News

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 97% (Nursery not included). 

Year 6 Art Gallery

A big thank you to Mrs Brookes for displaying beautiful art work by Year 6. The art work is a really high standard and has been admired by our governors. If you’ve not had a chance to see the art work, please walk up the Year 3 stairs and have a look.

Year Group Blogs

Children and Staff in all year groups at Chorlton Park work really hard on making their blogs interesting and exciting. These are regularly updated with information about what’s been going on in the year groups and we’d love it if more parents could visit the blogs and leave a message or comment. There are links to all year group blogs from the Chorlton Park homepage at www.chorltonpark.manchester.sch.uk

We look forward to reading your messages!

Year 6 v Staff Fixture

This has been moved from Friday the 14^th May to Friday 21^st May, this is due to the fact that the Wetton Trophy final is going to be held on Thursday 13^th May at Wright Robinson Sports College. Please come along and cheer on Year 6 boys, as it’s the first time we’ve made it to the final. If you would like directions to the venue, please ask at Reception.

Year 5 Tag Rugby

The year 5 tag rugby with Mr MacKenzie and Mrs Lamb will start on Monday 17^th May not the 10^th of May.

School Meal Menu for next week is Week 1

Nursery News

Excitingly, Roger will arrive with his bug box on 12^th May. This is a thrilling event to which we are counting down. We hope that the children will be able to tell you a lot about the animals and insects once the visit is over.

Number of the week: The number is the one missing in this rhyme: ‘1,2,3,4,?, Once I caught a fish alive’

Do you know which number this is? Can you bring something in for the number table?

Art activity: The final art activity is ‘Wonderful, glorious me!’ Please bring your art work in on Monday 10^th May.

Year 3 Writing Project

Over the last term, Year 3 have written and published books relating to their Big Question topics on the Romans. They collaborated on the writing project and have been learning the skills of writing, editing and publishing. This is a great record of the children’s achievements with beautiful photographs. If you would like to buy a copy see the Year 3 class teachers, we are selling them for only £5, or call in at the office.

Year 6 Election Results!!!

As you all probably know, Year 6 have held their own election this week. The results from the returning officer were as follows:

6RH The People’s Party with 34% of the vote

6JG The Eco Friendly Party with 33% of the vote

6MG The Eco Party with 33% of the vote

With no overall majority it looks like we’re going to have to settle for a hung parliament! If you missed the opportunity to vote, please make sure you have a look at the Year 6 blog and post your comments. The party political broadcasts were incredibly persuasive and extremely professional – well done to Year 6.

Class Photos

Just a reminder that the last day to hand in your money at the office for class photos is next Wednesday, the 12^th May.

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 94% (Nursery not included). 

 We are outstanding!

It is official, Chorlton Park is outstanding.  We have now received confirmation from Ofsted that your school has achieved the outstanding grade from its recent inspection.  A copy of the report will be sent out early today.

Thank you. 

Well done to the staff, pupils and governors and thank you to parents for your support.  Please join us at the start of the day on Friday 18^th as we celebrate our fantastic report. As parents enter school the school’s brass ensemble and the choir will be performing on stage in the dining hall.  The foundation will also be singing in classes.  There will be mince pies and refreshments for parents to enjoy.

Musical Achievement

Robert Evans 5HW took part in the annual charity concert held by the Kalinka Balalaika Orchestra at the Royal Northern College of Music on Friday 4th Dec. Robert is the youngest member of the orchestra. Mr Billington also made a special guest appearance playing an unusual woodwind instrument called the zhuleika.

Parent Survey

Thank you to all the parents and carers who returned the survey.  We have had some lovely compliments and really helpful ideas for improvements.  Due to microphone problems at the Winter Fair the prize draw took place in assembly to day and the children who won the vouchers were: Sam in Oak, Aalaa in Year 1 and Lily in Year 4, please come to the office to claim your voucher  

Year 5 Victorian Day

Thank you to all the parents to going to so much trouble with the costumes and coming to the assembly and that you took on some of the issues on hygiene and good home management!  The children had a wonderful day in character.

Panto

Yesterday the younger children watched the Aladdin, the Oak Nursery children said:“it was really scary but it was good”, “there was a big blue Genie but he was not real,  it was a costume”.

