Glenmead Primary School
Newsletter
04.04.25
We have had testing this week. All the teachers have been busy administering and marking test papers. We collate all the children’s data to see how much progress they are making and to identify any gaps they may have in their learning. This information, once checked and moderated, will make its way to you after the holidays on the children’s termly report cards.
Year 5 are in the final throws of their preparations for their assembly next week. There are two performances on Wednesday 9th April: 09:15 and 2:15. I feel sure many of our Y5 parents will be turning out to see our presentation of the Easter Story.
We have our Easter bonnet competition in EYFS/KS1 and our decorate an egg competition in KS2 next week. Please encourage the children to join in as a bit of end of term fun. There are Easter egg prizes on offer.
Swimming Gala
It was the inter-house swimming gala today. A bit of competitive fun, but also preparation for the inter-school gala in the summer term. We have come on leaps and bounds with our swimming provision. Mrs Spencer targeted extra swimming at those who had just managed to get their 5m and 10m badges last term. She has reported a high rate of conversion to 25m in this series of sessions. Great news and money well spent!
Falcons came out on top in our inter-house swimming gala today. Medals went to: Jensen, Alexia, Jacob R, Enzo, Blake, Ivy, Jack, Mason, and Jacob S. You can see from the photograph that they were thrilled to get their medals.
Busy School Council:
A lot of our younger pupils enjoyed the disco after school yesterday. They donned their glad rags and joined in with the fun and games: we have quite a lot of ‘groovy little movers’ at Glenmead.
We would like to thank our School Council Officers: Shiloh, Amelia, Lawson and Ivy, who organised and ran the fundraising disco with the support of Mrs Rudd. Charlotte also volunteered to help out.
The officers made a visit to my office earlier this week. They informed me of what fundraising plans they have on the diary, but were also quizzing me about development of the library and other projects they are keen on. It is a pleasure to work with such focussed young people who represent the school so well.
New Breakfast club:
57 pupils from across the school have signed up to be part of our new breakfast club, which will start on Monday 28th April – the first day back after the Easter holidays. We will be writing to those families who have expressed an interest to confirm the arrangements. We will be making the final additions to the register, finalising the food order and risk assessment so that we have all our ducks in a row on that first morning back.
The new breakfast club does not interfere with the arrangements for Inspired Kids’ Club and they will be working alongside us to enhance the breakfast provision at our school. Something I feel sure many of our working mums and dads would welcome.
Attendance Recognition:
Receiving attendance recognition for being the most improved classes this week are 5M 96.71% and 1G 97.04% - both missed much less school days this week than last. We called out two individuals for improved attendance also: James and Ke-Yaunte have both ‘pulled their socks up’ compared to this time last year. We gave them a roll of the dice to recognise their improvements.
Next week we will be recognising all those children who have missed no days of school for the year to date.
Mental Health Provision in School: Mrs Moore is proud to confirm that Glenmead has been awarded Bronze accreditation for our work on My Happy Mind our mental health approach. There was quite a lot of graft involved in gaining this recognition. The CEO sent us a congratulatory message. We’d all like to thank Mrs Moore for collating the evidence of our work and submitting it. She is thrilled to be leading in this success story and Glenmead now have the opportunity to become an ambassador school and support other settings with their practice.
Stars of the Week:
We were catching up with French this week and had a focus on gathering some cultural capital to celebrate the centenary of the Eiffel Tower. I have seen some lovely work in classes around school with pupils combining drawing and writing about the French capital city and the monument.
Well done to our nominees: Molly, Amelia H.F, Isabella H.S, Tabasom, Ella-Rose, Aiyah, Emeliamae, Maddison T, Poppie, Alayna and Lily
We had three Lexia superstars today: Ronnie, Israel and Dexter.
Thoughtfully worded prayers were written and presented by Shafay and Sofia in today’s assembly.
Sports Personalities:
We had a few children nominated for Sports Personalities this week: Amelia L and Ivy for representing their houses in the swimming gala today. Mohammed Abdur was nominated for his work on tennis in his PE lesson this week.
Sakithu was nominated as Super Skipper. He admitted he is not yet a very accomplished skipper, but has been practising hard. A little mention also to Luca, who brought in his medal today. He is a keen footballer and players for a squad over in Solihull. He tells us he is top goal scorer for his team.
Our thanks to our victorious football team, who were thrilled to get a 3-0 win against Great Barr: Ahmed, Koen, Shiloh, Enzo, Jacob, Tan’dre, Lukas, Esme, Sofia, Miley, Tom and Henry.
Clearly there is a lot going on in school this week and we are trying to squeeze in as much as we can before the end of term is upon us. Let’s hope we get everything done before we break up for the Easter holidays on Thursday 10th April.
If you need to reach us, have a concern or need help of some kind, contact one of the senior leaders via Class Dojo message or email to enquiry@glenmead.bham.sch.uk. We will try our best to respond.
Glenmead School Council Officers
Dates for your diary:
- 7th April - Music concert
- 9th April - Easter Assembly led by Y5 at 9.15 and 2:15
- 10th April-9.30am Whole School church service. Last day of term for pupils.
- 11th April – Teacher Day
- 28th April - Breakfast club begins 08:15
- 29th April – Flip and Dippy clown show
- 2nd May – Teacher Day
- 19th May- Glenmead Sponsored Fun Run
- 19th June – Disco Year 3,4,5
- 20th June - Reception Induction Day
- 4th July – Crazy Hair Day
- 21st July - Teacher Day
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