June 2021

As always, it’s been a really productive week here at Lea Forest with lots of learning taking place. As expected, the lessening of COVID restrictions has been delayed for a further 4 weeks. This means that all safety measures that have been in place, will remain until the end of the academic year. This will unfortunately effect some of the events we have planned for the end of term, but as always, we will do our best to provide the best opportunities for our children and families as we can. Important dates are listed on page 4 of this newsletter and we will continue to keep you informed of any changes through our wide range of networks.

It was great to see our first of many trips take place this week, when Year 1 got to visit West Midlands Safari park. The children and staff had a fun-packed day, meeting lots of different creatures and dinosaurs along the way. The weather was also very kind to them! Over the next few weeks, we have a number of other trips and visits taking place to provide the best possible experiences and learning experiences possible. To ensure that we are able to continue to provide such experiences, I would like to remind all parents/carers to ensure they make payments via Parent Pay. If you need support making payments using this app, please contact the main office who will be able to assist you.

Also this week, Lea Forest took part in the biggest ever Young Voices concert watched by over 350,000 people across the globe. You can watch the performance on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao1auvAw1yg

Our Sports Days are planned for next week (Tuesday and Wednesday). Please look out for important guidance that will be shared as we want parents to be able to come along and support, however, we need to ensure that we remain COVID safe. Any parents/carers found not to be following the guidelines will be asked to leave the school premises. Again, this is for the safety of everyone.

National Thank a Teacher day is on Wednesday 23 June. If you would like to thank a teacher or member of staff at school, please click on the link here, I’m sure any messages would be really appreciated.

It’s a busy weekend ahead with a picnic for our new Reception starters taking place on Saturday, not forgetting the England vs Scotland match on Friday evening. Finally, Father’s Day is on Sunday.

Have a fabulous weekend and see you all again on Monday.

Please help us to keep the roads and pavements around the school site as safe as possible by parking away from the school. Sadly we have received several complaints from our neighbours of parents blocking drives since we have returned to school this week. Please follow our parking pledge and park safely and legally away from the school if the car is your only option for getting to school. Drivers that park dangerously or illegally will be reported to West Midlands Police which may result in a fixed penalty notice fine and points added to licenses.

You will be aware that, as a part of your child’s educational experience at Lea Forest, we aim to promote personal wellbeing and development through a comprehensively taught programme of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education that gives our young people the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthy, safe, productive and fulfilled lives, both now and in the future.

Over the next half term we will be delivering Relationship, Health and Sex Education (RHSE) as part of the Science and PSHE curriculum which is now statutory under DfE guidelines - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education

All lessons are carefully designed to be age appropriate and to address the needs of all children in the class. A majority of these sessions will be delivered between Monday 14th and Friday 18th June 2021 to ensure children are receiving the key messages at the same time.

Welcome back to the final half term of the school year 2020/21! I hope that you all had a fantastic half term break and managed to make the best of the glorious weather we had. Let’s hope that the sun continues to shine as the term progresses.

This half term is one of the busiest with so many events, trips, visits and activities taking place. We will be sharing lots of information on ClassDojo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and our website over the next few weeks, so make sure you keep up-to-date with what is happening and when.

On Tuesday, we had the pleasure of welcoming the Young Voices film crew and conductor, David Lawrence, to Lea Forest to record our Year 5 choir as part of the Young Voices Biggest Sing Concert which will be streamed live on Youtube from 2pm on Tuesday 15th June. We can't wait to join in the performance with over 250,000 children from around the country.

RHSE letters were sent out to parents this week with details about our PSHE, RHSE and Science curriculum. Check out page 4 of this newsletter for further information and if you have any questions or concerns, please message Miss Hadfield on ClassDojo.

We sent out a message about children in Years 1-6 coming to school in their school uniform everyday and changing into their PE kits on PE days. Thank you to those of you that followed our guidance and sent your children into school in their correct school uniform. PE kits can be worn by our children in Reception on Tuesdays, but the rest of the school will be expected to bring their PE kits into school and get changed for their PE lessons. If you are starting to plan ahead and thinking about school uniform and PE kits for next year, check out the Uniform section on website for more information.

There’s lots to look forward to next week. Children's author Fay Evan's will be visiting our children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 on Tuesday. The children will participate in storytelling workshops and have the opportunity to interview Fay and find out about her latest story books ‘Bob's Beard’ and ‘Fred the Fire Sneezing Dragon’.

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend! See you all again next week for a whole lot more!