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Friday 27th January 2023
Message from Miss Deans
The school term is flying by and the children are continuing to make us proud with their hard work and effort.
Next week there is planned strike action by the NEU, teacher's union on February 1st. As things stand, we plan to remain open and will not be closing. There is a small chance that this situation may change for some groups of children and so please keep a close eye on text messages and emails running up to Wednesday.
Please read all the messages in today's newsletter as there is a lot of information.
Have a lovely weekend.
Lynn Deans
Vice Principal
Nursery - Rui
Mrs Watson – Lyla G
Mrs Pollard – Leo B
Mrs Brown – Max M
Miss O'Neill – Shae S
Miss Baxter – Jenson W
Mrs Cox – Lleyton H
Mrs Wood – Emily F
Mrs Bradley – Jason BS
Mr Roberts – Poppy M
Mrs Martin – Ellee B
Mr Baxter – Grayson B
Reading
Reading
Home Reading Books
Home Reading Books
Please remember your child needs to bring their book bag every day. Letters may be given out and books may be changed on any day so we need book bags in school please. Please keep your child's school books in their book bags so we don't lose books. We hope you are enjoying our bedtime book bags as well.
Children in Year 1 and some children in Year 2 are now bringing home Read, Write, Inc books. Your child may also be given another book to read, as the RWI books get changed every three or five days and so this will give them something else to read. Speak to your child's class teacher if there are any problems.
Reading Scores
Reading Scores
All pupils are expected to read three times a week. This table shows the percentage of children in each class who have read three times this week at home.
To make the expected progress, pupils need to read at home three times weekly. Please support your child with reading at home. If you need some help with achieving this please speak to your child's class teacher.
News
News
Term dates change - IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ
Term dates change - IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ
The children return to school after the Easter break on Monday 17th April. This was changed earlier in the year. Apologies for any inconvenience or confusion.
May Day Bank Holiday will be on Monday 1st May and the King's Coronation will be on Monday 8th May. The school will be closed on these two days.
Children's Mental Health Week
Children's Mental Health Week
It is children's mental health week from 6th to the 12th February. We will be having special assemblies during the week to talk about children mental health.
Worry Monsters and Trusted Trevor
Worry Monsters and Trusted Trevor
Each class has a worry monster. Children can share their worries using the classroom worry monster. They can do this anonymously or use their name. Mrs Billingham or the class teacher will be able to talk to the pupil or have a discussion in the class circle time.
We have now introduced Trusted Trev. Certain members of staff carry a small worry monster on their lanyard. Pupils can talk to any adult with a Trusted Trev worry monster at any time about any worries they have. We will always listen and give time to children and support them in any way we can.
Chinese New Year Celebration
Chinese New Year Celebration
We had a fantastic time last Friday at our Lunar New Year celebrations. The children took part in activities for the day to learn about Chinese culture and the yearly celebrations including writing about the Chinese New Year story, descriptions of chinese dragon dances, creating Chinese lanterns and attempting Chinese writing. This day is a part of our new programme of enrichment events which we will be taking part in to cover social, moral, spiritual and cultural development.
Half-term Swimming Course at John Whitgift Academy
Half-term Swimming Course at John Whitgift Academy
To sign up for the above course, please follow the link below.
Visit by Ian Bland - Poet - 28th February
Visit by Ian Bland - Poet - 28th February
On 28th of February the school are very lucky to have the children's poet, Ian Bland, visiting school for workshops with the pupils throughout the day. To find out more about him and his poetry please follow the link. https://www.ianbland.com/
Ian Bland will be selling his humorous poetry books at the end of the day on 1st March. He is a very engaging poet and speaker and I am sure that after the day pupils will be asking for his book. They will be available to buy using cash or contactless card at the price of £6.99 each.
Term Dates for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years can now be found on the school website.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding
Pupil Voice
Pupil Voice
We have conducted our student well-being survey. This asked children a number of questions about what they think about our school. We are pleased to say that 90% of our pupils are happy at school. 90% of our pupils feel safe at school and 95% of our pupils feel they are challenged to do their best in school. We will be using the results of the survey to help us to improve the well-being of all children in school.
All parents have been sent an email with a link to a parent questionnaire. Please complete the questionnaire so we can get parent views about school and continue to improve.
Parking outside the school
Parking outside the school
At the beginning and end of the day a number of cars and vans stop on the yellow lines in front of the school. This puts our pupils at risk and is against the law. We ask that parents stop parking in front of the school on the yellow lines.
The local road safety team will be conducting unannounced visits to school at the beginning and end of the day, in the near future, and will be issuing fines to cars that they see stopping on the zig zag yellow lines.
On line Safety
On line Safety
Please monitor your child's online activity. We have had an incident of our Year 6 pupils using social media. and sending inappropriate messages to each other. Misuse of social media causes great harm to children and we are constantly talking to our pupils about online safety. Social media like Snap chat and What's app are set with an age restrictions. Snap chat should only be used by over 13s. Children under 13 should not be using these apps.
The whole school will be learning about on-line safety in Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 7th February.
For more information about safeguarding, please visit the Safeguarding page on the school website.
https://gca.harbourlearningtrust.com/our-academy/safeguarding/
Uniform
We have seen a few children coming to school not dressed in uniform, especially wearing trainers. Below are our expectations for uniform.
SWEATSHIRT: Logo sweatshirt or a plain red sweatshirt or cardigan.
SKIRT/TROUSERS: Black or dark grey skirts/pinafore or trousers/shorts/ red check summer dress
SHIRT White polo shirts underneath sweatshirts. No red shirts please.
SHOES: Black flat school shoes – no trainers.
PE KIT
● Plain white t shirt / black shorts/ Plimsolls or trainers for inside P.E.
● Trainers for outdoor games.
● Jogging bottoms or dark coloured track suits may be worn in cold weather. (Please make sure your child has outdoor PE kit as they will be doing PE outside, in the cold, unless it is raining)
Please note very large bows and other large hair accessories are not to be worn in school.
Digital watches and Analogue watches only allowed in school – No Smart watches or Fitbits please.
Earrings
Whilst earrings (studs) can be worn to school, it is important that they are removed on PE days. If your child can remove them on their own, this can be done at school, however, children cannot wear earrings or any other jewelry for PE. Adults cannot remove them for the children. If your child cannot take them out independently, we ask that they are not worn on PE days.
Please speak to the school office if you are having difficulty affording school uniform.
Lost Property
We have many items of lost property in our cupboard. If your child has lost something at school please do not assume it is lost. We may have it in school. Please ask at the office if your child has lost something.
We will be clearing the lost property cupboard on Monday. Lost property items will be put out on the main playground (weather permitting).
Attendance
Please be aware that if your child does not attend school for 3 days we may complete a home visit as a welfare check even if you have telephoned the school. If we do not hear from you on the first day of absence we may also complete a home visit.
Attendance and lateness impacts on your child's learning and achievement. Please read this chart to see the impact of non-attendance.
Parents who take pupils out of school for unauthorised holidays will be fined in accordance with guidance from the Department for Education.
Class Attendance
The table below shows class attendance. Attendance above 95% is classed as good attendance
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN LEARNING THIS WEEK?
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN LEARNING THIS WEEK?
What have we been learning this week?
To find out what the children have been learning, please follow our school Twitter Pages.
https://twitter.com/PrimaryGreat
Great Coates Primary School
We are part of Harbour Learning Trust.
Our school motto is Success and Happiness for Every Child.
We seek to inspire greatness in every child and to equip them with the academic achievements, life skills and personal attributes to lead happy, safe, successful lives.
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