www.manorschoolbrent.co.uk

Spring Edition 2015

Manor School Newsletter Don’t forget to

visit our Twitter account

for regular updates on our

pupils and their school!

@M

anorSchBrent

Imaginarium

Dear parents, friends and colleagues of Manor School

We would like to offer a very warm

welcome to our new teaching

assistants, Leah, Alish (Class 16) and

Hatice (Class 8). We hope you will

meet them at our school events and

help them quickly become part of our

school community.

Welcome to our new staff

School Website The ‘My Class, My Learning’ section is

now ready to visit. This area of the web-

site is only available to our parents/

carers, and offers information, pictures

and videos of the work and class

activities the pupils are engaged in.

Please contact the school office if you

have not received your password.

Building work is now starting to increase the capacity of the school for next academic

year. We are all very excited about growing our community and welcoming new mem-

bers and friends in September. The expansion will enable Manor School to extend it’s

access to quality educational provision to around 40 more local children. Teams of

colleagues are working hard to minimise any disruption to day-to-day activities during

this period, but if you have any particular questions or concerns, do get in touch.

As the year passes, we are all pleased to see the many excellent improvements being

made to Manor School. The premises have never looked better and the staff are

working hard to provide the best possible learning experience for every child, every

single day.

On behalf of the school’s Governing Body, I wish you well for the remainder of this

term and I look forward to meeting more of you soon.

After the half term we will be opening up our new

Imaginarium. This specialist teaching room will have

lots of interactive lights, mood lights etc. to support

our children’s learning. It will make storytelling,

science activities etc. even more exciting and

engaging for pupils. We will be inviting you along

to have a look later in the term.

Stephen Hull Chair of Governors

Dear Parents,

We’ve had a great start to

the new year. Our pupil

progress data shows that all

of our pupils are making

good progress and we are

just about to send all

parents our new PIPS

(personalised intervention

programmes) which are an

even better version of the

old IEPs. Hopefully parents

will find them easier to

understand and they will

help to show their child’s

progress more clearly.

Next term we’ll be offering

even more parent training

and support groups and

hope that you’ll all find that

supportive.

I hope you all have an

enjoyable half term.

Best wishes, Jayne

Half Term – Monday, 16th February – Friday, 20th February

Spring Term Ends – Friday, 27th March

Summer Term starts – Monday, 13th April

www.manorschoolbrent.co.uk

Thank you to all who contributed to the Christmas Raffle, we raised £197 as well as another £60 from our

carol singing held on Kensal Rise! We now have a new donation feature on the homepage of the website

and by clicking on the Donate Button you can donate money directly to the charity via paypal. We have

closed our Facebook group page and will now be promoting our fundraising activities via our Twitter

account: @ManorSchBrent.

Our next fundraising event will be International Day, 25th of March, when we will be running a raffle and

hosting numerous activities for our parents, carers and friends after the whole school assembly.

Fundraising– Upcoming events

Spring Dates 2015

A very Special Tea Party Our pupils had a fantastic time at the London Taxidrivers Fund ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’. They watched a

whole range of live performance from clowns to acrobats, singers and dancers.

World Book Day

Polling Day The school will be

closed to pupils on

Thursday 7th of May

2015 for polling day.

This year World Book Day is being celebrated on the 5th of March and we have arranged some exciting

events for children to celebrate books and reading. Thanks to the National Book Token scheme all of our

pupils will be receiving a book voucher to help them buy a book of their choice. There will be actors

visiting from London’s West End theatres to perform their literacy musical “Space Jump” and a storyteller

from Bag Books reading multi-sensory stories to our pupils. We would like as many pupils as possible to

dress up, alongside our staff, as their favourite character from a book and we would also like to invite all

parents and carers to come and read a story to our pupils in our new library. Finally we are setting up a

display in the new library called ‘Get Caught Reading!’ and would like all of our pupils, parents/carers,

governors and friends to send in pictures of themselves reading in unusual places!

Sainsbury’s Active Vouchers

Every year we receive fantastic sports

equipment from the Sainsbury’s Active

Kids scheme, please can you donate

any vouchers that you receive to the

school office. Thank you!

St Patrick’s Day

We would like to invite all of our

parents, carers, governors and

friends to celebrate St Patrick's Day

with a special assembly on the 17th

March at 9.30am. There will be

singing and musical performances.