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Message from Mr Woods Newsletter No 51— May 2017 Belief, Perseverance, Success BEACONSFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL Beaconsfield Road, Southall UB1 1DR Email: [email protected] Website: www.beaconsfieldprimary.org.uk Tel: 020 8574 3506 Head Teacher: Mr D. Woods Dear Parent/Carers, We have all been shocked and shaken following a terrorist at- tack that directly targeted children and teenagers in Manches- ter this week. There can never be any justification for such a barbarous act against children. Though extremely rare, these kinds of incidents can cause chil- dren to become worried and concerned. If your child/children are worried it is important to talk openly and honestly about their feelings. In a time of such tragedy it is very important to focus upon the many acts of generosity and community spirit as these demonstrate that the criminal acts of a sole individual do not represent our society as a whole. In Manchester in the face of such a brutal attack the community instantly rallied together with taxi drivers driving people for free, home owners and hotels sheltering people over- night, donations of food/drinks etc. for emergency personnel and emergency funds of close to £1million donated in just over 24 hours. It is these individual and collective acts from people that demonstrate our steadfast belief in British Values of ‘Participation in Commu- nity Life, ‘Tolerance of those with Different Faiths and Beliefs’ and adherence to ‘Rule of Law’. This is why terror and terrorists will never ever win. The British Red Cross is establishing a special fund for the victims of the attack in Man- chester to ensure that all who require ongoing counselling and support in the weeks, months and years ahead will be able to receive this. Many of the victims are of similar ages to our school pupils and as a school we will conduct a fundraising activity for this appeal af- ter the half-term break. Our thoughts , condolences and well wishes are with the families of the victims and with the people of Manchester at this time. Best Wishes Mr Dave Woods Head Teacher Donations: www.redcross.org.uk/manchester Newsletter No 51– May 2017

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Message from Mr Woods Newsletter No 51— May 2017

Belief, Perseverance, Success

BEACONSFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL Beaconsfield Road, Southall UB1 1DR Email: [email protected] Website: www.beaconsfieldprimary.org.uk

Tel: 020 8574 3506 Head Teacher: Mr D. Woods

Dear Parent/Carers,

We have all been shocked and shaken following a terrorist at-

tack that directly targeted children and teenagers in Manches-

ter this week. There can never be any justification for such a

barbarous act against children.

Though extremely rare, these kinds of incidents can cause chil-

dren to become worried and concerned. If your child/children

are worried it is important to talk openly and honestly about their feelings. In a time of such

tragedy it is very important to focus upon the many acts of generosity and community spirit

as these demonstrate that the criminal acts of a sole individual do not represent our society

as a whole.

In Manchester in the face of such a brutal attack the community instantly rallied together

with taxi drivers driving people for free, home owners and hotels sheltering people over-

night, donations of food/drinks etc. for emergency personnel and emergency funds of close

to £1million donated in just over 24 hours. It is these individual and collective acts from

people that demonstrate our steadfast belief in British Values of ‘Participation in Commu-

nity Life, ‘Tolerance of those with Different Faiths and Beliefs’ and adherence to ‘Rule of

Law’. This is why terror and terrorists will never ever win.

The British Red Cross is establishing a special fund for the victims of the attack in Man-

chester to ensure that all who require ongoing counselling and support in the weeks,

months and years ahead will be able to receive this. Many of the victims are of similar ages

to our school pupils and as a school we will conduct a fundraising activity for this appeal af-

ter the half-term break.

Our thoughts , condolences and well wishes are with the families of the victims and with the

people of Manchester at this time.

Best Wishes

Mr Dave Woods

Head Teacher

Donations: www.redcross.org.uk/manchester

Newsletter No 51– May 2017

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Eco– Committee

The Eco Committee have been responsible for organising 'Outdoor Learning Day'. It was a fantastic day where pupils had the opportunity to wear green to show their support of the day. In addition to this, we also had a bake sale to help raise money for the play ground area. We have also started to grow some vegetables and flowers in our new garden beds and hope they will grow healthy and be ready for the staff in the kitchen to use when preparing school lunches. Next half term we will be looking at ways of encouraging classes to reduce energy in their classrooms

and grow some vegetables in each class.

