Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back. We hope that

you have had a restful break.

On Tuesday 2nd April, our Friends

of Copenhagen who arranged a

Spring Party and chocolate egg

for the children - thank you.

On Wednesday 3rd April, our

Year 5 class visited the Cam-

bridge Theatre to watch Matilda

the musical. Thank you to Miss

Thomson, Miss Harris and Ms.

Graves for arranging the trip.

On Thursday 4th April, we held

our Parents’ Afternoon 1:1 meet-

ings. We had a great turnout.

On Friday 5th April, we held East-

er Bonnet Parade, Spelling Bee

and Pi Olympians competitions.

Well done to all our participants

for their amazing efforts.

Monday 29th April marks the start

of our after-school clubs, please

ensure that you have signed up

your child or children by Thursday

25th April.

Reminder: All payments will need

to be made online via the Tucasi

website :

h t t p s : / / w w w . s c o p a y .c o m /

login.html.

This will include payments for

Breakfast Club, Copenhagen

Extra, Educational Visits and After

School Clubs.

Please join us every Wednesday

at 9:00am for our parents' coffee

morning, where you will have the

opportunity to discuss any school

matters with me.

Please check the summer term

events listed in this newsletter, as

we have many events planned

this term.

If you wish to see me for any rea-

son, please do not hesitate to

book in a meeting with the

MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER DATE: WEDNESDAY 24TH APRIL 2019 ISSUE 64

SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Inside this issue:

Pi Olympians 3

Spelling Bee Champions 3

Summer term after-school clubs 4

Summer term events 5

www.copenhagen.islington.sch.uk

From September 2019, we will no longer accept cash payments. All payments

will need to be made online via the Tucasi website https://www.scopay.com/

login.html.

This will include payments for Breakfast Club, Copenhagen Extra, Educational

Visits and After School Clubs.

We will begin to phase this in during the spring/summer terms and will we oper-

ate on a cashless basis from September 2019. If you have any questions, please

do not hesitate to speak to a member of the admin team.

Update: On Thursday 28th March we sent home an important letter with your

child about how to make online payments; the letter included important ac-

count login and password details. Please ensure that you sign up for your online

account.

Miss Owens – Assistant School Business Manager

We’re going cashless!

Message from Head 1

Cashless payments 1

Easter Bonnet Parade 2

Scientist competition 2

Why go paperless?

By going paperless, we hope to reduce our environmental impact and carbon

footprint by printing and using less paper.

Reminder:

From the summer term we will be sending the newsletter via text. This link will

allow you to access all of our current and past newsletters.

www.copenhagen.islington.sch.uk/information-2/newsletters/

For your convenience some paper copies will also be available in the school

office. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to a member

of the admin team.

The School Office

REMINDER: Paperless Newsletters

Easter Bonnet Parade

On Friday 5th April, we held our Easter Bonnet Parade and we also had a special visit from the Easter

Bunny (thank you Mr. Fisher for your energetic performance). There were so many good entries and bril-

liant bonnet designs, which made our judging panel’s choice really tough. Well done every-

one.

Scientist Competition - Our Copenhagen Scientist has a name

On Friday 5th April , we announced the prize winner of our competition

to name our Copenhagen Scientist. Congratulations and well done to

Marcus in Year 2 for his imaginative entry.

Hello, my name is

Dr Tess Tube.

Nursery and Reception Year 1 Year 2

Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Spelling Bee Champions

On Friday 5th April, we held our Spelling Bee competition. Our

children demonstrated a brilliant broad knowledge of words.

Well done to our stupendous spelling bees.

Pi Olympians

We also held our Pi

Olympian competi-

tion on Friday. The

maths challenges

were tough but our Pi

Olympians answered

them successfully.

MONDAY

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Chess Club

Miss Harris Year 5 classroom Year 5 & Year 6

10 places availa-ble

Cost = FREE

Cooking Club (External coach) Year 5 & Year 6

12 places availa-ble

Cost = £5.00 per term

Dance Club Miss Sanchis Lower hall/playground

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2

10 places availa-ble

Cost = £5.00 per term

Gymnastics

Club Mr Fisher Top hall

Years 4, 5 & 6 15 places availa-

ble Cost = £5.00

per term

Mindfulness Club

Miss Bramble-Litchmore

Old Library room Year 2 & Year 3

10 places availa-ble

Cost = FREE

Arsenal Double

Club (External coach) Muga pitch / Top

floor hall Year 5 & Year 6

15 places availa-ble

Cost = £5.00 per term

Table Tennis Club

(External coach) Lower hall

Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 10 places availa-

ble Cost = £5.00 per

term

Book Club Miss Yasmin

Reception classroom Reception, Year 1

and Year 2 15 places available

Cost = FREE

English Reading and Writing Club

Mrs Ayre Year 6 classroom Year 3 & Year 4

12 places available Cost = FREE

Philosophy Club Miss Lambrou

Year 3 classroom Year 6

10 places available Cost = FREE

Phonics Club

Miss Akhter Year 1 classroom

Year 1 18 places available

Cost = FREE

Tennis Mr Ardes (External

coach) Muga pitch/ lower

hall Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 14 places available Cost = £40.00 for the

term

Choir Club

Miss Thomson (During school

time) Year 5 & Year 6

Cost = FREE (Selected children

to attend)

