Weekly Newsletter 28th Feburary

Weekly Newsletter

28th February 2020

Dear Parents,


Welcome back, I hope you had a restful half term and are ready for what appears to be a very busy Spring.

Please ensure that you are driving and parking with care outside of the school gates, we want to make sure that all of our children and families stay safe. Please do not park on the yellow lines or across people’s drives. Thank You!

Shared mailboxes and communication
Don’t forget that you can contact staff using the shared mailboxes. They are checked daily and can be used to ask questions, pass on information or check details:

eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk
year1@mead.havering.sch.uk
year2@mead.havering.sch.uk
year3@mead.havering.sch.uk
year4@mead.havering.sch.uk
year5@mead.havering.sch.uk
year6@mead.havering.sch.uk


World Book Day is Thursday 5th March this year and Havering Catering service have put on a special menu to celebrate the day-See below:

Red - Sausage baguette
Blue - Hunters chicken with rice
Green - Cheesy quesadilla with potato dippers
Baked beans
Peas and sweetcorn
Iced sprinkled sponge

Remember to dress up as your favourite book character!We look forward to seeing the children in their wonderful costumes.



Diary Dates
Monday - Year 5 parents are invited in for a second meeting for the Mersea residential.
Tuesday - Year 6 will be taking part in a crime workshop with the police.
Wednesday- Today the whole school will participate in NSPCC workshops. Year 3 pupils are attending forest school.
Thursday- World book day! At 8:30am Reception parents are welcome to participate in the stay and read in the classrooms . Nursery parents are welcome to come back and read with their child at 10.45 or 2.30.
Friday- EAL coffee morning in the KS2 hall. EYFS are hosting a dementia coffee morning inthe KS1 hall between 8.30 and 10.00. Everybody is welcome to stay and have a chat.Any donations of bought cakes and biscuits will be gratefully received.


INSET Dates for 2019-20

Please note the school closure dates for this academic year.
INSET day 1- 4th September
INSET day 2- 3rd April
INSET day 3- 20th July
INSET day 4-21st July
INSET day 5- 22nd July

Please note that the final day of the summer term for pupils will be on Friday 17th July, 2020.
Term Dates 2019-20
https://www.havering.gov.uk/downloads/file/2023/term_dates_2019-2020


Havering Catering Services
Week beginning Monday 2nd March is week 1 on the Havering catering services menu. All meals are served with unlimited salad and vegetables and cost £2.25.
Please be reminded to top up your child’s catering account as we cannot provide dinners for pupils whose accounts exceed a debt of £10.
Havering catering Service now provides a breakfast club for Mead pupils. For £1.50 your child can have a bacon or sausage sandwich or beans on toast or cereal or toast or fresh fruit or yoghurt plus a drink.
We will also have speciality days when other items such as pancakes and muffins will be available.
In order for you to book a place you will need to deposit the money in advance in your Squid account.
Please do not send your child to school to attend breakfast club if there are no funds in your account as they will not be admitted.


A message from Havering Catering Service

We would like to reassure parents whose child may have a Dairy Allergy or Intolerance that the School Kitchen only use Dairy Free Sunflower Spread at Breakfast Club and Lunch time.


Key Diary Dates for this term
Monday 24th February -Back to school-Swimming starts
Monday 23rd March -Last swimming session this half term
Monday 30th/Tuesday31st March -Parent afternoon/evenings
Friday 3rd April - Inset Day-school closed
Monday 6th -Friday 17th April-Easter holidays-School closed
Monday 20th April -Back to school

Well done to Chile class who had the highest attendance in Y5&6 at 96.9% . Germany had the highest attendance in LKS2 at 96.2% and Australia had the highest attendance in KS1 at 95.3% Well done to them!

The overall attendance was really disappointing at only 91.7% which is significantly below our target!
Have a fabulous weekend.

Yours sincerely,


Mrs L Smith
Headteacher

Reading Awards

The following pupils have read 10 books and receive a bookmark for their efforts, Esther in Jamaica, Riley in Egypt, Diamond in Australia, Frazer and Amira in Palau and Neraya in St Lucia.

Aubree and Moksha in Barbados, Zachary, Lara and Katherine in Egypt, Harrison in Palau, Malakai in Jamaica, Tyler in Australia,, Mahir in Wales. Chanel in Kenya, Jacob in Madagscar, Daniel B in Northern Ireland, Rayya and William in St Lucia and David in New Zealand have achieved bronze reading awards for reading 25 books.

