Church Road Primary

School October 2016

21/10/16 Wear it Pink Day

21/10/16 School closes for half term

31/10/16 School reopens for new half term

17/11/16 Ladies night

17/11/16 Children in Need (Spotacular)

18/11/16 School Photographer in from 8:45

23/11/16 Parents’ Evening 3:45—7:00

7/12/16 Christmas Market

9/12/16 Cinderella Pantomime for whole school

23/12/16 School finishes at 2pm

Happy Birthday to all our children celebrating in October

Staff news

All the staff try to make themselves accessible to

families at the beginning and end of the day. If you

want to have a chat with a teacher about any-

thing, it’s best to make an appointment, so that

they can give you their full attention.

Parents’ evening is coming up after half term, watch

out for the booking letter in the children’s book

bags.

Imaan Begum Megan Bowden Erin McFadden Lillie Barratt Lissy Chadwick Callum Enright Darcie Killen Wen Cong Lin Mohaib Tariq Luke Martindale Syeda Bukhari Blake Butler Alex Openshaw

Jayden Tully Reagon Whalley Declan Killen Elliot Greenhalgh Ethan Haslam Caitlyn Montgomery Leon Shepherdson Logan Hodgkinson Adam Laz Aaryan Mistry Maisie Bowen Khadija Shah Billy Thomson

Jack Neasham Oliver Beswick Paige Claridge Max Murray Muhammad Muhammad Muhammed Ali Poppy Openshaw Leonii Robinson Daniella Campbell Annabell Rainford Jack Richardson Karsen Brett Meava Tenesha Dahe Nguethe

Parking The vast majority of families have been super

supportive and have kept cars away from

Moorlands Grove and Brooklands Grove. There are

a few people though, who are still risking

injuring children by insisting on bringing cars close to

the school entrance. The streets were not

designed for cars, they are generally too narrow,

really only suitable for pedestrians.

Please, don’t bring cars up Moorlands Grove or

Brookland Grove. Follow the example of the

majority and walk to school, or at least part of the

way to school.

We have had a few near misses recently. It is every

drivers responsibility to keep all children safe, not just

the ones in your car.

NEVER park on or opposite the zigzag markings

around school. They are there to keep all children

safe.

Thank you

BOOK bags We have book bags on sale in the office, with the

new school logo on. They are available for £4.00.

Please don’t feel compelled to buy one if your

old style one is still going strong, they do last well!

Early finish at Christmas

We don’t ususally finish early at the end of the

autumn term, but as we are holding on to the

children until 23rd December, we have decided

to finish at 2pm, to give people a little extra time

to prepare for Christmas.

Building work We are drawing to the end of our building work now, there is just a last minute rush to get rid of the

portakabin and get the new offices established ready for the start of next half term. There has been an

unavoidable delay on the roller shutter for the kitchen serving counter. This is a vital piece of fire

resistant equipment for the kitchen and, unfortunately, we won’t be able to prepare hot meals until it

is installed. We will be serving sandwiches just for the first week after half term. We have been promised

that if they can get a hot meal out on the Friday of that week, they will! It’s such a shame because

Mandy is really looking forward to getting in there and creating meals. It will be worth it in the end!

With the end of the building work will come a relief for our neighbours who have been very patient

about parking around school. The staff will have a carpark for their cars, which should ease things.

Our main entrance will now be off Moorlands Grove, although during the day you will also be able to

access the office off Captain’s Clough Road on foot, using the top gate.

PTA news and events We have a few events coming up for the PTA. We are

mentally preparing ourselves for the two doses of

Spooky Disco that are coming up this week….all the

tickets have now been sold. If you are able to bake

some buns or biscuits for the café at the disco, please

drop them off on Wednesday morning.

On 17th November, the same day as the

Spotacular, we are holding another Ladies night. The

last evening was a great success with lots of

opportunities to buy new clothes, or try new beauty

products, as well as a chance to chat to some familiar

faces from the playground.

Please put the date in your diaries and try to

persuade your friends to come along.

We will be having a Christmas Market in school on 7th

December. In the run up we will be holding non

uniform days to gather in some tombola prizes and

our world famous “non parents room”.

More details in the November newsletter!

Bags 2 School

Your kind donations for Bags 2 School have raised £88

towards PTA funds. Many thanks!

School dinners and packed lunches As we approach the re-opening of the kitchen,

we thought this would be a good time to remind

you all about the great value school meals we

have on offer. All children in reception class, Y1

and Y2 get a free school meal every day. When

the children move into Y3 the cost of the meal is

heavily subsidised by Bolton Council to £1.25 a

day, which is fantastic value for money. The food

is lovely and is freshly cooked on the premises

each day by Mandy and her lovely team.

If your child would

prefer to bring

sandwiches to school,

there are a few things

to bear in mind to

make sure the school

complies with its

“Healthy School

Status”

Please make sure the

packed lunch is

healthy. We don’t

allow chocolate bars,

or fried crisps.

Chocolate cake is a lovely treat and sometimes

we have that in school, but just once a week.

