Our Lady of Lourdes Newsletter – Friday 14th October 2016

Dear Parents and Carers

Open Afternoon for prospective parents Tuesday 18th October at 1:45pm.

PTA AGM - Tuesday 18th October 2016Wine and nibbles welcome at 7.30pm, followed by the PTA AGM meeting at 8pm in the school hall. All welcome to discuss ideas for the year ahead. Every year the committee stand down and a new committee are elected. Anyone interested in finding out more about committee roles or becoming a class representative, please contact a present committee member. Email for info and tickets is ololrcpta@gmail.com

Half Term Sports ClubsFollowed on from the successful summer Sports Club, we are hosting a ‘Sports Club’ over the October half term run by Premier Sport. Please contact Premier Sports for bookings.

French TripThe Year 6 pupils (and teachers) have had a wonderful experience in France this week. They are due back this afternoon, no doubt they will be full of the exciting stories about their learning. We know a number of parents have enjoyed following their activities, and seeing their photos, on the school Twitter feed. Well done to the Year 6 pupils who were extremely well-behaved and open to their new experiences.

DAYGLOW Day - Thursday 20th OctoberA reminder that Our Lady of Lourdes is joining the Redbridge Road Safety Team’s ‘Be Bright Be Seen’ campaign next Thursday 20th October. This campaign, across many Redbridge Schools, is to encourage children to ‘Be Bright and Be Seen’ when they are out and about, in order to prevent road accidents, especially during the winter months. The pupils are asked to come to school wearing something really bright or light e.g. a colourful top, fluorescent socks, glowing hairbands or reflective trainers. The expectation is that the pupils do not need to wear their school uniform, if they are supporting this campaign. Look for the posters on your child’s classroom window or around the school and information is on the school website.

Cycle to School Challenge - 3rd October to 14th OctoberIt has been great to see an increase in the number of pupils cycling to school. Pupils (and parents) have shown great enthusiasm in taking part in the Cycle to School Challenge. The raffle tickets that the pupils have been awarded, will be entered into the prize draw for a chance to win many wonderful prizes! The prize draw will be drawn at the assembly on Monday 17th October. Good luck to everyone!

WoW Travel Tracker - a year challengeWoW is the year-round walk to school challenge. Pupils who walk to school at least three times a week or twelve times a month are rewarded with a monthly badge, helping build healthy habits for a lifetime. Daily journeys are logged by pupils on the interactive online Travel Tracker. The theme for 2016/17 academic year is ‘Our Neighbourhood’ and has 10 fantastic new badges to collect, covering iconic landmarks, local heroes and much more.

This challenge will be launched at the assembly on Monday 17th October and will run throughout the school year.

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World Space Week

Following on from our ‘alien space landing’ last week, Our Lady of Lourdes celebrated a successful 'World Space Week' and the children have produced some fantastic work, some of which can be seen in our hall. The children had the opportunity to work in a cross curricular way and study one of the solar system's planets in more detail.

Kenneth More Theatre Pantomime Roadshow

Last Friday Years 2 to 6 were treated to a Pantomime Roadshow afternoon with actors from the Kenneth More Theatre. In addition to this, the pupils learnt about the unique role pantomimes play in Britain. Did you know there are 5 British pantomimes? We were told from the actors, who have been travelling around different schools, that we were the only school that could name all of the five, can you?

Have a great weekend,

Staff at Our Lady of Lourdes

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