April - Newsletter 20 (25th April 2014)

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

Welcome back to the summer term – I hope you all had a lovely Easter break.

The table below gives you details of each class’ theme for this term. Knowing your child’s theme should help you talk to them about their work. Sometimes there is just one main theme for a term and sometimes two. The themes this term are:

Class

Theme

Reception

Animals / Water

1

Where in the World is Barnaby Bear?

2

Life Cycles

3

Map Detectives / Flying High

4

Zambia

5

A Comparison of Cheadle Hulme and Seaside Towns

6

Challenges

 

You have the details of your child’s curriculum in the ‘Booklet for Parents’ which you received with your child’s report (or in the Reception parent’s pack) – this is a useful reference throughout the year and will help you to help your child. There is also a link to this booklet through the website: www.laneend.stockport.sch.uk (Click on the ‘Our School’ – ‘Curriculum’ link and then choose the year group you want to look at). Please also remember to have a regular look on the VLE for class and curriculum activities and support.

 

Fundraising – www.easyfundraising.org.uk We are in greater need than ever of funds to continue to provide the best possible education and resources we can for your children. Budgets are getting tighter and every bit helps so I wanted to make you aware of a fundraising website we have registered with. Easy fundraising has links to a vast range of online shopping sites, from Amazon to John Lewis. Every time you purchase from one of these sites a donation is given directly to school. It is really easy to sign up to and if lots of people do it could make a big difference to our fundraising. There is a toolbar you can download which will let you know if a shopping site you are on will donate money to school. Please help by registering:

 

  1. Go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk
  2. Name ‘Lane End Primary School’ as your good cause
  3. Select us and click ‘support this cause’ (we are at the top of the results you will see)
  4. You will be asked to fill in your details (no bank details are required)
  5. Click continue
  6. It will ask you if you want to install the toolbar – you don’t have to but this is a really helpful tool as it will let you know if a site you are on will donate to school and allow you to ‘activate the donation’
  7. Follow the instructions to install the toolbar
  8. Sign in and away you go!

Thank you very much for your help with this – it could really make a difference.

 

Maths Week – Maths Week was a big success and generated some great enthusiasm around maths and the challenges which were set for the children over the week. We’ll be adding some photos of the week to the website soon. Thank you to Mrs Love for organising and to the staff and children for their enthusiasm!

 

Pole2Pole – 6th to 26th May. Mr Vallance is organising a scoot and cycle to school event as part of a Stockport wide competition. Each child who scoots or cycles to school will earn km’s towards our total, with the aim of going pole to pole! More information will follow from Mr Vallance soon.

 

We aim to be approachable and work in partnership with parents, so if there is anything you wish to discuss, please do not hesitate to come and talk to us.

 

Yours sincerely,

James Twigg

 

Key Dates for the Term:

Wednesday 23rd April

School Re-opens after Easter

Monday 5th May

MAY DAY

Monday 12th May

KS2 SATS WEEK

Tuesday 13th May

Y5 to Scarborough

Friday 16th May

Y5 return from Scarborough

Thursday 22nd May

Class Photographs

Friday 23rd May

School Closes for Half Term

Monday 9th June

INSET

Tuesday 10th June

School Re-opens after Half Term

Saturday 14th June

PTA Summer Fair, 12 – 2:30pm

Wednesday 18th June

Full Governing Body Meeting – 6:30pm (observers welcome)

Thursday 19th June

New Reception Parents’ Evening

Monday 23rd June

Junior Sports Day - morning

Monday 30th June

Infant Sports Day – morning

Wednesday 9th July

Reports to go to parents

Thursday 10th July

Open Evening - 6pm to 8pm

Monday 14th July

Junior Production – dress rehearsal – 2pm

Tuesday 15th July

Junior Production – 6:30pm

Wednesday 16th July

Junior Production – 6:30pm

Friday 25th July

Year 6 Leavers Assembly – 9.15am (please note the change of date from the one previously advertised)

Monday 28th July

Lane End Commonwealth Games

Tuesday 29th July

School Closes for Summer Holiday