Church Road Primary

School March 2018

16/03/18 1G family assembly 9:15am

19/03/18 Sports relief week!

21/03/18 Y6 to Blackpool Tower

21/03/18 Art exhibition in town centre

23/03/18 Non uniform day for Easter Bingo 50p

23/03/13 1Y family assembly 9:15am

28/03/18 Easter Bingo 6pm

29/03/18 School finishes for Easter holidays

16/04/18 School opens for Summer term (MONDAY)

20/04/18 Swimming lessons start for Y5

03/05/18 School closed—local elections

04/05/18 School closed—training day

Happy Birthday to all our children celebrating in March

Staff News We have two pieces of good news to share with

you this month. Mrs Harrison is expecting a baby

in the Autumn. Both she and Mr Harrison are very

excited and young Joey will make a great big

brother, we’re sure!

Mrs Docherty has passed her qualification for

headship (NPQH) with flying colours. It’s no

longer a requirement for headship, but it is a

great platform to launch her headship at Church

Road School. Well done Mrs Docherty!

Long weekend holiday opportunity!

We have tried to give families a chance to have a long

weekend break in the spring, perhaps at a cheaper rate

whilst everyone else is at work. We have to close the school

for polling on Thursday 3rd May and we have

put another training day on 4th May. The

bank holiday will be on 7th May. This might

give families the chance to get away for a

long weekend without any school absences

to worry about!

Lucia Boaro Istvan Horvath Hazel Lindley Harry Twist Harvey Claridge Rihanna Pomfret Ruby Wigley Sienna Derbyshire Erika Wolstencroft

Luca Boaro-Walch

Katie Dodd Malakai Farrant Noah Smith Maximus Collins Leon Gornall Theo Duffy Daisy Roberts Matthew Chen Alfie Atherton Daman Bukhari

Diana Hegedus Niamh Mulraney Emilia Robinson Eliza Saunders Madison Gorman Elsie Travers Aston Taylor Shannon Rutherford Lexie Oldham Viyan Patel

Mohammad Hasan Marley Kelly Jacob Kerr Matthew Wildman

Allotment There have been a few visits to the

allotment recently. The children are

chitting their potatoes on the classroom

windowsills and digging over their plots

to get rid of the winter weeds.

We are also planning to plant up the incredible

edible troughs in the KS1 playground in the next

few weeks. This means that the children will be

able to see the first shoots appearing in April and

may be able to eat the vegetables

after half term in the summer—how

lovely!

The strawberries and raspberries are

beginning to throw up new shoots too.

Summer Term At the start of each term we usually

open on a Tuesday...but not this time!

We have rearranged our training days

this year to make the long weekend

(see below) so we will open on Monday

16th April, bright and sparkly as always!

Attendance Our attendance is picking up a little, which is great news. We haven’t hit the dizzy heights of 96% yet, but we are

getting there. Last month our attendance was

95.7% So far this year our attendance is

95% Which is the same as last month, but I promise the figures are improving. We will be handing out attendance

badges at the start of next term. I think we might need to order a few more!

CHURCH road art on tour!

We have had a lot of lovely art work done

in school over the past few weeks. Here

are the children in Reception

preparing their

work for our Art

Exhibition in the

town centre on

21st March. Our

Governor who

champions the

arts, Peter Cunliffe,

has offered once

again to host an

Art Exhibition at his

offices on Silverwell Street and at the Parish

Church in the town centre.

The children are all creating a piece of art

work to be displayed. Fieldings Porter will

be awarding prizes for the artwork, and the

prize winners will be displayed in their newly

decorated offices.

As well as the art work there will be an

opportunity for children to showcase their

music skills and the choir will be performing.

It should be a great opportunity to

showcase our wonderful children’s talents.

BINGO! Our ever popular Easter Bingo will be held on Wednesday 28th

March. The doors will open at 6pm and we will be “eyes down” at 6:30pm.

You can buy your tickets from the office for £1.50, which is your ticket for the first game “stand up bingo”, so don’t forget to

bring it along on the night! On the night you will need to buy bingo cards for £1 for

a book of 6 games. There will be refreshments and a raffle. Make sure you get your

tickets quickly as they sell like hot cakes (or maybe hot cross buns!)

If you are able to donate any cakes for the café they would be very gratefully received. Please send them into school on the

morning of 28th March. Don’t forget our non uniform day on 23rd March—just 50p to put towards

buying some fabulous Easter Eggs.

Sport at Church road! Miss Shacklady and her team have been busy over the past few months getting our children involved in sports

competitions. The children have been to a variety of venues and have taken part in netball, rounders, athletics

and dance.

The teams have been a real credit to the school and their families. Thank you for representing us so

enthusiastically!

A message from Mrs Fenton Well, after ten years and a term of headship at Church Road School, this is my final newsletter.

