Dear Parents/Carers

We are fast approaching the end of term and we have a lot of excited children ready for the festive break! Thank you to everyone who has supported our events this year, which includes our PTFA events.

Enormous thanks to our PTFA who have organised a series of successful fundraising events. As you are all aware, the money raised from these events makes a real difference to the funding of extra resources and on the experiences of all pupils.

Very well done to all of our wonderful children who have worked hard and had an amazing term! Well done also to those children who have represented the school at various events this term.

Thank you also to our staff and governors for their continued hard work.

We wish you and your family a happy and peaceful Christmas break.

We look forward to welcoming you back on Wednesday 4th January 2023.

It is with a very heavy heart that we will have to say goodbye to the lovely Mrs Head, Teaching Assistant in Year 6, ELSA Supervisor and self appointed Head Librarian next week, Friday 16th December.

Mrs Head has worked as a TA at Brookfield for nearly 14 years and I am sure most of you will agree, she is the fabric of the school and will be sadly missed. She has made such a huge impact on all of the children who have been lucky enough to work with her, however she is not leaving the trust completely, she is moving to work within the Central Team HR department.

I am sure you will all join us in wishing her all the very best for the future.

As you know at Brookfield Primary, we use a house point reward system to recognise the positive behaviour of our pupils. The children love earning house points and are always very excited to add their tokens to the overall total. Each week, the house points will be counted up and this will be shared with the children during achievement assemblies.

This half term the winning house is the Blue Team!

Scores:

Blue - 760

Yellow - 565

Green - 551

Red - 413

Orange - 370

Children across the school had a wonderful time yesterday taking part in our Elf Run for St. Raphael's Hospice.

The children looked great in their festive headwear! Huge thanks to everyone who has donated via our Broofield JustGiving page. All your generous donations will go directly towards supporting this very worthwhile cause.

Just Giving Page - Brookfield Primary Elf Run

On 6th December, members of the LEO Pupil Parliament took part in an exciting opportunity linked to sustainability. They working alongside staff from the London Borough of Sutton to plant trees at Brookfield Primary to help promote sustainable living within the local community.

Firstly - from all of the staff, pupils and their families at Brookfield Primary we just wanted to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to the amazing PTFA ladies for all of their incredible hard work in putting on yet another awesome fundraising event (please see below how much money they raised). Also, thank you for the lovely festive Christmas lights and Christmas tree. We are so lucky to have you.

PTFA Update

We just wanted to say thank you all for all your support with our Christmas Light Switch on and Mini Festive Fair on Friday. From your generous donations to our tombolas and Elfridges, to those of you that gave up your time to help us set up and run the event, and to everyone who came along on Friday evening. While the fair was very different from last year, we were delighted with the wonderful turn out and we were overwhelmed with the support we received - the unplanned fire engine visit won’t be forgotten for a while!

We are still finalising the totals, however we can confirm that we raised more than £1,100 - a phenomenal amount in just a few hours. The school and the children will very much appreciate these funds and we will be asking each year group for a list of supplies they would like for their classrooms.

For those of you asking, the name of the elf and the winner will be revealed this week, and a full list of raffle winners will be emailed out and posted on the PTFA noticeboard so winners can collect their prizes from the office.

There's still a few events from us until the end of term. Firstly, the Light Trail event starts today and runs until Thursday 15^th December. It's really easy to get involved, children can buy a map and entry form for £1 from the school office. All they have to do is find the letters displayed at each house on the trail and use them to unscramble the festive word. Entry forms can be returned to the office to be entered into the prize draw to win a £50 voucher, sponsored by Ivy Gate Estate Agents. Each entry form costs £1 and the whole family can get involved (one form per person) - please do join in. Please note - the school office will not have change so please bring the correct money!

Also, if you haven't got your Christmas tree yet, our beautiful tree was donated by Pines and Needles who are offering a 10% discount to Brookfield to families. Our closest stores are in Wimbledon and Kingston. Visit www.pinesandneedles.com for full details. The discount code you need is BROOKFIELD10

** Please see below the PTFA Autumn Term Fundraising Totals **

The children had the BEST time today watching the Panto today, thank you PTFA!

Short video of KS1 enjoying the show

Short video of KS2 enjoying the show

Reception 2023/2024

If your child was born between 1st September 2018 and 31st August 2019 you should apply for a primary school place to start in September 2023. We’d love your child to join us at Brookfield. The closing date is 15th January 2023, for more information on how to apply please go to: https://www.sutton.gov.uk/-/applying-to-start-primary-school-1 .

Nursery 2023/2024

If your child was born between 1st September 2019 and 31st March 2021 you should apply for a nursery school place to start in September 2023. We’d love your child to join us at Brookfield. The closing date is 15th January 2023, to apply please complete this form: Nursery Application Form 2023/2024 .

For more detailed on our Admissions, please to go our website: Brookfield Primary Admissions.

HAF Programme at 4th Worcester Park scout hut which is FREE for your eligible benefit related free school meal pupils.

