Ascot Road CFS
Newsletter Sixteen Friday 10th July 2015
Diary Dates July 15 Open Evening 16:30 – 18:30
Ascot Road CFS Ascot Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 8AD www.ascotroadcfs.org.uk / Tel: 07943 144 613 / Email: [email protected]
Wisdom – Value for July Wisdom isn’t the same as knowledge, so what is wisdom? Wisdom is: knowledge that is gained by having many experiences in life the natural ability to understand things that most other people cannot understand knowledge of what is proper or reasonable: good sense or judgment
Wisdom is about being prepared to listen to the advice of others, thinking before you speak and choosing silence over words. How good are you at choosing wisdom? How could you get better? What helps you to make a wise choice? Who do you think is a wise person and why? Why is an owl a symbol of wisdom? Some interesting quotes about wisdom:
‘The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing’. Socrates ‘Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life’. Immanuel Kant ‘The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise’. Maya Angelou ‘You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions’. Naguib Mahfouz
July 16 Non Uniform Day July 17 Teddy Bears’ Picnic July 19 Ascot Road Summer Fayre July 21 Ascot Road Graduation Ceremony at West Herts July 24 Odds Farm School Trip
School Attendance Last week’s Attendance Cup winners were Holly Class.Wwell done! Attendance Figures 29/06/15 – 08/06/15 Holly Class 99.2% Lates: 6 Beech Class 93.18% Lates: 8 Our attendance figure overall for this fortnight is 96.1% Holly Class had near perfect attendance for the past two weeks – keep it up!! Please ensure your child arrives on time so they do not miss valuable learning time. Lateness also causes disruption to the rest of the class and we are still seeing children arrive late far too often. Every minute counts!!
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Graduation Ceremony Graduation Ceremony Tuesday 21st July 9:00am in West Herts College During your child’s journey through our school they will have the opportunity to participate in three graduation ceremonies at the end of Reception, Y2 and Y6. Each time they graduate from one key stage to the next. Hopefully you will be able to attend and support your child as they make this big step in their educational career. Rewards will be issued for a number of different areas, and every child will receive their End of Foundation Stage certificate. Our staff will be adding to the proceedings by personalising each child’s achievement on the day. Don’t worry about your child getting back to Ascot Road safely as we have booked a bus for the return. Make sure that you save this date in your diary! We anticipate the ceremony will last around 40-45 minutes.
Open Evening What is an Open Evening? A celebration of your child and their achievements over the year! Our Open Evening runs from 4:30-6:30pm on Wednesday 15th July. This is your family’s opportunity to come in to school with your child and browse through all their books. They will be able to show you pieces of work of which they are extremely proud. You will be able to see the progress your child has made across the year and talk with your child about some of the photographs in their books. Displays are up around the school demonstrating our children’s ability in the arts – look out with your child for their piece of work. Your child’s teacher and LSP will be in the classroom to support you if you don’t understand something in your child’s book. Please note, this is not an opportunity to talk to the teacher about your child. Parent’s Evening took place in May. Drop in with your child during the evening and make sure that you visit the next classroom – Year 1 is opposite the Nursery. All the classrooms will be labelled for your information.
Friends of Ascot Road CFS Corner Summer Fayre We are asking parents to ‘Sweeten the Summer Fayre’ on Monday 13th July. If you can bring a bar or box of chocolates to school for the Fayre we would be delighted.
Non Uniform Day Children can come to school in their own clothes Friday 16th July in return for a small donation.
Book Donations We are still accepting book donations. If you have any unwanted books that you would like to donate to the school library, there is a box located outside the classrooms. You will be able to leave your donations at drop off and pick up time. Alternatively please leave donations at the school office.
Friends of Ascot Road Newsletter will be sent out from the School Office on Friday
Thank you – Friends of Ascot Road
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Other Events, Reminders and Messages . . . . School Trip to Odds Farm If your child is attending the extended term, you will shortly receive a letter regarding the joint school trip with Lanchester CFS to Odds Farm on Friday 24th July.
Teddy Bears’ Picnic A Teddy Bear’s picnic is planned (weather permitting) for Friday 17th July. Children will be walking to Cassiobury Park.Ffurther details will be sent out shortly.
