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Grange Farm Primary School

Dear Parents,

It is a jam-packed 4-page newsletter this week with plenty of things going on in school, Year 6’s trip to Plas Dol-y-Moch and also a spe-cial feature on some actions underway to help improve the parking outside of school.

We also have a vote on the way for the community to choose the concept (from three options) for our new school logo—keep a look out for the designs and voting information coming out to families in the near future!

Mr Ledgard

NEWSLETTER

Grange Farm Primary School, Dewsbury Avenue, Coventry, CV3 6NF - tel: 024 76 411098 - email: [email protected] - www.grangefarmschool.co.uk

Diary Dates

Monday 9th October

Individual School Photographs

Tuesday 10th October

Year 1 Memorial Park Visit


Zoe’s Hospice Assembly

Friday 13th October

FGF Hallowe’en Disco


FGF AGM—6:30pm—all welcome

Thursday 19th October

The Big Draw—details to follow!

Mon 23rd Oct to Fri 27th Oct

Half-term Holiday

Monday 30th October

Reception Heights and Weights Check

Tues 31st Oct & Wed 1st Nov

Year 3 Compton Verney Trips

Wed 15th and Thurs 16th November

Parents’ Evenings

Friday 17th November

Teacher Training Day—no children in

Tuesday 12th December

2:30pm—Reception Christmas Play

Wednesday 13th December

2:30pm—Yr 1 Christmas Play

6pm—Reception Christmas Play

Thursday 14th December

6pm—Yr 1 Christmas Play

Thursday 21st December

Last day of term

Tuesday 9th January

Children back for start of Spring term

October

6th

2017

Diary Note

Trips and events may be shown here that you have not yet received a letter

for. Do not worry if this is the case. All letters will be sent in plenty of time be-fore the event and will be available on

the website

2017/18 Training Days:

Friday 17th November

Monday 8th January

Friday 16th March

Monday 4th June

Key Stage 2 Achievement Assembly

A huge well done to Elahee, Lucy and Scarlett who today re-ceived the Silver Achievement Cup in assembly. It was lovely to hear all the well-earned praise they received for the consistent effort they have put into their learning for so many years.

We also said well done to Harry, Serena, Joshua, Eben, Evie, Olivia and Adam who received Class Dojo Distinction certificates.

Also well done to Milly, Jasdeep, Lexi, Summayah, Arjan, Jayden, Khushmeet, Polly, Alex, Jamie, Esha, Simer, Yusuf, Emily, Rhian-non, Imaan and Samuel!

We also celebrated lots of active people in assembly this week—Jayden, Paige, Erin, Harriet, Jessica, Milly and Jamie have all been busy!

Making Soup

Gardening Club have been busy cooking this week!


Quote of the Week

Achievement Assemblies

Everyone is welcome to attend Fri-day assemblies. The next few will run as follows (3pm start):

KS1

Fri 13th Oct

Fri 3rd Nov

Thu 16th Nov

KS2

Fri 20th Oct

Fri 10th Nov

Fri 24 Nov

We use the word con-junction a lot in gram-mar lessons.

A conjunction is used to join words, phrases or clauses in a sen-tence.

E.g. and, but for, or, neither, nor, yet, alt-hough, because, if, un-til, unless, when, where, while, whereas.

Growth Mindset...

Science

Corner

Last week’s image was eyelash hairs (we did say the colour was misleading…)

Can you guess what this week’s image is?

Yr 2 Parachutes

Year 2 have been ac-tive experimenters this week, launching their parachute designs from the Year 6 win-dows!

Have you got both of the up-coming FGF dates in your di-ary? The AGM is on Tues 17th October (6:30pm) and the Hallowe’en Disco is next Friday (13th) - more helpers still needed for the disco.

Making our children Safer

This morning I took a group of Year 5 children out to have a look at parkers, drivers and walkers on the way into school.

They were brilliant at seeing and understanding the problems, say-ing things like:

“Some walkers make it harder for cars by crossing where they shouldn’t and standing in incon-venient spaces.”

“People are parking on kerbs and on corners.”

“People park by the bollards.”

“We could get hurt.”

The children also had great ideas about how we can improve things by talking to children and parents.

One of the things we are going to do (helped by some more Year 5 children next week) is to organise a petition to the council to come and improve road markings and signs near school to help people realise what is safe and what isn’t. Look out for us out next Wednes-day and Thursday mornings if you want to support this—the more people the better! If you can’t sign then, there will be a petition at the school office and Fun for Kids will have one too.

You may well have seen me out and about throughout this week taking photographs of the roads around school. Some are shared here: The intention is for everyone to see for themselves how this looks from the outside:

We will also use photographs as extra evidence when we submit out petition to the council.

I have also been talking to the neigh-bourhood police team and the park-ing enforcement team. Both will be visiting in the coming weeks.


Headlice

I am afraid we are still hav-ing cases of headlice re-ported around school- enough to suggest that not everyone has yet taken on board the advice that came out in the information letter a couple of weeks ago. Please read it if you haven’t already and take this seri-ously for the good of your own child and their friends.

Yr 2 Warwick Castle Visit Volcanic Learning

Year 3 have been busy making brilliant volcanoes this week (and using all our brown paint!)

Year 2 went to Warwick Castle last Friday to help support the learning in their topic work. They all had a great time and to see and hear more about it (in the chil-dren’s own words), see the news item on the school website.

Plas Dol-y-Moch is Coventry Local Authority’s outdoor adventure centre and is situated in Snowdonia in Wales. It is a long bus journey but worth every mile! Coventry children have been visiting the centre, gathering memories and expe-riences that will last a life time, for over 50 years and there are no plans for that to change any time soon!

Our Year 6 class went on their own adventure from last Saturday to Wednesday and, like so many before them, came back buzzing with that special sense of achievement and enjoyment that only trips like this give you.

The children were brilliant—they did everything that was asked of them and more and they entirely lived up to the Respect, Responsibility and Resilience values that all visitors to Dol-y-Moch aspire to.

Hopefully the photographs over the next page or so will help give a flavour of the experience, value and fun that they enjoyed.


As well as being extremely proud of the children and their efforts during the trip we should also say a big thank-you to all of the adults that made it happen.

Plas Dol-y-Moch staff are amazing and always impress us with their knowledge positivity, and enthusiasm.

Also Grange Farm staff deserve a huge thank-you. Taking children on a trip like this is a big responsibility and demand-ing in lots of ways. No-one has to do it but every year we have more volunteers than can go and we should feel ex-tremely grateful that this is the case.

And also a massive thank-you to par-ents without whose financial support the trip just couldn’t happen.

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