April 2019

(Article 24 ) Children have the right to a clean and safe environment, and information to help them stay healthy. Rich countries should help poorer countries achieve this.

At Lea Forest, we work together to learn about a healthy lifestyle. This week children have worked with fitness experts from FreddyFit, planted vegetables and fruit in our allotment and focussed on the importance of getting a good nights sleep as part of our health week

On Thursday evening Miss Lewis, Mr Wills and the Yr5 and Yr6 team visited the Yardley Wood home of Chilcotes Primary school to play in the HMS Birmingham Shield. In a tough game our players battled against a determined Chilcotes Side eventually losing 3-2.

Despite losing out on a finals place our staff are incredibly proud of the teamwork and determination shown by all of our players and we look forward to maintaining a current postion as league leaders in both the girls and boys district leagues.

(Article 24 ) Children have the right to a clean and safe environment, and information to help them stay healthy. Rich countries should help poorer countries achieve this.

At Lea Forest, our school council and staff are committed to protecting our environment . This term we have helped to plant over 150 trees with Mr Haw and the Woodlands Trust . Our school councillors have also launched our class recycling boxes this week to help our school reduce the amount of rubbish we send to landfill. We’re very proud of their passion to want to improve conditions.

Parents of our Nursery and Reception children were invited to our Easter Themed activity evening on Thursday. Children and parents had the opportunity to try a range of “eggciting” activities during the evening.

THANK YOU for coming along and showing so much enthusiasm.

We hope you had an “eggcellent” time!

This week our children have been learning about Autism and how they can help people with Autism. On Tuesday we met with Josh from the Autism Resources Charity. He explained what it is like to live with Autism and the challenges he faces. On Wednesday our children and staff came together for our Spectrum Non - Uniform Day, raising £221.60 for the National Autistic Society. If you have any questions or would like advice about Autism please speak to Mrs Tarrant .

We’re running two Easter competitions:

Children in Key Stage 1 and Early Years can create and decorate their own Easter Bonnet for our Easter Parade that will be taking place on Friday 12 April at 9:10am (hopefully outside, weather permitting).

Children in Key Stage 2 can decorate their own hard boiled egg and create an Easter scene ready for Friday 12 April.

We have LOTS of prizes!

We have been celebrating autism in school this week and have held a few events based around this theme. There was an assembly on Tuesday, non-uniform day on Wednesday where we managed to raise £221.60 for the National Autistic Society and we also had some of our children who have a diagnosis of autism visiting each of our classes and reading stories based on living with autism. Thank you to the children involved in helping to organise these events along with Mrs Tarrant that have raised awareness of autism in the school,

It’s been a successful week in regards to our sporting teams too! On Monday evening our mixed football team managed to secure a win and are now through to the semi-finals of the HMS Birmingham Shield. More information about this event can be found on page 2. Yesterday, I was lucky enough to accompany Miss Lewis and Miss Mclaughlin to Birmingham University, where our Year 3/4 dodgeball team were playing in an all Birmingham finals event organised by School Games and Sport Birmingham. The children made it all the way to the finals where they unfortunately narrowly lost out on the top spot.

We are extremely proud of the children that represented the school for this event as they showed terrific skills and sportsmanship. We’ll be back again next year to secure 1st position. Thank you to Miss Lewis for her continued dedication ensuring our children get the opportunity to play in such events.

We held a really successful Early Year activity evening on Thursday evening and it was great to see so many of you attending. There were a wide range of activities to choose from including: an Easter egg hunt, hat making, arts and crafts and writing opportunities. Mrs Gonzales and the Early Years team have been really impressed with the interest in these events and we are looking to roll out more evenings like this throughout the whole school. There will be more information about this after Easter.

Next week

We have a fun-packed week ahead on the run up to the Easter holidays. I’m delighted to let you all know that Freddie Fit will be school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, carrying out fitness sessions with classes as part of health week. We also have the Book People in school on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings.

More information on page 2. Next Friday, we will be holding a bonnet parade for Early Years and Key Stage 1, so time to get creative. We will carry out the parade on Friday morning from 9:10am. There will be prizes for the best bonnets. Key Stage 2 are asked to make an ’eggselent’ hard boiled egg model. I look forward to seeing your creations.

Thanks again for such a REMARKABLE week at Lea Forest.