Extended Term Arrangements Just a reminder that if your child is attending, they will be required to attend the full nine days. Lunch will be charged at £2.30 per day and payment can be made via ParentPay. Breakfast and After School Clubs will be available by booking in advance. Extra-curricular clubs will not run during the extended term.
Support Staff Vacancies We have a number of vacancies for support staff at Ascot Road, including administrative staff, housekeeping and cleaning staff. If you are interested in applying and would like more information please go to: http://www.ascotroadcfs.org.uk/vacancies/
Sports Day Due to the excessive heat last week we had to cancel our joint Sports Day with Lanchester CFS at Cassiobury Park. Despite the threatening clouds, our first Ascot Road Sports Day was an amazing success. The children had enormous fun. Almost all of our children had someone to watch, cheer on and support them. Our staff supervised the rotation of activities extremely well. We need to extend a huge thanks to Mrs Evans for organising such a smoothly-run Sports Day. Thank you to all parents, relatives and friends who came to help make the day such a success! Photos from the day are on the Class Newsletter.
Newsletter – from Governors As a parent we have an opportunity to have OUR say about OUR school.... Simply visit https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk site and give your opinion on various aspects of school, from the quality of teaching, to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour, etc. This will help the school to improve even further and help us climb up the ladder in Ofsted rating. Gayitri Shah, Parent Governor
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Squirrels Nursery at Ascot Road We are pleased to advise Squirrels Nursery will be opening at Ascot Road CFS from September 2015. A flyer containing more information will be sent out to you with this newsletter.
And Finally . . . . Class Names for September!
Reception Classes: Sparrows
Mrs Natalie Beere (previously Miss Cole)
Blackbirds
Miss Sabeen Rathore
Magpies
Miss Ana Carrera-Ramos
Year One Classes: Puffins
Miss Nisha Peshawaria [old Beech class]
Eagles
Miss Emily Kelly [old Holly class]
Pheasants
(teacher to be appointed when numbers allow)
English as an Additional Language: Teacher - Mrs Anna Papaioannou Spanish will be taught by: Miss Ana Carrera-Ramos and Miss Vanessa Carrera
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Diary Dates July 15 Open Evening 16:30 – 18:30
Ascot Road CFS Ascot Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 8AD www.ascotroadcfs.org.uk / Tel: 07943 144 613 / Email: [email protected]
Wisdom – Value for July Wisdom isn’t the same as knowledge, so what is wisdom? Wisdom is: knowledge that is gained by having many experiences in life the natural ability to understand things that most other people cannot understand knowledge of what is proper or reasonable: good sense or judgment
Wisdom is about being prepared to listen to the advice of others, thinking before you speak and choosing silence over words. How good are you at choosing wisdom? How could you get better? What helps you to make a wise choice? Who do you think is a wise person and why? Why is an owl a symbol of wisdom? Some interesting quotes about wisdom:
‘The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing’. Socrates ‘Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life’. Immanuel Kant ‘The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise’. Maya Angelou ‘You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions’. Naguib Mahfouz
July 16 Non Uniform Day July 17 Teddy Bears’ Picnic July 19 Ascot Road Summer Fayre July 21 Ascot Road Graduation Ceremony at West Herts July 24 Odds Farm School Trip
School Attendance Last week’s Attendance Cup winners were Holly Class.Wwell done! Attendance Figures 29/06/15 – 08/06/15 Holly Class 99.2% Lates: 6 Beech Class 93.18% Lates: 8 Our attendance figure overall for this fortnight is 96.1% Holly Class had near perfect attendance for the past two weeks – keep it up!! Please ensure your child arrives on time so they do not miss valuable learning time. Lateness also causes disruption to the rest of the class and we are still seeing children arrive late far too often. Every minute counts!!
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Graduation Ceremony Graduation Ceremony Tuesday 21st July 9:00am in West Herts College During your child’s journey through our school they will have the opportunity to participate in three graduation ceremonies at the end of Reception, Y2 and Y6. Each time they graduate from one key stage to the next. Hopefully you will be able to attend and support your child as they make this big step in their educational career. Rewards will be issued for a number of different areas, and every child will receive their End of Foundation Stage certificate. Our staff will be adding to the proceedings by personalising each child’s achievement on the day. Don’t worry about your child getting back to Ascot Road safely as we have booked a bus for the return. Make sure that you save this date in your diary! We anticipate the ceremony will last around 40-45 minutes.
