News

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 96% (Nursery not included). 

Chorlton Primary Schools Fundraise Together for Children of Haiti 

School councillors from Chorlton Park and 6 other Chorlton Primary Schools, handed over a cheque for £6069 (of which £1340.97 was raised by Chorlton Park) to help the children of Haiti affected by the recent  devastating earthquake. We would like to thank children and their families for their kindness and generosity.

New Governors for Chorlton Park

Congratulations to our new parent governor; Ian Devine, and the two staff governors; Ms Wray and Ms Potter.  The current governing body are looking forward to working with you and welcome you to the team.

Children’s Magazines

Year 6 would like any donations of old children’s magazines for the classroom.

Well done to Muiz Ahmed in 6RH who sent up a cartoon drawing to Match Magazine for their Gallery Page and it appears in the current edition.  If you want to see the picture check out the Year 6 Blog.

Year 5 Homework
Thank you very much to all the parents that turned up to the homework forum, it was great to hear your ideas and comments, we will get back to you shortly after the half term break with news about how homework will be run.

Nursery News

Next week’s material of the week is cloth. We will be thinking about who makes our clothes and how they are made. If you have interesting pieces of cloth please bring them along.

Stay and Play week will take place on Tuesday 9^th Feb, Wednesday 10^th Feb, Thursday 11^th Feb and Friday 12^th Feb. Parents are invited to participate in activities with their child from 8.50 to 10.30. There are sign up sheets in each Nursery. It is a wonderful opportunity for you to experience your child’s morning and to observe them in the classroom. The children are settling well into their new classes.

Please remember that book bags need to be returned to school on a Monday.

Have a lovely weekend, the Nursery staff.

Internet Use

Parents will be aware that computers are a major part of learning at Chorlton Park, but also that technology can be abused.

We have a good filtering system that allows us to link a name to actions. Recently we were able to track and identify a pupil that left an unpleasant comment on our school blog. This also allowed us to exonerate pupils that were not involved. We want to remind all of our children that they are responsible for what they do if on their mobile phone, e mail or online. 

Unfortunately our systems do not protect children at home. The growth of social networking such as Facebook and Twitter and internet enabled mobile phones has meant that the online community is accessible. We would advise parents regularly check on their child’s internet activities.

We have run short workshops on internet safety use and will be willing to run another course if it is required.

Attendance

Parents will be aware from previous letters that we are focusing on pupils with persistent absence (attendance below

80%). We are pleased to say that there has been a significant improvement. Our parent support advisers are doing a fine job in motivating families and children to have good levels of attendance.

The local authority is supporting schools to reduce absence with attendance sweeps. During a sweep, a team will visit all homes where a child is absent on the day of the sweep. There has already been 1 sweep and we expect there will be more in the future.

Y6 Football
Year 6 boys will be taking part in an FA cup style competition with the first fixture this Monday at St. Bedes, come along and cheer us on….Kick off is 3pm!! 

Clubs

We’ve organised some fantastic after-school clubs for this term.

All of them offer great opportunities for our children to be active,

musical and to learn new skills. For more information and to

book a place just pop in to the school office.

Tues

Netball Club, Y2-6

3.30-4.30

In Gym - £4 per session (PFC)

Drumming, Y1-6

Infant Hall

£3 per session

Wed

Spanish Club, Reception –Y6

Infant Hall / Music Studio

£3 per session

Thur

Multi Sport, Reception – Y6

£3 per session (PFC)

Mela

We still haven’t had any volunteers to help organise the Mela Evening.

 It would be such a shame if we can’t hold this fantastic event this year.

If you think you can spare a bit of time to help with this celebration

of Asian culture, do get in touch with us via the school office.

School Meal Menu for next week will be week 4.

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 95 % (Nursery not included). 

Year 5 Maths Workshops for Parents

Please come to these sessions to find out what your children should be doing at this age and how your can help your child improve Maths.

Year 5 The Power of Sport

Alex Williams MBE is coming to talk to Year 5 to talk to children about the Power of Sport.  This is part of our Big Question Topic – What is Freedom.  He is coming to challenge and inspire our children about how sport can be used for positive change and how it can unite people.

