Family of Schools
There is to be a parents consultation meeting here at Monteney Primary School this coming Friday, 4th May at 8.45am.
You should have also received a copy of the first edition of the Family of Schools newsletter, which gave more information about our work as a family of schools.
The consultation meeting this Friday is your opportunity to find out about our work, the joint teaching posts and our curriculum developments. It is also an opportunity to share how we want to work in conjunction with the pupils and parents of children in all our schools to ensure the best possible outcomes for the children. We also hope that you will bring your ideas about collaborative working to share with us.
If you are unable to make this meeting, there are also meetings arranged for Tuesday at 6pm at Yewlands or Wednesday at 3pm at Mansel primary.
Success with Reading
Following research and monitoring undertaken in school, Miss Skinn has identified that a significant number of pupils are not being heard reading at home each night.
Reading, as you know, is a key basic and life skill and because it is so important, we have many strategies in school to support children with reading.
We have committed a huge amount of funding and time to the development of and support for reading and we ask that you play a small part in helping your child become an independent reader. If you want to find out more about how to help your child read please speak to your child’s class teacher in the first instance or ask Tina about some of the literacy courses we have running in school.
Huge thanks to the 3M’s
Over the past 10 years the 3M’s, The Monteney Money Makers, have been instrumental in raising thousands of pounds for school funds by arranging a wide range of school based and after school events like the school discos, summer fairs, Easter competitions and many raffles. This has in turn enabled the school to have many luxury items including computers for the ICT Suite; reading books and resources for the pupils; outdoor and play equipment; sports equipment and new furniture around school.
Unfortunately due to children moving to secondary school and work pressures, the chairperson of the 3M’s has reluctantly decided to finish her work so we now have no fund raising committee.
As fund raising is so important to our school we would be very keen to hear from any parents or carers who feel they would like to start a new fund raising committee for school. The only criteria for being able to do the work is enthusiasm, good ideas and of course time.
If you would be interested, please contact Mrs Somerville in the school office.
This week in school we are pleased to have 4 students from around the world. They will be working with KS2 pupils in a variety of lessons. I hope the children will learn more about the cultures, country and life of the 4 students who come from Germany, Armenia, Nigeria and India.
Student Council pose questions to David Blunkett MP
Last Friday, 27th April, I was delighted to take Tyler Jay (Y3) and Charley Wilson (Y5) to Mansel Primary to meet David Blunkett MP. David was meeting with the student councils and headteachers from our family of schools and he was asked some very interesting and challenging questions by the children.
The pupils have jointly agreed to undertake some work on the problem with litter in our community so expect more information from our school council soon.
Polling Day
This year we are delighted that the school is NOT going to be used as a Polling station. Polling will be at St Paul’s Church Hall.
School will therefore be open, as usual this Thursday, 3rd May.
