Byfleet Primary Newsletter

Dear Parents/Carers,

• With Covid restrictions now being relaxed, it's been wonderful having most year groups together in the hall for our Celebration assemblies and Singing assemblies.

• Last week we initiated an external Safeguarding Audit - we are pleased that our procedures are deemed effective and corroborate the outcome of our internal EEEA Trust Safeguarding Audit we carried out in November.

• A warm welcome to Mr Boyd who is currently working in Reception as our long term supply teacher for this half term - thank you for welcoming him.

• A big congratulations to Miss Forde who recently got married. We wish her a blessed and long marriage. Miss Forde has decided that she would now like to be called Mrs Forde.

• As most of you are aware, Mrs Creswick will be retiring in April after many, many years of working at Byfleet Primary. We would like to thank her for her hard work keeping our office running smoothly. We are all very jealous of the well-deserved holidays and trips she has already planned for the remainder of the year.

• We received a call from Kings Lodge Care home asking if we could include something in our next newsletter asking parents to avoid parking in their grounds or blocking the entrance. They have stated that parents are being quite rude apparently when asked to move and it could mean emergency vehicles can't get through to their residents. Please be mindful of our neighbours around Byfleet Primary School.

• A big thank you to Year 5 Indigo and Year 6 Violet Class for hosting their class assemblies over the past fortnight. It was wonderful to see our families back in school supporting their children. Please see the photos below in our newsletter.

• The Year 1 - 6 Parents' Evening booking system has been sent out this week. Please make sure to book your appointments by Friday 18th March. Arrangements for our Reception Parents' Evening have also been shared.

• Thank you to everyone who came along to our Byfleet Friends' table top sale with proceeds going towards the Ukrainian humanitarian crisis.

• A parent/carer recently informed us that their child was crossing King's Head Lane at the start of the road and a Byfleet parent in their car didn't give way to their pedestrian child.

Just a gentle reminder about the new Highway Code for pedestrians: From January 2022, a pedestrian waiting to cross should be given priority. Previously, drivers were told to give way to pedestrians if they ‘have started crossing and traffic wants to turn into the road’.

• Miss Mills will be hosting her General Knowledge Quiz Club from on Thursday 17th March against other teams nationally. We hope to increase our children's Science and General Knowledge through the process. Good luck to our amazing teams! Team 1: Monty, Jack W, Stanley and Leah Team 2: Elisia, Dylan B, Zaiden and Dixie-Belle

We continue to benefit from our collaboration with American School Cobham (ASC) who recently provided transport for some of our Year 5 and 6 pupils to take part in a football tournament which they hosted.

They are working with the ‘Effingham Learning Partnership’ to host an event on the 28^th March. The event is free to attend and there are 300 tickets in total.

The event is entitled ‘Wellbeing Forum for Parents’ with a focus on ‘Managing Children’s anxiety & promoting online safety’. There are two amazing speakers for the evening and will start with refreshments at 6:30pm for a 7pm start. Our Byfleet parents have been invited to attend. You can book here.

Recently, we held a Safeguarding assembly for pupils. In this assembly we thought about what we would do if we were worried about someone and considered who we would talk to about any concerns. We also discussed bullying and how to keep safe online. All the children participated really well - please speak to them about this and see what they can tell you about keeping themselves and others around them safe.

Special Educational Needs and Inclusion: At Byfleet we follow the graduated approach of assess, plan, do review to support all the children who are on the SEND register and have been identified as requiring additional support to develop their learning and progress. Each child on the SEND register has an SSA (Send Support Arrangement Plan) and these are shared with parents three times a year at parents evenings. If you would like any information or a discussion on your child's support in-between parent's evenings, please do not hesitate to contact either your child's class teacher or the Inclusion Lead Mrs Sharkey-Yun . Please call the school or email info@byfleet.surrey.sch.uk if you would like to book an appointment.

The Surrey Arts Easter activities programme returns in April after a couple of year's break due to the Coronavirus pandemic. This year sees a significant change to the programme. For the first time the programme is split over two areas of the county, East Surrey (Redhill) and West Surrey (Woking). This exciting programme gives young people the chance to experience a variety of different activities including playing in an orchestra for the first time, trying a string instrument, producing their own music and DJing, being part of a rock band, learning dance routines and being creative in an art class.

The range of activities for 6 to 16 year olds will run on Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 April at St. Bede’s School in Redhill and Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 April at Westfield School in Woking.

Activities include:

• Discover Strings suitable for 6 – 11 year olds (Redhill only) - no experience needed

• Orchestra in a Day for grades 1 – 4 and 4 – 8 or equivalent standard

• Music Production and DJing suitable for 8 – 16 year olds - no experience needed

• The Band Experience suitable for 8 – 14 year olds - no experience needed

• Creative Dance suitable for 8 – 15 year olds - no experience needed

• Art class suitable for 6 – 10 year olds - no experience needed

Further details about the programme are available on the Surrey Arts website Surrey Arts - Easter holiday activities - Surrey County Council (surreycc.gov.uk)

Children need to know a select number of tables by the end of each year. They are as follows:

Year 1 - Count in multiples of two, fives and tens

Year 2 - Recall and use multiplication and division facts from the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables

Year 3 - Recall and use multiplication and division facts from the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables

Year 4 - Recall and use multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up the 12 x 12

Year 5 and 6 - To become confident in multiplying larger numbers and deal with multiplying decimal numbers

It's been a while since we've been able to invite you into school. We can't wait to invite you back into school to see your child's class assembly. We will continue to reduce the number of children we have together in the hall so will only move to 'whole school' assemblies once it is safe to do so. In the meanwhile, each class will host their class assembly to their parents and one or two other classes in the school hall. These will start at 8.55 - 9.20ish so please join us in the school hall on the day that your child's class assembly has been scheduled.

Reception - Wednesday 29th June Year 1 - Wednesday 16th March - London

Year 3 - Wednesday 30th March - Stone Age Year 4 - Wednesday 22nd June

Year 5 Blue - Wednesday 25th May - Greeks