Silver Reader awards go to Bogdan in Egypt, Alex in Australia, Nicole in Wales. Ajus and Mihaela in U.S.A, Zac, Summer and Arjya in Madagascar who have read 50 books. They each receive a silver certificate and a £5 book token for their efforts.

Joshua in Australia, Jacob in U.S.A, Maya and Victoria in Madagascar have read 75 books and she gets a book of her choice for her fantastic effort.

A massive well done to this week’s gold reader Logan in Jamaica who have read 100 books and received a gold certificate and a trophy for their efforts.

Justice in USA and Riddhi in Wales have read 150 books and will receive a platinum certificate and trophy for their efforts.

Learning Power Awards

These are the awards we present to the pupils when they have demonstrated one of our four learning skills: Resilience, reciprocity, reflectiveness & resourcefulness.

Well done to Natas in Kenya, River in Germany, Jared in Madagascar, Daniel in Egypt and Joseph in Malta who receive certificates for resilience and Mihrac and Ronnie in Argentina, Aaliyah in Germany, who have shown they can be very resourceful in school.

Best Before Stall

Year 3 Showcase!

Please be reminded that our Year 3 Showcase is tomorrow afternoon at 2-2.50pm in the classrooms as the KS2 Hall is out of use. The children will be showcasing some of the things they have been learning over the last term. Please arrive and sign in via the school office and you will be taken to the classrooms by our school prefects.

Please be advised that you can take your child home with you after the showcase but siblings in other classes will need to be collected at the normal home time.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Year 3 Team

Year Six - End of Term

As this is the final week for our lovely year six there will be several celebrations throughout the week.

Tuesday 16th - Games afternoon

Wednesday 17th - Go Bonkers afternoon with free ice cream.

Thursday 18th - Slip and Slide
Can all children bring in spare clothes that can get wet and a towel please.

Friday 19th - Signing of the shirts
Children need to bring in a P.E top or an old white shirt, to have signed. They cannot sign the tops that they are wearing as we will have an 'End of Year' awards ceremony.

In the afternoon the children will have music and fun with their teachers and get to say goodbye to their peers.

We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for the continued support and we wish leavers all the best for the future!

Thank you,

The Year Six Team

Reception Star Writers

Well done to this week's star writers in Reception. All the children have worked hard this year developing their letter formation, using their phonic knowledge to write unfamiliar words and writing independently. Our star writers this week are:

Amber in Barbados class

Riley in Jamaica class

Indigo in St Lucia

Reception Star Writers

Well done to this weeks star writers who are working really hard on their letter formation, hearing the inital sounds and spelling unfamiliar words.

Barbados - Cristian
Jamaica - Evelin
St Lucia - Kane

Reception Star writers

Reception attended there first E for Excellence assembly on Friday and the following children received Star Writer award:

Barbados - Harrison D

St Lucia - Gracelyn

Jamaica - Ali

Well done to those children, you are trying really hard with your letter formation and hearing the initial sounds in words.

Fun at the park....

Barbados class had a fun packed day today. First they made their scrumptious sandwiches in preparation for our picnic, then after lunch we set off ready for our “fun at the park”. The children could not contain their excitement as the playground came into view and eagerly ran to see what there was. “The zip line was the best” said Alexis, “I liked the swirly slide” said Eleni and Isabella.

After all of that excitement we headed back for our well-deserved picnic in the forest, tucking into our sandwiches, cupcakes and having a refreshing drink. “The picnic was the best” said Siddi.

It was a great afternoon, had by all!

Year 3 Showcase Tomorrow PM

Dear Parents and Carers,

Year 3 invite you all to our final showcase of the academic year to share and celebrate what the children have been learning this term. This will be taking place tomorrow afternoon, on Thursday 12th July.

Doors open in the office at 2.00pm and will close at 2.50pm.
You can take your child home with you after you have finished looking round the showcase but please let your child's class teacher know. Children in other classes will be need to be collected at the normal home time from the playground.

We look forward to seeing you all there! :)

Year 3 Team

E for Excellence Winners

These wonderful children have demonstrated excellence this week.
Barbados -Zachary Wooster
Wales -Charlie Wisniewski
Jamaica -Ashton Morley
Scotland -Abigail Safo-Frimpong
St Lucia -Roberto Tunza

Germany -Jacob-Lee Sampson
New Zealand -Michael Nugent
Greece -Karla Nightingill
Australia -Frankie Ballard
Italy -Frankie Pryke
Palau -Olivia Broad
U.S.A -Cameron Danquah
Madagascar -Reuben Mubwiliza
Canada -Eshaan Pasupuleti
Egypt -Benjamin Winjobi
Mexico -Miyah Jones
Kenya -Lexi-Rose Milton
Chile -Trisha Hughes
N. Ireland -Lexie Smart
Brazil -Abdullah Mohammad
Argentina -Ibrahim Javed

INSET Consultation

Dear Parents

We believe that your children are entitled to an outstanding education. We believe that to deliver this, our teachers should have excellent subject knowledge and high quality training to develop their skills.

