We shine in the light of Jesus. 12.02 · Year 5 Sebas en Morito-Hall & Laila Steele Year 6 Ben Ashbridge & Louis Connel-ly St Leonard’s sees stars! The Life Centre brought a mobile

St Leonard’s RC Primary School Newsletter

We shine in the light of Jesus.

St Leonard’s is a GOOD school!

12.02.2016

Liturgies Spring Term 2016

25.02.16 Recep�on

03.03.16 Yr5

10.03.16 Yr1

17.03.16 Yr6

24.03.16 Whole School

Lenten Liturgy 9.10am

Children to perform liturgical

dances

Class of the Week

A(endance

Rec 94.67% Yr3 95.52%

Yr1 96.82% Yr4 96.45%

Yr2 95.52% Yr5 99%

Yr6 91.79%

Whole school a(endance for the week

95.68% (our target is 97%+)

Smileys

Well done to following children:

Jared Waterson bronze, Hayden

McDonald bronze. Lucy Outhwaite has

her second silver and Alicia Barnes has

her second bronze.

Yr1 Phonic Assessment

In June the children in Yr1 will be

assessed using the Government

Phonics Screen. The children will

need to be confident in blending and

segmen�ng. It would be helpful if

parents supported the children by

doing some extra phonic work. There

are clips on You Tube eg Mr Thorne

Does Phonics (600) videos. There’s a

tutorial for parents Smooth phonics

make it easy to blend sounds into

words, Kids Can Blend and Read -

Phonics and Blending Chant

Statement of the Week

I now that it is ok for me to make

mistakes

Golden Rule Focus

We are gentle

We are kind and helpful

Skill Focus

Thinking and Concentra�ng

Golden Assembly

Congratula�ons to all the

children who received an award this

week.

Recep�on Ma(hew Redman & Lenix

Redman

Year 1 Henry Wallbank & Gabriel Naile

Year 2 Isaac Woodland & Lewis Newby

Year 3 Ma(hew Crane & Ma(hew

Thoburn

Year 4 Noelia Kelf & Emma Hutchinson

Year 5 Sebas�en Morito-Hall & Laila

Steele

Year 6 Ben Ashbridge & Louis Connel-

ly

St Leonard’s sees stars!

The Life Centre brought a mobile

Planetarium to school on Thursday. The

children were able to learn more about the

planets, stars and constella�ons. As a school

we try to provide a range of experiences

that excite and mo�vate the children to

learn more about the world they live in. This

event was made possible by Mrs Jones who

was successful with her applica�on for a

grant to support the teaching of science.

Thank you, Mrs Jones.

Ash Wednesday

As a school we marked the beginning of Lent

with mass. Fr Bernard and Deacon Norman

led us in prayer and reflec�on on the

importance of Ash Wednesday. All of the

children received ashes. It was great to see

so many parents and parishioners there too.

May we use Lent to reflect on our lives and

our rela�onships. We pray that we have the

strength to merciful and forgive each other

when a problem impacts on our

rela�onships.

Thoughts for Lent

Some�mes children—and even adults—

focus too much on ‘giving something up’

for Lent, and not on the fact that if we

have given something up, it should be so

that we have more ‘space’ for God in our

hearts. For example, food or fame or

anything else are not bad things in

themselves, as all good things come from

God. However, if we start to treat those

things as if they are more important than

God they become sinful for us.

Safe use of the Internet and Social Media

We ask that parents are vigilant

regarding their child’s use of social

media. This week we have had Safer

Internet Day. The children were

reminded about keeping safe while they

are online. Please ensure your child only

uses posi�ve, appropriate and acceptable

language when they are messaging other

children. Our school has strong moral

values and we expect our children to

uphold these values even when they are

out of school and online. There are two

new informa�on leaflets on our website.

Please take a look at the following.

h(p://www.childnet.com/

h(p://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-

internet-day/2016

Bullying

‘A persistent, deliberate a(empt

to hurt or humiliate’

Pobble

Our published writers last week were

Millie Sco( and Jared Waterson in Yr 2

Ellie Curry and Lucy Calvert in Yr 4

Emily Thompson, Leon Brown and Isabelle Moan in Yr 6

Please go to the Pobble site and read the children’s work. Punctuality

Please ensure your child is in their class line for

8.50am.

Late arrivals this week

Recep�on - 2

Yr1 - 0

Yr2 - 4

Yr3 -0

Yr4 - 0

Yr5 - 1

Yr6 - 2

If you need any support in geKng your child to

school on �me, please do come in and have a

chat with a member of staff.

Parent Mee�ngs with Teachers

Thank you to all those parents who a(ended the

mee�ngs. If you haven’t been able to speak to your

child’s teacher, please contact her and arrange for

a mutually convenient �me speak about your

child’s progress and current a(ainment.

RED TED

Congratula�ons to Olivia and Jack who have been

awarded their RED TED.

Cash for Clothes

The Friends of St

Leonard’s are collec�ng

unwanted clothes. This

is a great opportunity to

spring clean , clear out the wardrobes and

cupboards and raise some cash for our school

funds.

Manzini Project

Miss Whi(aker would like to thank Molly

Swansbury for her dona�on to the Manzini Project.

Molly has been saving pennies and 5 pence pieces.

Every li(le counts and makes a huge difference to

the lives of the young people in Swaziland.

We raised £83 and all the money from today’s non

uniform day will go to the project too. Thank you

for your generosity.

Coming up….

4th March is World Book day. Children can come into school dressed as

their favourite book character. Please use your imagina�ons as there will

be a prize for the most original ouPit. We will be having a special World

Book day lunch. Children on packed lunches can pay £1.90 before 1st

March if they wish to par�cipate.

Texts from School

We are changing the provider that we use to

send text and email messages home to

parents. This will take place over the next

couple of weeks. Please do not use the

number you have saved to text school as

this inbox will be disabled after half

term. The new number to text in on

is 07860005167. If your message is urgent

you should always ring school as there is no

alert to let us know when a text has arrived.

We are also introducing a School App which will keep you all updated with

school information, news and calendar events. If you have a smartphone

(Android or iPhone) you can download OurSchoolsApp from Google Play

Android or the Apple Store for FREE. The new app is available for anyone

with a smartphone to download so grandparents will also be able to keep

up to date with school events.

We are always eager to develop our communication with parents, we

hope that having the APP will go some way to ensuring parents receive all

school related information in a speedy way. Thank you to Mrs Jones for her

help in acquiring the APP and sorting out the information to go on it. Mrs

Jennings and Mrs Jones work hard in the office to ensure the admin side of

school works efficiently.

What a busy Week!

The police were in school on Monday to remind the children

about key road safety messages.

Please remember only use the foot path when entering the

school grounds. Parents should not bring their cars in to the

school grounds. The police have said they do not have any jurisdic�on

when it comes to visitors and parents using the school carpark etc. so it up

to parents to make sure they follow the schools recommenda�on of not

bringing their cars down the drive. There simply isn’t the room. This ma(er

will be brought up at the next Governing body mee�ng.

Safeguarding

Mrs Jones, Miss McViKe and Mrs Doherty have a(ended Safeguarding

Refresher Training. Miss Scothern has a(ended Designated Person

Training.

Suppor�ng Assessment

All teachers have a(ended courses run by the Local Authority on the new

assessment procedures. The exemplar materials produced by the DFE show

what is expected of Yr6 children in maths and wri�ng. They are certainly

very challenging.

As always we ask that the children give their best every minute they are in

school. By the end of the year we need to see the majority of children

reaching the expected standard for their year group. With a growth mind-

set and a posi�ve aKtude to learning the children can do it!