News for week ending 29th January
January 29th, 2010 by scannali and
Attendance Figures Week Ending 22nd Dec
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 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 9th Feb, Wednesday 10th Feb, Thursday 11th Feb and Friday 12th 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.
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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
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| Mr D Watson • email head@chorltonpark.manchester.sch.ukThis Newsletter is available on the website www.chorltonpark.manchester.sch.uk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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