Weekly Newsletter

Avonmore Primary School

Weekly Newsletter

11.1.19

As you are aware, we have been working with the Fox Federation for some time. The Governing Boards of Fox Federation and Avonmore Primary School are proposing that Avonmore join the Fox Federation.

Fox Federation is currently comprised of two state-maintained primary schools—Ashburnham Community School and Fox Primary School. Avonmore Primary School is currently a separate, stand-alone, state-maintained school.

This leaflet explains what this would mean for parents, pupils, staff and interested parties and provides an opportunity for everyone to comment. You can also share your views by completing this short survey

We are holding a meeting on Tuesday 15th January at 5pm in the hall. This will be an opportunity to ask any further questions that you may have and to discuss the process with Avonmore and Federation Governors.

EVENTS NEXT WEEK

Day	Event
Monday	Tate Gallery to photograph Year 3
Tuesday	Federation Consultation Meeting for parents - 5pm
Wednesday	Year 4 swimming Pupil and Eco Councils to visit Mayor's Chambers
Thursday	Soundsteps Music Assembly - KS1 Year 2 Intergenerational Choir Project
Friday	Mayor's Cup football match (Year 6)

Online Safety Workshop - Friday 1st February at 8.50am
We are delighted to invite all parents and carers to an Online Safety Workshop on Friday 1st February at 8.50am. Come and learn some useful tips on how to set parental controls, monitor social media and generally keep your children safe online. All welcome!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Wednesday 30^th and Thursday 31^st January 2019	Parent Consultations
Friday 1^st February 2019	Online Safety Workshop for parents - 8.50am ALL WELCOME
Friday 15^th February 2019	Last day of Spring Term 1 Children may wear home clothes School finishes at 2pm
18^th – 22^nd February 2019	Spring Half Term
Monday 25^th February 2019	First day of Spring Term 2
Tuesday 26^th March 2019	Phonics check workshop for Year 1 parents
Friday 5^th April 2019	Last day of Spring Term 2 Children may wear home clothes 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

The Nursery children began the Spring term with energy and enthusiasm as they explored new movement skills in PE with Coach McCann.

This week in our maths lessons, Reception have been learning all about measure. During their independent learning time, the children enjoyed finding different resources to use to measure each other.

Year 1 have had a creative start to 2019 by making these amazing paper sculptures.

Year 2 have had a fantastic and busy first week back at school. We particularly enjoyed our attendance prize trip to Pizza Express where we got to make our own pizzas!

Here are just some examples of the amazing research that Year 3 did on the artists who inspired the names of our new school houses.

This week in Year 4 we have been making levers and investigating how to make it easier to lift a heavy load.

This week Year 5 started our new maths topic: fractions. The children used a range of methods to find equivalent fractions - our record was 12 equivalents!

Year 6 have already settled in to their routines and have had a great start to the term. They have started debating this term with Mr Brown and so far are really enjoying putting their views forward!

STARS OF THE WEEK
Reception Star : Omar
Year 1 Star: Lola
Year 2 Star : Jenna
Year 3 Star : Avalon
Year 4 Star :Elias
Year 5 Star : Aseel
Year 6 Star : Tiya
Reading Star : Jena (Year 4)
Sports Star : Mounir and Salem (Year 5)
French Star : Pearl (Year 5)
Avonmore Play Star : Ronny (Year 5)

Year	Attendance this week	Attendance since September
Reception	90.3%	94.5%
Year 1	93.3%	96.1%
Year 2	93.5%	96.9%
Year 3	88.3%	95.4%
Year 4	98.3%	96.9%
Year 5	93.1%	95.5%
Year 6	98.3%	96.9%
Whole school	93.7%	96.1%

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.