St Leonard’s RC Primary School Newsletter

We shine in the light of Jesus.

St Leonard’s is a GOOD school!

09.05.2016

Liturgies Spring Term 2016

12.04.16 SATs Week

No whole school Liturgy

19.05.16 Recep"on

26.05.16 Yr5

09.06.16 Yr2

Class of the Week

A'endance

Rec 95% Yr3 96.55%

Yr1 96.59% Yr4 93.80%

Yr2 93.10% Yr5 92.50%

Yr6 95.69%

Whole school a'endance for the week

94.67% (our target is 97%+)

Smileys

Well done to ……………….

Callum Coates. He has received his

Gold

Emma Herring has been given her

Silver Smiley.

The children should be trying to get

approximately 50 Smileys each half

term.

They are awarded for effort,

showing good learning behaviours,

manners and living the school

values.

Don’t forget the KS1 RED TED

Challenge and the Rainbow Reading

Challenge for KS2.

Statement of the Week

We try our best in everything that we do

Golden Rule Focus

We and kind and helpful

We are gentle

Skill Focus

Thinking and Concentra"ng

Healthy Packed Lunches

We ask parents who provide their

children with a packed lunch each day

to refer to the dra> Healthy Packed

Lunch Policy and Guidance which is on

the website. Please ensure you do not

send sweets in to school in your

child’s packed lunch. If there are

sweets in the packed lunch we will ask

the child to take them home at the

end of the day. Please support our

school policy.

KS2 SATs

Please keep our Yr6 children in your thoughts

and prayers. They will be taking part in the

end of KS2 SATs. May they sparkle brightly.

The Blogs are Live!

Please have a look at

the Class Blogs. They

are accessed via the

website under the tab

WHAT’S HAPPENING.

The blogs give the flavour of our rich

curriculum. Despite the pressure to meet

the demands of the new year group

curriculum standards our aim is to

con"nue to provide curriculum enrichment

and crea"ve opportuni"es so that our

curriculum meets the needs of all learners

in a holis"c way. KS1 SATs

Following much

publicity, the

children in Yr2

have almost

finished their

SATs. Miss

Scothern has

worked

excep"onally

hard to ensure

the children

were well prepared. The SATs will con"nue to

be conten"ous. Michael Rosen, the author is my

hero! He con"nues to speak out very publically

about the SATs. I just wish the government

ministers would listen! Here is the link to his

blog. h'p://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Well done Yr2.

Golden Assembly

Congratula"ons to all the children

who received an award this week.

Year 1 Gabriel Naile & Lily Usher

Year 2 Harry Woods & Jack Ashmore

Year 3 Alfie Gray & James Chaffe

Year 4 Alex Foley & Georgia Heatlie

Year 5 Amy Wardropper & Ryley

Miller

Year 6 Annabel Lynn & Olivia Eg-

gleston

Bullying is….. ‘A persistent, deliberate

a'empt to hurt or humiliate’

Punctuality

Please ensure your child is in

their class line for 8.50am.

Late arrivals this week

Recep"on - 3

Yr1 - 2

Yr2 - 7

Yr3 -4

Yr4 - 4

Yr5 - 2

Yr6 - 2

This week’s Total: 24

Last week’s Total: 29

Last week the number of ‘lates’ was very high.

Reducing the number of lates is one of our post

OFSTED Targets. Punctuality really must improve. Do

ensure the children are ready and in the class lines for

8.50. If parents would like to offer any sugges"ons

how we can eradicate poor punctuality please let me

know. There is a sugges"on box in the recep"on area.

It is a huge worry that week a>er week we have high

levels of lates. We cannot begin our journey to out-

standing if we do not have be'er punctuality and

a'endance which is consistently reaching 97%. Mrs D

Congratula"ons to the children who par"cipated in

the Race for Life

Event. The response

has been fantas"c.

Ruby Stewart man-

aged to get £145 of

sponsorship. Ethan Jones has brought in £70 and

Hannah Ritchie £65. Well done, everyone.

Many families have experiences of loved one

suffering from cancer. We pray for those

• who are ill

• who are caring for a friend or family member who

has cancer

• who are working "relessly to find cures for the 100+

types of cancer which have an impact on the lives

of so many people.

Thank you to those who have been so generous in

dona"ng hard cash.

Some thoughts for Yr6 children on SATS!

The SATs don’t test whether you’re a crea"ve person, can

write code, whether you are good at teaching IT skills to

your granddad or have a rapport with animals. They don’t

test your speaking skills or wheth-

er you can mend anything put in

front of you. They don’t measure

whether you’re arty or sporty,

musical or love science.

Although subjects like Maths and

English are important, never forget you’ve been

given talents in plenty of other areas too.

Please try your best to think

of these tests as “something

I’ve got to do, but not the

most important thing in the

world.” The problem is that

some"mes we teachers can

make them seem really im-

portant, without no"cing what we’re doing. We have school targets we

hope to meet and our school has Government targets it hopes to meet. It’s

like one big chain and there’s only one person at the end of it… YOU!

Sun Awareness

Sun Awareness Week will be taking place from

9-16 May 2016 - "me to get out your shades

and your sun protec"on lo"ons and get ready

for a summer of safe fun in the sun. Hopefully

the weather will be be'er this week. You will

find lots of informa"on via the following link.

h'p://www.bad.org.uk/for-the-public/sun-awareness-campaign/

downloadable-leaflets-and-posters

Fundraising

We’ve signed up to a fundraising website – please have a look:

Do you shop online? If so, please sign up to www.easyfundraising.org and

link yourself to St Leonard’s RC Primary School. Whenever you shop

online, open the site via easyfundraising home page and St Leonard’s

receive a dona"on each "me.

It’s totally free for you, but raises

money for school. There are

nearly 3,000 retailers including

Amazon, John Lewis, Aviva,

thetrainline and Sainsbury's,

who will donate a percentage of

the amount you spend to St

Leonard's RC Primary School to

say thank you for

shopping with them. There are

no catches or hidden charges and

we will be really grateful for your

dona"ons.

If you do sign up, ac"vate the

Dona"on Reminder so that you don’t forget to collect dona"ons. Please

tell your family and friends. Thank you.