Newsletter September 2011

Keeping you up to date with everything that’s happening in school...

Head Teacher’s Column

Dear All

Welcome back to pupils and parents. We have had a very calm and organised start to the New Year, our

new teachers’, Miss Russell and Mr Whittaker have settled in well and look like they have been here for a

long time. Miss Russell began with an early dissection of a brain – (a sheep’s brain, not a child’s) and

Mr Whittaker was having such a good time playing football with his class that he fell and badly sprained

his ankle, so he will not be in Fabio Cappello’s plans for some time. Mrs Rogers will slot back into 3/4 for

the time being.

To help parents have a clearer view of what we will be doing in school this term we will be holding a

series of open meetings in which teachers will go through what the children in their classes will be doing

during this term we would like to encourage as many parents as possible to attend these meetings, as it

will help you support your child’s learning.

We have a very exciting year planned with lots of trips, residentials later in the year and we are expecting

our best ever results from our fantastic year 6 who are being pushed hard by the equally brilliant Yr5

group. The groups in Years 3/4 and 1/2 will be having a great time learning new skills and sharing their

new found knowledge with anyone who will listen.

If you have any questions, queries, or comments please do not hesitate to contact us, your views will

influence how we develop as a school.

Mr K. McCabe

SEPT 2011 ISSUE 5

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https://jervoise.inthehive.net/public

“PREPARING OUR CHILDREN TO GO INTO THE WORLD

AND MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE”

QR Codes We will begin to see these strange looking pictures on various things (newsletters, posters, etc..) What are they? If you have a smartphone or an iPod touch you scan them & they will lead you to more information online, such as photos, video etc.. Try it out in this issue of the newsletter!

Nursery

During the past week, the Nursery staff have enjoyed going out on home visits to the new intake of Nursery children.The

visits have created valuable opportunities to build relationships with both the children and the adults before starting Nursery. We are all looking forward to an exciting year as the children begin Nursery the week commencing Monday 12th

September 2011.

Hopefully there won’t be many tears, at least not from the children!!

Kate Hill, Jeanette Norris, Helen Wood

Year 1 & 2

Year 1 and 2 will be learning about Ourselves and how to keep healthy until half term. After half term there will be lots of

parties when we learn about different celebrations and Christmas.

We will be doing PE every Tuesday and Thursday.

Reception This half term the topic that the children in Reception will be working on is called ‘All about me.’ We will be learning about

healthy eating and personal hygiene as well as how we have changed since we were babies.

We would like to invite the parents of the Reception children to come to school on Thursday 20th October at 9.00a.m. The

children will be talking about their work and what they have learnt.

Year 3 & 4

Year 3 4 are looking forward to Thursday 15th September as their parents/carers have been invited to spend part of the

afternoon in school with them! Every child will be sharing what they have learnt so far and informing their parents about how they each prefer to learn too.

Fashion

Our next topic will be FASHION and we will be focusing on raising the profile of the rag bin in the playground. Please place

any old or unwanted clothes in our rag bin to help us with our project which will start on Monday 19th September!Year 3 4 are looking forward to Thursday 15th September as their parents/carers have been invited to spend part of the afternoon in school with them! Every child will be sharing what they have learnt so far and informing their parents about how they each prefer to learn too.

Year 5 & 6

Years 5 and 6 will be working on a project with Aston Villa Football Club this term, which will hopefully include a visit to the football club.

Attendance during one school year

Equals this number of days absent

Which is approximately this many weeks absent

100% No days absent None Good – best chance of success

95% 10 days 2 weeks

90% 19 days 4 weeks Worrying – less chance of success. Makes it harder to make progress. 85% 29 days 6 weeks – half a term

80% 38 days 8 weeks Serious concern – Not fair on your child. Court Action. 75% 47 days 10 weeks

The Weoley Big Jervoise Garden Project

In September Miss Lowe and the children are going to be building a greenhouse out of plastic bottles in our new school garden. Greenhouses are buildings where plants are grown and we will be growing lots of things in it next year. We imagine the greenhouse will look something like this,

or this

In order to build it, we need your help. We need you to collect and bring in used clear, 2 litre empty bottles to school. We will use your empty bottles to build our greenhouse.

Please bring in 2-Litre bottles and drop them at the school hall. The 2-Litre bottles we need look like this: WE NEED 1,500 BOTTLES TO BUILD OUR GREENHOUSE SO EVERY BOTTLE HELPS. Thank you, Also a BIG thank you to all of our parents/community volunteers & DRB grounds maintenance for all their hard work so far on the project.

Carefree

Tuesday 20th September 9.30am @ Jervoise School

Carefree is a group run by parents in the local community for parents, families and carers of children with special needs, learning

difficulties and disabilities.

Some of the things we have to offer:

Friendly support, advice and informal chats

Days out during the school holidays

Information on local services

If you would like to find out more please come along to our next Care Free morning or leave your contact details at the office for

Natalie Reeves

Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club will start on Monday 12th September @ 8.30 am.

(due to limited spaces this is by invitation only).

After School Clubs (September until December)

Multi sports for years 1 & 2 will be starting WEDNESDAY 21st SEPTEMBER. There will also be a Football club with Mr Jenner

and a Cooking club with Mrs O’Neil (letters will be sent out shortly).

Science Club with Mrs Rogers starts Tuesday 13th September.

After Christmas we will be offering a Dance club (street, free style and ZUMBA) for years 3 – 6!

Healthy Eating (short course for nursery, reception and years 1 & 2 parents.)

Just 3 sessions, Friday 7th, 14th and 21st October at 2.30pm – 3.30pm.

School Website

The new school website is now live, it’s still under development but go and have a look & please give us

feedback on anything you would like to see on there. www.jervoise.bham.sch.uk

Dates for your diary..

Things happening in and around school this term

DID YOU KNOW?

Jervoise School

Jervoise Road

Weoley Castle

Birmingham

B29 5QU

School Year 2011 - 2012*

Autumn Term 2011 Thursday 1 September to Friday 21 October Half Term Holiday: Monday 24 Oct to Friday 28 Oct Monday 31 October to Thursday 22 December Christmas Holiday 2011: Friday 23 Dec to Friday 6th Jan Spring Term 2012 Monday 09 January to Friday 10 February

Half Term Holiday: Monday 13 Feb to Friday 17 Feb

Monday 20 February to Friday 30 March

Easter Holiday 2012: Monday 02 April to Friday 13 April

Summer Term 2012 Monday 16 April to Friday 01 June May Bank Holiday Monday 07 May Half Term Holiday: Monday 04 June to Monday 11 June Tuesday 12 June to Friday 20 July

(* 2011/12 Teacher Training Day Dates TBA) Swimming The new Yr3 pupils will be participating in daily swimming sessions over a 4 week period at Linden Road on the following dates:

Oct 2011 Week commencing Monday 3rd October 2011 & Monday 10th October 2011. Feb 2012 Week commencing Monday 20th February 2012 & Monday 27th February 2012.

The photographer will be in school on 5th October 2011.

Attendance All children should be in school

for 8.55 am

ready for the register to be taken

at 9.00 am.

Have you got an email address? Let the school office know your email address so we can add it to our records.

You will then receive updates & news via email.

School Meals – Dinner Money

Dinner money to be handed into the office every Monday morning.

Nursery £1.55

Junior/Infant £1.85

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Have you got any unwanted clothes?

We are having a rag bag recycling

bin in school, It will be located by

the school hall.

It will help raise money for school.

The more we fill the more money

we raise !

Got a smart phone? Scan me & School contact details

will appear on your phone