Please note that school will end at 2pm on the last day of every term.

TT Days for this year can be seen on our website.

www.broadtown.wilts.sch.uk.

Our Learning Gem this term is

SAPPHIRE Focus and engage with learning and help others

to focus.

Please can we remind you that your child

should bring everything that they need

for the school day, with them for the

start of school at 9:00am.

Recently we have had a lot of late forest

school clothing/footwear, lunchboxes,

bottles of water and P.E kits.

P.E kits should be in school all week.

Late deliveries and interruptions are

disruptive for the class teacher, pupils

and office staff.

Thank you for your help.

Broad Town CE Primary School

Newsletter— November 2017

Collective Worship

Value: Peace

Getting on and Falling out

Say No to Bullying

Christmas

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER

**ASSESSMENT FORTNIGHT FROM OCTOBER

30th** Tues 31st

October KS1& KS2 Young Engineers Club

starts 3:15-4:15pm up until 6th

December.

Details sent 28th September-sign up

on line www.stemkids.co.uk

Wed 8th

NOVEMBER EY to Y4 flu immunisations

Mon 13th Open morning for our current

parents

Tues 14th Mindfulness workshops

Thurs 16th Parents Evening after school Fri 17th Children in Need Day

Sing up to parents

Mon 20th Warburton Visit

Tues 21st Parents Evening after school

Mon27th e-safety film making day

paid for by BTSA

Tues 28th Class 2 Assembly

Wed 29th Secret Santa Shop

DECEMBER

Fri 1st Donations for Christmas Fayre

Mon 4th BTSA Christmas Fayre 3:15pm

Wed 13th 2:00pm Class 1 Christmas

Performance at Church

Thurs 14th Christmas lunch

Mon 18th Christmas parties

Wed 20th 1:15pm Carol Service at church

2:00pm School Ends

Our Value this term: Peace

Attendance

I would like to remind parents of their statutory responsibility to ensure that their children attend school unless they are ill. At the end of last term our attendance was the worst ever due to the large number of parents that took their children on holiday during term time. The school term dates have been sent out to you well in advance and are also published on our school website. I therefore request that holidays are taken during the school holidays and not during term time. If you child has more than 10 sessions (5 days) unauthorised absence in a six month period then the Educational Welfare Officer will decide whether a fine will be issued. Attendance at the end of last term Class 1 89.58% Class 2 100% - Well done Class 2! Class 3 66.67%

The target for “good” attendance is set by the DfE at 97%.

Headlice

There have been cases of headlice in

Class 2 this term.

Can we remind you that all children in

school need to have their hair checked

and combed regularly then treat as

necessary if headlice are found. Then we

can stop this problem before it spreads.

This year, we will be having our Christmas Fayre on Monday 4th December. More information to

follow from BTSA …

Please return Tempest photo orders by Friday 3rd November in envelope

provided, with payment and completed order form.

Thank you

Leaders of Learning

To support in increasing pupil voice in the school, we have introduced Leaders of Learning.

The Leaders of Learning will have their first meeting this term.

Our Leaders of Learning are: Freya Harrison, Amy Bastin, Harriet Bennett,

Aurelie Kemp, Alfie Bowers, Ruby Clark, Fabian Kemp, Jeremy Wightman, Meadow Dale and

Scarlett Morrish.

CLUBS

As the winter weather is coming, we will not be having outside sports clubs

Monday Digital leaders Glee Club

Lunchtime 3:15-4:00pm

Mrs Lawrence Vicky

Tuesday Choir lunchtime Mrs Floyd

Tuesday STEM Science Club

3.15 – 4.15pm Forms have been sent out and registration is on line

Selected Fridays

Cooking pm Mrs Macindoe

After School Glee Club will continue with same children as before half-term starting Monday

6th November.

The in school time clubs will be arranged by the member of staff leading the club.

If you are interested in horse riding club then please speak to Miss Dent.

Reflective /Spiritual Garden

I am very pleased to inform you that we have been successful in securing a grant from the Spackman Charity to

support with the development of a reflective/spiritual garden. The area we plan to do this work in is the small

garden with the willow tunnel. Many thanks to Rev. Rachma for taking the application forward on behalf of the school.

Reading and Maths Buddies

As a school, we feel that it is important for us to provide opportunities for the children to learn from each other. This term, Mrs Clark

(Higher Level Teaching Assistant) will be training reading and maths buddies. As these schemes have been very successful in other

years, we are extending the buddy system to a wider number of children.

Important Information I would like to remind parents that if they have a concern with the behaviour of another child then in the first instance they need to speak to the class teacher. This will then be dealt with by the class teacher or referred to the Headteacher to deal with. Instances that have happened at school should be dealt with by the school and it is not appropriate for parents to go up to and tell children off. It is important to realise that children often only tell you one side of the story. If required, school will investigate and carry out a Restorative Justice Meeting with the children. In this situation, all children are listened to. They reflect on how their actions have made others feel. We then work together to decide what actions need to be taken to prevent a similar situation happening again.

NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURES THAT MAY AFFECT YOUR JOURNEY TO SCHOOL

1) On 28th November 2017 for 1 day from 07:00 – 18:00hours for emergency repairs. Urgent closure of part of

Marlborough Road from the Sewerage works for approximately 100m in an easterly direction to Templars Firs Industrial Estate.

2) Temporary Closure of Station Road (Part), Royal Wotton Bassett; for an area of approximately 20m x 15m between its junctions with Tanners Close and Glebe Road. This Order will come into operation on 4 December 2017 and it is anticipated that the closure will be required until 15 December 2017. For more information go to Wiltshire Council or Royal Wootton Bassett Town Council websites.

Tempest Photographs As with anything, we have had a number of parents who are really pleased with their child’s photograph but we have also had other parents that have not been happy with the photographs. We have collated your comments and fed them back to the photograph company. We have also been asked by some parents if the photographs can be taken in the morning, As a school we have made a decision to protect the morning teaching of the core subjects of literacy and numeracy as much as possible. We presently use the hall as a teaching area in the mornings so we would not have a space for the photographs to be taken in. We also have most of our teaching assistants working in the morning supporting children. In addition to this, Mrs Macindoe spends a lot of time organising the photographs so it has the least disruption to teaching and learning and Mrs Macindoe only works in the afternoons. Photographs will therefore continue to be taken in the afternoons. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Macindoe for all the work she does in arranging the photographs and ensuring that everything runs smoothly.

So far, School Council have discussed

the following:

Roles as members of School Council

Flower beds

Buddies

Healthy lunchboxes

Designs for the quiet area posts

Willow area rules

The things they will work on in the near

future are:

Flyer for Charity Events

Reading Incentive

Playground games and play leaders

Broad Town Achievement Passport

Reflective/Spiritual Garden Plans

REMINDERS

Now that the weather is getting

cooler please can all children bring a coat to school.

All children should have a PE kit in school all week. Please add a

sweatshirt & joggers for the colder weather.

All children should have a water bottle in school, to use in class.

Photograph Competition

Many thanks to all the children who entered a photograph for the photograph competition. Several adults in the school selected a winning photograph to be enlarged

and displayed in their area of the school. Below are two of the winnng entries. All the entries can be seen on a display board on the piano in the school hall, but to see the pictures on both sides of the board please ask at the office for the display to be put down

on the floor! Thanks

We also plan to have most of the other entries made into a calendar.

Landscape by Josh Parkins - to be placed in the school office

Happiness by James Rant