March 2015

Our footballers have had a fantastic season so far. They're currently fourth in the league as we break up for the Easter Holidays. Our Next Games are at home Lea Forest Versus Colebourne and Lea Forest Versus Hobmoor on the 21st of April from 4pm onwards.

Thursday 26 March at 3.15pm

At Lea Forest Academy

Children from years 3, 4, 5 and 6 will be managing the stalls selling Cakes, Toys, Clothes and much more……..

We would welcome any cake donations and would ask them to be sent to 4RF who have kindly offered to run the stall

Pupils will be able to visit the stalls from 2.00pm and parents are invited in at 3.15pm

Friday 27 March Afternoon during school time

Tickets are £1 per child

Sweets will be on sale (we suggest a maximum of £1 spending money for sweets) and all money received will be donated to Comic Relief

Don’t forget its non-uniform day as well for an extra donation of £1.

As you can see there have been such a lot of activities going on in the school at the moment and the children have played a tremendous part in the fundraising for Comic Relief over the past few weeks. For this reason we have made the very difficult decision to not have an Easter Egg decorating competition this year. We apologise for the disappointment but we will be having Easter craft activities during school next week.

We would like to thank all of the parents, children and staff for their help with the fundraising. I am confident we will raised an amazing amount to donate to Comic Relief and we will let you know the total as soon as possible.

Please can I remind all parents and visitors to the school that we do not allow dogs onsite.

We ask that all adults help show our children how to be good neighbours by placing any rubbish in the bins around our site

We are a non smoking site and ask that all members of staff, visitors and parents abide by our policy and do not smoke whilst on our grounds.

Thank you for your support in these matters

Tuesday 24 March

For all pupils in years 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6 who have 97% attendance or better across the Spring Term.

A separate day will be arranged for EYFS and year 3 due to educational visits taking place on Tuesday

Year 6 have now returned from their weeks adventure to Condover.

There are loads and loads of pictures on the website showing the wide range of activities that the children and staff took part in.

A big THANK YOU to all the staff that helped out on the trip to make it a fun and educational few days away.

Due to staff illness we have postponed the parents evening of 4RF, 5JL and 5ST to a later date and will be contacting parents shortly to arrange new appointments. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please ensure that your child brings their full PE kit, including a plain/academy red top and black shorts, and trousers in case we can go outside. This needs to be brought into the academy every Monday so that your child can take part in PE lessons.

To celebrate ‘World Book Day’ and promote reading within school, the library has bought lots of new books. There is a mix of the old and the new with favourites like ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ and the recently published wonderfully entertaining ‘The Scarecrows’ Wedding’ and ‘The First Hippo on the Moon’.

For older readers, we have new books by authors David Walliams, Jacqueline Wilson and Jeff Kinney as well as popular classic novels. Many more new books will be appearing in the next few weeks including books from the ‘Rainbow Magic’ and the ‘Beast Quest’ series. In addition books based on much loved films like ‘Frozen’ will also be available.

A big THANK YOU to all the children and staff who have taken part in World Book Day today and dressed up as their favourite story book characters.

From Pirates to Princesses, it has been fantastic to see who their favourite characters are!

There are lots of educational trips over the next few months and the trips would not be possible without your contributions. If you have not already contributed please do so as soon as possible. Please remember to put your child’s name and their class on the envelope and mark it ‘Trips’

Congratulations to Mrs Sparkes and Miss Lawson who both have new jobs as Assistant Head Teachers at another primary academy. We wish them all the best in their new roles; they will be leaving Lea Forest at Easter. Mrs McElroy-Stringer has already joined Y2. 2RS children will go into 2RW or 2NO after Easter and Mrs McElroy-Stringer will take children out for group work. 2RS Children will find out who their new teacher is at parents evening. The new teacher for 5JL will be Mr Morgan who has already been working with the children.

Our new Senior Learning Mentor, Mr Wills will be starting with us on the 9 March. We look forward to welcoming him to the team.