February 2018

Lea Forest is taking part in the '100 million minute read'. Running from 1st March - 9th March.

This is a national competition across England and Wales where we try and get children to collectively read 100 million minutes in a week.

Starting on Thursday 1st March (World Book Day) and running until Friday 9th March 2018, Our children will be joining children and young people across the country and logging their reading minutes in class and at home. Prizes will be awarded to those schools or settings who achieve the highest average number of reading minutes per child.

Don't forget to share your reading activities at home as well via class dojo and twitter! Include the hashtag #100MillionMinutes in any of your posts on Twitter. (Search for @lea_forest_aet)

We'll be working extra hard to keep the academy open over the next few days to deal with the forecast bad weather and have made sure that we have plenty of deicer, grit and snow shovels to keep our grounds clear and safe for all of our academy community.

Please make sure that you send your child to school with a warm hat, scarf and gloves during this cold spell.

In the unlikely event of us having to close the academy due to bad weather we will inform parents via our website (www.leaforestacademy.org) twitter: (@lea_forest_aet) Facebook.com: www.facebook.com/leaforestprimary) Text and classdojo and the local Radio stations (BBC WM, Heart, Free Radio).

Despite the freezing conditions our girls were on fire and won all 3 of their matches yesterday.

Full time scores:

LFP 8 Vs Parkfield 2

LFP 3 Vs Paget 0

LFP 7 Vs Saint Matthews 0

World Book Day takes place on Thursday 1 March 2018, and we will be asking children to dress up as their favourite story book character.

Please see the letter on the website for more details.

On Monday 5^th March, Year 1 will be holding an animal themed ‘Wow’ day to launch their Spring 2 topic ‘Paws, Claws and Whiskers’.

We would like the children in Year 1 to dress up as their favourite animal on this day. Throughout the day we will be taking part in various activities linked to the topic, including painting giant animals and making up our own animal dances.

If you have any questions please ask using Class Dojo.

We'd like to thank the 239 parents that responded to our February Parent Voice Survey. We're really pleased that our parents are recognising the continued improvements the school is making and value your feedback and comments. You can find the full results to the survey here.

As a school we are working really hard to raise our attendance and reach our 97% target. We need our whole community to help support us and ensure that children arrive on time . Our gates open at 8:45am and close at 9:00. Our attendance team will always make contact on the first day of an absence. Please ensure that you respond to our attendance texts or contact the school on the first day of an absence to let us know why your child is absent. Failure to do this may result in a home visit from our attendance team. Persistent absence may result in a fine being served by the local authority and potentially a court case. Last term families from Lea Forest received fines from the local authority totalling £2722. Please help to avoid this situation by ensuring your child is attending school on time every day for the remainder of the school year.

If you have a concern please discuss this with your child’s class teacher in the first instance. Staff are available after school and appointments can be made via the school office on 0121 675 3985. If this concern is not resolved at this point we request that you make a meeting with our phase leaders after school. Concerns about safeguarding should be bought to the attention of our DSLs. Please allow the school to investigate concerns rather than approaching other parents directly.

Come and answer as many questions/riddles in the library as you can.

The competition is running every Tuesday and Thursday in the after school library sessions.

The child with the most correct questions/ riddles answered across the competition will win a £10 ASDA voucher!

*If more than one child has the most answers correct, the winner will be drawn out at random.

All letters can be found on the school website under the “News” tab and on class dojo in class stories. Please let the office know if you have difficulty accessing these.