Byfleet Primary Newsletter

• Welcome back after the February half term break. We are grateful to have seen a tremendous improvement to attendance the first two weeks back. We were delighted to receive a Fischer Family Trust Award this week for being in the top 10% nationally in the Autumn Term's attendance. Great job everyone!

• We can't quite believe how fast this year has flown; we have 7.5 school weeks left before our Year 6s write their SATs, which they've been working hard in preparation. Thank you to the families who are helping prepare their children at home by completing the extra learning we have sent home for the Year 6s. 

• This week we sent out bookings for this term's Parents' Evening for the 19th and 21st March, for you to book your appointment please.

• We had the best assembly ever today - one of our favourites....POETRY RECITAL. Watch our videos below.

• We enjoyed listening to a live orchestra last week, right here at BPS - read about it below.

• Year 2 enjoyed their Roman WOW day this week!

• Mr Bowman and the TAs have unveiled some new playground equipment as part of our EPIC (Engaging Play in Children) playground provision. See the great photos below.

• This half term's homework matrices and spellings can be found on Google Classroom. They can also be viewed here:

Reception              Year 1             Year 2            Year 3          Year 4           Year 5          Year 6

• What a great 'Break the Rules Mufti' we had today! Thanks for all your contributions and helping our 'BPS Friends' raise some funds.

To consolidate thelearning for our ‘Layers of London’ history topic learning about the Romans, we had a Roman themed day in Year Two. It was a lot of fun and we all dressed up to bring our learning to life.  We enjoyed so many activities including making Roman pottery, writing and designing a two-page spread to write down our knowledge about the Romans and making Roman honey and oat biscuits.  We also learnt about Roman numerals and made clocks and created pop up colosseum cards.

As a parent or carer, we’d like you to encourage and support your child’s entry into the Step into the NHS primary schools competition so they can learn about the wide range of career opportunities in the NHS.

The NHS are inviting Key Stage 2 pupils (ages 7 – 11) across England to submit a creative entry to showcase the variety of job roles in the NHS – by creating a card, video, poem or even a song - by 22 March 2024.

Why we need you!

We understand that families at home have a huge influence over a child’s ambitions and what they think about jobs and the world of work. Your support at home can contribute significantly to your child’s education and aspirations.

Your child will have started thinking about their entry and their teacher would have shared the relevant resources with them, but there are lots of ways families can help.

How do I support my child’s entry?

1.    Visit the Step into the NHS website (search ‘Step into the NHS’) to help them explore over 350 jobs. You can both:

o   Explore a ‘day in the life’ of different careers with our careers A-Z

o   Take our fun quiz to learn about the NHS

o   Watch our new career videos to hear from people in the NHS

o   Take the careers quiz on the website which suggests NHS careers based on their skills and interests 

2.   Use the conversation starters below if you cannot access the website.

3.   Encourage your child to be creative!

o   How can they best show the variety of NHS roles? What creative things have they seen recently – maybe online, on TV or out and about?

o   What are they best at? Drawing, making videos, playing games, writing poems? Can they incorporate these skills into their entry?

o   Their entry can be made using materials around the home – paper, colouring pens, news clippings or paints

o   If your child chooses to film a video, they might need your help. Try to film in a space with lots of light, like near a window or a lamp. 

4.   How can they show in their entry that anyone can do any NHS job, regardless of gender? Have they challenged the myth that only men and women can do certain jobs in the NHS?

5.   Help your child send their entry to their teacher before 30 April 2024.

For more information please see the following website

https://www.stepintothenhs.nhs.uk/primary-schools 

Key Stage 1 took part in the Chartwells Bee Ready for Bees competition at the end of last week.  Pupils were asked to draw a colourful flower garden for bumblebees to feast on.  

Well done to the winners,  Etta Oxborough (Reception class), Juno Veazey (Year 1) and Poppy Norman (Year 2).  They each won pots and seeds for their classroom.

Well done to the following children for being recognised for doing something brilliant this fortnight......

We'd love to get as many of our families involved with our Midweek Maths series...from ExpertEd.

ExpertEdLive is a cross-sector partnership between leading universities, independent schools and MATs aiming to provide educational enrichment and opportunity which is accessible to all children. 

This is for the whole family! 

Mrs Meyrick would love it if you could tweet @byfleetprimary on Twitter (X) if you're taking part so we can give you a shout out. 

• Mar 6, 2024 07:00 PM

• Mar 13, 2024 07:00 PM

• Mar 20, 2024 07:00 PM

Just to remind parents/carers that if they take their children out of school without authority for 5 or more days (which do not have to be consecutive) , they will be liable to receive a penalty notice.

Currently the amount payable under a penalty notice is £60.00 per parent/carer per child if paid within 21 days. Thereafter the amount increases to £120.00 if paid between 21 and 28 days. If the penalty notice remains unpaid after 28 days, the Local Authority will consider a prosecution in the Magistrates Court. Please note that penalty notices are issued per parent/carer per child so a family of two parents and two children will receive 4 penalty notices.

Please view our Attendance Policy here for further information.

Surrey County Council are asking for parents/carers to take part in Early Years Expansion Survey as it is important to gather your views regarding early education and childcare for 0-4 year olds and also for out of school childcare provision for 5-11 year olds during school term time. This will help them to make sure that they have enough high-quality education and childcare and wraparound places for everyone that needs them.

Please click on the link to complete the survey: https://www.surreysays.co.uk/csf/early-years-expansion-entitlements-parent-survey

Taekwondo lessons are available via our externally run club London TKD on Mondays from 3:20pm to 4:20pm in the school hall.  Bookings can be made via their website : www.london-tkd.co.uk/get-started.