Baked crisps are ok, not great, but ok!

If you could avoid blackcurrant juice, that would

be really helpful, it stains the tables!

Please don’t send in fizzy drinks.

Thanks for your co-

operation with this.

On the whole the

kids are great with

their packed

lunches, but every

now and then it

helps to have a

reminder!

Playtime snacks and classroom drinks We have noticed that some children are playing

fast and loose with the rules about snacks at

playtime! Just a quick reminder that as with the

packed lunches, they should be healthy snacks,

fruit, yoghurt, cheese, cereal bar for example.

During the day in school children are allowed

plain water only. No

flavoured water, even if

it is not coloured it is

still not allowed.

The children are

allowed free access to

their drinks during

lessons as we believe

hydration is good for

the brain.

Attendance Our attendance is looking ok...ish at the

moment. We have had an outbreak of chicken

pox in EYFS and Y1 which hasn’t helped, but is

beyond everyone’s control!

There are still families taking holiday in term time

which is really disappointing. We do understand

how important holidays are for families, but it is

harder to understand when the holidays are for

three weeks, or are second holidays in the year.

Please try to avoid any time away from school. It

is the only thing that Ofsted consistently find to

criticise time after time. We really need to

improve by 0.5% this year.

The attendance so far this year is

95.5% Which is 0.5% under where we need to be.

Allotment Well done to Y2 who have had yet another harvest

from the allotment, this time the baby corn has come

back to school. I think the Y2 classes win the

“biggest harvest” award!

School photographs Our school photographer is in on Friday18th November.

She will start taking photographs from 8:45 in the school

hall. The first photographs are always of families with

children who are not in school. If you have a child at

another school, or if they are preschool age, please

bring them along at 8:45 and we will get the pictures of

them together.

Throughout the rest of the day we will get the other

pictures taken, of children in family groups (if they

haven’t already been done first thing) and individual

pictures.

If you have any particular requests, please let us know

and we can do our best to accommodate. Maybe you

want a set of cousins together as a Christmas present

for grandparents?

We are assured that the photographs, although taken

later in the year than usual, will be back in school in time

for Christmas.

Back packs As the colder weather approaches we are

having trouble fitting all the coats and bags

on the pegs in school. We know the children

love their backpacks, but could we please ask

that the children just bring a small drawstring

bag into school with their PE kit in. Homework

and reading books are best transported in

school book bags. Thank you so much for your

co-operation in this. It’ll be great not to be

tripping over coats and backpacks after half

term!

This year Children In Need is on November 18th. As you

can see above, that is the very day our school

photographer is in. As lovely as it would be to have

school photographs in spotty gear, we have

decided to hold our spotacular a day early on Thursday

17th November.

The children and staff are invited to come to school

wearing as many spots as they can! We are really

looking forward to seeing how many spots (apart form

their chicken pox) they can squeeze into their outfits.

We will be doing spotty fun filled activities throughout

the day. If your child would like to join in with the

spotacular, please send them in their spotty outfits with

£1 donation for Children in Need.

We will also do a cake sale on the day, so if you can

donate cakes (the spottier the better) then please bring

them in on the morning of 17th November. If children

want to buy cakes at break time, they’ll need another

50p or so.

We’ll forego our Healthy Eating policy for the day!

Head lice We recently had a text suggesting that our head lice

problem “is getting beyond a joke”. I think this arises

because we are trying to be helpful. Many years

ago all schools were advised by health professionals

not to notify parents of instances of head lice in

school, because they are ever present in all

communities. We did stick to that for a while, but

eventually we began to send texts to alert parents.

This has not alleviated the problem, but it has

heightened everyone’s awareness. We don’t have

any more head lice than any other school or

community group. The only way to deal with head

lice is by checking your children’s hair each day by

combing thoroughly each evening to remove any

live lice, before they lay eggs.

If you need to treat any lice, then the chemist will be

able to advise you.

Please don’t buy “preventative” treatments, I am

assured that they don’t work.

We will speak to individual parents if we see head

lice on a child’s hair. We are doing our

best, but they are resilient creatures,

who are just as common now as they

were when the nit nurse used to visit!