Drawing Club Miss Graves

Year 5 classroom Year 5 & Year 6

15 places availa-ble

Cost = FREE

Gymnastics Club Miss Panesar

Lower Hall Reception,

Years 1, 2 & 3 20 places availa-

ble Cost = £5.00

per term

Maths Club ‘Mathmagicians’

Mrs Begum Year 2 classroom Year 1 & Year 2

12 places availa-ble

Cost = FREE

Badminton Club (External coach)

Top floor Years 3, 4, 5 & 6

10 places availa-ble

Cost = £5.00 per term

Football Club (External coach) Lower hall/Muga

pitch Years 4, 5 & 6

15 places availa-ble

Cost = £5.00 per term

After-school Clubs – Summer term 2019

We are delighted to offer a wide range of after-school clubs to our children. Our priority is to ensure that

our pupils receive a broad, and balanced curriculum and to give the children opportunities to partici-

pate in a range of extra-curricular activities. We will allocate after-school places on a first come, first

serve basis. If you book a club, your child will have a place for the whole term (with exception to Mind-

fulness Club, which will run until half term only). Thank you to all of our staff who are running a voluntary

after-school club. Our summer term clubs start on Monday 29th April 2019 and finish on Friday 12th July

2019.

Current

whole school

attendance

= 93.2 %

Follow us on twitter @CopenhagenP

Summer Term 2019 Events

Year 3 assembly in partnership with the ‘Tate Year 3

Project’ and the company ’A New Direction’ - 2:45pm

24/04/19

Summer term after-school clubs start 29/04/19

Years 3 - 6 Tri Golf (Sports trip, venue: Paradise Park) 29/04/19

Year 3 - Natural History Museum trip

(Dino Scene Investigation)

01/05/19

Swimming lessons for Year 3 start and finish on:

Thursdays from 2nd May - 11th July

02/05/19 -

11/07/19

Swimming lessons start for Year 5 start and finish on:

Thursdays from 2nd - 16th May

02 -

16/05/19

Stay and Play’s Outdoor Learning event

9:00 - 11:00am, EYFS classroom

03/05/19

School closed for May Bank holiday (Monday) 06/05/19

Key Stage Two (KS2) Year 6 SATs Test Dates 2019 13-16/05/19

Cake Sale fundraiser for school science equipment

3:15 - 4:45pm

13/05/19

Year 5 - Nature trip (Barnard Park) 21/05/19

Half term: Monday 27th - 31st May 2019

(Spring Bank holiday: Monday 27th May)

27-31/05/19

Shakespeare week begins 03/06/19

Swimming lessons start for Year 6 start and finish on:

(no lesson on Thursday 13th June)

Thursdays

06/06/19 -

Stay and Play’s Eid event

1:00 - 3:00pm - EYFS classroom

07/06/19

Eid Party and Summer Fair 07/06/2019

Year 3 - Tate Modern trip 13/06/19

Year 6 - Residential trip to Hautbois (Norfolk) 11-14/06/19

Science share trip (London Metropolitan University) 18/06/19

Class photographs 19/06/19

Father’s Day lunch - 11:30am 21/06/19

Year 3 & Year 4 - Natural History Museum trip

(Mission to Mars: LEGO Explorers Workshop)

02/07/19

EYFS and KS1 Sports Day (Nursery, Reception, Year 1

and Year 2)

03/07/19

KS2 Sports Day (Years 3, 4, 5 and 6) 04/07/19

Year 2 & Year 3 - Regent’s Park natural world discov-

ery and exploration trip

09/07/19

No after-school clubs 15-19/07/19

Copenhagen Carnival 15/07/19

Copenhagen’s got Talent 17/07/19

Year 6 Leavers Assembly 18/07/19

School finishes at 2:00pm - Friday 19th July 19/07/19

Autumn term 2019 begins - Children return to school

(New academic Year 2019 – 2020)

Wednesday

04/09/19

What do you, your family and friends think?

Philosophy question of the week: Why is self sacrifice such an important

trait?

Theme: Outdoor Learning

Date: Friday 3rd May

Time: 9.00 - 11.00am

Place: EYFS classroom

Theme: Eid

Date: Friday 7th June

Time: 1.00 - 3.00pm

Place: EYFS classroom

We will be holding Stay and Play sessions for par-ents and carers of our EYFS pupils.

If you would like to attend and join in with the ac-tivities taking place in class that day please book a place at the school office.

We hope you can join us!