June 2015

Times for Sports Day Tuesday 23 June 2015

Nursery and Reception

Parents entry (Eddish Road) 9.00am.

Races start at 9.15am to finish at 10.15am.

Years 3,4,5 and 6

Parents entry (Eddish Road) 10.15am

Races start at 10.30am

To finish at 12.30pm

Years 1 and 2

Parents entry (Eddish Road) 1.00pm

Races to start at 1.15pm to finish at 3.00pm

Our new electric vehicle and pedestrian gates have been fitted to the main entrance.

The Pedestrian gate will be open from 8.00am to 9.30am. Please use the buzzer at all other times.

Please note that the new gates have been fitted to improve the safety of the children by segregating vehicles from pedestrians therefore parents will not be permitted to enter via the vehicle gate.

During the hot weather please make sure your child brings a sun hat into school.

Please apply sun cream to your child before they come to school. If you wish to send sun cream into school for use during the school day, make sure they have their name on it. Your child must be able to apply the sun cream themselves.

Many children are hoping to fast during Ramadan, from Wednesday or Thursday. If you would like your child to fast during the school day, please fill in the attached slip and return it to your child’s class teacher. Children below Year 5 are not encouraged to fast.

For health reasons, children fasting would not be able to take part in Sports Day. We request that children do not fast on that day (23 June).

If we do not receive a signed confirmation for your child to fast, and you usually pay for your child’s meal they will be required to have their school meal and you will be charged.

Thank you for your co-operation in this matter

We would like to invite all parents/carers to our Sports Day on Tuesday 23 June 2015.

Children should come to school in uniform and change into their PE kits at school. They may wear a sporty top of their house colour (Years 1 – 6).

Fire – Red Earth – Green Air – Yellow Water – Blue

Parents can come and watch from the spectator area on the top field. Please note that the children will be competing in a range of activities which will be spread out over the field. Your child may not always be visible, however the children will finish on the track in front of the viewing area for the grand finale. Can we ask parents/carers to enter, and sign in at the gates on Eddish Road.

There will also be the ‘famous’ parents/carers race. If you would like to take part, please wear sensible running shoes/trainers and clothes – this will be at your own risk!!

Results from the recent Pilot Sports Competition:

Swimming:

Lea Forest finished 4th with 16pts only 2pts behind third place finishers Our Lady's Catholic Primary School. A great start for our new team.

Rounders:

Both our Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 teams took part in the rounders competition with both teams showing great team spirit and sportsmanship, both teams finished in 6th place.

Overall:

Our team's fantastic efforts have put us in to 4th place overall 3pts behind Coleborne With more competitions to come in the next few weeks.

As it stands:

1st Place Hillstone 40pts

2nd Place Timberly 39pts

3rd Place Coleborne 12pts

4th Place Lea Forest 9pts

5th Place Our Lady's 8pts

6th Place Brownmead 7pts

7th Place The Oval 6pts

8th Place Gossey Lane 5pts

9th Place Shirestone 3pts

During the hot weather please make sure your child brings in a sun hat to school.

Please apply sun cream to your child before they come into school. If you wish to send sun cream into school for use during the school day, make sure they have their name on it. Your child must be able to apply the sun cream themselves.

At Lea Forest we believe that each and every day a child is in school can make a difference to their learning. We would therefore ask that when possible, appointments that the children need to attend are booked outside of school hours. We understand that this is not always possible.

Should you need to take your child to an appointment in school time, please ensure that you:

1. Bring to the school office the letter or appointment card confirming the details of the appointment before the day.

2. Inform the teacher of the appointment when dropping off your child that morning.

3. Call the main office on 0121 675 3985 no later than 15 minutes before you will arrive to collect the child.

The teachers will then send the child to the office for the correct time.

Please note, children cannot be collected between 3.00 and 3.30pm as this is the busiest time of the day for the office staff.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Mrs Warwick has now left for personal reasons. We would like to wish her well for the future.

Mrs Mattiello who has been with the school for some time, will teach 4EW until the end of this term.

We expect everybody who uses our facilities to treat staff, pupils and other parents with courtesy and respect at all times. We will NOT tolerate the use of negative language or insults within the academy premises including the playgrounds, and will remove any person from the premises who chooses to behave in an inappropriate manner. Further action may then be taken to ban such persons from entering the school site.

Thank you

There are a number of pupils in our academy who have a severe allergy to nuts including:

peanuts, peanut butter, pecans, walnuts, nut oils and nut flavourings etc. Touching or eating these items may provoke a severe allergic reaction.

For the safety of these pupils, we are asking parents not to send any food containing these items to school, for a snack or in their packed lunch box. This includes any sweets, chocolates, cakes or spreads that may contain nuts.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.