STAG LANE INFANT & NURSERY SCHOOL

Forever Learners: Achieving our Dreams

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

4th March 2016

Spring Term 7

MARCH

7th, 8th and 9th March

Parent/Teacher

Consultation Evening

14th March

Champions visit to The

Paper Mill

15th March

Reception trip to London

Zoo

16th March

Parent/Teacher

Consultation Nursery

Nursery closed all day.

24rd March -

Thursday

Break up for Easter

2pm

APRIL

12th April

Children return to

school

18th & 19th April

Year 1 trip to Woburn

Safari Park

NEWS THIS WEEK - BUMPER ISSUE

As usual we have a great deal planned for this half-term so please have a look at the dates section of

this newsletter to remind yourselves.

Parent /Teacher Meetings

Please don't forget the "Parent/Teacher Interviews" next week. This is a planned opportunity for you

to find out about your child’s learning. I am aware that last term there were a number of parents who

did not attend at the time they had booked. I need to stress how important these sessions are for you

to get an overall picture of your child’s progress in class. Staff spend a great deal of time preparing for

the interviews and obviously stay late at school to deliver them. If you sign-up it is really important

that, unless there are unavoidable difficulties, you do attend or at least let us know if you are not able

to. Our teachers will go out of their way to make sure that they meet with you at a mutually

convenient time, but please, please, please try and come on the allocated days. I am also available

should you wish to see me.

From Eggs to Ducklings! Our Reception and Nursery classes have been lucky to observe eggs! And after waiting patiently for them to hatch - they did!! By day three we had 13 ducklings in school!! The children have been so excited and learnt lots about the process of birth and hatching. They also watched them grow, walk and swim over their first few days and many children were brave enough to hold them! What a wonderful learning experience – full of awe and wonder!

Assemblies Over the last eight days we’ve seen two great class assemblies! Last week the confident Hedgehog class delivered an assembly around their topic theme of “Green Fingers”. They acted, spoke, and sang in a manner that left the audience thinking “were they Year 2 children not Year 1!!” The children’s behaviours were impeccable! The assembly was well written and shows the good learning that goes on in Hedgehog Class.

Today’s was a different kind of assembly with proud Reception mummies feeling emotional and happy at the same time. The Reception children remembered how brilliant mummies are and how much they love their own!! Well done to the Reception children and the Reception Team who must have spent hours of planning to put such a lovely assembly together with over 90 children!

So all that’s left for me to say on this bright spring morning is HAPPY MOTHERS DAY on Sunday. I hope your children spoil you!

With best wishes,

Nina Will and Staff

ATTENDANCE

We aim for all children to have at least 97% attendance, ideally 100%.

Please do not request time off in term time for holidays as it will be unauthorised and Harrow

Council will fine you.

Last week’s attendance: 98.5% This week’s attendance: 96.3%

Top Attendance Class last week with 99.7%: Swallow

Top Attendance Class this week with 99.0% Fox

Classes with 97% or over last week: Starfish, Seahorse, Octopus, Squirrel, Badger, Hedgehog,

Fox, Dove and Owl

Classes with 97% or over this week: Starfish, Seahorse, Squirrel, Swallow, Dove

Classes with 96% or over this week: Octopus and Badger

Not quite there yet this week: Hedgehog and Owl classes

Well done everyone.

Easter Egg Raffle

We will also be holding an Easter Egg Raffle

very soon. Tickets will be 20p each, a

maximum of 5 per child, and there will be

two winners in each class who will receive

and Easter Egg. More details to follow soon.

Harrow Volunteering Opportunity

Home-Start - Support and Friendship for Families

The Home-Start Harrow Project is a voluntary organisation offering support to families with at least one child under the

age of five in the Borough of Harrow who are struggling to cope and who would benefit from practical and emotional

support.

Do you have?

Three hours a week to spare

Parenting experience, insight and the skills to help families

A desire to make a difference within your local community

We provide comprehensive training and pay travel expenses. Safeguarding is a

priority at Home-Start and we will carry out an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on each

volunteer.

Training starts on 22nd March and will run Tuesdays and Thursdays for 4 weeks at Barnet & Southgate College in

Grahame Park, Colindale.

For more information, contact: Luci Yellon on 020 8371 0674 or email: luci@homestartbarnet.org.

World Book Day

It was wonderful to see so many children and teachers

dressed as their favourite book character yesterday.

We had Where’s Wally?, Buzz Lightyear, Pirates,

Spiderman, Princesses, Snow Queen and many more.

Siobhan: Caterpillar - Rainbow Dash

Shri: Caterpillar - Darth Vader

Inaaya: Butterfly - Little Red Riding Hood

Tharun: Butterfly - Dinosaur

Hetu: Butterfly - Hungry Caterpillar

Alex: Butterfly - Crocodile

Giulia: Starfish - Snow Queen

Albert: Seahorse - Minion

Adrian: Octopus - The Rabbit from Alice in

Wonderland

Edward: Fox - Robin Hood

Anais: Squirrel - Matilda

Maya: Hedgehog - Princess Bella

Maja: Badger - Queen of Hearts Guard

Hamdha: Owl - Angelina Ballerina

Arav: Dove - Hungry Caterpillar

Niraj: Swallow - Paddington Bear

Winners from the Walk to School

Photography Competition

Congratulations to all the children who sent in an entry to the

photography competition - such lovely photos!

