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Dear Parents & Carers,

Welcome back!

We hope you had a wonderful summer holiday and found time together as a family to relax, have some fun and created happy memories.

We welcome new families who have joined or are about to join the school community. We are always pleased to welcome, not only our new Nursery & Reception pupils, but also a number of children transferring to our school into other year groups. We will do our very best to ensure that your time with us is happy and successful.

Please remember that class teachers are in the playground with classes at the end of each day, so please go up and introduce yourself and do take the opportunity to let us know if you have any questions, queries or concerns. Teachers are very busy in the mornings getting ready for lessons so the end of the day is the best time to speak to them. You can always contact teachers through the school office.

We say “Eid Mubarak” to those in our school community celebrating Eid ul-Adha on Monday 12th September. Do let the school office know if your child will not be in school on Monday.

Staff News!

We welcome some new members of staff to the school, Mrs Whyte in Y1, Mr Crawford in Y5 and Mrs Schlichter in Y6. We also welcome Miss Jawad and Mrs Chaudhry as part of the Learning Support Assistant team.

Some wonderful staff news, Mrs McAndrew’s baby arrived a little earlier than expected in the holidays, a beautiful little girl, mum and baby doing very well indeed. We send our congratula-tions to the whole family.

Thank you for your continued support; we look forward to a successful and exciting year ahead!

Best wishes,

Mr. James Simmons, Headteacher

OLIVER GOLDSMITH PRIMARY SCHOOL

“Inspiring a love of learning”

Tel: 0208 205 6038

020 8205 6800 (Nursery)

Fax: 0208 205 4987

admin@olivergoldsmith.brent.sch.uk

www.olivergoldsmithbrent.co.uk

@OGPSinspired

Improving the School Environment

Over the summer break the school has see a great deal of change! The governing board have ensured that a large investment was made into the site as it is vital to have an outstanding learning environment if you want to achieve outstanding outcomes! Lots of money has been spent directly on rooms or areas that are used by our children.

It has been great to received positive feedback already from parents after seeing the outside areas and hope that will continue when you see the rest of the changes!

I have dedicated the inside spread of this newsletter to sharing photographs showing you both before and after the summer works! We will be arranging opportunities for parents to see the rest of the works as the term progresses.

I would like to take this opportunity to say a special thank you to Mrs Babhania, our School Business Manager, for working with me for nearly a year on getting the site improvements planned, ordered and completed but also to Carlton, our Site Supervisor, who has worked incredibly hard over the summer, including weekends to make sure the school was ready for the start of a new year.

Playground Before….

Playground After...

Car Park Development, before and after...

KS1 Corridors Before… The downstairs hall corridor, the KS1 corridor and KS1 cloakroom corridor have all been decorated and carpeted so they are attractive, warmer and quieter! Take a look at the difference!

KS1 Corridors After... We have even lowered the ceiling in the KS1 corridor and installed better energy efficient lighting so it is brighter and cheaper to run! The change makes it feel like different school!

Classrooms Before…. Classrooms After… Decorated, carpeted, storage & new furniture; the rooms look great!

An the old library… ...has become a brand new Food Tech Room: The Cooking Zone!.. With four separate kitchen areas and height adjustable tables, the room will help all our children become master chefs of

the future!

And the old cloakroom… ...has become our new school library! Both the new Cooking Zone and new Library still need time to finish preparing with furniture and resources, they will be launched for the children to use after the

October half term break. A newspaper article in 1938 about the school opening talked about the site being one of the best in the country! I hope you can see that we are continuing to invest in the school to make sure it provides the very best educational experience for the children.

Medical Information or Food Allergies If your child has a medical condition or a food allergy that we should know about and you have not already told us, please let the school know the details as soon as possible. It is very important that we have knowledge of your child’s medical condition and any medications they may require. If your child does have a condition that requires us to keep medication in school please make sure that you have signed a consent form and passed it to Mrs Deckett.

Dates for your Diary…

Mon 19th Sept: Autumn Term Maths Week Mon 19th Sept: Clubs begin and Y4 swimming starts Mon 19th Sept: School Council Campaign Week Weds 21st Sept: Parent Time Y5/6 Parents, “Applying for High School” 9.00-9.45 & 6.00-6.45 Mon 26th Sept: Learning Journey Information sent home to parents Weds 28th Sept: Parent Time KS1 Parents, “Written Maths Calculations” 9.00-9.45am Fri 30th Sept: School Council Election Day Mon 3rd Oct: Black History Month begins Tues 4th Oct: Parent Time 3 KS2 Parents, “Written Maths Calculations” 9.00-9.45am Weds 5th Oct: Walk, Scoot or Bike to School Day! Mon 10th Oct: Parents Evenings will be held this week, more details to follow Thurs 13th Oct: Harvest Festival Donations brought into school - details to come later Fri 14th Oct: Harvest Festival Assembly for staff and children Mon 17th Oct: Autumn Parent Forum Meeting & PSA AGM, 9.00-10.00am & 6.00-7.00pm Weds 19th Oct: Parent Time KS1 Parents, “English” 9.00-9.45am Thurs 20th Oct: School Photographer taking individual photos of all children Fri 21st Oct: Y4 Diwali Assembly - Y4 Parents invited from 9.00am Fri 21st Oct: Break up for half term at 3.30pm Half term break: Mon 24th October to Fri 28th October Mon 31st Oct: Back to school at 8.50am & Food Learning Adventure Half Term Begins! Weds 2nd Nov: Parent Time KS2 Parents, “English” 9.00-9.45am Mon 14th Nov: Anti-Bullying Week begins Tues 15th Nov: Parent Time open for all parents “Anti-Bullying” 9.00-9.45am Weds 16th Nov: No Pens Day! Weds 23rd Nov: Parent Time for Nursery & Reception Parents 9.00-9.45am Fri 9th Dec: Y3 Hanukah Assembly - Y3 Parents invited from 9.00am Thurs 15th Dec: Christmas Fair Donations Day! Fri 16th Dec: Non-uniform day and Christmas Jumper Day! Fri 16th Dec: Y2 Nativity - Y2 Parents invited from 9.00am Fri 16th Dec: OGPS Christmas Fair PM Tues 20th Dec: Christmas Party Afternoon Weds 21st Dec: End of Autumn term There are a number of events in the autumn term that will be confirmed in coming newsletters. Watch this space for further details!

Attendance & Term Dates for 2016-17

Autumn Term: 5th Sept to Weds 21st Dec 2016 (5th & 6th Sept as CPD days) Half term week Monday 24th October to Friday 28th October Spring Term: 3rd Jan to 31st March 2017 (3rd Jan & 18th April as CPD days) Half term week Monday 13th February to Friday 17th February Summer Term: 18th April to 21st July 2017 (2nd May as CPD day) Half term week Monday 29th May to Friday 2nd June (As soon as we have dates for 2017-18, they will be shared with parents)

OLIVER GOLDSMITH PRIMARY SCHOOL

“Inspiring a love of learning” @OGPSinspired