Dear Parents/Carers,
We’ve had an excellent start to the term and the new Reception children are settling in very well indeed. It’s great to see each class hard at work and enjoying their time in school.
Curriculum maps have gone home with class newsletters and we hope that you find these useful. Please do remember that there is a great deal of information for parents about school on our website – go to the ‘Parents’ section and have a look around! The ‘General Information’ section goes over many of the general school policies and procedures you need to know as a parent.
A school calendar is attached to this newsletter for your information. This is also on the website in the ‘Parents’ section. Our first PTA meeting of the year is on Wednesday 21st September at 7:30pm (all welcome) – following this we will update the calendar with planned PTA events for the year. We can, however, already let you know that our annual, not-to-be-missed Quiz Night for parents and friends of the school is on Friday 14th October from 7:30pm. Put the date in your diary and there will be more information home soon – all parents are warmly invited.
Our main 50th Anniversary Events will focus around the anniversaries of when the school took its first children (4th April 1967) and when it was officially opened (23rd June 1967). We will be holding a special 50th Anniversary theme week this year on the week commencing 27th March (as close as we could get to 4th April as it is in the Easter holidays!). We will also be holding a 50th Anniversary street party on Friday 23rd June – exactly 50 years from the official opening of the school.
Thank you for the responses to our parent questionnaires at the end of last year. It is very rewarding for us all to receive such positive feedback and know that the overwhelming majority of parents are very pleased with our school. I think that the whole school community can be proud about how well the school and our children are doing. We are always aiming to improve further and the full questionnaire analysis and our improvement plan for parents will soon be available on the school website – click on either ‘Lane End Parents Say’ or ‘Parents’ and then ‘Parental Comments’ to see a summary of the feedback and the improvement plan.
School Phone – our phone line has been affected by the storms on Tuesday evening. BT are working on solving the problem and we expect it to be fixed very soon. However, if you are having difficulty contacting school please email admin@laneend.stockport.sch.uk and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience and I hope that you all managed to weather the storm safely – the children were full of tales about the thunder, lightning and torrential rain the next day!
ParentPay – we have been very pleased that the overwhelming majority of parents/carers have signed up already and are using the system – thank you. If you haven’t done this yet please could you have a look at it ASAP – you’ll need to sign up even if your child doesn’t have school dinners so that you can pay for school trips etc. If you have any difficulties please let us know as we are also learning about how to best use it to make things easier for home and school.
P.E. Kit – we are also delighted that the overwhelming majority of children are already wearing the new kit – thank you for your support with this; the children really do look much smarter and better prepared in P.E. and games lessons now. If you haven’t managed to sort out the new kit yet please could you organise this as soon as possible this half term – thank you.
Twitter – We now have 100 followers! If you haven’t yet followed us on Twitter then please do so – it is a very easy way to share our work in school with you, let you know a bit about what the children are learning and communicate about events etc. We are @LEPCheadleHulme and there is a link on our website to our page.
Class Assemblies – Dates for this term: Class 5 on Thursday 3rd November at 9:20am and Class 4 on Thursday 10th November at 9:20am – parents/carers and relatives of the children in these classes are warmly invited to join us on for the class assembly. Other classes will hold their assembly later in the year and we will let you know the date nearer the time.
Harvest Assembly – our Harvest Assembly is on Thursday 29th September and Reverend Peacock from Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church will be coming in to talk to the children. We are making a Harvest collection again for The Wellspring Kitchen - a charity which supports people who are homeless in Stockport. They would gratefully receive: coffee, shampoo, tinned meat, tinned spaghetti, beans, tinned veg, soup, tinned fruit, custard, rice pudding, tea, sugar, long life milk or other long life or tinned products. Please help out if you can: children can bring in their gifts from Friday 23rd September until Thursday 29th September – thank you.
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
Lane End Primary School - List of Dates for Parents for 2016/2017
Monday 5th September |
School Re-opens after summer holiday |
Wednesday 21st September |
PTA Meeting – 7:30pm |
Tuesday 27th September |
Reading Meeting for Reception Parents – 6pm |
Thursday 29th September |
Harvest Assembly (gifts for Wellspring Kitchen welcome) |
Tuesday 4th October |
Individual photographs – morning |
Wednesday 5th October |
Full Governing Body Meeting –6:30pm (observers welcome) |
Monday 10th October |
Walk to School Fortnight begins |
Friday 14th October |
PTA Quiz Night – 7:30pm |
Friday 21st October |
School Closes for Half Term |
Monday 31st October |
School re-opens after half term |
W/C 7th November |
Phonics drop-in for Reception parents |
Monday 14th November |
Parent-Teacher Interviews (not Year 3 – Wednesday 9th November) |
Wednesday 16th November |
Parent-Teacher Interviews – later night |
Tuesday 6th December |
Infant Nativity - Year 1 and 2 – 2pm |
Wednesday 7th December |
Infant Nativity - Year 1 and 2 – 5:30pm |
Tuesday 13th December |
Musical Performance (instrumentalists)– 6pm |
Thursday 15th December |
Junior Carol Concert at CHMC, 7:00pm |
Friday 16th December |
Reception Christmas Show – 10am |
Monday 19th December |
Year 3 and 4 Christmas Party |
Monday 19th December |
Year 5 and 6 Christmas Party |
Tuesday 20th December |
Reception Christmas Party |
Tuesday 20th December |
Year 1 and 2 Christmas Party |
Thursday 22nd December |
School Closes for Christmas |
Monday 9th January |
School Re-opens after Christmas |
Wednesday 18th January |
Year 6 SATs/Robinwood Meeting – 6pm |
Monday 13th February |
Year 6 to Robinwood |
Wednesday 15th February |
Year 6 back from Robinwood |
Wednesday 15th February |
Full Governing Body Meeting – 3:30pm (observers welcome) |
Friday 17th February |
School Closes for Half Term |
Monday 27th February |
School Re-opens after half term |
Monday 13th March |
Parent-Teacher Interviews – later night (not Year 3 – Wednesday 8th) |
Wednesday 15th March |
Parent-Teacher Interviews |
w/c 27th March |
50th Anniversary Theme Week |
Friday 31st March |
School Closes for Easter |
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Tuesday 18th April |
School Re-opens after Easter |
Tuesday 25th April |
Year 5 Residential |
Friday 28th April |
Year 5 return from residential |
Monday 1st May |
May Day – Bank Holiday |
Monday 8th May |
KS2 SATS Week |
Wednesday 24th May |
Class photographs |
Friday 26th May |
School Closes for Half Term |
Tuesday 13th June |
School Re-opens after Half Term |
Wednesday 14th June |
Full Governing Body Meeting – 6:30pm (observers welcome) |
Thursday 22nd June |
New Reception Parents’ Evening – 6pm |
Friday 23rd June |
50th Anniversary Street Party |
Monday 26th June |
Infant Sports Day – morning |
Monday 3rd July |
Junior Sports Day - morning |
Tuesday 11th July |
Reports to go to parents |
Wednesday 12th July |
Open Evening - 6pm to 8pm |
Monday 17th July |
Junior Production – dress rehearsal – 1:45pm |
Tuesday 18th July |
Junior Production – 1:45pm |
Wednesday 19th July |
Junior Production – 6:30pm |
Thursday 20th July |
Woodwind Assembly - 9:30am |
Tuesday 25th July |
Guitar Assembly – 9:30am |
Wednesday 26th July |
Year 6 Leavers Assembly – 9.15am |
Thursday 27th July |
School Closes for Summer Holiday |
Some events including Sports Days dependent on the weather. See our website for the most up-to-date calendar.