Shaan - Octopus class

Emina - Octopus class

Avi - Badger class

Iqbal - Swallow class

Jessica - Swallow class

Well done! The children were presented with their prizes in

assembly on Monday.

Easter Egg Competition

All children will now have

received a foam egg which they

can decorate and enter into our

Easter Egg Competition. Entries

must be received by Tuesday

8th March so we look forward to

seeing your children’s handiwork. There will be one prize per

class for the most originally decorated egg.

7th-11th March 2016 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Choice 1 (non-halal) Tuna & Sweetcorn Wrap Lamb Pasta Bolognaise Roast Turkey Lamb Burger Cheese & Onion Quiche

Choice 2 (halal) Chicken & Pepper Pasta Beef Cottage Pie Roast Chicken Beef Burger Fish Fingers

Choice 3

(vegetarian) Macaroni Cheese Vegetable Lasagne Quorn Sausage Vegetable Burger Onion Bhaji

Choice 4 Jacket Potato with Tuna Jacket Potato with Cheese

Jacket Potato with Beans Jacket Potato with Tuna Jacket Potato with

Cheese

Vegetables/ Baked Beans Baked Beans Baked Beans Baked Beans Baked Beans

Carbohydrates Sweetcorn Sweetcorn Sweetcorn Sweetcorn Sweetcorn

Broccoli Mash Potato Roast Potatoes Seeded Bun Chips

Salads Cherry Tomato Cherry Tomato Cherry Tomato Cherry Tomato Cherry Tomato

Cucumber Cucumber Cucumber Cucumber Cucumber

Grated Carrot Pasta Salad Beetroot & Red Onion Lettuce Coleslaw

Desserts Selection of Fresh Fruit Selection of Fresh Fruit Selection of Fresh Fruit Selection of Fresh Fruit Selection of Fresh Fruit

Ice Cream & Pineapple Jam & Coconut Sponge with

Custard Strawberry Mousse

Cheese & Crackers or Fruit Yoghurt

Fruit Jelly

Bread Baguette Baguette Baguette Baguette Baguette

Drink Water or Milk Water or Milk Water or Milk Water or Milk Water or Milk

Menu for Next Week

Contact Information for School

020 8952 1475 email: office@staglaneinfant.harrow.sch.uk Website: www.staglaneinfant.harrow.sch.uk. In the event of severe weather which may cause school closure, please log on to: www.harrow.gov.uk/schoolopenstatus or telephone : 020 8408 7508 and enter code 3102079.

HOUSE POINTS

Mars 95 Jupiter 79

192 200

Saturn 85 Earth 98

210 90

Last week’s winning team was EARTH

and this week’s winner is SATURN

achievements

Stars of the week/merit awards were awarded to

Starfish: Abdulahi, Ioan and Sefora

Seahorse: Flavian, Koda and Roxana

Octopus: Aqsa, Emina and Hamza

Squirrel: Aranya, Flavius and Janika

Dennis C., Lavinia and Rafael

Badger: Alicia, Erika and Pietro

Avi, Alex and Elias

Hedgehog: Iosif, Latifa and Yusuf

Hadia, Marcus and Medina

Fox Ajani, Edward and Mara

Adrija, Bilal and Ioana

Owl: Andreea, Nicolas and Sahar

Hari, Mustafa and Sahar

Swallow: Lamar, Nicolae and Noor

Abid, Daniel and Ianis

Dove: Prarthana, Ramla, Vanessa and Zain

Avni, David T., and Prisha

BIRTHDAYS

Congratu la tions to

Riddhi, Veeransh, Kelisha,

Adrian, Daniel, Angelina,

Kevin, Tammar, Adeena,

Lamar and Eduard who

all celebrated their

birthday in the last two weeks.

Feedback Box - Spring Term 7

If you would like to respond to any point in this Newsletter, please complete

and return this section to Mrs Will via the school office

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MATHLETICS CERTIfICATES

Congratulations to Aryan, Muad, David L.,

Muhammad, Niyam, Dilisha, Rares, Jonathan,

Eesha, Abdullahi, Marcus, Qasim Ahmed,

Betuel, Lamar and Tammar who all received

a Silver Certificate this week and to

everyone who received a Bronze Certificate.

Mr Early Bird

Mr Early Bird will be

i n S t a r f i s h ,

Seahorse, Squirrel,

Hedgehog, Fox and

Swallow classes next week. They all

had 100% punctuality. Well done!

Morning Arrivals

Children who come early for

clubs must not enter the

school before 8.05am.

Yo u r ch i l d i s yo u r

responsibility and must

remain with you until they are handed over to

either their teacher or the adult in charge of

the early morning clubs.

Parentmail

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