I also used to write a newsletter at my previous school, so a total of 223 newsletters. I think that

deserves a medal (but retirement will do!)

I came to Church Road School in January 2008. I was ready for a new challenge and that is

exactly what I got. It has been a challenge, but I have had the most rewarding time. From the

children who were in Y6 in 2008, most of whom are celebrating their 21st birthdays this year, to

the children currently in our nursery. They have all been a joy to work with. I’m not saying

there haven’t been a few challenging children over the years, but even the most challenging

have their good points!

I have loved the children’s enthusiasm and eagerness to learn. They are stars! The staff in

school are wonderful. They often go the extra mile to make sure that the children not only

achieve well, but also have lots on fun and exciting experiences whilst

doing so. I am leaving the school in good hands.

Thank you for all the good wishes I have received for my retirement. I

am excited about caravan holidays, knitting and sewing, walking but

most of all spending time with my family, especially Jack, who is now 7

months old and, I’m sure, looking forward to more Granny time!

My very best wishes to you all!

Catherine Fenton

The children are gearing up to join in the Sports Relief challenge next week. The sport team

have put their heads together and have decided to set a challenge to walk for miles! We

hope to work together to clock up 1500 miles between us during next week. There are 430

children as well as all the staff in school, so we’re sure we can do that! The challenge will

take place throughout the week, but our main day will be Thursday 22nd March when the

children may come to school in their sporty clothes. On this day we hope to clock up the

majority of miles. We will keep a score in school and let you know at the end of next week

how many miles we have achieved.

On Thursday, when the children are wearing their own clothes, please send a donation for

us to pass on to Sports Relief. We usually ask for a £1 donation, but please feel free to donate more if you wish!

100% badges We will be discontinuing the 100% attendance

badges after the summer term.

They have not been as effective as we had hoped.

The children who had persistent absence continued

to be absent, the lure of a shiny badge

wasn’t enough to encourage them to come to

school every day. The other side of the coin was that

those children who were generally good attenders,

but unfortunately had bouts of illness, were getting

upset at losing their badge. Obviously, they couldn’t

help being ill!

Our attendance is improving, We will now work even

more directly with the parents of children who are

persistently absent from school to try to further

improve our attendance.

Just to emphasise that we will be giving out badges

at the start of the summer term, gold silver and

bronze!

World Book day Thank you to everyone who joined in with

World Book Day. There were some fabulous

costumes and the

children had great fun

throughout the day. Here

are the pictures of our

winners. If you are confused,

Mrs Fenton is dressed as

Police Officer Penny, a book

written by our very own Mrs

Harrison!

Year Four enjoyed a fabulous day in

the Lake District recently. They visited

“The World of Beatrix Potter” had a

ride on a steamer on Lake

Windermere and visited Brockholes.

Here they were on the boat on a

typically overcast Lakeland day!

Congratulations to all these children who had 100% attendance in the month of February