Curriculum News

This term, staff have been thinking about how the UNCRC arti-

cles relate to our curriculum to ensure that pupils continue to develop an awareness of their rights and how they affect pupils

around the world. Unicef’s ‘Day for Change’ took place on Wednesday 24th March and people around the

world were thinking about how they could make a difference to the lives of others. We followed the day with a special assembly and are looking towards holding some fund-

raising events next half term. In June, we will receive a visit from an advisor who will decide whether we have

achieved our Rights Respecting Schools Level 1 Award.

A big thank you for all your efforts so far. Mrs Stubbs

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Curriculum News

Adult Learning: Our most recent ‘Family English’ course is well underway

now. We have bid to run additional adult learning courses over the next year.

We will send out further information to recruit people to join courses in the fu-

ture. Speak to Mrs Moezzi about future courses.

After-School care (3:20-6:00pm)

Following several requests we ran a survey a few weeks ago to gauge the level

of interest in the school establishing an ‘After-School Care club’. Thank you to

those who responded to the survey. From the responses there is enough support

for us to plan to run a service an a ‘trial basis’ from September.

Our expected pricing will be £11 per day (£55 per week) when all 5 days are taken together

or £13.50 per day for ad-hoc days (e.g Tue and Thursday only). All fees would need to be paid

weekly or monthly in advance. Further information including registration forms and contracts will

be sent home shortly.

PE Teaching

We are very fortunate to have a specialist PE Teacher in school on Monday and Friday each week

supporting pupils to ensure high quality PE sessions take place. I’m pleased to say that from Sep-

tember we will be increasing our PE provision further to ensure that all classes from Year1 through

to Year 6 will be able to access two high quality PE lessons each week as we add a third day of PE

teaching.

Over the past few weeks we have had some new staff join the school team. We welcome all of our

new staff and hope they will enjoy their time at Beaconsfield.

Welcome to:

Mrs N Kaur - ARP Teaching Assistant (p/time)

Ms J Towell - ARP Teaching Assistant (p/time)

Ms S Marbay - Nursery Teaching Assistant (p/time)

Shortly after the half-term Miss Lefort will begin her maternity leave and Miss Richards will take

over as the teacher in Dolphin Class. We hope that Miss Lefort has a chance to get some rest be-

fore her baby arrives.

Playground: We have agreed with a contractor to get our entire playground re-surfaced to re-

move all of the dips, cracks and uneven surfaces. This work will take place in July once the school

has closed to pupils. The Eco– Group held an ‘Outdoor Day Event’ last week raising £273 to go to-

wards some of the costs for this work.

We are looking to also have a playground activity wall installed with a built in ‘football goal’ and a

cricket wicket. Several weeks after the new playground surface is laid we will also be getting new

line-markings put down.

Premises News

STAFF NEWS

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Premises News

Building Improvements:

Over the past fortnight we have been redecorating some of our upstairs classrooms and also the

upstairs corridor. Our Year 2 classrooms have had new flooring covers put down ready for Septem-

ber and all four rooms will soon have teaching walls installed to provide excellent storage, but also

more room for pupils in each room.

After -School Clubs (3:20—4:30pm)

We know from discussions and our parent survey forms that there is demand for more after-school

clubs. The only way that we can increase the number and range of clubs is to use private providers

to run clubs with a weekly charge of £2-4 per club per week.

A survey about ‘after-school clubs’ is being sent home. Please complete this and return to the

school.

School Uniform Prices

Unfortunately we have been informed of price rises by our uniform

supplier. Due to rises in UK minimum wages and also the fall in the

value of the pound (£).

From Monday 5th June 2017 prices will be:

Sweatshirts - £8.50 each

Polo-Shirts - £6.50 each

Book-Bags - £4.70 each

All other prices for PE shirts, shorts and caps remain the same.

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Nursery

Reception Blue

In Nursery we love cooking. We learn lots of things while we cook:

We count

We solve problems

We listen and talk

We measure

We learn about germs

We use tools carefully

We have covered some really exciting topics this half term! Local gardeners came in to

teach us about growing our own plants and we planted a bean. Jason said: “They need water

sun and time” to grow into giant beanstalks.

