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LADYWOOD SCHOOL

Dear Parents/Carers

Welcome to the first of this year’s Newsletter and a special welcome to

our new families who have joined us this term. The pupils have settled in

extremely well and it has been lovely seeing them grow and develop in

school.

This half term we have held a number of activities to invite parents/

carers into school; the Reception ‘Magic Moments’ afternoon was a

fabulous event and the Macmillan Coffee Morning raised a fabulous

amount – thank you to everyone who supported these events. In

addition, we have changed the format of our Parents Evening in

response to feedback from last year’s parent questionnaire. We would

welcome feedback on the night by any parent/carer who attended the

extra sessions.

Finally, we had our very first class assembly of the year which was based

on ‘Harvest’. Well done to Class 6K!

We wish everyone a lovely half term.

Susan

Important Reminder

School will close for the October half term at 3pm on Friday 18th October

and re-opens on Monday 28th October.

Meet Our Senior Leadership Team

Susan Tailor

Head of School

Sally Mcfarlane

Executive

Headteacher

Gillian Houghton

Deputy Head Teacher

Lynsey Brierley

Assistant Head

Yvonne Heywood

Assistant Head

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Attendance

At Ladywood we pride ourselves on high levels of pupil attendance and

value the relationship with parents/carers in promoting this. We

understand that attendance will be affected by a pupils health and

also attending medical appointments. Time off school for other things (eg.

holidays, family events etc.) will only be approved by the Head of School

for exceptional circumstances and must be requested using a leave of

absence form which is available from the school office. We

appreciate your support in maintaining regular patterns of attendance.

World Mental Health Day #Helloyellow

We had a well being week in support of World Mental Health Day and we

supported the charity Young Minds in their #helloyellow campaign.

The children and staff had a fantastic time wearing yellow and taking part

in a number of wellbeing activities including yoga, mindfulness, massage,

emoji biscuit decorating and craft activities. We raised over £120.

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Harvest Assembly

We had a wonderful Harvest assembly, Well done Class 6K.

We wanted to thank parents/ carers for attending and

sending in all the food donations these were greatly

received by Urban Outreach.

Operation Encompass

Ladywood School is in partnership with Bolton Safeguarding

Board and Greater Manchester Police in a project called

"Bolton Encompass". The project is designed to provide

support for children who may be impacted on by domestic

violence. Information from Encompass will be shared with

Mrs Susan Tailor and Mrs Gillian Houghton who have been

identified as key adults at Ladywood. The key adults will

ensure that appropriate supportive strategies are put in

place.

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Birthdays

Parents

It was great seeing so many of you at our Macmillian coffee

morning we raised over £400 which is fantastic, and it is lovely to see

how well your children have settled at Ladywood. During our next

half term we will be holding a range of social, training and

fundraising events, we would love to see you all there.

Staff Updates

Jenson — 6P

Royal — 2P

Antony — 1S

Baran — 3C

Hasnain — 1T

Callum — R1

Jack — 6K

Euan — 6H

Benjamin — 1S

Hamza — 3J

Malcolm — 6H

Willow — 2B

Jayden — R1

Marcus — 4B

Seth — 3J

Tobias — 4B

Imaan — 3B

Bethany — 5M

Thomas — 4B

Muhammad — R2

Jack — 3J

Michael —6P

Oliver — 3C

We say goodbye to SMSA Karen Lewis this Month.

We welcome 2 new staff members in October —

SMSAs Adele Haslam and Michelle White

Noah—1F

Finlay — 5M

Sonia — 6P

Katie — 2S

Affan — R2

Abbyness — 1T

Hope — 1S

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Little Ladywood

We are very excited to inform you that our Reception children

will be moving to “Little Ladywood” next half term where they

will continue to grow learn and develop.

The whole school wish the children, their parents and staff good

luck with the move.

The Lost Carnival of Little Lever

We have some fantastic news . All the schools in Little Lever have

been awarded funding from the Heritage Lottery to explore the

heritage of the carnival that used to be held in Little Lever. We have

some amazing activities planned over the year based around this

theme. We are looking forward to working with all the other schools

and lots of different artists. We will keep you updated as we progress

through the project.

Awards

We are proud to announce that we have been nominated for 2

Nasen awards.

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Ladywood Blog

Please don’t forget to check the blog for daily/weekly updates on the

children’s learning and all the exciting activities that have been

happening around school. The blog is a great way for everyone to

communicate and to keep up to date. We now have a speech

therapy section on our blog.

http://blog.ladywood.bolton.sch.uk/

Tuck

May we remind parents of non-

pupil premium children of the

voluntary contribution of £1.00 a

week towards your child’s tuck.

Allergen Aware

Ladywood School would like to ask for everyone’s help in promoting

allergen awareness. In line with guidance from Anaphylaxis

Campaign, please try not to send or bring any nut, nut products or nut

derivatives into school. As a school we are keen to do our best to

promote health and well being for

everyone.

Dinner Money

Just a reminder dinner money is £1.70/day, £8.50/week. Please ensure

money coming into school is clearly labelled. Should you wish your

child to change from sandwiches to school meals or vice versa please

can you give the school office notice. Should you wish to pay by

cheque, please make cheques payable to Ladywood School.

Dinner money can also be paid for the half term or for the term.

Contact Information

Can you please ensure that

contact details and

medical information for your

child are up-to-date.

If you are unsure

please contact the

main office on 01204

333400.

Sickness

Please be aware that if your child

has an episode of sickness and/

or diarrhoea they need to be

kept off school for 48 hours from

the last bout of sickness.

All schools are expected to

adhere to this guidance from The

Community Infection Prevention

and Control Team.

Many thanks in

anticipation of

your support.

support.

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Diary Dates

Thursday 31st October — Halloween Disco with £1.00

donation to raise money for our new school library.

Friday 22nd November 10am-11am — Reading Training

Wednesday 13th November 5pm-6pm —Friends of

Ladywood Annual committee meeting with a crèche

for school aged children.

Thursday 28th November- Non-uniform day for

children’s tombola

Friday 6th December — Non-uniform day for bottle

tombola

Friday 6th December - 6pm-7.30pm Christmas Market

and Disco

We would like to do some parent craft mornings next

half term with the children based around Diwali and

Christmas.

If you would like to help out or run an activity can you

please email

friendsofladywood@ladywood.bolton.sch.uk or write a

note in your child’s diary.