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

Alfie Alberts

Alisha Aldred

Bailey Allen

Marcus Allen

Joshua Anderson

Alfie Atherton

Chloe Atherton

Isabelle Banner

Bentley Barnes

Jessica Barnes

Adassa Beaufort-Harwood

Oliver Beswick

Rowan Beswick

Jason Billington

Luca Boaro-Walch

Katelyn Bowden

Maisie Bowen

Willow Bowen-Fereday

Kaitlyn Bowles

Kaden Brooks

Kurtis Brooks

Brooke Brown

Zack Brown

Alexander Bruce

Bethany Bryson

Blake Butler

Harvey Butler

Maisie Butler

Danniella Campbell

Max Campbell

Mckenzie Campbell

Tiffany Campbell

Kiara Chapman

Matthew Chen

Aidan Clare

George Claridge

Harvey Claridge

Paige Claridge

Gethin Clarke

Abby Cooke

Ashton Lee Cooper

Mia Crompton

Reuben Crossley

Finley Culver

Olivia Cunliffe

Ryan Cunliffe

Tenesha Dahe Nguethe

Leah Davies

Thomas Davies

Chantelle Dawson

Isabelle Dawson

Kenzie Dawson

Ebony Day

Ariella De Vantier

Charlie Derbyshire

Lacey Derbyshire

Sienna Derbyshire

Kaden Devine

Ellen Dixon

Jessica Dobson

Leland Dobson

Benjamin Doran-Fisk

Lydia Downs

Theo Duffy

Lanie Dunn

Joshua Entwistle

Izzi Ettenfield-Rutley

Maddison Evans

Jamie Fagan

Jasmin Farooq Flynn

Carmella Fogg

Kate Gallamore

Stephanie Garner

Julia Gaweda

Przemyslaw Gaweda

Amira Gettins

Eduardo Gherghelas

Mukamba Gloriose

Mitika Gloriose

Thomas Goodram

Madison Gorman

Kayden Gould

Aaron Gray

Elliot Greenhalgh

Chloe Gregson

Tommy Guo

Lily Mae Harper

Jessica Harrison

Ethan Haslam

Jack Hennessey

Lucas Hilton

William Hoban

Annabelle Holgate

Jacob-James Holgate

Summer-Louise Holmes

Erin Holt

Eli Hopkinson

Ronnie Hopkinson

Krisztian Horvath

Morgan Howard

Summer Humphries

Emily Illingworth

Faye Jackson

Kayden Jackson

Kelsey Jackson

Kayden Jackson-Bond

Alicia Jones

Jacob Jones

Ryan Jubb

Indiana Julien

Abayode Junaid

Zainab Junaid

Dorina Kakucsi

Eszter Kakucsi

Kamilla Kakucsi

Agnes Kakusi

Wojtek Kalan

Madisson Kay

Jayden Kelly

Marley Kelly

Renae Kelly

Matthew Kenyon

Astin Kingham

Chloe Kinsella

Holly Kinsella

Tyron Laniyan

Lara Latham

Chloe Leach

Ethan Leonard

Corey Lester

Jacob Leyland

Wen Cong Lin

Ollie Lomax

Ruby Lomax

Hannah Lovick

Aimee Magee

Mercedesz Major

Thomas Malkin

Amelia Malloy

Ella Malloy

Kobey Mann

Ryley Marsden

Jessica Martin

Luke Martindale

Harley Mason

Evie Masters

Erin McFadden

Isabella McGuire

Aaryan Mistry

Jaya Mistry

Layla Mistry

Evie Mohammed

Imani Mohammed

Leoni Monteiro

Luis Monteiro

Caitlyn Montgomery

Ava Mort

Evie Mort

Chi Chi Mulenga

Jacob Mulraney

Olivia Mulraney

Max Murray

Robyn Murray

Aisha Nadeem

Haleema Nadeem

Jayden Naylor

Shay Naylor

Andras Nemeth

Jazmin Nemeth

Ashton Nguethe

Cameron Ogden

Rowan Ogden

Adenike Ojerinde

Olamide Ojerinde

Poppy Openshaw

Katie Orduna

Ruby Ottley

Anna-May Peyton

Amelia Picketts

Lilly Pickles

Lewis Pierce

Lily Pitfield

Hannah Platt

Jocelyn Pollitt

Bianca Pomfret

Rihanna Pomfret

Dan Porter

Grace Porter

Alexander Prescott

Emily Quinton

Annabell Rainford

Molly Reay-Court

Grace Reddyhough

Linden Rice

Jonathan Rice-Fletcher

Jack Richardson

Ashton Roberts

Grace Robinson

Ella Ryder

Ella Sadikeen

Finlay Sadikeen

Alfie Sandiford

Ernie Schofield

Gene Schofield

Poppy Scott-Settle

Aaron Shan

Amelia Shan

Daniel Shaw

Leon Shepherdson

Oliver Slater

Oliver Sleith

Demi-Leigh Smith

Lucas Smith

Madison Smith

Noah Smith

Lucas Snowden

Tia-Lilly Southern

Conor Spendlove

Jack Spendlove

Maizy Stocks

George Stoddart

Joshua Sudding

Liam Sullavan

Angel Taylor

Faye Taylor

Lacey Thomas-Platt

Logan Thomas-Platt

Paige Thomas-Platt

Billy Thomson

Tiegan Thomson

Elsie Travers

Molly Travers

Bobby Turnbull

Keira-Leigh Walmsley

Alfie Ward

Summer Ward

Brayden Watson

Leon Webber

Morgan Weber

Reagon Whalley

Teigan Whalley

Adam Whitehouse

Ruby-Louise Whitty

Matthew Wildman

Jessica Willcox

Katie Willcox

Lauren Willcox

Imogen Williams

Isla Williams

Ben Wilson

Holly Wilson

Erika Wolstencroft

Samuel Woodall

Daniel Woodcock

Sky Worsley

Olivia Wright

Oscar Wright

Gabrielle Yates

William Yates

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