We did a science experiment and discovered that if you put food colouring in a vase of

flowers then the petals change colour. Neel said “the water is going up the stem and to

the flower at the top!”

We also have discovered many minibeasts in the

garden and read information books to find out

as many facts as we can about them. Did you

know that bees have five eyes? Did you know

that snails have four feelers?

After reading about different minibeasts we

decided to become authors of our own information books! We wrote as many

facts as we could remember.

Finally… our favourite part was handling the snails. At first some of us felt a bit

squeamish but we built up the courage to pick one up. Kabeer said “Snails has

shells. When it’s scared it goes inside the shell to be safe”. Rishi noticed “The

snail shell have a pattern”.

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Reception– Yellow

YEAR 1 BLUE

What a busy half term it has been!

Year 1 Blue have been enjoying the Spring weather

and have had fun creating poetry to express the

beautiful changes we can see happening around us.

Year 1 visited Southall Park to identify various plants and leaves. We

were able to identify lots of different trees and finished our visit with

enough time for team games!

What a fun afternoon in Southall Park.

This term Reception has been focusing on topics around ‘Understanding the World”.

The children learnt about mini beasts and how they eat, live and survive.

They had great fun looking for mini beasts in the outdoor area!

We also learnt the importance of recycling and looking after our envi-

ronment, the children recycled different materials in both our indoor

and outdoor role play areas. They were surprised at how many materials

could be used again to make new things!

We have had a great term and look forward to our last term together

before the children embark on their journey to Year 1.

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Year 1 Yellow

Year 2

This half term we have been learning all about plants in Science. We are now able to identify

wild plants, garden plants and various trees. We also know different parts of flowering plants

and trees. Apart from growing from seeds, we also visited Southall Park to have the first hand

experience.

This half term, Year 2 have been working extremely hard on practising their Reading, Writing

and Grammar skills for their SATS test. All the tests have been completed now and the chil-

dren should be really proud of their efforts.

Please remember that the tests aren’t the only way that Year 2 pupils are assessed and all

their learning across the year is taken into account.

Mrs Shaheen has taught some of our lessons this half term and we particularly enjoyed our

History topic where we learnt about seaside resorts and how they

have changed over the years.

Here we are sorting items that either

belong in the Victorian Times, today or

can be found in both time periods.

We loved the ‘Outdoor Classroom’

day that Mr Bedi arranged and it

was a great opportunity to take

Maths into the outdoors and improve our problem-solving skills

After the holidays we are looking forward to all the end of year

celebrations including a trip to Brighton and Sports Day.

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Year 3

Year 4

Year 4 have had a busy and fun start to the summer term. In history we have been learning about

the Anglo-Saxons. We learnt how they came to England after the Romans left, as part of our les-

sons we learnt about their villages, culture and what they did in day to day life. We also presented

an assembly to the school to which involved drama, facts and stories based on Anglo-Saxon life.

In English we have been reading 'Cliff Hanger' which was written by Jaqueline Wilson, this story

was all about a boy named Tim who was reluctantly sent to an adventure centre. The main problem

is that he HATES sports! It was a very funny book which the class recommends to read.

We were very lucky this term, we had a visitor from CLEAPSS (Mr Moezzi) come and worked with

us as part of a science activity. It was a great opportunity for us to use our skills in making cir-

cuits to make a 'steady hand game'. It was really fun and we learnt skills in providing costs, team

work and building circuits.

This term in Year 3 we have been doing a lot of exciting activities in and outside of the classroom.

We have started our swimming lessons and we love it! Every week we have a half an hour worth of

swimming and some of us are already learning how to float and swim independently. We will keep you

updated next term on our progress.

Maths is one of our favourite subjects and we have learnt different ways how to work out multipli-

cation problems. We are now able to use partitioning, expanded and grid method.