Currently, by opening from 8.30am everyday, we provide 3,800mins extra education a year for your children - almost 65 hours. We propose using 19.5hrs of this time to create 3 extra training days for staff that will allow them:

• to deepen their subject knowledge
• practice key techniques
• be updated on changes to assessment and curriculum
• plan together across both schools

...and generally use this time to become even better teachers than they are today.


It would means that there would be one extra day of INSET each term (3 in total). As a consequence of this we believe that our staff will get additional high quality training, and your children will get an enhanced education and 45hrs extra in school!

Please complete the questions below to register your opinion about the proposal.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FORM

ONLY COMPLETE THE SURVEY ONCE - JUST INDICATE THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN YOU HAVE IN THE SCHOOL IN TOTAL

Year 3 Showcase Feedback

Thankyou to all the parents and carers who came to our Year 3 showcase yesterday. It was fantastic to have such a great turnout and the children thoroughly enjoyed sharing their learning with you all.

We would really appreciate some feedback on our showcase so we can continually improve the experience for our next showcase in the summer term. Click here to fill out a short form.

Parents Evening Sign Up Form

Please click here to use the form to sign up for the Spring Term Parents' Evening. We look forward to celebrating your child's progress with you on March 26th & March 27th.

Weekly Newsletter-22nd of September 2017

   
Dear Parents,

Our reception children have now completed their induction weeks and we look forward to welcoming them in school full time next week.

It has been brought to my notice that some children are bringing ‘home-made slime’ into school which they are then trying to put down the backs of other children, which is totally unacceptable. Teachers have been directed to confiscate and dispose of any ‘slime’ brought into school. I would appreciate your support in this matter.

My midday supervisor has had to confiscate jaw breakers/gob stoppers from some KS2 children this lunchtime- once again our policy is that children should not eat sweets in school-please support us in ensuring this doesn’t reoccur.

Parents Forum-Headlines
We held the first Parents Forum on Tuesday of this week-thank you to those who attended.
For those who were unable to attend:
I spoke about proposed building works;

I informed parents that the nursery extension project is due to start on 2nd January with completion due the end of March-Hopefully children will be able to move into the new provision after Easter. Our Nursery classes are not full but we have provision for 60 children in each session -In line with the Government's 30 hour offer some will be attending both morning and afternoon sessions. We will also be taking a small number of 2 year olds in each session.

It is proposed that we become a 4 form entry school from September 2018. Building work to extend the KS1 corridor (Year 2 end) is due to start January 2nd and expected to be completed by mid April 2018

A self-contained Autism ARP is to be built, to accommodate up to 12 autistic pupils, alongside the new classroom. Mrs Jolly and Mrs Hodges who worked in the Language resource are attending specialised training courses and will work in the ARP provision due to open next Summer.

I spoke about the pupil values-in particular attendance and punctuality;

We are really pleased with the number of children arriving in school at 8:30 and have noticed the improvement this makes to their school day. It gives them the opportunity to socialise with their peers and share news/information with the adults in the classroom-this all makes for a very settled start to the day.

I spoke about school uniform and how school environments become less competitive and more focused on learning when we promote a single standard of dress. It is really pleasing to see that, with very few exceptions, children are proud to wear the Mead uniform but I wanted to draw parents attention to footwear. Pupils should wear black shoes/trainers-increasingly we are seeing different coloured trainers which are not in keeping with the school policy.

I reminded parents of our expectation that pupils from year 1-6 should spend 15mins every evening reading, 15 mins practising spellings and 15 mins practising their times tables. Additionally they are given Learning Challenges associated with their topic-Some year 6 pupils spoke to parents about the Learning Challenges and showed examples of work completed.

Finally, I took parents to see the Mead Farm Development. They were all really impressed and commented on how eager their children are to get involved in caring for and learning about the animals when it is finished. We are hoping to get 2 donkeys, a pony and some rabbits and guinea pigs before half term. Watch this space.


Start of the day
It is really pleasing to see so many children taking advantage of the earlier opening time. Teachers have reported a significant difference in behaviour, in that the environment is much calmer and pupils settle quickly to their work.
Pupils who come in early have the opportunity to socialise with their peers and with their teacher. Teachers have the chance to catch up with small group work -so it is beneficial all round.
Based on this we have decided to extend the school day-Pupils will now be expected to be in school by 8:45am and anyone arriving after this time will be registered as late.