Young Voices

Mrs Habershon and Mrs Millington would like to say a huge thank-you and well done to all the children who took part in the Young Voices Concert at the MEN Arena on Tuesday.  You were brilliant.  DVDs will be available from the Young Voices website.

Congratulations to the Choir

The Choir sang at Alexandra Lodge Care Centre on Thursday. They behaved really well on the long walk to and from the care home and sang beautifully in the care home. The residents were very appreciative and said that we had made their Christmas for them. We would also like to thank all parents who gave up their time to help us during the visit. Their help was much appreciated. Choir has now finished until the first week back.

Nursery News

The final colour of the week for this year is white.

Our Christmas Party will take place on Wednesday 16^th December. We welcome donations of food and juice or water. Please remember that all food and drink must be suitable for vegetarians. If you wish to send part clothes for your child to change into, bring then in a bag clearly labeled with your child’s name.

Christmas Dinner will be on Tuesday 15^th December. 

Christmas Tree

The school Christmas tree is available on Friday 18^th December if you want to put a bid in for it, this will go to school fund , please come to the office and let us know.

School Dinners will be on Week One Menu this week, but Tuesday is Christmas Dinner.

 Welcome to the School

We would like to welcome a new teacher to the Year 5 team in September.  Mrs S Khan will be class teaching in Year 5.  Ms Wray will continue to teach in both Years 5 and Year 6, but will also be developing an exciting new multi-media curriculum.

School Improvements

This summer we have completed the refurbishment of the toilets in the main building to include a disabled toilet.

You may have also noticed that at the end of the summer term we had a stair lift fitted between the dining hall and the ground floor corridor to improve access.

We have redecorated R2 and 2JS and parts of all of the Year 1 and 2 classrooms as well as R3.  Some of these rooms were finished late in the summer which is why some of the classrooms look a little bare.

Blogging Award

The school won some prizes in a blogging award from the National Primary School Blog Championships.  The judges were very impressed by the schools voting and would like to extend their thanks to parents and everyone else involved.

School Dinner Money

Dinner Money remains the same as this year; £1.80 per day; £9.00 per week. 

1^st Autumn Half Term to October – £68.40

Full Autumn Term to December – £131.40

Congratulations to Michael Irvine (6JG) who has been working really hard all summer on his Martial Arts and passed his Dan Test and is now a Black Belt.

Improved Library Opening Times

Ms Sheard will be working in the Library at lunchtimes this year to give children the opportunity to read or swop their books during the school day.  Look out for more information about activities in the Library at Lunch this year.

Milk Letters have gone out today please note the deadline date is Friday 11^th September, AM.

Admissions to Secondary School

The application packs for children due to go to secondary school in September 2010 will be sent out to families by the Admissions Team at the Local Authority at the beginning of September.

The Admissions Team will not be running information sessions for parents this year.  If you have any queries about your choices for secondary schools in Manchester you can e-mail  Sue Daniels and Jean Molnar (choice advisers) on choice@manchester.gov.uk

School Clubs

Overleaf is a list of school clubs and some information on them.  New for this year is the Key Stage 1 Drama Club, information coming home today.  For more information please see the club organisers.

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

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

Exciting news! Art club is set to become the Chorlton Park Art Academy. We are very lucky to have some extremely talented artists at school, and we want to celebrate their skills.

We hope that the Art Academy will help teach its members high order art skills using lots of different media, including paint, pastels and even multimedia digital art packages.

We would also like to run a series of Master Classes within the club. We hope to invite visitors with artistic talents to run 2/3 week courses in school to teach the children their skills. We would like to start the Art Academy in earnest in the Autumn Term 2009.

If there are any parents who feel they could offer time to run or assist in running a Master Class; please contact Miss Etchells or Mrs Wood to discuss the details.

We hope that additional places will become available next year and will be putting out a letter early in the new school year.

Contact Details

We have had another sick child with no current contact details who spent a difficult day in school when they should have been at home.  Please can you make sure you keep us up to date with all of your contact details so that we can get in touch in an emergency.

EAL Friendship Meetings

Is the language you speak at home different to English? 