English has been all about instructions and how to write instructions. We linked

our History, Art and English lessons and constructed some instructions on how

to build Tudors masks and Tudor roses. We had amazing lessons writing our

draft instructions, testing the instructions (by making them), editing and then

writing our final drafts. Here are some of the end products.

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Year 5

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Year 5 Summer 1 in Year 6

Summer 1 is always an important term for Year 6 as they have completed their SATs tests. The whole class worked

very hard and tried their best. Mrs Tonge, Mrs Grewal and all the adults in school were extremely proud of their ef-

forts. The term hasn’t just been about SATs though as the children have also been busy making their own pots in con-

nection with the Shang Dynasty history topic (see photo).

Year 6 have also just started reading ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ – a brilliant book about a young boy

(William Beech) who is evacuated to the country during World War II. We wrote about the

first time William meets the man he is to stay with: Mr Tom. Below is an extract from Man-

raj’s work:

“Hurry up!” shouted the billeting officer.

“William Beech, I’m talking to you!” she barked.

Apprehensively, I looked at the brown-haired girl next to me, who was clinging on to her new teddy bear, then I

shoved open the gate and walked up the seemingly never-ending pathway. I’ve never had a teddy bear.

“Hurry up! We ent got all day boy!” Her voice chased me up the path to the small, flower-covered cottage. So I hooked

my elbows down and quickened my pace.

Knock, Knock, Knock! The knuckles of the officer rattled the hard, wooden door. Slowly, the door opened and an enor-

mous figure with rough, coarse, crinkled brown skin appeared, towering over me like a giant. He had a white beard and

a white bushy hair which stuck out in all directions.

What d’you want?” he said bluntly, looking fiercely at the billeting officer who blushed nervously.

Year 6 are now looking forward to their final half term at Beaconsfield with exciting events such as our PGL trip to

Osmington Bay and our Leavers’ Performance which this year will be a musical version of Aladdin!

During this half term Year 5 undertook many exciting and entertaining activities.

In English we focused on a myth called ‘Adventures of Odysseus’. Based on this myth we did some activities including

working in groups to create frieze frames, writing ‘bottle messages’, creating a newspaper article as well as many other

fun filled activities. My favourite lesson was linking Art with English and creating a visual representation of ‘Land of the

Dead’. We thoroughly enjoyed this lesson, as we could let our imagination run wild when painting the characters and set-

ting of the book.

In Mathematics we learnt many new strategies to solve mathematical skills for fractions ad-

dition, multiplication and conversion. I feel, we are much more confident in solving these diffi-

cult mathematical concepts. In our most recent lesson, which was based on rounding, we learnt

how to round whole numbers and decimals looking at the right column. It was very challenging

although we eventually managed to get through it.

In History we focused on Italy. We found out many interesting facts about this country such

us position on the map, climate, main cities and islands. Did you know that Italians eat spaghet-

ti only with a fork not using a spoon?

In Computing we created our own movie based on Italy using Windows Movie Make program.

We were able to save pictures from the Internet, copy and paste them into the Movie Maker,

create our own transitions between the slides as well as add special effects and captions. It

was so fun and entertaining! I’ve didn’t know how to use this program before, but now I’m quite

confident! This term we have a great opportunity to take part in the ‘London Primary Shakespeare project’. On 14h June we will be performing ‘Julius Caesar’ play in Acton High School. The play is broken down

into sections and each school in the borough is allocated with different segments. We will be

performing FINAL Act 4 and 5 of the play. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by Wil-liam Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra. . By Rabia

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Additional Resource Provision (ARP)

Dolphin Class

Starfish Class

Science Students in Starfish class went to

Southall Park. The aim was to find and

explore different common trees found in

Britain. This is part of the Science topic

Plants. Children practiced skills such as

matching pictures to objects and using

adjectives to describe different leaves

they found.

We have been learning

about the classification of

animals in our science les-

son. We are developing our

skills in categorising ani-

mals based on facts.

Our speech and language

sessions have also had an

animal focus and we are

learning to use our back-

ground knowledge to identi-

fy animals by asking ques-

tions :

Do I have fur?

Am I a mammal?

Does it live in

water?

We had our ARP assembly after Easter

Holidays. The Dolphin class boys read out

their poems on Dragons.

