Parents

Weekly Parent Bulletin - Friday 23rd January

Dear Parents,

It feels like every day is a wet and windy one at the moment! We are trying our best to still get outside, but the weather forecast isn’t doing us any favours.

This week it was great to see so many parents at our anxiety workshop, hosted by a brilliant local Education Psychologist. Those attending seemed to find it very helpful so we’ll look to run something similar again soon. I’d also like to thank the many families that attended our Speech and Language workshops too. Working together on these tricky areas helps driver the best outcomes.

On Wednesday night the PTA hosted their latest meeting. Approved bids included new storage units for our new Opal Play project, smart new Timestables resources for all KS2 classrooms and plans to plant a permanent Christmas tree at the front of the school. None of these projects would be possible without your generousity combined with the brilliance of our PTA volunteers.

We are on the hunt for a volunteer to join our Governing Body to help lead on Health and Safety. If we have any parents, family friends or professional colleagues that might be interested in this role - please ask them to get in touch: Chris.jackson@avonwoodprimaryschool.org.uk

The role involves attending 4 formal meetings per year, held on Fridays 9:30-11:00am. In addition, they will complete a half termly site walk and sit on our termly H&S committee. The role is ideally suited to someone with professional experience in this area.

And finally, we have added a "useful forms" page to our website - Click Here - you will find any regular forms that you might need such as absence request, administering medicine etc. This will mean you have access to these forms whenever you need them without having to pop into the office if you don't have time. Worth noting, you will need to complete this administering medicine form for staff to be able to give your child their medicine throughout the school day, a note from the parent is not Avonwood Policy.

Have a great weekend!

Mr Jackson

Whole School Reminders

PTA Updates

We had a wonderful PTA meeting this week at The Way Outback – thank you to everyone who came along and supported us. At the meeting, we were pleased to approve bids for several members of staff, including a ‘stable’ for OPAL, eggs for EYFS and times tables sticks for all KS2 classes. It’s always great to see PTA funding making a real difference across the school.

We also started planning for this term’s events, including the ever-popular school discos and the Avonwood Quiz Night – with the date to be released very soon, so keep an eye out!

We are also very lucky to have recently received a charity payment from NatWest. If your employer offers charitable giving schemes such as match funding, and you’d like to know more about how you can use this to support the school, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at avonwoodpta@gmail.com.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Whole School Updates

OPAL Update

Thank you for all the parents who have responded to the parents OPAL survey, it has been a very positive response. Last week, we had the first drop off morning for loose parts donations and we have a collection of cake tins, utensils and baking trays - thanks again for these.

Next week we would still like more kitchen utensils but would also like any dressing up clothes, fabric and baskets. The containers for collecting will be near the entrance of the school drive again next Friday morning.

Well Done Libby!

Libby along with the U10s team from Poole Netball Club entered into the ENG South Regional Finals (this is a tournament for performance clubs across the south).

The top 4 teams qualify for the National finals (top 16 in the country). Libbys teams finished 3rd out of 12 teams who entered and will travel to the National Finals in Essex in April this year.

As captain of the team, Libby lead her team well and they played some outstanding netball.

Weekly Year Group Updates

EYFS

None this week.

Year 1

None this week.

Year 2

Due to events happening in the hall, or PE days will now be Monday and Tuesday. This will start this coming Monday, so children will come to school on Mondays in their PE kits.

Year 3

A reminder that Ancient Egyptian Day is on Friday 6^th February and to pay for the drama workshop as part of the day on ParentPay. As it is on the same day as the school disco, children can bring additional clothes to change into if they wish to.
Please look out for a letter next week about swimming during the Summer term. Each class will need three parents to help us each Monday morning walking the children to Littledown and back. If you would be available and willing to help, please let the class teacher know.

Year 4

A polite reminder to continue using the online reading platform. We have seen a slight decrease in the amount of reading being recorded across the cohort. We love looking at all the pictures and listening to voicenotes so please keep sharing it with us 🙂