Would you like to meet with other parents and the EAL team?

Would you like some cake and a chat?

EAL Friendships Meetings

On Wednesday 24^th June from 2.30 – 3.15pm, in the community room (Foundation Stage building).

Whatever language you speak, come and talk to us!

We are also holding a Chorlton Parks Got Talent event next week. The final will take place on Saturday 4^th July at the Summer Fair.

We are organising a judging panel for each year group to decide which acts go through. This will be made up of children, staff or a mixture of both.  Please talk to your children about an act they might want to work on for the competition.

Lunch Menu for next week is Week Three and is up on the red Kitchen Notice Board and on the website.

Staff v Y6 Football match will take place in the park on Friday 26^th June weather permitting.

ECO-ART!

Art club are making recycled picture frames for sale at the summer fair. For the bargain price of £2 you will receive a unique hand made frame, made using recycled materials.

But we need your help…

Do you have a surplus of buttons, marbles, coins, Lego or other small items? Art club would love to use them! If you have anything we might be able to use please send them in to Miss Etchells or Mrs Wood no later than Monday 29^th of June.

We look forward to seeing you at the summer fair!

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

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

Sports Day

Unfortunately we had to cancel the Sports Day due to the bad weather.  We hope to rearrange it for another day next term.

Caribbean Evening

The Caribbean Evening is on 25^th June and tickets will go on sale at the beginning of the new term.

Year 5 Taster Morning at Chorlton High

Year 5 children have been invited to Chorlton High on Tuesday 23^rd June 10.00-12.00.  This is a great opportunity for children to see first hand what secondary schools have to offer.

Lunch Menu

From Monday we are on week 3 of the Menus, which are available on the website. 

Chorlton Young Musician of the Year

Well done to Jonah Gourlay who won the primary category of Chorlton Young Musician of the year on Wednesday night.  Congratulations!

Dinner Money

Thank you to all the parents who pay their dinner money on time and in advance.  Unfortunately we still have a few parents who have a lot of debt.  Can we please remind you that dinner money must be paid weekly or in advance.

Nursery News

Art activities and Number of the week have now finished.  However, because of the enthusiastic response to these activities we have decided to give you a theme each week to work on with your child if you wish.  In preparation for the safari park trip we would like you to draw, make or find pictures of LAND ANIMALS.

The trip is on 25^th June.  Please remember to bring your consent forms back as these are very important.  On the day of the trip packed lunches will only be provided for children who have Free School Meals.  If you pay for dinners you will need to provide a packed lunch yourself.

In the next few weeks we will be holding a reward assembly for all families who completed activities relating to Activity Packs over the year.  There will also be a visit from the Library Service in the hall to which you will be invited.

We hope you have a lovely Half Term and we look forward to seeing you in June!

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 94 % (Nursery not included). 

Inset day 1^st May

COSH will be running a one day play scheme for next Friday 1^st May.  It will run from 8am to 6pm.  For more information please contact COSH on 881 0100.

Mela Evening

Thursday 7^th May from 4pm to 6.30pm.

Tickets are £1 first come first served, limited to 6 per family. 

We are looking for help on the night please see the letter that went out this week.

Focus for the Term

Handwriting and presentation in books

This term we are working on presentation and handwriting. The teachers will be encouraging their pupils to take pride in their work .This will done through assemblies and general feedback. Please take some time to talk to your child about their writing and encourage them to take pride in their work.

There will also be an online survey to gather your views.

Reading Habit School Banners

Thank you to Bridget for all her work in getting the rather eye catching Reading Habit banners that have gone up during the Easter Break.

Meet the Headteacher & Chair of Governors

Drop in meeting on Friday 8^th May, will be held in the Dining Hall at 9am.

The focus will be parent consultation, are they helpful to you, what more can be done?

Are parents clear about what their child is achieving?

 Please find the time to drop in.

Nursery News

Our Number of the Week is 3.  What things will you find to do with 3?

If you are taking part with the art activity packs our theme this week is: Design a Spider.  It will be exciting to see your spiders on Monday.

Our Bug Box visit will take place on 5^th May.  The children will get to see various creatures in small groups in the Infant Hall.  Look out for the posters we have made this week in anticipation of this event.

