Newsletter
26.04.24
Happy Crazy Hair Day! Many thanks for supporting the children in joining in with our school fundraising event. We certainly had some very creative hair styles today. Monies raised today, and yesterday for Year 3, will be added to School Council’s playground improvements fund.
A reminder that School Council will be hosting a disco for Years 3,4 and 5 after school on Thursday 23rd May. Miss Rowley will be putting this item on ParentPay next week, for those who want to secure their ticket.
SEND Services: Improvement Journey: since the inspection identifying shortcomings in SEND Services provided by Birmingham authority, leaders at the directorate have been commissioning and surveying all partners and stakeholders to implement key improvements. Their most recent communication invites parents of children with Special Needs or Disabilities to return a survey regarding the provision of short breaks. We understand that demand for this kind of support is at an all-time high. Find the survey on the attached link, if this is something that interests you:
Survey for Parents on the Re-commissioning of Short Breaks - Local Offer Birmingham
Free Distance Learning Courses: just a reminder to families that our Higher Education partner at James Watt campus is offering free training opportunities for adults in our community. Courses include:
Creating a Business Start Up; Preparing to work in Adult Social Care, Principles of Team Leading, Equality and Diversity, Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills, Understanding Nutrition and Health and many, many more.
If technology is a barrier for you (no computer or wi-fi) there are facilities available within James Watt that are available for parents and the local community to use. If you are Interested, gain further information by visiting: bmet.ac.uk/distancelearning or emailask@bmet.ac.uk.
Celebration Assembly: Star of the Week focussed on listening respectfully to others: another essential social skill. Congratulations go to: Wali, Annaya, Shiloh, Luay, Kayden F-D, Vinnie L, Emily, Lucas, Maymunah, Oscar J and Marwah.
We had a clutch of Lexia Superstars: Ella-Rose, Raaya and Musa.
Sports Personalities had lots of nominations this week. Well done to: Ivy, Sophia-Rose, Bobby, Leonardo, Tiwa, Declan, Jacob, Binita, Imogen, James, Emeliamae and Jasneet.
Angelica was a Super Skipper this week and Brianna achieved her 10m swimming badge. Well done to them all.Our prayers in assembly today exemplified the Year 6 children’s understanding of British Values, particularly tolerance and respect. Our thanks to Fenix, Deesara, Milaania and Rania for leading our worship so well.
Special mention to: the group of children who played Rounders this week against our friends at Barr View. Their children, like ours, understand good sportsmanship. They beat our team by a fine margin and it was a great match. Our thanks to N’ana, Tiwa, Tilly-Rose, Deesara, Declan, Hollie, Thomas, Jenson and Koen. They represented our school brilliantly.
Snaps to Eva Lilly who gained her pen licence this week. She has tried really hard over a long period to improve her presentation and deserves recognition for her commitment and an ability to persevere.
Perry Beeches – Make Lunch: Pastor Tracy and our friends at Perry Beeches Baptist Church have another community ‘Make Lunch’ club aimed at primary aged pupils and their families on 29th May – registration at 11:45. This club offers free hot meals during the school holidays and does not require any other involvement with the church, as it is intended as a community event.Booking is essential, as there are only 30 places available.
Get in touch with Zoeta Brown, coordinator on: 07874 954112 to book your spot.
Behaviour at after school clubs: I feel sure that Mrs Spencer, who commissions all of our after school provision would want me to remind everyone that our expectations of behaviour extend to after school events and clubs. Her communications always include the following: Our behaviour policy extends to our extra-curricular provision. We expect the very best behaviour from all of our pupils following our school rules:
READY, RESPECTFUL, SAFE.
Falling short of this expectation may result in provision being withdrawn or a pupil not being selected to represent the school at an inter-school sports event.
We are looking forward to our inter-house swimming gala, which will be great preparation for our inter-school gala later in the term. We know we have strong swimmers amongst the cohort who have been selected. It will be good to see how they manage performance under pressure.
House Points: Lots of children received certificates today. Hawks are 4th with 2825pts, Kestrels and 3rd with 2875pts, Eagles are 2nd with 3025pts and Falcons, looking unbeatable at the moment are in 1st place with 3225pts.
Attendance: although Sunflowers are suffering from an outbreak of Chickenpox, the attendance is improving in our other classes. Our winning classes this week are 1G with 97.7% and 3D with 98.8%. Many thanks to parents across the school for making the effort to work with Mrs Harper to improve attendance. Please keep it up, as we know better attendance equals better progress.
If you need to reach us, contact the team via Class Dojo message, give the pastoral team a ring, or email to enquiry@glenmead.bham.sch.uk.
