Dear Parents and Carers, We hope our Hindu families had a wonderful Diwali and we wish you a

Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Lots of exciting activities have taken or are taking place over the last few weeks. Currently, 36 pupils are with Miss Norris, Miss Apperley, Miss Ducra and Miss Vaizey in Norfolk. This trip is helping Yr6 pupils

understand more about World War II and what evacuated children would

experience. The children remaining in London are also studying WWII and undertaking activities and trips to enrich their learning about this

historical topic. More information will be available when the children

return.

Additionally, two of our pupils, Rishaan in Yr3 and Dian in Yr5, had a wonderful opportunity to be mascots in the recent O2 ATP Nitto Tennis Finals on Monday 12th November. The school was invited to take part as we work closely with the RRS Team at UNICEF. They had a fantastic time; an experience they will always re-member.

BBC Children in Need

Hopefully some of our families will have watched Children in Need last Friday night and would have seen our amazing choir singing ‘A Million Dreams’. The children worked with BBC staff at Elstree and were really excited by this amazing experience; it was for a very worthwhile cause.

I would like to say a huge thank you to Miss Vaizey who passionately wanted her pupils to be part of this once in a life time opportunity and completed the myriads of paperwork to enable this to happen. A huge thank you too to Mrs Mepani, Mrs Hashmee and Mrs Vaizey for giving up Friday evening to supervise the children at Elstree. Please go to our website to see the lovely photos.

National Kindness Day

Tuesday 13th November was Kindness Day and the pupils and staff pledged kindnesses across the school. Mrs Ani Devlia led an assembly along with two colleagues from the Museum of Happiness. We hope we will continue to work with them over the coming year, learning about the skills for happiness. I would definitely like to visit the Museum of

Happiness!

Stag Lane Junior School Newsle�er

“where children come first”

Ar�cle 3 of

the UNCRC

Everyone who works with children should always do what is best for each child.Everyone who works with children should always do what is best for each child.Everyone who works with children should always do what is best for each child.Everyone who works with children should always do what is best for each child.

2018/2019 Issue 5

VALUES FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER – Respect and Equality

Best Attendance Article 28—every child has the

right to an Education.

Whole School Attendance

97.1% Well done!

Urgent Please be aware

that in the last 2

months we have

noticed a growing

number of children saying

unkind things to their peers.

Staff are

dealing with incidents on a

regular basis. On

investigation it appears they

are copying what is said on

games such a Roblox or

Fortnite. We are having to

call in parents to discuss

their child’s usage of the In-

ternet, which I am sure some

of you find intrusive, but as it

is now affecting children in

school we are asking you to

be very vigilant as to what

your child is watching on the

Internet. Many programs are

not suitable for primary

school aged children.

Additionally, it appears some

children are on phones,

computers, etc. for hours on

end; this is not healthy for

them. Thank you for your

support.

Garden Votes

A huge thank you to our families and friends

who voted for us on the Aviva Community Fund

Website. We received 4058 votes. We are still

waiting to hear the results and will let you know

the outcome. We will keep our fingers crossed

that we receive funds to restore our garden

back to this.

Hair Accessories

Please keep hair accessories to a

minimum. As lovely as the girls look,

large bows, cat ear hairbands and large

flowers are really not suitable for

school. Thank you for you cooperation.

The Sanctuary Group part of new Initiative ‘Harrow Nature Heroes’ The Sanctuary group went to Chandos Park to help support the Park’s community group who are working

on making the park more enjoyable and accessible to families in the area. They were invited to plant some

daffodils and thoroughly enjoyed the experience and the opportunity to learn some interesting facts

about nature and habitats. They are now a part of a new initiative called ‘Harrow Nature Heroes ‘ which

has been developed to help involve the community in supporting conservation in Harrow. A good job by

Thusha (5A), Flavia (4A) , Hishma (4H) , Umar (4V) , Keyaan (4V) , Harun (4V) and Abdul (3C). Well done

for getting your hands dirty!! We all look forward to seeing some beautiful daffodils in the spring at

Chandos Park and our next adventure as Nature Heroes!!

PTFA ODD SOCKS MUFTI DAY

Another fantastic day organised by the

PTFA. We raised £270.78.

Thank you for your kind

donations.

Parents’ Survey October 2018

Here are the results of the parent survey:

(please tick) Agree

No opinion

Disagree

1 My child feels safe at this school. 99% 1% 0

2 The school ensures my child is well looked after 98% 2% 0

3 My child is making good progress at this school. 97% 3% 0

4 My child is taught well at this school. 98% 2% 0

5 I like the homework pack. 96% 4% 0

6 I feel welcome when I visit school. 97% 3% 0

7 There is a good standard of behaviour at this school.

98% 0 2%

8

This school deals with any cases of bullying effec-tively. (Bullying includes persistent name calling, cyber, racist and

homophobic bullying).

93% 6% 1%

9 This school helps me to support my child’s learn-ing.

97% 3% 0

10 This school responds well to my concerns 99% 1% 0

11 My child enjoys the after school clubs available 100% (152 replies to this)

0 0

12 I find the parent consultations useful 97% 1.5% 1.5%

14 I find the website informative 98% 2% 0

15 I would recommend this school to another parent. YES NO

99% 1%

13 I find the website informative 98%

2% 0

We are really pleased with the positive responses and comments from the parents; thank you.

Here are some Parental Comments from the questionnaire;

• Very happy with the focus on wellbeing • I am really pleased with the school, I think it is perfect. • Stag Lane APP is excellent. • The newsletter is very informative. • Would like homework which is more for the child’s level (5). • Regular messages from teachers about my child (2) • Stag Lane APP is slow • Litter from crisps packets on the playground Homework remains an area parents feel needs development. This seems to be a common issue with most schools and hard to address as some parents feel schools give too much homework, whilst others feel it is too easy. We will discuss this with the staff to plan for the future.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Monday 26th November Year 5 South America Day

Thursday 29th November

Years 5 and 6 Rugby Tournament

Wednesday 5th December Maths Challenge

Thursday 13th December

Christmas Show

Friday 14th December Christmas Show

Friday 21st December

Last Day of Term - School finishes at 2pm ………………………………………………………………………………….

Clubs We are currently organising our clubs for next term and a letter will be sent out soon about the individual clubs. Please note the following; • We are no longer offering the Tuesday after school dance club

next term because there was little take up this term. • We would like to continue with Coding Club which we believe is

important for our pupils in this technological world. We are dis-appointed with the low uptake and may not be able to run it again next term unless we have 20 children in the club. We are now of-fering payment through ParentPay as some parents had difficulty paying the Coding Club. This is an enjoyable club with many long term benefits so we hope there will be a greater take up.

• We have 2 spaces in Romanian Club (Yr3 and 4) • All other clubs will be running as usual.