As the weather has improved recently we’d like to remind you to label all items of clothing including hats.  Please remember to send your child in shoes that are suitable for running and climbing as flip flops and Crocs can be unsafe.  A light jacket is also a good idea as the weather is liable to change.  We are awaiting the return of many items clothing which have been worn after accidents.  These clothes are labelled with the names Oak and Acorn.  Our supply of spare clothing has run low at present.  Have a lovely weekend.  See you next week – The Nursery Staff.

Year 5 Author Meeting

Year 5 meet children’s author, Tom Palmer at Chorlton High School on Tuesday 28^th April.  We have been studying Foul Play by this Leeds writer and will be asking him questions about writing at the Blue Box Theatre.  If you would like to buy a book and get it signed please bring £5 to school on Monday. Children will be back in school for lunch.

Flora Cooking with Schools Vouchers

We are starting a year 3/4 cooking club and are starting to collect Flora Cooking with schools vouchers (initially for resources for the club but also for classes to use).

Please let family and friends know.

Webster Stratton Course

We are running a refresher session for parents who have attended the first two courses Webster Stratton Courses that ran at Easter and September 2008.  The session will run on Tuesday 28^th April in the COSH Room from 9.15 to 11.00.

Reminder about Parking

Please can you not park in front of the school at the beginning and end of the day.  This is causing considerable difficultly to the older children who are going to and from school on their own.  Particularly the parking across the pavement and road is extremely dangerous to our children and other pedestrians.  Please be more thoughtful to others and park and stride.

Electronic Newsletter

Due to a problem with the group e-mailing of the weekly Newsletters we are sending out paper copies to everyone this week and will attempt an electronic one too.  In the meantime we are working to solve this problem.

School Meals

If you want to pay for the half term it will be £41.40 per child and it you want to pay for the full term up to summer it would cost £104.40 per child.

Chorlton Arts Festival

From Thursday 14th to Saturday 23rd May

There will be lots of exciting art workshops during this week for all year groups from Year 1 – 6, including drumming, dance, comedy.

Why not check out what else is going on in Chorlton as part of the Arts Festival, there will be drama and music performances, lots of them are free.

In particular on Monday 18^th May some children from Year 5 will be performing The Tempest at the Blue Box theatre.  Tickets will be available from Chorlton High School box office on 882 1150.

To find out more look on the website www.chorltonartsfestival.com

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

Comic Relief

This year Chorlton Park has surpassed itself, we raised over £1,200.  Thank you so much to all the parents, children and teachers for your enthusiasm and participation.  Thank you also to the PTA for the Disco profits of £455 was donated to the schools fund raising for Comic Relief.

This year we saw a lot of children make an outstanding effort to raise funds, including:

Rufus Horton and Alfie Marrs with their Mini Sponsored Event in 2HD

Ruby Fatimilehin, Vita Sherin-Jones, Bethan Horton, Lily Crascall and Grace Williamson with their sponsored Walk to School they raised £69.67, which considering they had their legs tied together was an achievement in itself.

Tom Roche in 1SL donated £15 of his own savings.

Molly and Leo Brookfield-Paul excellent Mr Gum book raised £25 and was a really funny read.

The children who baked cakes also raised nearly £8 with their tasty cakes.

We know that other children emptied their piggybanks and gave extra this year and if we haven’t mentioned your name we are aware of this extra effort.  Thank you to the whole school.

Easter Courses at Central Manchester City Learning Centre at Trinity High School available to Year 4-6, running from 9am to 3.30pm.

E-Zine – 14^th April

A fun project where students can learn how to use interactive presentation tools to create an attractive, exciting magazine for their friends and families.

Lights Camera Action – 15^th April

Learn how to use animation creation software call Stop Motion Pro.  Children will be able to design and build their set, make characters and use digital video cameras and editing software to produce the final version of their film.

SATS Preparation Course – 16^th April

Using SAM learning and BBC Revisewise and other appropriate websites.  The day will be run in a structured but fun way and the children will have the opportunity to mix with children from other primary schools.

Movie Maker – 17^th April

We will make use of the free, very easy to sue Windows Movie Maker so that the children can create a short film using still images.