Any child eligible to benefit related free school meals can attend for free with a hot meal included. We would appreciate it if you could send out the attached flyers to your parents!

Winter Camp 2022 Details:

• Dates: 19^th – 22^nd December (Monday – Thursday)

• Time: 10am – 2pm

• Age: 5 – 11

• Cost: £20 Per day/Free for those eligible.

• Parent flyer – This flyer can be sent out to all parents as regularly as possible. Especially to those entitled to benefit related free school meals as we have 30 FREE places per day!

• Coupon Code – Along with the flyer, please include the following coupon code to your benefit related FSM families to make bookings FREE: HAF4WP100

With Christmas fast approaching and the ongoing cost of living crisis the Sutton Food Bank is here to help, for more information please click on the link below. Alternatively if you wish to donate / volunteer please also get in touch.

https://sutton.foodbank.org.uk/

Free School Meals - Christmas Vouchers

Please also note that children who are entitled to Free School Meals (not infant universal free school meals) the Local Authority has again agreed to fund food vouchers for eligible pupils during the school holiday periods, for more information please click here.

• Christmas 2022 break £30 per child (to be issued by 15 December or before)

If your child is eligible you will receive your vouchers before we break for the Christmas holidays. If your child is not entitled but you think you might be eligible for Pupil Premium (Free School Meals), please see below or click here for more information on Pupil Premium.

Pupil Premium

Pupil premium is additional funding allocated to all schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers. This budget includes pupils who are currently entitled to free school meals, have been free schools meals in the past six years (FSM ‘Ever 6’), children that are cared for or adopted from care and children whose parents are in the armed forces.

We would like to remind all parents who are eligible, to apply for the Pupil Premium Grant. This grant enables the school to provide additional support to our children where needed. Examples of this are, access to extra-curricular clubs and additional support with specific areas of the curriculum.

For more information and how to apply, please see below:

Applying for this grant is very simple, it can be done online - www.sutton.gov.uk/-/apply-for-free-school-meals

gov.uk - Find out more about Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium Information Flyer

Pupil Premium Eligibility Checker

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

www.sutton.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals

If you feel you would like support in applying for this grant please contact the school office who will be happy to go through this process with you. All applications are confidential within the school.

https://www.brookfieldprimary.com/708/pupil-premium

Please click here for a leaflet on opportunity for parenting sessions for families.

Please click here for guidance for parents in choosing activities, clubs or personal tuition for children and young people.

Twitter

As you will already be aware at Brookfield Primary and the LEO Academy Trust we love a good tweet!

Please follow @BrookfieldSM3 and @LEOacademies on Twitter to be kept up-to-date with all of the exciting activities, learning and events that the children are participating in.

Twitter is also the only form of communication shared by the staff when the KS2 children are away on residential trips - seeing how much fun the children are having makes missing them not quite so bad, the children definitely do not look like they are missing home!

Please note that we only tweet photos of children who have photo permission and we only ever use their first name. Also, we do not keep the photos that we tweet so if you see a photo of your child that you would like you can save these onto your own device by clicking on the 3 dots on the photo and selecting save. Also if you see a post that interests you, please can we ask you to share/retweet.

If you would like your child to be included in our twitter posts, please ensure that you have consented to social media. If you are unsure please look at your child's profile on the Arbor app and contact the school office if you wish to make a change.

Early Years - Please click here to find out what Nursery and Reception have been learning over the past couple of weeks

Year 1 - Please click here to find out what Year 1 have been learning over the past couple of weeks

Year 2 - Please click here to find out what Year 2 have been learning over the past couple of weeks

Year 3 - Please click here to find out what Year 3 have been learning over the past couple of weeks

Year 4 - Please click here to find out what Year 4 have been learning over the past couple of weeks

Year 5 - Please click here to find out what Year 5 have been learning over the past couple of weeks

Year 6 - Please click here to find out what Year 6 have been learning over the past couple of weeks

Over the past few months there has been a large number of Chromebook styluses that have gone home with the children and then subsequently these have got lost. Please can you ensure that if you child takes home their stylus (especially those children in Year 3 who have built in styluses) that they stay attached to their Chromebooks or in their Chromebook bags.

As a Trust we will not be able to sustain these losses moving forward and it would be such a shame for children if they cannot access things like Kaligo and handwriting on jamboard/nearpod etc.

Thank you for your continued support.

We are delighted to let you know that Ms Rubio has been recognised as the Doodle Teacher of the Week. This is no mean feat with the hundreds of schools using Doodle across the country and around the world. She has been doing an excellent job at supporting students with making progress with Doodle.

School Fund

School Fund Contributions 2022/2023

We pride ourselves on offering our children varied and exciting experiences and activities that help to support their learning of the curriculum. The School Fund will allow us to provide additional activities across all year groups.

We have a voluntary school fund donation of £10 a term / £30 a year per child or £40 for a family if there are siblings at the school. Parents can pay for School Fund online via our Arbor payment system, go to Accounts - School Fund - Top Up Account.

We would like to thank you for your support.

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