Week 11 24.11.23
Celebrating Staff
Contents of the Newsweb and Website
School Content:
Celebrating Staff
Watford Partnership Primary Leaders
FOLG Pig Racing Success!
Christmas Appeal update
FOLG Help your school raise funds at the click of a button!
Key dates and messages
School Blog: www.littlegreen.herts.sch.uk
Researching Clean Air in Year 5
Year 6 Classification of Living Things
Year 3 Skara Brae Fact Files
YH U11 Girls Football Tournament
Year 5 Glyph Sculptures
Year 5 Investigating "what is clave rhythm?"
Road Safety Week learning in Explorers
Watford Schools Trust visits Year 5 - The Ten Commandments
Odd Sock Day and Anti Bullying Week in Explorers
Year 4 History - Ancient Greek - remembering and retrieving
Celebrating our Staff:
So far, our success series has focused on our amazing attainment outcomes and the innovative and exciting curriculum developments we have developed to ensure we maintain our love of learning, engagement and subsequent attainment successes.
These next two weeks focus on two critical elements to our success: This week, the staff; next week, the community.
Please do celebrate our successes and share the positives of our school.
There are so many strengths to what we do and, to keep being successful, we need to make sure everyone knows what an amazing Learning Community we all are!
Take a look at the ongoing conversations around Parents' Evening to see how we listen and develop systems to ensure everyone is a part of the process and is left equally positive.
We are very proud of our teaching team's NPQ (masters level) learning leading to even greater impact at Little Green:
Miss Marriott continues to drive ethos, English and wider Curriculum Developments.
Miss Tarbox has taken the reigns of Maths mastery this year and is leading best practice across the school.
Miss Gay has taken on the leadership of performing/expressive arts linked to developing voice in all of our children - sometimes called Oracy.
Miss Muckell has joined the strategic Explorers team, whilst also working with Teaching Assistants with their classroom practice, and jointly leading PE.
Our Senior Leaders continue to implement the learning from their own NPQs - results pending. And we are excited that Ms Brauka has joined the party!
All of our staff are engaged in Professional Development in some form or another, from Mr Whitelaw developing his role as Mental Health First Aider, to Mrs MacKintosh driving SACRE (RE) in the school and across the county as part of the County SACRE Council. We are committed to getting better so we are doing the best we can for the community!
Watford Partnership Leaders:
We are also proud to be founding leaders of the Watford Partnership Primary Group. The Watford Partnership is a group of twelve local secondary and 6 local primary schools all working together to develop new and current teachers. We had the pleasure of hosting ten Early Careers Teachers this month to support them in sharing good practice and learning about effective research informed behaviour management approaches including trauma informed practice. Have a look at the website for more information. Take a look at the schools we work with to see the quality of support we are a part of!
Arnett Hills JMI School
St Peter's CofE Primary School
Little Green Junior School
Maple Cross JMI & Nursery School
Malvern Way Infant & Nursery School
Chorleywood Primary School
Bushey Meads School
Chessbrook ESC
Garston Manor School
Parmiter's School
Rickmansworth School
Saracens High
St Michael's Catholic High School
St Joan of Arc Catholic School
The Reach Free School
Watford Grammar School for Boys
Watford Grammar School for Girls
Queens' School
Staff Awards:
At our recent Staff Party, we all identified some of our trailblazing staff who we wanted to celebrate with you!
Professional Development - Teacher
-Ms Tarbox!
Professional Development - Support
-Mrs. Welsh, Mrs. Wilson and Mr. Brailsford
Most Positive
-Mrs Borlase and Ms Sedgwick
Most Organised
-Ms Marriott
FOLG trialled a Pig Racing night on Saturday and... it was BRILLIANT! Who knew watching videos of piglets with paper jockeys on their backs could be so entertaining? As a trial, it was a small turn out but we, incredibly, raised £400+ pounds!!
Thank you to everyone who took a risk with Pig Racing . Please spread the word about just how much fun this was AND look out for future race nights in the coming months. A huge thank you to all the FOLG team for their ongoing time and commitment to making the event such a brilliant success. Special mention to Mr Hutchinson for his fantastic Master of Ceremony work - a true professional!
World kindness day
- Advent calendar donations to Watford Food Bank
Thank you to everyone for the donations of advent calendars for the food bank. We have taken 2 lots of donations so far and will be taking the final calendars on Tuesday 28th Nov. If there are any other contributions, please take them to the school office.
New Hope Christmas gift bag appeal
We have had an amazing response to the gift bag collection for the children and families supported by New Hope. Thank you to all of the families who have taken gift tags and are contributing to the appeal. Please remember to bring gift bags in by Friday 8 December.
For anyone who wants to take part but hasn’t already taken a tag, there is an Amazon wish list available that you can contribute to: http://bit.ly/NewHopeLG Please remember to reference Little Green on your message/donation.
And a massive thank you to everyone for being so generous!
Would you like to support your child's school without any additional cost to you?
Click this QR code and add in a few simple details for an easy way to donate to FOLG every time you pay with NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU!
See the impact so far! Thank you!!
Stationery sets
Save yourself the summer stationery shopping stress and buy now! Sourced by Mr Flint so all of the equipment in the packs is school approved!
The flash sale price has unfortunately finished so packs will now be priced at a very competitive £10 (still far cheaper than you can source on the high street!) and can be ordered via: www.pta-events.co.uk/folg. The pack contains 2 writing pens, a green pen, 2 HB pencils, a pair of scissors (you can specify right or left handed), Pritt Stick, eraser, Boogie sharpener, 30 cm ruler, whiteboard pen, highlighter all contained in a clear pencil case. These can then be sent straight to your child's classroom or be held at the school office for you to pick up.
Second hand uniform
Good quality second hand uniform can be ordered from Faye via folg-uniform@littlegreen.herts.sch.uk - most items are just 50p. Send an email outlining the items you wish to order - remember to include sizes and your child's class - you will then receive an email to let you know when your items are ready to collect from the school office.
Key Dates:
Wed 29/11: Year 6 Swimming at York House School
Wed 29/11: Eco Council Forum Day at York House
MESSAGES / NOTES:
CAR PARK REMINDER
Just a polite reminder that parents should not be driving into the car park for any reason.
BASC (Breakfast and After School Club) parents can use the car park before 8am and after 5pm.
Only Blue Badge holders should be accessing the car park. Thank you.