app messages to the school for FREE – this will also save the school money when we send text messages.
OR
Visit the website: www.schoolgateway.com and click on ‘New User’. You’ll receive a text message with a PIN number. Use this PIN to login to School Gateway

School uniform is available to buy from our online supplier Stevensons. Please have a look at their website here
If you need any more information about the new uniform, come and speak to the office.

School uniform is available to buy from our online supplier Stevensons. Please have a look at their website here If you need any more information about the new uniform, come and speak to the office.

School uniform is available to buy from our online supplier Stevensons. Please have a look at their website here
If you need any more information about the new uniform, come and speak to the office.