September/Newsletter2
Dear Parents/Carers,
The children have started the new academic year very well and we are also very pleased with how well our new Reception children are settling in.
Please find attached a list of useful dates for the year. These are also available on our website in the ‘Parents’ section.
Class Assembly Dates
Each class holds two assemblies during the year for the parents/relatives of that class to attend and we’d love to see you there. These usually take place at 10:10am. The class assembly dates organised for this term are listed below:
Year 4 - Thursday 17th October*, Year 3 Assembly – Thursday 7th November, Year 5 Assembly – Wednesday 20th November, Year 6 Assembly – Thursday 28th November (all at 10:10am).
*Harvest Assembly - although the Year 4 children are delivering our Harvest Assembly to their parents this year (I’m afraid that parents from other year groups won’t be able to watch due to space limitations) all children throughout the school can bring in tins, packets of food etc. for our Harvest Assembly from Friday 4th October. These will go to The Wellspring Kitchen who support the homeless in Stockport. Thank you for your support in anticipation.
There will be a PTA coffee morning on the morning of each assembly starting at 9am. So if you’ve just done drop off you can wait for the assembly in the comfort of the community room with a drink! All parents are welcome to each coffee morning (i.e. not just the parents of the children involved in the assembly).
The Class Curriculum Bookletswill be coming home for children in Years 1 – 6 next week (Reception already have theirs). Please keep these as a reference for throughout the year. The VLE booklet is also coming home for all classes next week – however if you can already use your child’s existing username and password and each class now has an updated VLE page. To access our VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) click on the link from our website.
Applying for a Reception Place or Secondary School Place for September 2014
The deadline for applying for a Secondary School place is 31st October 2013.
The deadline for applying for a Reception place is 15th January 2014.
All parents/carers need to ensure that they apply before these deadlines.
Information is available on the Stockport Council website and you need to apply online this year. We strongly advise that you look at the website and read the appropriate booklet provided in the ‘Related Documents’ section on the right hand side entitled either ‘Applying for Primary School Booklet 2014-2015’ or Applying for Secondary School Booklet 2014-2015’. There is a link on our school website to the Stockport Admissions webpage in the ‘links’ section.
You can also phone 0161 2176028 to speak to the Admissions Support and Advice Team.
Upcoming PTA events:
As well as the coffee mornings before each class assembly, the PTA are also holding a MacMillan Coffee Morning on Friday 27th September from 9am in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support. Come along for a chat and some tea, coffee and a delicious cake – it’s a great opportunity for new reception parents to meet each other and existing parents to have a catch up! There will be a collection in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support. Please come in on the morning through the Community Room door (just off the infant playground next to the reception class) anytime from 9am until 10:30am. We really hope that you can pop in.
PTA Quiz Night – the one and only! Friday 11th October at 7:30pm. Put the date in your diary and watch out for a letter about this fun PTA event for parents (and friends of parents who want to join their team) coming home soon. We’d love to see as many people there as possible.
Next PTA Meeting – Wednesday 30th October 7:30pm – 8:30pm. It was great to see some new faces at last night’s meeting – thank you to everyone who came. Please feel free to come along to a PTA meeting just to see what happens – you don’t need to come every time and everyone is really welcome.
Ladies’ Fashion Show – Thursday 14th November from 7pm. More information coming home nearer the time.
PTA Advent Christmas Fair – Saturday 30th November from 12:00-3:00pm
Dates for all PTA events agreed so far are shown on the attached school calendar.
The PTA have a very important role in fundraising for the school and PTA events are a great way to get involved with the school, meet other parents and have some fun!
Morrisons ‘Let’s Grow’ Vouchers - Please bring your vouchers to school so that we can use them to buy school gardening equipment. Thank you!
Year 1 Parents Meeting about transition to KS1– all Year 1 parents are invited to this meeting to be held in the Year 1 classroom with Mrs Chamberlain and Mrs Batho at 6:30pm on Wednesday 18th September.
Message from Sue & Andrew at Simply Books in Bramhall:
Friday 20th and Saturday 21st September – Birthday Celebrations at Simply Books!