We learned about rhyming pairs and simi-

les.

“If I were a knight, I would dream to

fight a dangerous dragon. I would dream

about the dragon with the wide enormous

wings” Harjot Summan 2017

ARP Assembly

Students presented a snapshot of their learning about the develop-ment of transportation in History. Children demonstrated their read-

ing skills and showed to the school

the junk modelling vehicles they

made previously.

Outdoor Learning Day

Starfish class had a

Maths lesson on the

small playground.

Children gained ex-

tra motivation by

the change of envi-

ronment.

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Uniform We expect all pupils to wear the correct uniform at all times.

This includes ‘black shoes’ for all pupils (boys & girls). Trainers and boots are not part of our uniform and they should not be worn. Please ensure your child’s name is on every item of clothing as it is difficult to return items without names. Now that summer is here we end up with many more lost jumpers. Please ensure your child’s name is on all clothing.

School Information/Procedures

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Lost Property Our ‘Lost Property Box’ is located

inside the ‘exit door’ to the play-ground near the nursery playground.

Please ensure your child’s name is

on all clothes, lunch boxes, bags etc.

All pupils in Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Starfish class are current-ly entitled to a “free school lunch” each day. (A simple registration form is required to access this service)

In KS2, meals cost £2.30 per day (£11.50 per week)

The cost for the next half-term is £71.30 (31 days)

All school meals must be paid for in advance. Pupils in Year 5 & Year 6 will only be served a meal if they are in credit.

Payments should be made online: www.ealingmeals.com or by phone 020 8280 0318

School Meals

Costs

All of our school meals are cooked on-site

in our modern school kitchen.

Hot and cold options are offered daily in-

cluding the fresh salad bar.

Halal or Non-Halal meat options are avail-

able daily (Mon-Thur) with a vegetarian

only option on Friday. Special Lunch men-

us take place every few weeks.

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Free School Meals

There are many families in the school who may be

entitled to claim “Free School Meals”.

If you receive certain benefits such as ‘Job Seekers

Allowance’ or support from ‘Asylum Service’ you

are likely to be eligible.

A successful application can save you £437 in meal

costs BUT the government will also pay the school

up to £1400 for each eligible child to be used to

provide additional services or resources.

Please enquire at the school office for a ‘Free

School Meals Application’.

Packed Lunches

If your child is having a packed lunch we expect this to be

a healthy lunch at all times.

Items such as crisps, biscuits or a single small chocolate

bar can be included on a FRIDAY ONLY (as a treat)

Pupils who do not bring a lunch to school will be given a

school dinner and you will be charged £2.30. All packed

lunches must be brought with pupils at the start of the

day.

Breakfast Club

E-Safety Tips

E-Safety Tip

Please be aware of your child’s gaming activity on devices

such as computers, phones and tablets.

Recently there have been a number of cases were pupils

have been involved in games that have fatal consequences.

Please use the CEOP button on the front page of our web-

site to report any concerns .

Pre-pay discount for payments before Friday

9th June 2017

Breakfast is served between 7:45- 8:10am

ONLY

Having a Free Meal Application gives over a

40% discount on Breakfast Club.

Complete a ‘Free School Meals’ application

to see if you are eligible for the discounted

rate.

Daily

Weekly Half-term

(paid in ad-

vance till

18/07/17

Child Eligible for

Free School

Meals

80p

£4.00

£21.60

(includes a

pre-pay dis-

count)

Child

Not Eligible for

Free School

Meals

£1.50

£7.50

£42.00

(includes a

pre-pay dis-

count)

Our breakfast club runs every morning from

7:45am in our dining room. Breakfast is only

available up till 8:10am. If you arrive later you

may not be served breakfast.

Places are available for pupils from Nursery

through to Year 6.

Places are available. Please ask at the school

office if your require a registration form.

Costs for next half-term are:

‘Coffee Mornings’- All Welcome

Our next coffee morning will be on Wednesday

21st June at 9:00am in the Parent’s Room.

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Punctuality

The school day starts at 8:50am. Pupils are late if

they are not in their class line at this time. We expect

that pupils will be in the playground by 8:45am to

avoid being late.

