Thursday 15th September 2016

The Orchard

Beech Hill is very excited to offer the following day care provision. An out of school club will run from 7.30am to 8.45am each morning; and from the end of the school day, 3.10pm to 5.30pm each evening. Sessions will all include a healthy snack and drink for the children to enjoy at their leisure. 2 –3 year old Paid full-time /part-time places In addition to the 15 hour funded places, Beech Hill is now offering childcare for 2-4 years olds. This can be for mornings or afternoon sessions or for full days from 8.45am to 3.10pm and can also include breakfast club and afterschool care. Children accessing the dinnertime session at Beech Hill will be provided with a hot school dinner.

Safeguarding Notice

Can all parents make sure that they supervise their children when they have been collected from class. Please ensure that younger children are holding an adults hand when leaving the school gates.

Pupil Data Sheet Collection

If you have not already done so, please could you ensure that you complete the pupil data sheet sent home last week.

It is very important that we hold the correct details for your child here at school including emergency contact numbers.

If you have any queries about completing the form please speak with any member of the office staff

session Before school

Morning Nursery

Dinner time Afternoon Nursery

After school

time 7:30am to

8:45am

8:45am to11:45am

11:45am to12:10pm Including

lunch

12:10pm to 3:10pm

3:15pm to 5:30pm

children 5-11

years

£1.50

£7.50

children 2-4

years

£3.00

£11.00

£3:00

£11:00

£8:50

Beech Hill Specialist Teachers On Friday 9th September, an important assembly was held in which our specialist teachers made a pledge to the children at Beech Hill to support them with their learning in 'The Arts'. Miss Christabel is still our specialist drama teacher. We are continuing to work with Mr Bullock and Mr Boylan on Tuesday afternoons and we also welcome Mrs Scholes to our team - she will teach music throughout KS1 and KS2. This was what she had to say after her first teaching sessions at Beech Hill: “The year 4s I taught were fabulous and I'm looking forward to meeting the rest of the children too. You are one of the best well behaved, focused and attentive school of children I have ever met.”

Additionally, we are excited to announce that Winston Plowes is now officially our Poet in Residence. He worked with Y6 last year on their Poetry Quest project, which finished with a performance at the Square Chapel. He is looking forward to spending more time at Beech Hill and having the opportunity to work with all the children in years 1-6. If you see him around school, you will recognise him by his medal and tie! During the assembly, the children were enthralled by special performances from each member of staff

Mr Winston Plowes Mrs Lorraine Scholes Mr Bullock Mr Boylan Miss Grasby Poet Musician Artitst Dacne Artist Dramatist

FAMILY CHALLENGE

Do you fancy partaking in a 'Family Challenge' activity? It is GUARANTEED to: - bring your whole family together - bring smiles to your faces - develop your child's communication and emotional skills - create laughter and improve confi-dence levels Well, every half term our families will be set an exciting chal-lenge to complete. Are you up for it? This half term's challenge is... to play a board game to-gether as a family. We would love to hear all about it and see you having lots of fun. Please take plenty of photos or create a small video and send it into school for us to display. Email photographs lwhitely@beechhillschool.co.uk or alterna-tively hand the evidence of the completed challenge to your child's class teacher.

We hope all of our families accept the first challenge and have lots of fun completing it! Good luck

Coffee morning every Friday

8.45-10.00. Come and enjoy

the company plus tea,

coffee, fruit and biscuits

Friday 23rd September

come along and get

advise from Ella from

the Better Living Team

on a healthy life style.

Congratulations and a huge well

done to Portugal, New Zealand and Mexico class for achieving the

highest attendance. This is a great start to our new academic year and

will hopefully be the start of an outstanding year for you.

Sadly, as a school we did not achieve our target, which is 96%. I must

reiterate the importance of all pupils attending school promptly and

regularly. Where pupils attendance begins to drop below the national

average a referral will be made to the Education Welfare Officer, also

Known as a EWO.

As a school we aim to provide the very best for our pupils and can only

achieve this with parent/carer support.

