Jingle Bells Jingle Bells .. Jingle All The Way! S T · 2019-12-06 · Jingle Bells … Jingle...
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House Point Totals
Shakespeare Lord Leycester Arden Godiva
256 168 206 289 This Week
6477 6312 5878 6436 Total for the Term
Diary Dates
Event Date
Christmas Panto Friday 13th December
Christmas Jumper Day—Save the Children Friday 13th December
Key Stage 2 Christmas Performance (2pm) Monday 16th December
Key Stage 1 Christmas Performance (2:15pm) Tuesday 17th December
Key Stage 2 Christmas Performance (6pm) Tuesday 17th December
Christmas Dinner Day Wednesday 18th December
Christmas Church Service (9:30am) Thursday 19th December
Last day of term Friday 20th December
Autumn Term 2019 — Friday 6th December
W E S T G A T E P R I M A R Y S C H O O L
Class Attendance
Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
90.53% 97.62% 92.78% 93% 97.59% 99.13% 95.17%
Jingle Bells … Jingle Bells .. Jingle All The Way!
Christmas is nearly here and the school has undergone some decoration this week. Santa’s Grotto (sorry, the Office) looks very festive as do classrooms and the hall with our wonderful tree. Thank you to the Slatem family for again providing a fabulous tree.
Please come and join us for the Christmas Fayre this afternoon. Thank you to the Friends of Westgate for all of their time, energy and organisational skills in preparing for the fayre. Thank you to the many parents and staff who have volunteered to help run stalls and activities.
Year Group Children and Reason for being chosen
Reception Mercan—for her great work in phonics, especially writing her ‘th’ sound!
Frankie—for trying his best during phonics and taking care with his work.
Year 1 Alex—for a fantastic effort with your hedgehog fact file—lovely handwriting, great concentration, model pupil!
Tate—for doing all his work and being so independent.
Year 2 Willow—for her improved handwriting
Freya—for her fantastic singing ability
Year 3 Tahira—for excellent results in her assessments, particularly reading comprehension.
Gabriel—for writing a fantastic ‘finding’ story with a brilliant variety of sentence types.
Year 4 Josh—for helping others and creating a positive learning environment.
Megan—for a consistently high level of effort in her writing.
Year 5 Amira—for consistently working at an exceptional level.
Jake—for always pushing himself to use increasingly complex sentence types.
Year 6 Leonard—for consistently working hard in all his lessons!
Aaron—for showing in depth understanding of characters in ‘A Christmas Carol’.
If your child is listed as a ‘Superstar’ today, their assembly will be held on Friday 13th December. I hope that this gives parents more time to book time off work or organise for extended family members to come to the assembly. Wishing everybody a wonderful weekend. Mr. Watson. This will be the last set of Superstar awards for this term as we will not have a celebration assembly on the final day of the term.
Reception Frankie, Alana, Miriam, Sophie, Tiffany, Laila, Maya, Stanley, Kayla, Freddie.
Year 1 Noah L, Alex, Arnau, Alfie, Sofia, Aria
Year 2 Jennah, Norean, Jakes, James
Year 3 Thomas, Layla, Georgia, Kaya, Ephie, Hannah, Krish, Tahira, Mark
Year 4 None this week.
Year 5 Joe, Harry, Annabel, Angelina, Liam, Olivia, Eddie, Amira, Max, Noah, McKenzie, Louise, Aushleen, Bayron, Kenza, Daphne, Alexa, Ethan, Joshua, Abi, Nathan, Jake, Lara.
Year 6 Zelie, Dottie, Hermia, Chloe, Leonard.
Happy Birthday
Jack Y3 Steffan Y3 Kai C Y4 Aushleen Y5
Norovirus Update
Dear parents/carers
This letter is to advise you that diarrhoea and vomiting illness, which is present in the
community at this time of the year, is also circulating at school.
We are following advice from Public Health England (PHE) West Midlands on managing the
outbreak, including increasing cleaning throughout the school.
We would be very grateful for the support of parents in helping us reduce the spread of the
infection. If your child has symptoms of diarrhoea and or vomiting, please keep them at home
until at least 48 hours after they are symptom free. A 48-hour exclusion period is advised in
current clinical guidance; however, preference may be to practice a 72-hour exclusion period.
During this time, they should not mix with other children outside the home or visit local
venues.
Norovirus is commonly known as Winter Vomiting Disease and often occurs in the community
and in schools and nurseries at this time of the year. If your child is ill, you may find the
following information useful:
ADVICE FOR PARENTS ABOUT NOROVIRUS
What are the symptoms?
diarrhoea and vomiting usually lasting 1 -2 days
What should you do if your child is unwell?
Make sure they get lots of rest.
Ensure they drink plenty of fluids, taking sips rather than gulps to avoid vomiting.
Give infant Paracetamol or Ibuprofen, according to product instructions, to help keep their
temperature down.
If your child is unusually sleepy, won’t take fluids or has other symptoms, such as blood in
their diarrhoea, an unusual rash, headache, neck stiffness or difficulty breathing, ring
NHS Direct (0845 4647), contact your GP or take your child to hospital.
Please ring your child’s nursery/ school and let them know that your child is ill and what
symptoms they have.
Keep them at home until they are well enough to return to school. However, if your child has
been suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting keep them at home until they have been
free of symptoms for at least 48 hours.
How can you prevent the spread of these infections?
Hand washing is one of the most important ways to prevent the spread of both of these in-
fections. This applies to the child who is ill and the person looking after them.
Hands should always be washed, using liquid soap if possible:
Before and after caring for your child
After using the toilet
Before eating or handling food
After cleaning up a mess (vomit, faeces or urine)
Other ways of preventing the spread of infection are to:
Keep a separate towel for family members who have symptoms
Dispose promptly of used tissues and other items that your child may have coughed or
sneezed on
Wash soiled clothing, bed linen and towels in a washing machine. Use the hottest wash for
that fabric
Clean baths and washbasins thoroughly and disinfect after use
If cleaning up diarrhoea or vomit, wash the surface with hot soapy water and disinfect before
allowing to dry. If using bleach remember that it can remove the colour from fabrics and
can burn the skin
Please keep your child away from other children and people that are particularly vulnerable,
eg the elderly and those with chronic illnesses.
Yours faithfully,
Matthew Watson
Head Teacher
Our school choir sang at St Mary’s Church this morning and did a fantastic job!
Well done to all of our wonderful children who took part and a big thank you to
Mrs Sampson our choir leader.
Kissing it Better Project—When great granny came to stay A couple of weeks ago, we were visited by Jill Fraser of the ‘Kissing it Better’ project. She was incredibly impressed with the children and made the following comments in a lovely letter that she sent into school. I have included two key passages below: I thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone and was delighted that every year group engaged so well. It was a great privilege to work with such polite and attentive groups of wonderful children. I was very impressed with your school. The staff were great and the pupils were so engaging. Everything was highly organised and the day seemed to fly by. It is pleasing that visitors to Westgate are always so impressed with the children and staff.