In January we will be conducting some ‘gate checks’

at 8:50am and recording as ‘’late’’ all pupils who en-

ter the school grounds after 8:50am.

We always want to ‘encourage’ and

‘reward’ pupils who maintain excellent

attendance levels. In addition to our

termly ‘Bike Raffle’ we have our

‘’100%’’ Draw where

pupils who achieve

100% attendance for a term are able to

enter a draw for a £20 gift voucher.

We continue to run our termly 96% Club as a group reward. Unlike our other rewards which require a draw-

ing system to get a winner, the 96% Club will reward

every single pupil who achieves attendance above this

level.

Leave During Term Time

Please be aware that there is no automatic right for

leave from school. The Department for Education (DFE)

has instructed schools that leave may only be granted in

‘’exceptional circumstances’’.

We do expect that all leave /holidays are taken during

13 weeks of the year when school is closed. Any re-

quests for leave must be made in advance using the

school leave form.

“Exceptional circumstances’’ does not include: holidays,

attending weddings, cheap flights, religious festivals,

visiting sick relatives, engagements or grandparent re-

quests to see children. Reasons such as these will not

be authorised. This kind of absence will be referred to

the local authority for issuing fines and possible prose-

cutions.

Very sadly, because there have been instances where

families have lied to the school about deaths in a family

we now have to ask for evidence to support such leave

requests.

All parent/carers need to be aware that taking

“unauthorised leave’’ is an offence under section 444 of the Education Act (1996). Such an offence can be

subject to prosecution or liable for a penalty notice

(£120 per child)

Pupils who take unauthorised leave may be removed

from the school and will have to re-apply to Ealing Ad-

missions upon return to the UK. We have removed

pupils from the school roll for unauthorised absence

in the past.

‘Stay and Play’ Toddler Group is continuing to run 5 days

service from 9:00-am- 11:00am.

The group is in the dining room. Please pop along for a

cup of coffee/tea and join in with the fun

activities with your children.

Parents/carers must stay with their children during

the toddler group.

We do request a 50p contribution for each session

to help us with the costs of replacing resources.

‘Stay & Play’ Toddler Group

Attendance and Punctuality

Attendance at school is the key to

achieving excellent learning results.

Pupils cannot learn effectively if they

continue to miss school days. We ex-

pect all pupils to attend school for a

minimum of 96% of all sessions.

This allows enough time for the usual coughs, colds,

fevers etc. that all pupils will have from time to time.

Attendance is monitored by the school on a daily,

weekly and half-termly basis. If attendance is below

96% or there are ‘unauthorised absences’ you should

expect to receive letters, phone calls and even a visit

from the LA attendance officer. The Local Authority

(LA) does issue £120 fines for non-attendance.

If your child is absent due to illness/sickness we ask

that you phone the school by 9:45am to leave a mes-

sage using ‘Option 1’ of the answering machine and providing

* Your child’s name

* Your child’s class

* Reason for absence

When your child returns to school, you will need

to provide the school office with a written note ex-

plaining the reason for the absence. (Please note:

A written note is required even if you have phoned the

office).

Attendance Rewards and Prizes

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Date Event

Friday 26th May 2017 School Closes for Half Term Break

Monday 29th May - Fri 2nd June Half-Term Break

Monday 5th June 2017 INSET DAY - School Closed to Pupils

Wednesday 7th June 2017 Year 6 - TFL Workshop

Tuesday 13th June 2017 ARP Visit Day - Prospective Parents

Wednesday 14th June 2017 2pm - ‘New’ Reception Parents Meeting

Wednesday 14th June 2017 Year 5 Shakespeare Performance

Thursday 15th June 2017 KS2 Multi-Skills Tournament (Acton High School)

Thursday 22nd June 2017 Poland Day Activities

Wednesday 21st June 2017 Parents Coffee Morning - 9am

Friday 30th June 2017 (am) Year 3, 4, 5, 6 - Sports Day

Monday 3rd July 2017 - Friday 7th

July 2017

Year 6 leave for PGL Trip

Tuesday 4th July 2017

(am) Rec - Year 2 Sports Day

Wednesday 12th July 2017 FUN DAY

Friday 14th July 2017 International Day (EYFS - Year 6)

