FEATHERSTONE PRIMARY

AND NURSERY SCHOOL

MESSAGE FROM THE HEADTEACHER: MAY 2017 Dear Parents/Carers,

It’s the end of another half term and I can’t believe that there is only one more half term until we break up for the summer holidays! Friday 26th May is the last day of this half term. To help us raise more money for new playground equipment for our children, please send/bring in £1 for your child’s class teacher and your child can wear their own clothes on Friday.

Unfortunately, due to significant budget cuts, our school will have even less money available to spend on our children next year. Therefore it is even more important that we have your help and support. To help raise money for our children, we will be holding a Summer Fair on Friday 14th July from 1:30—4pm for parents and pupils. More details will follow in June and we will be asking parents for your help, support, donations and contributions.

If you have any ideas, suggestions and would like to help us to organise the event or support in any way, please let me know. We need your help. Let’s work together to make it a huge success!

As always, please come and see me before or after school in the playground (or any teacher or one of my senior leadership team) if you would like to talk to us or if we can help you or your

child in any way. We are here to help you. Mr D Lee (Headteacher)

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Attendance and Punctuality Class

Winners: April 2017

Congratulations to the following clas-

ses: for attendance: Olive, Sunflow-

ers and Navy. Claret, Buttercups and

Mint for punctuality.

Thursday 8th June: school CLOSED

On Thursday 8th June 2017, the school will be

CLOSED to all pupils due to the general election.

The school will be used as a polling station.

Apologies for any

IMPORTANT DATES FOR

YOUR DIARY

FRIDAY 26th MAY - NON-UNIFORM DAY (Please bring £1)

MONDAY 29th MAY - FRIDAY JUNE 2nd HALF TERM

PUPILS RETURN ON MONDAY 5th JUNE

SPORTS’ WEEK 3rd—7th JULY 2017

SUMMER FAIR—FRIDAY 14th JULY 1.30pm

FUNDRAISING FOR PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT

So far we have raised £1748.43 for new playground equipment.

We will be collecting money on our next non-uniform day on Friday 26th

May 2017. Children can bring in £1 and wear their own clothes.

GOVERNORS AT FEATHERSTONE

Mrs Sue Pope Mr Noor Ali Mrs Savita Sohal Ms Christine Mayo

Chair Vice Chair

Cllr Jasbir Anand Mrs Mamta Verma Mr Sukhi Ghandial Mrs Navjeet Chana Mr Cooksey

The Governors at Featherstone are a group of individuals from different backgrounds –

parents, staff, the local authority and the community – who work closely with staff and

parents to ensure the school is successful and that our children are happy and achieving.

We all give our time voluntarily and attend special training to help do our jobs . If you

know anyone in the local community who might be interested in joining us and helping

the school by becoming a governor, please contact Sylvia Procter, clerk to the governing

body or talk to the Headteacher, Mr Lee.

Staff updates

Mrs Chaim has now left for maternity

leave and has had a boy.

Staff leaving this Friday 26th May are

Miss Goodman and Miss Murray, the

trainee teachers Ms Qureshi, Ms Ahmed

and Ms Narula. However Ms Qureshi

will be returning in June to do some

teaching in the school.

School lunches

In our monitoring we have noted that children in Years 3 &4 have mainly packed lunch. We would like to encourage as many children as possible to have school lunches. We would love to hear your views as to why the children choose only to have packed lunches.

Please speak to Mrs Sidhu (Deputy Head) - you can find her at the front the school either at the start of the school day or the end. Thank you

It has been a great start to the summer term for Team Featherstone!

Our KS2 Cheer Squad and a Year 6 Dancer, were invited to perform at the FHS Dance Festival 2017, we are

so proud of their performances.

Team Featherstone also competed in the sports partnership Quad Kids Athletics event, where the whole

team had to complete a 75m sprint, vortex throw, standing long jump and 600m run.

Well done to all the team who had success in their own event and group stages to earn pints for the team,

we are looking forward to receiving the results later this month!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE

IF YOU ARE MAKING A GENERAL DOCTORS, DENTIST OR

OPTICIAN APPOINTMENT FOR YOUR CHILD, PLEASE ENSURE THE APPOINTMENT IS NOT DURING SCHOOL TIME. ATTENDANCE FOR THESE APPOINTMENTS IS

UNAUTHORISED

VOLUNTEERS

If you would like to help, support or volunteer in the school in any way, please contact or talk to our headteacher, Mr Lee. There are lots of different ways that you could volunteer and help in the school. Thank you.

PARKING

May we just remind all staff, parents and visitors to the school if you are parking in nearby roads to be

considerate of how you park. Local residents have informed the school they will call the traffic officers

who can then issue parking tickets if parked illegally. The owner of the following vehicle GP53 LEJ, a

silver car, was reported by a local resident for blocking their driveway recently, if you know who this

car belongs to or if this is your car, please inform the school office.

SPECIAL MENTIONS

The following children from Strawberry class are congratulated for a great narrative in English and for reading them out to Mr Lee. Fatma Sharif, Ismail Ameri, Arman-das Kybartas, Eisha Kaler, Amritha Giller, Shubham Kumar - WELL DONE! Miss Gill

Year 3:

Year 2: Investigating

air pressure

Featherstone goes all ‘scientific’

On Friday 28th April 2017, children across the school participated

in exciting experiments, from investigating and creating erupting

volcanoes to building stable structures from spaghetti and

marshmallows! Take a look at some of the photos snapped dur-

ing all the excitement.

Year 1: Investigating

sound

Year 3

Erupting volcanoes

Parents are welcome and invited to attend their children’s assemblies

Friday at 9am and 3pm on the following dates:

SCHOOL TERMS AND HOLIDAY DATES 2017-2018

SUMMER TERM End of half-term Friday 26th May

Half Term ALL pupils Monday 29th

May – Friday 2nd

June 2017

PUPILS RETURN Monday 5th June

School CLOSED to pupils Thursday 8th June

Nursery last day of term Thursday 20th July

Term Ends (Reception—Y6) Friday 21st

July 2017 (2pm)

AUTUMN TERM Pupils return Wednesday 6th September 2017

Half Term Mon 23rd October - Fri 27th October

INSET DAY SCHOOL CLOSED FOR PUPILS MONDAY 30th OCTOBER

PUPILS RETURN TUESDAY 31ST October 2017

Term Ends Wednesday 20th December

SPRING TERM

INSET DAY Tuesday 2nd

January 2018

Pupils Return Wednesday 3rd

January 2018

Half Term Monday 12th

February – Friday 16th

February 2018

Pupils Return Monday 19th

February 2018

INSET DAY Monday 26th

March 2018

26th May National Share-a-story Month Year 3

29th May HALF TERM

9th June Stars of the Week, Awards, Certificates, & Special Mentions

Celebration - SLT

16th June Father’s Day Strawberry

23rd June Refugee Week Year 5

30th June Eid al-Fitr Year 2

7th July Stars of the Week, Awards, Certificates, & Special Mentions

Celebration - SLT

14th July Stars of the Week, Awards, Certificates, & Special Mentions

Celebration - SLT

21st July What the Future holds Leavers’ Assembly Year 6

Anjna sareen Olive class Nikita Arora Olive class

Anjna Sareen Olive Class Nikita Arora Olive Class