Have a fabulous weekend and remember the 8:45am start on Monday

Mrs Smith

Diary Dates

Diary Dates

Monday 18th September -INSET DAY -School closed to pupils (except those year 6 pupils visiting Hampton Court)

Tuesday 19th September- Parents Forum in KS2 hall. In the afternoon some of our school council members will attend a meeting with school council representatives from other local schools

Monday 25th September Reception and Nursery children start full time. Year 6 Height and weight check

Thursday 28th September-Spinebreakers visit to Waterstones

Important dates for this term
Parents’ Evenings	16th/17th October
Half term-school closed	Monday 23rd-Friday 28th October
Christmas Holidays-school closed	Thursday 21st December -Tuesday 2nd January

INSET Dates & Polling Day  for 2017-18

Please note the school closure dates for this academic year.

INSET day 1	INSET day 2	INSET day 3
4th Sep	18th Sep	9th Feb
Polling Day	INSET day 4	INSET day 5
3rd May	25th May	29th June

Newsletter 15th September 2017

Weekly Newsletter

15th September 2017

Dear Parents,

PLEASE BE REMINDED MONDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER IS AN INSET DAY-SCHOOL IS CLOSED FOR PUPILS

It is really pleasing to see how well our reception children have settled in their first week at Mead. They are only attending for half a day these first 2 weeks -but so far so good!

Our nursery children have been to stay and play sessions where they have had the opportunity to get to know the practitioners in our nursery setting in preparation for their start in the near future. With the increase in demand for nursery places we are now doubling our intake and to accommodate this the nursery building is being extended-we are hopeful the works will be completed by Easter. In the meantime the nursery has been relocated in the first two classrooms along the KS1 corridor.

We were very excited to take delivery of more animals for the Mead Farm. We now have 3 goats-twin boys who were born in the spring and their sister who was born the year before. They are all really tame and love being petted. The outdoor classroom has now been erected and we are looking forward to introducing them to the children. Look out for details of a competition to name the goats.

Parents Forum

We will be delighted to welcome you to the first parents forum meeting of the year on Tuesday 19th September at 9:15 in the KS2 hall.

Havering Catering Services

Week beginning 18th September  is week 1 on the Havering Catering Services menu. The price of a meal at lunchtime is £2.20.

School Dinners & sQuid

Please be reminded that KS2 pupils are not eligible for free school meals. When pupils move into year 3 you are required to pay for the children’s dinners unless you qualify for free school meals, in which case you need to put in an application to:

Student Finance, The Liberty Centre, Romford, RM1 3RL. Tele no. 01708 433929/53,

e-mail student.pupilsupport@havering.gov.uk

Broadford Primary School is now  a cashless school. All dinners, breakfast club and trips  need to be paid for through the sQuid system.

Parents/Carers should register, for each child and deposit the money to pay for  lunch and trips via the online system. Everyone must register for an account even if your child receives a free school meal. If you have difficulties setting up or accessing your account Mrs Taylor and Mrs West in the office are more than happy to help you.

Uniform

Thank you for the effort you put into your children’s appearance this week. It was a wonderful sea of bottle green jumpers that greeted us at the gate on Tuesday morning. All of the children seemed to be walking that little bit taller and feeling very proud as they started the new academic year. With the smart shoes, fabulous haircuts and bright smiles it was a great start to the term!

The contact details for uniform suppliers are:

• Premier Schoolwear, Unit 7, Tonbridge Works, Tonbridge Rd, Harold Hill
• Tescos online ordering www.tesco.com/ues

Diary Dates

Monday 18th September -INSET DAY -School closed to pupils (except those year 6 pupils visiting Hampton Court)

Tuesday 19th September- Parents Forum in KS2 hall. In the afternoon some of our school council members will attend a meeting with school council representatives from other local schools

Monday 25th September Reception and Nursery children start full time. Year 6 Height and weight check

Thursday 28th September-Spinebreakers visit to Waterstones

Important dates for this term
Parents’ Evenings	16th/17th October
Half term-school closed	Monday 23rd-Friday 28th October
Christmas Holidays-school closed	Thursday 21st December -Tuesday 2nd January

INSET Dates & Polling Day  for 2017-18

Please note the school closure dates for this academic year.

INSET day 1	INSET day 2	INSET day 3
4th Sep	18th Sep	9th Feb
Polling Day	INSET day 4	INSET day 5
3rd May	25th May	29th June

Have a fabulous weekend.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs L Smith
Headteacher