Monday 17th July 2017 Year 6 Leavers Assembly

Tuesday 18th July 2017 School Closes (1:30pm) for end of School Year

Monday 4th September 2017 INSET DAY - School Closed for Pupils

Tuesday 5th September 2017 Pupils return for start of Autumn Term

Dates, Assemblies, Celebrations

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Newsletter No 51— May 2017

Below are our approved school holiday dates through until July 2018. Please note these dates and ensure that any holiday bookings are made outside of the school terms.

1.

Summer Term 2017

Tuesday 18th April 2017-

Friday 26th May 2017

Half Term

Monday 29th May -

Friday 2nd June 2017

Tuesday 6th June 2017-

Tuesday 18th July 2017

INSET DAY

Monday 5th June 2017

2.

Autumn Term 2017

INSET DAY

Monday 4th September 2017

Tuesday 5th September 2017-

Friday 20th October 2017

Half Term

Monday 23rd October -

Friday 27th October 2017

Monday 30th October -

Wednesday 20th December

2017

INSET DAY

Friday 1st December 2017

3.

Spring Term 2018

Thursday 4th January 2018-

Friday 9th February 2018

Half Term

Monday 12th February 2018–

Friday 16th February 2018

Monday 19th February 2018–

Thursday 29th March 2018

INSET DAY

Wednesday 3rd January 2018

4.

Summer Term 2018

Monday 16th April-Friday 25th

May 2018

Bank Holiday—Monday 7th May

Half Term

Monday 28th May 2018 -

Friday 1st June 2018

Tuesday 5th June 2018—

Friday 13th July 2018

INSET DAY

To be confirmed

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CLASS TEACHER SUPPORT STAFF

Nursery Miss Liz Paignton Miss Sana Mohammed Ms. Shelley Marbay (P/T)

Reception Yellow Mrs Asha Jassi Miss Kayleigh Morrissey

Reception Blue Miss Rosa Sanders Ms Vicklin Chase

Year 1 Yellow Mrs Punam Sharma (Senior Teacher)

Lower Phase Team Mrs Kulwinder Singh Mrs Bhupinder Bhachu Mrs Hema Dave Mrs Saima Ahmed

Year 1 Blue Mrs Gurmeet Jagyasi

Year 2 Mrs Philippa Stubbs (Assistant Head Teacher)

Year 3 Mr Anthony Chambers

Year 4 Mr Ram Bedi (SLT Member)

Upper Phase Team Ms Suad Jama Mrs Devi Bhachu Mrs Amrit Grewal

Year 5 Mr Jakub Bocian

Year 6 Mrs Helen Tonge (Senior Assistant Head Teacher)

Starfish Class (Reception/KS1)

Mr Jozsef Barna ARP SUPPORT TEAM Mrs Shaheen Bhatti (Mon-Thur) Mrs Sukhwinder Kaur Ms. Natasha O’Connor Mr David Nermut Mrs Surinder Panesar Mrs Narinder Kaur (P/T) Ms Joanne Towell (P/T)

Dolphin Class (KS2)

Ms Tanya Lefort (Assistant Head Teacher/ARP Leader)

BEACONSFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL STAFF LIST 2016/2017

Mr Dave Woods (Head Teacher/Child Protection Lead)

Mrs Smita Moezzi - (‘Numbers Count Teacher’ + SLT Member)

Additional Support Staff

Mrs Surbjit Jaswal - Senior Teaching Assistant

Mrs Suman Mohan - Senior Teaching Assistant

Mrs Fouzia Butt - Play Worker (crèche) + Lunchtime Play Leader

Mrs Zakira Haling - SEN Pupil Support

Miss Keeley Ward - (EYFS Apprentice)

Office Staff

Mrs B Gill - School Business Manager

Mrs J Johal - School Administrator

Mrs R Sandhu - Administrative Assistant

Site Manager

Mr D Burman - Site & Activities Manager