Open Evening What is an Open Evening? A celebration of your child and their achievements over the year! Our Open Evening runs from 4:30-6:30pm on Wednesday 15th July. This is your family’s opportunity to come in to school with your child and browse through all their books. They will be able to show you pieces of work of which they are extremely proud. You will be able to see the progress your child has made across the year and talk with your child about some of the photographs in their books. Displays are up around the school demonstrating our children’s ability in the arts – look out with your child for their piece of work. Your child’s teacher and LSP will be in the classroom to support you if you don’t understand something in your child’s book. Please note, this is not an opportunity to talk to the teacher about your child. Parent’s Evening took place in May. Drop in with your child during the evening and make sure that you visit the next classroom – Year 1 is opposite the Nursery. All the classrooms will be labelled for your information.
Friends of Ascot Road CFS Corner Summer Fayre We are asking parents to ‘Sweeten the Summer Fayre’ on Monday 13th July. If you can bring a bar or box of chocolates to school for the Fayre we would be delighted.
Non Uniform Day Children can come to school in their own clothes Friday 16th July in return for a small donation.
Book Donations We are still accepting book donations. If you have any unwanted books that you would like to donate to the school library, there is a box located outside the classrooms. You will be able to leave your donations at drop off and pick up time. Alternatively please leave donations at the school office.
Friends of Ascot Road Newsletter will be sent out from the School Office on Friday
Thank you – Friends of Ascot Road
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Other Events, Reminders and Messages . . . . School Trip to Odds Farm If your child is attending the extended term, you will shortly receive a letter regarding the joint school trip with Lanchester CFS to Odds Farm on Friday 24th July.
Teddy Bears’ Picnic A Teddy Bear’s picnic is planned (weather permitting) for Friday 17th July. Children will be walking to Cassiobury Park.Ffurther details will be sent out shortly.
Extended Term Arrangements Just a reminder that if your child is attending, they will be required to attend the full nine days. Lunch will be charged at £2.30 per day and payment can be made via ParentPay. Breakfast and After School Clubs will be available by booking in advance. Extra-curricular clubs will not run during the extended term.
Support Staff Vacancies We have a number of vacancies for support staff at Ascot Road, including administrative staff, housekeeping and cleaning staff. If you are interested in applying and would like more information please go to: http://www.ascotroadcfs.org.uk/vacancies/
Sports Day Due to the excessive heat last week we had to cancel our joint Sports Day with Lanchester CFS at Cassiobury Park. Despite the threatening clouds, our first Ascot Road Sports Day was an amazing success. The children had enormous fun. Almost all of our children had someone to watch, cheer on and support them. Our staff supervised the rotation of activities extremely well. We need to extend a huge thanks to Mrs Evans for organising such a smoothly-run Sports Day. Thank you to all parents, relatives and friends who came to help make the day such a success! Photos from the day are on the Class Newsletter.
Newsletter – from Governors As a parent we have an opportunity to have OUR say about OUR school.... Simply visit https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk site and give your opinion on various aspects of school, from the quality of teaching, to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour, etc. This will help the school to improve even further and help us climb up the ladder in Ofsted rating. Gayitri Shah, Parent Governor
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Squirrels Nursery at Ascot Road We are pleased to advise Squirrels Nursery will be opening at Ascot Road CFS from September 2015. A flyer containing more information will be sent out to you with this newsletter.
And Finally . . . . Class Names for September!
Reception Classes: Sparrows
Mrs Natalie Beere (previously Miss Cole)
Blackbirds
Miss Sabeen Rathore
Magpies
Miss Ana Carrera-Ramos
Year One Classes: Puffins
Miss Nisha Peshawaria [old Beech class]
Eagles
Miss Emily Kelly [old Holly class]
Pheasants
(teacher to be appointed when numbers allow)
English as an Additional Language: Teacher - Mrs Anna Papaioannou Spanish will be taught by: Miss Ana Carrera-Ramos and Miss Vanessa Carrera
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