How to apply, please collect a form from the office.

Choir and Spotlight

Unfortunately, we will have to cancel both of these after school activities for the next two weeks.  However we will start again on the first week back after the Easter Holiday.

Thank you to Governors

The school would like to say a huge thank you to two of our parent governors.

Katy Spencer was the Chair of Governors and has worked tirelessly in her capacity as chair and taken a huge interest in the school and supported us in many aspects of our work.

Katy has come to the end of her term but will continue to support the board of governors.

Angela Clements has also left the Board of Governors as a parent governor.  Angela has brought her skills and experience to the school and has been a real asset.

The school would like to thank both of these governors for the time they have dedicated to this school.

A new Chair of Governors was appointed this week, Amanda Edwards begins her term as chair and we wish her all success in this role.

Governor Information Session / Coffee Morning aimed at potential school governors.

If you are interested in joining the Governing Body we are holding a Coffee Morning and Information Session on Friday 27^th March at 9.00-10.00.  If you have any questions about what the Governing Body does and what the different Governing Body Committees please come along and find out more.

By coming along you are not committing yourself to anything, the meeting is just for information.

Excellent Behaviour in the Community

This week we received an e-mail from a member of the public I would like to share with the whole school.

Dear Sir or Madam
I was getting the 46 bus this morning and was quite far from the bus stop and one of your pupils saw me coming and held up the bus for me to catch the bus.  He was so polite and caring and I asked him what he wanted to be when he grows up and he said a politician.
I told him he would make an excellent politician as he was a very caring person.  I do hope you can find him and encourage him by giving him the news that you have received an email of good behaviour. 

It is extremely encouraging to receive such report about Chorlton Park pupils and I hope this is the behaviour all our pupils aspire to.  It has made us extremely proud.

Parent Support Advisor Coffee Morning

Coffee Morning Friday 3^rd April, 9.00-10.00 in the Community Room with the Parent Support Advisors.  Come along and find out more about the Parent Support Advisor, Sharon Drinkwater and her role in school and how she can help you.  Find out what activities you can access for your child over the Easter holiday, most of them are free.

Activity Week

Each year we hold a special activity week in school looking at PSHE

(Personal, Social and Health Education) issues.

In the past we have concentrated on healthy lifestyles and physical activity. This year we are going to look at our emotional well being and particularly at getting the most out of life!

As part of this the children will be thinking about the kind of jobs that they might have later in life and I would very much like to invite parents, carers, family and friends to come into school and share what their job involves.

If you feel that you would be able to volunteer your services OR you would like a bit more information, please come and have a chat with Mrs Blackburn

(Year 4). Don’t worry – you’re not committing to anything!!! 

Echos of Nature

One of our parents has an exhibition of sculptured works inspired by nature, which will be of particular interest to Year 5 children who have been looking at sculpture recently. 

Charles Dooley from 2AT is also exhibiting some of his own work.

The exhibition is at The People’s Gallery, Start in Salford, Burnswick House, 62 Broad Street, Salford, M6 5BZ and runs from 3^rd April to 19^th June.  Call 07977 273 382 for more information.

Girls Netball

Well done to the Girls Netball Team who won both matches in the small tournament at Chorlton Park on Tuesday.

Year 6 SATS

We would like to remind parents that the SATs for Year 6 start on 11^th May.  In the run up to the SATs please support your child and encourage them to use the resources available:

• BBC ReviseWise on TV overnight for recording
• SATs Preparation Course at Trinity High School on Thursday 16^th April.
• The following websites www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk

www.primaryresources.co.uk

The school also sell pocket sized revision books in English, Maths and Science for just £1 each.  These proved to be a really successful revision tool for Chorlton Park children last year.

Congratulations to Millie Rae Floyd from 6MG who has won an art award as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival.  Millie has written about her experiences:

On the 19^th March I went to a big press launch with Mrs Burgess and Mrs Brooks.  I went because of a design I made of Manchester in 2050.  My design was Manchester underwater from global warming and icecaps melting.  The entries were short listed to 5 and I was one of them.  We went to Urbis and made my design into a 3D model.  My design then won and I was invited to the press launch.  It was basically a proposal of what the festival was going to have in it.  Most of the artists said a speech and showed the audience their brief.  I then stepped up to the stage and said what my idea was all about.  When it had finished I got interviewed by Wythenshawe FM and All FM, then had pictures taken by the Daily telegraph.  It was a great day out and I’m really looking forward to when Noah (who is making my model 10 times bigger) comes in and discusses what we need to do next.