We warmly invite you join in our 11th BIRTHDAY celebrations and meet our very special party guest, award-winning author and illustrator NICK SHARRATT. Nick will be signing his books in the shop after school on Friday 20th September from 4.30PM - 6.30PM and again on Saturday 21st September between 12.00PM - 3PM (just drop in!)
On SATURDAY you can also book in for a story and illustration session with Nick at 10AM or 3PM.
Limited numbers so book early!! Tickets £10 (includes a signed copy of one of Nick’s books). Suitable for children aged 4 – 9 yrs.
For more details or to book a place for the story/illustration session please phone 0161 439 1436 or email events@simplybooks.info
Instrument Lessons (Years 4 – 6)started this week and payment information will come home soon.
There are various ensembles available to children in Stockport at the Music Centre (based at Offerton School campus) and a list is show below (ensembles cost £28 per term or £79 for the year for individuals, and £49 & £138 for families). For more information, please contact the music service on: 0161 483 7636 or email: music.service@stockport.gov.uk
Instrumental and Singing Groups for all standards
Monday
Young Voices (Y1 & 2) 4.00 – 4.50 pm
Junior Voices (Y3 – 6) 5.00 – 6.15 pm
VoxBox (Y7 upwards) 6.30 – 7.45 pm
KGBeats (keyboard & guitar group), all ages 5.45 – 7.00 pm
Tuesday
Samba Squad (all ages) 4.30 – 5.30 pm
Percussion Ensemble (all ages, Grade 3 upwards) 5.30 – 6.30 pm
Wednesday
Junior Strings (beginner – Grade 2) 5.15 – 6.45 pm
Intermediate String (Grade 3 upwards) 6.00 – 7.30 pm
Beginner Band (all instruments & ages) 5.15 – 6.30 pm
Prep Band (woodwind, brass & percussion) Grade 2 - 3 5.45 – 7.15 pm
Intermediate Band (woodwind, brass & percussion) Grade 3-5 5.45 – 7.15 pm
Senior Wind Band (woodwind, brass & percussion) Grade 6 upwards 7.30 – 9.00 pm
In addition to the groups that they run directly, there are also:
Friday
Stockport Youth Orchestra (Sinfonietta) Grade 3 – 4 5.00 – 6.30 pm
Stockport Youth Orchestra (Sinfonia) Grade 5 – 6 7.00 – 9.30 pm
Stockport Youth Orchestra (Symphony) Grade 6/7 upwards 7.00 – 9.30 pm
Saturday
Stockport Schools’ Brass Bands (all standards) 9.15 – 12.00
Visit to Zambia – following the visit from 3 Zambian headteachers last term, Mr Vallance is going to travel to Zambia for a week from 27th September and visit their schools, learn about their culture and bring back his tales and photos to talk to the children about. This is part of our ‘connecting classrooms’ link. Mr Vallance will be able to take the children’s video messages, questions and letters with him (as well as Barnaby Bear!) and we look forward to learning more about Zambian school and life.
Smiles Book and Good Work Book Sticker Competition
We are having a competition to design a sticker which will be produced to reward those children who are entered into our Smiles Book (infants) or Good Work Book (juniors). Each week teachers choose children who have been working really hard, showing great effort, producing excellent work or displaying a great attitude or behaviour to be entered into these special class books. We celebrate this each Friday in assembly and the children come to the front of the hall to share or talk about their work. After discussion with the children in assembly, we felt that a special sticker, designed by a child from Lane End would be a good idea and also help the children to remember to tell you about it when they got home! I’ve already had lots of great entries in but we will extend the deadline until Monday to give anyone who still has theirs at home and wants a go a chance to bring it in – if your child would like to take part but doesn’t already have an entry form you can click on to this newsletter on our website where there is a downloadable copy!
We aim to be approachable and work in partnership with parents, so if there is anything you wish to discuss, please do not hesitate to come and talk to us.
Yours sincerely, James Twigg
Ramillies Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, SK8 7AL
0161 485 8071
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