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BALBY BROADCASTER CENTRAL NEWS
01 May 2015
What’s new in school this week … Thank you to all the parents who have discovered our facebook page. We are officially launching this on 12 May 2015 when we launch our new website. We will however be adding a few posts to the facebook page prior to this so please have a look and keep updated with school news! This week in school we have launched our new behaviour system in Foundation and Key Stage One, next week it will be introduced to the children in Key Stage Two. The system works using 3 cards which encourage children to remain on a green card throughout the day focusing on ‘It’s Good to be Green’. In the classroom the children will receive a verbal warning before they are moved to a yellow card and there will be another verbal warning issued before they move to a red card. We are encouraging children to sit on chairs sensibly, put up their hands to answer a question or ask for something and show good manners to everyone. Children are receiving Dojo’s for great respect and for displaying the seven Super Learning Powers. The children are really enjoying getting Dojo’s with a great element of competition in the classroom. We will be informing you of the detail of these new systems in the coming weeks as we update our behaviour policy and gather parent views. We are asking parents to talk to their children about these two systems we are using, please let us know your thoughts. In school there is a big focus on how we show respect. We have asked parents and children questions using our new towers, here are the results! Children’s Question Should you respect some people more than others? 300 children voted Yes No Sometimes Never 30% 25% 28% 17%
Parent Response The school encourages children to show respect to adults and other children Yes No Sometimes Never 82% 2% 14% 2%
We will be following up in assembly how children may have different views on this topic. How would we like parents to be involved in school? Your involvement in your child’s learning is very important to us at Balby Central and we are always looking for ways to develop and improve this. We will be sending out a flyer for you to complete telling us ways in which you would like to be involved in the life of the school. Next half term will be our big focus and there will be lots of opportunities for you to engage with us. To make sure these opportunities suit your needs we would also love to hear of any suggestions you have and any requests. What has happened in school this week?
What is happening next week?
*8 teachers visited from another school in Scunthorpe *We will be designing our this week to look at expectations in year groups. They playgrounds ready for new were particularly impressed with how we gather the equipment, playground marking views of children and parents in school, our and lots of interactive activities environments and the planned improvements we are – this is very exciting! making to the school and classroom *Dr Bike will be in school for a *Mrs Cooke and Miss Biddle met with Mel from St bike maintenance session and Johns Hospice in preparation to launch our exciting cycle skills training for year 5 enterprise project for the whole school *SCHOOL WILL BE OPEN ON *We interviewed for new apprentices to work in school THURSDAY, voting is taking *Miss Fryer attended a PE Course place in Space @ *Mrs Hogarty, Mrs Slack and Miss Bates completed the *Children who will going to the Risk Assessments for the Year 6 residential to London XP School in September for Year *Our Governors met for a Finance and Sites and 7 will have their first induction Premises meeting *Year 2 staff looked at writing with other schools checking our levels, we were very pleased the work our children are producing PITCH ASSEMBLY WINNERS THIS WEEK
Key Stage 1
Lower Key Stage 2
Scarlet
Ruby
Upper Key Stage 2 Green
Attendance this Week Nursery AM 93% Purple 95.3 % Blue 98.3% Orange 96.3%
Nursery PM 90% Emerald 97.3% Crimson 93.8 % Scarlet 95.7% Indigo 99.3% Green 93.2% Whole School 96.5%
Sapphire 94.7% Violet 95% Yellow 96.8%
White 97.3% Ruby 97.3 % Red 99.7%
Polite Reminder: If your child comes home from school with items of clothing that does not belong to them, could you please return it to school the following day. We are having problems with coats/uniform/PE kit going missing and are unable to find them anywhere in school. Thank you.
01 May 2015
What’s new in school this week … Thank you to all the parents who have discovered our facebook page. We are officially launching this on 12 May 2015 when we launch our new website. We will however be adding a few posts to the facebook page prior to this so please have a look and keep updated with school news! This week in school we have launched our new behaviour system in Foundation and Key Stage One, next week it will be introduced to the children in Key Stage Two. The system works using 3 cards which encourage children to remain on a green card throughout the day focusing on ‘It’s Good to be Green’. In the classroom the children will receive a verbal warning before they are moved to a yellow card and there will be another verbal warning issued before they move to a red card. We are encouraging children to sit on chairs sensibly, put up their hands to answer a question or ask for something and show good manners to everyone. Children are receiving Dojo’s for great respect and for displaying the seven Super Learning Powers. The children are really enjoying getting Dojo’s with a great element of competition in the classroom. We will be informing you of the detail of these new systems in the coming weeks as we update our behaviour policy and gather parent views. We are asking parents to talk to their children about these two systems we are using, please let us know your thoughts. In school there is a big focus on how we show respect. We have asked parents and children questions using our new towers, here are the results! Children’s Question Should you respect some people more than others? 300 children voted Yes No Sometimes Never 30% 25% 28% 17%
Parent Response The school encourages children to show respect to adults and other children Yes No Sometimes Never 82% 2% 14% 2%
We will be following up in assembly how children may have different views on this topic. How would we like parents to be involved in school? Your involvement in your child’s learning is very important to us at Balby Central and we are always looking for ways to develop and improve this. We will be sending out a flyer for you to complete telling us ways in which you would like to be involved in the life of the school. Next half term will be our big focus and there will be lots of opportunities for you to engage with us. To make sure these opportunities suit your needs we would also love to hear of any suggestions you have and any requests. What has happened in school this week?
What is happening next week?
*8 teachers visited from another school in Scunthorpe *We will be designing our this week to look at expectations in year groups. They playgrounds ready for new were particularly impressed with how we gather the equipment, playground marking views of children and parents in school, our and lots of interactive activities environments and the planned improvements we are – this is very exciting! making to the school and classroom *Dr Bike will be in school for a *Mrs Cooke and Miss Biddle met with Mel from St bike maintenance session and Johns Hospice in preparation to launch our exciting cycle skills training for year 5 enterprise project for the whole school *SCHOOL WILL BE OPEN ON *We interviewed for new apprentices to work in school THURSDAY, voting is taking *Miss Fryer attended a PE Course place in Space @ *Mrs Hogarty, Mrs Slack and Miss Bates completed the *Children who will going to the Risk Assessments for the Year 6 residential to London XP School in September for Year *Our Governors met for a Finance and Sites and 7 will have their first induction Premises meeting *Year 2 staff looked at writing with other schools checking our levels, we were very pleased the work our children are producing PITCH ASSEMBLY WINNERS THIS WEEK
Key Stage 1
Lower Key Stage 2
Scarlet
Ruby
Upper Key Stage 2 Green
Attendance this Week Nursery AM 93% Purple 95.3 % Blue 98.3% Orange 96.3%
Nursery PM 90% Emerald 97.3% Crimson 93.8 % Scarlet 95.7% Indigo 99.3% Green 93.2% Whole School 96.5%
Sapphire 94.7% Violet 95% Yellow 96.8%
White 97.3% Ruby 97.3 % Red 99.7%
Polite Reminder: If your child comes home from school with items of clothing that does not belong to them, could you please return it to school the following day. We are having problems with coats/uniform/PE kit going missing and are unable to find them anywhere in school. Thank you.