COSH AGM

The next COSH AGM meeting is on 10^th February at 6pm, room to be confirmed.

Thank you for all the children who made gowns for the Blue Peter Send – A – Smile Appeal.  We have collected 40 gowns.  If you still have a gown at home, Currys are collecting until the end of January.

Save the Children

Just to update you …. We raised £251.50 for Save the Children in our Christmas assemblies.

THANK YOU

The School Council have decided to use half to buy things from the Wish List and give the remainder to the relief effort for Haiti.

As a school we are going to buy the following:
40 chickens  £29
2 packs of plumpy nuts £14
First aid kit for a clinic  £80
Set of school textbooks  £12
Seeds £11

We will add the money that we collect on Friday as part of Hats for Haiti.

Flora Vouchers

It’s that time of year again! Flora are collecting vouchers for their cooking with schools scheme. Last year we raised lots of money and bought some brilliant equipment for Cooking Club. This year we hope to do even better and buy some new equipment for cooking across the school.

If you have any vouchers (Found inside promotional tubs of Flora) please drop them into the school office, pass them onto Miss Etchells or register them yourself on the website www.cookingwithschools.com.

Thank you in advance for all your support let’s hope we can make this the best year yet and get all of Chorlton Park cooking! Search for the school on the website to view our progress.

Whalley Range – Football

The Girls Football played two matches at Whalley Range last night, and although they did not win they did display excellent sportsmanship and made the school extremely proud.

Year 2 Parents Blogging Club

We still have some spaces in the Blogging Club for parents to come and learn how to blog with their children, from 3.30 to 4.00.  No need to book.

Year 2 Theatre Trip

Year 2 went to Grimm Tales this week.  They really enjoyed the performance (if a little late back to school) and are taking inspiration in their work in school, please come into the class rooms over the next few weeks to look at our progress on the story boxes.

1SL Assembly

Tres bien to 1SL for their class assembly and thank you to parents for coming to share with us on Thursday.

Personal Development & Wellbeing

% of responses

Achievement, Standards, Teaching & Learning

% of responses

Strongly agree

Strongly agree/ agree

Leadership & Management

% of responses

Strongly agree

Strongly agree/ agree

Care, Guidance & Support

* answered if parent/ carer’s child has special educational needs

Strongly agree

Strongly agree/ agree

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 93 % (Nursery not included). 

Parent Partnership

We are constantly looking at ways in which we work together with our parent/carers and school community and would like to thank you for the committed, enthusiastic support that we regularly receive.

To further improve these already strong links I would like to ask for some volunteers to join a school working party looking at how we can continue to improve the work we do together. This would involve meeting once a half term during the school day, as well as being able to offer ideas and opinions on what we need to do to improve systems we have in school already.

To get involved in this group please email mblackburn@chorltonpark.manchester.sch.uk or call into school and speak with me.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Mrs Blackburn  Year 4.

Milk Deadline

The deadline for ordering milk was today, Friday 15^th.  If you have just ordered milk from January your child will receive it from Monday 18^th.

School Dinners this term are £90 for the term or £45 up to half term.  The school menu for next week is week 2. 

Parent and Carers Questionnaire

All the data from the recent questionnaires has been collated and we’ve received some really useful feedback, which will help us keep improving the school (please see the report attached).  We were pleased that the vast majority of responses were very positive. For example:

“It is a friendly, welcoming and inclusive school. The teachers, deputies and headteacher always make time to talk to you”

“There is a good social and ethnic mix which prepares children well for life”

“Despite being so big there is a strong sense of cohesion and togetherness”

However, we will not be complacent and we do realise that improvement is a continuous process. The senior leadership team and our governing body will be discussing areas for improvement highlighted in the questionnaire responses, for example homework, and we will keep you updated.  Thank you to all the parents and carers who responded and our PSAs Ian and Sharon for their hard work.

Netball Club – Thursday cancelled because of Girls Football at Whalley Range.

Privacy Notice

You will all have received a copy of the most recent privacy notice, sent home today.

This Newsletter is available on the website     www.chorltonpark.manchester.sch.uk