Faraz Afzal

Mohammed Akbar

Alisha Aldred

Iraj Ali

Hamza Ali

Sally Aljandel

Bailey Allen

Marcus Allen

Joshua Anderson

Alfie Atherton

Chloe Atherton

Miley Atkinson

Poppy Atkinson

Ramzi Ayoub

Romaisa Ayoub

Lia Basar

Imaan Begum

Ruhma Begum

Rowan Beswick

Hollie Birmingham

Lucia Boaro

Luca Boaro-Walch

Katelyn Bowden

George Bowen

Willow Bowen-Fereday

Danny Bradshaw

Alexia Brett

Karsen Brett

Evy Briggs

JJ Brooks

Kurtis Brooks

Brooke Brown

Zack Brown

Alexander Bruce

Bethany Bryson

Isabella Butler

Keira Butler

Maddox Byrne

Danniella Campbell

Ella Cann

Catelyn Carney

Rhys Carter

Chester Cavenay

Kiara Chapman

Matthew Chen

Abdul Choudry

Meerab Choudry

Phoebe Christian

George Claridge

Gethin Clarke

Maximus Collins

Abby Cooke

Ashton Lee Cooper

Ava Critchley

Mia Crompton

Harvey Crossley

Reuben Crossley

Finley Culver

Ryan Cunliffe

Isabelle Dawson

Ebony Day

Kourtney De Cort

Ariella De Vantier

Charlie Derbyshire

Harry Derbyshire

Kaden Devine

Jessica Dobson

Lauren Dobson

Leland Dobson

Katie Dodd

Benjamin Doran-Fisk

Isaac Doran-Fisk

Italo Dos Santos

Theo Duffy

Lanie Dunn

Callum Enright

Shane Entwistle

Izzi Ettenfield-Rutley

Leyton Fadden

Jamie Fagan

Jasmin Farooq Flynn

Malakai Farrant

Carmella Fogg

Ajla Frmic

Amna Frmic

Kate Gallamore

Lucy Gallamore

Lorenzo Gatete Gatera

Logan Gatete Gatera

Lorena Gatete Gatera

Amira Gettins

Lilly Glen

Mukamba Gloriose

Mitika Gloriose

James Goodwin

Lacey Gorman

Kayden Gould

James Gray

Elliot Greenhalgh

Jason Guo

Tommy Guo

Eliza Hackin

Logan Hacking

Hamid Hamid

Ruby Handley

Lily Mae Harper

Jessica Harrison

Ethan Haslam

Hana Hassan

Alicia Haywood

Savannah Haywood

Angelica Henry

Julian Henry

William Hoban

Cameron Hodgkinson

Macey-Lou Holden

Annabelle Holgate

Jacob-James Holgate

Erin Holt

Eli Hopkinson

Morgan Howard

Max Hudson

Ruby Rose Humphries

Summer Humphries

Emily Illingworth

Ali Iqbal

Kasim Iqbal

Kayden Jackson

Kayden Jackson-Bond

Mehar Jan

Alicia Jones

Ryan Jubb

Indiana Julien

Zainab Junaid

Shakil Kabir

Agnes Kakucsi

Eszter Kakucsi

Rahib Karimi

Layla Kay

Jayden Kelly

Marley Kelly

Matthew Kenyon

Jacob Kerr

Isha Khan

Sehar Khan

Darcie Killen

Declan Killen

Astin Kingham

Holly Kinsella

Lara Latham

Lukas Leach

Max Lee

Ethan Leonard

Jacob Leyland

Hazel Lindley

Ollie Lomax

Ruby Lomax

Hannah Lovick

Lexi MacDougall

Scarlett MacDougall

Thomas Malkin

Annabel Malloy

Ella Malloy

Kobey Mann

Ryley Marsden

Casey Lea Marsh

Oscar Marsh

Jessica Martin

Erika Mason

Harley Mason

Tommy Mason

Evie Masters

Oliver Mataciunas

Kenzie Mather

Erin McFadden

Isabella McGuire

Meerwis Meerwis

Evie Mohammed

Luis Monteiro

Caitlyn Montgomery

Tianna Moore

Evie Mort

Jacob Mulraney

Niamh Mulraney

Olivia Mulraney

Haleema Nadeem

Jayden Naylor

Nathan Naylor

Shay Naylor

Amygrace Neasham

Kyara Nishimwe

Acey Nuttall

Olivia Nuttall

Emmanuel Odol

Neto Odol

Cameron Ogden

Rowan Ogden

Caitlin Openshaw

Joshua Orton

Justin Orton

Rehan Patel

Viyan Patel

Amelia Picketts

Lily Pickles

Lucas Pickles

Lily Pitfield

Jocelyn Pollitt

Lexi Pollitt

Bianca Pomfret

Rihanna Pomfret

Marnie Pykett

Annabell Rainford

Molly Reay-Court

Sienna Reay-Court

Aleena Riaz

Linden Rice

Jack Richardson

Arthur Rigg

Daisy Roberts

EmiliaRobinson

Grace Robinson

Leonii Robinson

Harvey Rushton-Smith

Cal Ryder

Ella Ryder

Ella Sadikeen

Finlay Sadikeen

Kevin Sanca Embalo

Eliza Saunders

Alice Saywood

Lacey Seddon

Leon Sesay

Kaneez Shah

Aaron Shan

Amelia Shan

Daniel Shaw

Oliver Sleith

Demi-Leigh Smith

Lucas Smith

Lucas Snowden

Alexis-Jayde South

Charlie Spenceley

Conor Spendlove

Jack Spendlove

Joseph-Lewis Stanley

Amber Sudding

Joshua Sudding

Liam Sullavan

Joe Sykes

Aston Taylor

Charlie Taylor

Faye Taylor

Jack Taylor

James Taylor

Jessica Taylor

Max Taylor

Oliver Taylor

Samuel Taylor

Tiegan Thomson

Molly Travers

Jayden Tully

Robert Turnbull

Elliott Twist

Harry Twist

Fasih Uddin

Alice Vaughan

Rosie Vaughan

Gracie Walsh

Austin Ward

Harley Ward

Summer Ward

Maya Ward-Rosbottom

Morgan Weber

Jude Wheatley

Adam Whitehouse

Leo Whitley

Ruby-Louise Whitty

Alex Wigley

Ruby Wigley

Matthew Wildman

Katie Willcox

Lauren Willcox

Imogen Williams

Erika Wolstencroft

Declan Wood

Samuel Woodall

Daniel Woodcock

Sky Worsley

Ethan Worthington

Olivia Wright

Oscar Wright

Gabrielle Yates

William Yates

293 pupils