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Laurance Haines School Enjoy, Care, Aim High and Succeed Together
Laurance Haines School
Enjoy, Care, Aim High and Succeed Together
Welcome to Year 5
Miss
Gordon
Birch Class
Miss
Edwards
Beech Class
Mrs
Green
HLTA
Mr
Seal
HLTA
Mrs
Pandit
TA
New curriculum • The Government has introduced a new National Curriculum which
took effect from September 2014.
• At Laurance Haines School we have used INSET days and staff
meetings to review our previous curriculum and adapt it in light of the
National Curriculum changes.
• To date we have successfully:
•agreed aims for our curriculum
•developed 2014-2015 curriculum maps for Years 1 to 6
•resourced and developed progressive medium term coverage planning for new
topics
•revised our weekly planning formats for all subjects
New curriculum
• The different National Curriculum subjects are taught
through a chosen theme
• Children are set learning challenges in the form of open,
exciting, questions – Would you rather be a Cavalier or a
Roundhead?
• We are aware of the danger of 'tenuous' links and ensure
that English and maths - whilst sometimes present in
themed work - are also taught daily as separate subjects
• Similarly, other subjects such as P.E. and computing are
taught separately as well as within themes
Year overview
Timetable
Preview home learning • Learning in any subject can be significantly enhanced by
pupils undertaking work out of lesson time.
• Pre teaching home learning - Research into pre teaching
shows that previewing work can double the rate of pupil
progress. The idea behind the weekly pre teaching
homework is that through familiarisation, talking about
and practicing things at home, will enable a child to have
a far higher rate of success when they come to visit a
subject or task in class.
• Preview home learning tasks are things that you can do
together with your child to give them a higher chance of
succeeding in the week ahead.
Behaviour for learning
• The recent questionnaire that was sent home is
very important to us
• The more we know about your children, the
more we can use that information to motivate
and better engage them in class
• We are trying to instil self-motivation to want to
learn in all our children
• We can do this best with your help. If your child
has any success to celebrate outside school, let
us know so we can celebrate them in school
School hours
It is very important that your child arrives and is
collected on time.
8.50am - 3.20pm
If your child is late for any reason and arrives after
8.50, the classroom door will be closed and you
must take them to the school office to be
registered.
Attendance and holidays
As parents, please help us by:
• Ensuring your child arrives on time
• Ensuring your child is properly dressed in
the correct uniform
• Encouraging good behaviour
• Notifying us if your child is ill
• Avoiding appointments in school time
• Not taking holidays in term-time
Uniform
Our school uniform provider is Mapac. See
school website for details or call 01923 255
525.
• PE kits should be house coloured or white
t-shirts and black shorts.
• All uniform should be clearly named.
• No jewellery should be worn apart from stud
earrings which must be covered for PE.
• Long hair, boys or girls, must be tied back
• Nail varnish must not be worn.
House system
EBURY
Beech Birch
Mohammad Bashir
Catarina Da Silva Esteves
Megan Hooper
Ya Penda Jeng
Silvia Lopes
Ekiye Tobi
Areez Bashir
Aimee Cameron
Ryan Keane
Sarina Pandey
Talitha Rowe
Kethusa Saseestharan
Sarah Waqar
COLNE
Beech Birch
Marco Eusebio
Barbara Fernandes
Jake Hadwin
Neluxsa Neranjan
Alishba Shah
Diogo Silva
Sharan Vicknarajah
Sameer Ansari
Hajar Garfa
Merin George
Jeremiah Mathai
Nadim Nazir
Saranya Sivakumar
Obed Yeboah
Muhammad Zahid
CHESS
Beech Birch
Suleman Ali
Aizaz Haq
Nusayba Khalid
Anbar Khurram
Martin Marinov
Zainab Naeem
Serena Osbourne
Christian Van Der Stok
Ridha Batool
Baqir Bukhari
Sofia Da Silva
Andreia Eusebio
Ahad Haq
Victoria Kulathilake
Mohammad Saber
GADE
Beech Birch
Malaika Fiaz
William Godfrey
Jadeen Jacobs
Mujahid Ali Shah
Archa Shaji
Elliot Sreeves
Uthistan Sritharan
Cherry Gupta
Sufyan Hussain
Sayona Mathew
Nathasha Osekre
Nirun Premathas
Elyasse Ratmaoui
Blessing Yeboah
Link books
• The link book is designed to improve communication
between home and school.
• It is used to record the class timetable, weekly
homework and reading books.
• It should also include useful reminders, such as PE kit
prompts or planned visits.
• Parents are encouraged to use this book to comment
upon their child’s homework, reading or anything else
you would like the class teacher to know.
• A member of the class team will check this book every
day, so they will be aware of any comments made or
reading books that need changing.
Lunchtime
• KS2 school meals are £2.00
• Your child can have a school meal every day or on
specific days of their choice.
• Packed lunches must follow the school guidelines
sent home with your annual consent forms.
Access to class
• We are based in the mobile classroom this year. The
children should line up outside it when the bell rings.
• Only Nursery children can enter the Nursery garden.
• Your children are very welcome to use the school
grounds after school to play but please ensure that
you supervise them.
• Unfortunately our car park does not accommodate
parental parking or dropping off. If you have a
medical condition or disability, please contact Mrs
Dodd.
Educational visits
Cuffley Camp
Activity Week
Parentview • Parent View gives you the chance to register what you
think about the school. This information is used by the
LHS leadership team to inform strategic decisions as
well as by Ofsted when they inspect the school.
• Search ‘Parentview’ in Google or go to
https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk
• Follow the on-screen instructions to enter your email
address and password .
• You’ll be sent an email with a link to activate your login.
• Log-in and answer 12 simple questions.
