Maney Hill Newsletter

Dates for your diary updates in red

March 10th – 3W Class Assembly 12th – 2S Class Assembly

13th – Year 1 Macmillan Coffee Morning

17th - RR Class Assembly 18th - RM Class Assembly

23rd – 4SH Inspire Workshop 24th – 4ST Inspire Workshop 25th – Y3 Food Workshops 25th – 2M Class Assembly 26th – 3M Class Assembly

April 1st – Easter Bonnets Parade

3rd – last day of term 20th – first day of term 22nd – Y4 Residential

24th – Year 2 Macmillan Coffee Morning

27th – Parents Evening Drop-In 28th – RM Inspire Workshop 29th – RR Inspire Workshop 30th – 3W Inspire Workshop

May 4th – KS1 SATs begin

7th – 3M Inspire Workshop 8th – May Day Holiday/VE

Holiday 11th – KS2 SATs Week

15th – Year 3 Macmillan Coffee Morning

17th – PTA Fun Run 18th – Y5 Inspire Workshop 19th – Y3 Food Workshops 22nd – Staff Training Day

25th – half term week

Headteacher: Mrs S Whitehead BSc NPQH

Assistant Headteachers: Mrs H Stonehill MA PGDipEd Mrs K Samson BEd NASENDCo

Contact Us

Maney Hill Primary School Maney Hill Road Sutton Coldfield

B72 1JU

0121 464 9673

enquiry@maneyhill.bham.sch.uk

Dear Parents and Carers

It’s been a great week in school, with signs of Spring on the way. On Thursday the

Football and Netball teams were able to practice outside. Congratulations to the

football team supported Mr Wigley and Mr McNicholas with their stunning victory last

Friday. Good luck to our Netball team competing this week, supported by Miss

Luckett, Mrs Ralph and Mrs Stonehill. I’m sure the smart netball skirts will make all

the difference! We had a great day celebrating World Book Day on Thursday and we

were very comfortable in our pyjamas! Thank you to Miss Smithson for leading on the

change of focus this year with children encouraged to think of books and reading

rather than just the characters. Mrs Whitehead

Coronavirus (Covid-19) Update:

Currently, like all organisations we don’t know to what extent we may be affected by

the coronavirus. Like the Department of Health, during the likely epidemic we are

planning for the worst but hoping for the best. In order to work together and to support

families, we intend to have a weekly update in the newsletter for parents. In addition to

this we will send regular information via emails as appropriate.

Our preparations are focussed on the following areas:

Communication

We have put into place more frequent staff communication, often daily, between all

school staff and school leaders. This is especially important for sharing information

from local and national government, managing absence and adjusting to changes in

staffing. We have a staffroom noticeboard for Coronavirus updates.

The headteacher and senior leaders are in regular contact with the Co-Chairs and Vice

Chair of Governors. This will be important in making strategic decisions, such as

deciding if we have enough staff to remain open.

Our office staff are all trained in sending informative emails to parents so that should

one or more be absent, we will continue to send emails to parents. Please check we

have your up to date phone and email details.

The school phone and email address for you to contact us are:

0121 464 9673 enquiry@maneyhill.bham.sch.uk

Hand Washing

We have ample supplies of soap and paper towels. The children have been well-

supported by teachers, teaching assistants and lunchtime supervisors to practice

hand–washing. The staff are also regularly reminding children about handwashing and

making sure that supplies of soap and paper towels are available. We also have boxes

of tissues and bins in classrooms.

Teamwork

We have a great staff at Maney Hill and in school we are all pulling together to prepare

for a likely epidemic. As a team of staff we will do what we can to support the children,

parents and each other, as we always do.

If you have any comments or suggestions to support our preparations, please let us

know via the school phone number or email address.

Should you or your family need it, Good Hope Hospital now have a ‘pod’ for suspected

cases of Coronavirus.

Mrs Whitehead

Having responsibility for our

school…being Librarians!

As soon as we got picked to be librarians in Year

5, we were overjoyed. At first, we were just

tidying the bookshelves around the school but,

as time passed by, our jobs got more and more

interesting. We started to focus more on the

new library, doing jobs such as unboxing the

books and putting them on the shelves. After a

few weeks of hard work, the library was

finished! When we finished the library, we were

assigned our jobs. The jobs were: to put the

books in alphabetical order; tidying the library;

dusting the shelves and sorting the returned

books out.

When we were doing our jobs, we finally found

out how amazing the library looked. We all

enjoy working in the library very much - it is

brilliant and we hope it will always stay

brilliant! Since our library could do with a few

more fantastic books, we recommend these

books that we are currently reading in class:

Tom Gates - Excellent Excuses (suitable for

Year 3-6); Artemis Fowl (suitable for Year 6);

David Walliams - Billionaire Boy (suitable for

Years 3-6) and Roald Dahl - James and the

Giant Peach (suitable for Years 2-6). Some

books that we also recommend for younger

years are: Dog Man, Captain Underpants

and The Rainbow Fairies.

Written by Tristan, Theo, Emily and Isaac

APPLICATION FOR SCHOOL CLOTHING GRANT 2020

A clothing grant of up to £100 to spend at Clive Mark Schoolwear in Boldmere is available. To

be eligible you must live in Sutton Coldfield and be in receipt of benefits (e.g. Child Tax Credit,

Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance, Universal Credit, etc).

Application forms with full details are available at the school office.

Congratulations to

RR and 4SH

Lunchtime Classes of the Week

Macmillan Cake & Coffee Mornings

March, 13th: Year 1

April, 24th: Year 2

May, 15th: Year 3

June 5th: Year 5

June, 19th: Year 6

From 9am in the Hall

Updated advice:

Sickness and Diarrhoea Please remember that, to prevent the spread

of infection, if your child is unwell with

sickness or diarrhoea then they must stay at

home as follows:

Sickness – 48 hours

Diarrhoea – 48 hours

RM Hope-Lilly Charczenko & Isla Kelly

RR Ayla Budair & Andreas Dimitriou

1W Charlie Tyers & Jayden Fisher

1M Grace Barry & Sam Southall

2M Sebastian Green & Connor Reilly

2S Teddy DeSanges & Hannah Taylor

3W Isla Foster-Jones & Sajjad Hashim

3E Saanvi Desphande & Leo Nixon

4ST Millie Biddle & Krish Puri

4SH Poppy Brazier & Arun Kalsi

Y5 Joseph Lowe & Karandeep Kaur

Y6 Fatimah Rizvi & Jake Hollier

The Sponsored Walk for Sports Relief

Monday 9th March – Friday 13th March

Football Report

On Friday night the boy’s football played

an Away match against St Joseph’s

School. The game acted as a league and

cup double-header.

Despite the awful weather throughout the

day, the pitch was in good condition and

suited the passing football that the children

used. After conceding the first goal,

Maney took over and scored 5 unanswered

goals to make the score 5-1 at half-time.

After advice to avoid complacency, the

team went on to add another 5 goals in the

second half, making the final score 10-1 to

Maney.

This result means that we advance to a

quarter-final match against Boldmere, as

well as securing three points to boost our

league position. Well done to Joe L,

Ramy, Jake, Joe R, Dylan, Lewis, Zain and

Zak for an excellent team effort.

Mr Wigley and Mr McNicholas