Thanks must go to Mrs Brooks for her work and the support she gave the children with this competition.

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

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

Parent Support Advisor Coffee Morning

Coffee Morning Friday 13^th February,

9.00-10.00 in the Community Room with the Parent Support Advisors.  Come along and find out more about the Parent Support Advisor, Sharon Drinkwater and her role in school and how she can help you.  Share your ideas about school dinners and have your say, find out what activities you can access for your child over the half term holiday, most of them are free.

Year 3 Roman Day is Thursday 12^th February

Year 3 performance of ‘Nathan’s Nightmare’ for year 3 parents Thursday 26th March 7.00pm

School Meals

We are putting up a notice board outside the kitchen and another on the inside near the serving hatch to display the daily menus so your child knows what is for lunch that day.

The weekly menus will be on the school website.  We have also been asked to share the children’s favourite recipes for you to try at home, they will be appearing on the website and available from the office.  Please feel free to get in touch with us with your favourite recipes from home too.

Nursery News

Our material of the week is WOOD.

We will be thinking about houses next week as our story is the 3 Little Pigs. We would welcome pictures of you and your family outside your front door so that we can look at the door numbers with the children.

Have a lovely weekend – The Nursery Staff.

Sainsbury School Vouchers

This school is collecting Sainsbury School Vouchers.  Please let your friends and family know too.

Chorlton Park Allotment News

The allotment is coming on, parents have been busy putting down bark, planting the first fruit bushes with Reception children.  If anyone want to help with the allotment.  The group will be putting up a plan and notices to keep all parents informed.

Chorlton Park Pupil’s Achievements at the  Prestigious Chethams Music School

Saffron Taylor-Edwardson (4RM) attended a wood wind day at Chethams School of Music last Saturday. Saffron was offered as a prize for her special aptitude of a free clarinet lesson from Chethams.

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

This week our children achieved an overall percentage of 91 % (Nursery not included). 

During this cold weather the school is open as usual - if  any problems we will let you know by:

• send out text messages for families who have supplied us with their mobile number
• local radio will broadcast the closure on Radio Manchester (95.1fm) and Century Radio (105.4fm)
• information will be updated on the school website

Please send your child in to school by 8.50 wrapped up warm.

Spanish Club

The first Spanish session is on Wednesday 14^th January.  There are more spaces but please bring your form to the office by Tuesday AM.

No Dogs in School

Please can you leave your dogs outside the school grounds when dropping off and picking up your children.  Guide dogs are of course welcome.

Milk

The last day to pay for milk is Friday 16^th , we can’t accept any more after this date.  Any new children taking millk this term will start to receive it on Monday 19^th January.

Maths Shows
Dr Mark Biddiss will be presenting maths shows on the 13th and 14th January for yrs 1-6 through the day. They will be fun for the children and hopefully inspire and develop their curiosity for maths. There is also a parent workshop at 3.30 on 13th January. Please try and come along. It will be held in the infant hall.

Nursery News

One of our themes this term is Materials.  Next week we will be looking at metal objects and will have a metal table in class.  We would like children to bring something made of metal to put on the table. 

If your child started Nursery in September and you are interested in taking Play Bags home, but could not attend the sessions on Thursday and Friday please speak to one of the teachers.

Intergenerational Choir

 MIC (the Manchester Intergenerational Choir) is meeting on Jan 18th at 4:30, usual venue of the gym at Chorlton Park school. The choir is open to adults and children of all ages and friends. 

The choir now meets once a fortnight, so it’s easier to catch up again if you missed a session. The calendar for the Sunday sings for all of ‘09 is a follows: Jan 18^th. Feb 1^st. Feb 15^th. March 1^st. March 15^th. April 5^th. April 19^th. May 3^rd.  May 17^th. June 7^th.  June 21^st. July 5^th. July 19^th