Thank you

Mrs Farhat Hussain

Attendance Officer

2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Hot Meal Op-tion

Homemade Chicken burger in Bun with Salad or Country Vegetable and Cheese Bake

Spicy Lamb Mince & Y/Pudding or Cheese and vege-table Kiev

Homemade Onion bhaji and Rita Dip. or Fish Fingers

Fresh Fish and Parsley sauce or Meat Pie and Gravy

Classic Margarita Pizza or Oven Baked Lamb Steak

Vegetarian Spaghetti Bolognaise egg/ barley/

Spinach + Ricotta Tortellini with Tomato & Cheese

Homemade bean and tomato lasagne

Savoury Ravioli with Cheese

Salmon Goujons

Vege-tables

Cauliflower / Sweetcorn/ New Potato /

Sliced Carrots / Cabbage / Roast Potato /

Broccoli / Spaghetti Hoops Baked Wedges /

Peas / Fresh baton carrots New Potatoes

Coleslaw Chips / Baked Beans /

Sub Turkey Salad Sub Roll Roast Beef Sub Cheese & Tomato Sub Roll

Tuna Mayonnaise & Tomato Sub Roll

Sub Roll Assort-ment

Served

Eve-ryday

Baked Jacket Potatoes /with a variety of fillings (Tuna Mayo egg/ must/ fish), (Grated Cheese milk), (Baked Beans /) please note No Butter or Marg

Salad Bar/ Home Baked Bread Roll (bread rolls & sliced bread e.g. salad rolls, sandwiches & sub rolls = milk/ egg/ soya/ w.glut), (spread = milk)

Sandwich Fillings: Cheddar Cheese = milk/egg/ must, Creamy Tuna = egg/ must/ fish, Egg Mayonnaise = egg/ must

Dessert Op-tions

Oaty Apple Crumble

Custard

Rice Pudding and Fruit /

Chocolate Sponge with Chocolate

Sauce =

Eves Pudding Custard

Chocolate Whip w/gluten/milk/soya/egg

Mandolin Sponge

Fruit Cocktail in Juice/ Fruit Cocktail in Juice/

Fruit Cocktail in Juice/

Fruit Cocktail in Juice/

Icecream

Cold Deserts

Cold Deserts

Cold Deserts

Cold Deserts

Cold Deserts

Selection of Fresh Fruit/

Selection of Fresh Fruit/

Selection of Fresh Fruit/

Selection of Fresh Fruit/

Selection of Fresh Fruit/

Fruit Yoghurt milk Fruit Yoghurt milk Fruit Yoghurt milk Fruit Yoghurt milk Fruit Yoghurt milk

Biscuit Selection egg/milk/w.glut/barley/soya

Biscuit Selection egg/milk/w.glut/barley/soya

Biscuit Selection egg/milk/w.glut/barley/

soya

Biscuit Selection egg/milk/w.glut/barley/soya

Biscuit Selection egg/milk/w.glut/

barley/soya

Group % At-tend

USA5 86.1

Portugal 99.3

New Zealand 99.3

Fiji 94.2

Brazil 93.6

Madagascar 94.2

Switzerland 96.3

Jordan 96.1

Canada 94.3

Morocco 92.4

Mexico 99.3

Qatar 91.5

Singapore 95.9

Tanzania 96.0

Nigeria 88.2

Peru 88.7

Denmark 92.9

Totals 94.3

Friday 16th September 2016

New Zealand Meem For fantastic work in maths.

Portugal Is-Haq Super listening, super behaviour and trying very hard in everything. Madagascar Abbad For excellent reading and gaining two 100% in his Accelerated Reader quizzes

Switzerland Everest For a fantastic start to the year, putting maximum effort into everything that he does.

Jordan Adiba For a fantastic piece of holiday homework on Great Britain.

Canada Zumar Always sharing her fantastic ideas with the class and trying her hardest in everything she does.

Morocco Ali For outstanding effort in Maths, keep it up!

Mexico Amelia For excellent partner work in English.

Qatar Hamna For being the role model of all role models! What a star she is!

Singapore Daniela For a fantastic start to the new school year!

Tanzaina Sarmad For a fantastic start to Year 5. He has the best manners in the class and always puts 100% effort into his learning.

Nigeria Dominik For making an excellent start to Year 6 and making all the right choices all the time

Peru Martina For showing great confidence in lessons and making excellent contributions.

Denmark Tariq For his outstanding ability to round any number and his perseverance in maths lessons. Keep it up! :)

ASSEMBLY: Friday 9.10am

Have a great weekend

Shameem Hussain, Headteacher

Beech Hill School Mount Pleasant Avenue

Halifax HX1 5TN

Tel: 01422 345 004