Representatives from school have won awards in 3 categories, Primary Teachers, KS1 Outstanding Progress and Primary Projects group.
As many of you know Jane Marshall and Nova Barnes not only teach Spanish at Monteney but in an innovative project
they work in 4 of our other local schools and also at Yewlands secondary. This work, part of the family of schools work has been recognised locally and nationally as outstanding practice so I am delighted they have jointly won the award.
Dean Wilson (Y2) was also nominated earlier this year for his hard work and effort with Mrs Trigg and his class teacher attitude to learning and using knowledge gained in lessons to support other learning.
Our final winners are the children who took part in the Blogging project with Mr Winter.
Mr Winter nominated the children for their enthusiasm and commitment to the project. All their efforts are now being used as examples of best practice.
All our award winners will receive their awards at the city hall on April 26th at a special award ceremony.
Uniform Consultation
I would like to thank all parents for the recent uniform consultation returns. We received 104 returns which gives us a good indication of peoples views. Based on the returns we have I will be consulting with staff and the pupils at student council about the findings of the consultation and how we move towards formalising our current school uniform.
94% of returns agreed that school should have a full compulsory school uniform and that this should take effect from September 2007. There was clearly mixed opinion about the colour
of the “bottom half” with grey, blue and denim receiveing a surprisingly similar number of votes, however black was the outright favourite.
The possibility of a staff dress code was more evenly split and further discussions are needed with staff to agree on a dress code, although many of you agreed that teaching is more important!
Reading Book Amnesty
Please can you check all bedroom cupboards, book bags, shelves and under bed’s at home. We are missing a huge amount of school books and do not have the funding to replace them all. Please return any school books so they can be enjoyed by others.
Dinosaur Picture by Dan & Jack Y3
News In Brief
RED NOSE DAY
Next Friday 16th is Red Nose Day.
Look out for information about how we can help support this charity event helping our pupils gain an understanding of how they can help others.
Please help us by joining in the fun.
Grease Is The Word
Calling all John Travolta and Olivia Newton John Fans!
For later in the Summer term (July 07) the family of schools are planning a performance of Grease.
Staff across the schools will collaborate on the production and we hope it will involve staff and pupils from all schools at all stages—performing, singing, costume design, scene making, music etc.
Please look out for more news about dates and ticket sales for the performance.
Reading Book Amnesty
Please can you check all bedroom cupboards, book bags, shelves and under bed’s at home. We are missing a huge amount of school books and do not have the funding to replace them all. Please return any school books so they can be enjoyed by others.
Be A Better Neighbour
Yet again I am sorry to report that I have received numerous complaints from local residents and parents coming into school about the inconsiderate parking of cars, especially at the end of the school day on Monteney Crescent, Tyas Road and Wordsworth Avenue.
With over 430 pupils leaving school at the end of each school day I appreciate that parents, especially in bad weather, want to park as closely as they can to school to enable a quick get away.
This however is having a huge impact on the local residents who have reported their drive being blocked, grass verges churned up and some abusive language directed at them from some of our parents.
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