Monday 25th September– EYFS Parent Phonics Information Sessions

2:30pm Session

5:00pm Session

Tuesday 26th September – Year 5 Ancient Greek Workshop

Please make payment for this visit before Tuesday if you are able too

Wednesday 27th September – Football Friendly vs Prestfelde SELECTED PUPILS ONLY

Our new Daily Dash Challenge starts Monday.  We are going to run the distance of the 3 peaks and back, running from Shrewsbury, to Snowdonia (up & down), to Scafell Pike (up & down), to Ben Nevis (up & down) and back to Shrewsbury. The total miles we will run together are…

959 miles!!

This may take us a few weeks to complete and so we will keep going until the challenge is complete! Miss Lewis will have a UK map with the route marked on it.

We would love to see parents and carers joining in too.

The more runners that take part, the quicker we complete the challenge.

Dear Parents and Carers,

I’ve sat down to write this message and was surprised that it’s only the third week!  So much has happened already and school is very definitely in full swing.

Thank you to everyone who came along to enjoy or help out at the September Social – it was wonderful to see so many of you helping to grow our community and it a lot of fun chatting to you all as you dropped you £1 coins in my bucket.  We raised over £1100 for the school – THANK YOU!

We have our Careers Week coming up soon, and want to ask if you, or anyone you know, would like to come into school to talk a little about your day-to-day work; how you got into you line of work and what it’s like.  We have a wide range of interesting careers within our school community, and we’d love to have you in (even if you think your job is not that interesting!) to help inspire our children.

Have a lovely weekend

Tom Larkham

Headteacher

Trips, Clubs, School lunches and Breakfast and After School Clubs are now on Arbor.

You can now make payments via the app.

We still have places on Coleham Voices for Years 4,5 & 6

Please also check all your details are correct and make any amendments

Thank you

Dear Parents & Carers,

It suddenly feels like we’ve been back at school for weeks now that we are back into full-swing.  It’s been great to see so much already going on in all the classrooms this week – well done to all our Reception children this week for their first full-time week!  It’s not easy working hard at school all day for the first time!  In addition to that, they enjoyed their first assembly in the hall, and I was incredibly proud of the whole school for helping demonstrate excellent, polite behaviour in the hall.

This week has seen House Captain elections where the candidates spoke in front of their peers, showing great courage and perseverance.  Well done!  We are also busy electing the School Council and Eco Council, and children in year 4 – 6 are applying for a range of jobs across the school from Playground Friends to Dinner Hall Help.

We are proud to have also opened our first ever dedicated art gallery: The Townsend Art Gallery.  Our gallery is named for Judy Townsend – former mayoress, magistrate, former Coleham teacher and founder of the Belle Vue Arts Festival.  Regardless of whether you knew Judy, her passion for creative arts still has a massive impact on life at Coleham to this day.  It’s a wonderful opportunity for our whole community to share their creativity – watch this space for new exhibitions!  A huge thanks goes to Miss Heap and Miss Othen for organising and creating this wonderful space.

Hopefully we will see many of you tomorrow at our September Social – 11:00 am to 2:00 pm – where there will be plenty of entertainment and fun for the whole community.  It’s a really good opportunity for the whole school community (past, present and future) to get together.  If you haven’t yet managed to meet any of us or have a chat, please do come along and say hello.

Have a super weekend, everyone!

Tom Larkham

Headteacher

Tuesday 19th September

PSHE Parents Information Evening

Thursday 21st September

Yr 5 Purple Leaf Parents Information Session

Parents/Carers can park for free at St Julian’s Friars and Asda car parks each morning or evening for 30 minutes to help with drop off or school pick up.

Please contact the school office so we can issue you a parking pass from the council.

Thank you

To support Early Reading Year 1 use ‘Poetry Pandas’ going home bags to share a love of poems and rhymes at home.

Look out for the red reading bags that your child may bring home.

The Secret Bookcase is a very special bookcase, hidden in school, where all books have been signed by the author.  Each week members of year 5 and 6 are awarded the special honour of visiting the Secret Bookcase.

Please remember that Greyfriars Rd is closed to traffic between 8:30 – 9:00 in the mornings and 3:00 – 3:30 in the afternoons.  If you park outside school before the road closes, you must stay until the road is opened again.  Please inform other families members who may be collecting your children.  The School Street scheme is a legal intervention and so traffic wardens will issue fines if they are present.

You are able to get hold of a park and stride permit from the office, which allows you 30 mins free parking at these times in St Julian’s Car Park.

Dear Parents & Carers,

What a wonderful week we have had!  I have been looking forward to getting back into routines of school life after a relaxing (and eventful!) summer, and it’s always a great pleasure to see everyone’s smiling faces coming through the school gates.  I have been impressed, but not surprised, at how calm everyone has been at school this week – we have had a really nice, steady start to the school year.

A particular well done goes to our brand-new Reception children who have had the most fantastic start to their school lives.  Every morning I have seen the children independently enter the classrooms and it has been a joy to see them through the mornings listening well and working well together with each other – I think they are going to have a wonderful time!  Similarly, our new Year 6 children have been demonstrating their maturity by setting an excellent example to the rest of the school – well done!

Please look out for information in this newsletter about the upcoming September Social – it’s a wonderful opportunity for our community to come together at the start of the year and get to know everyone connected with this fantastic school.

Please also take a look at your children’s class pages on the website, where you will find a curriculum bulletin.  The bulletins on each class page has important information about what your children will be learning this term, PE dates and reminders.

As ever, please do get in touch if you have any concerns or need any questions answered.

Have a lovely weekend!

Tom Larkham

Headteacher

The School Office has been working really hard this week setting up payments so you can pay for school items on your Arbor App.

Clubs and trips have been set up.

We are still working on Breakfast Club and After School Club and School Lunches, these will be coming soon!

Our Early Years & KS1 Nativity and KS2 Christmas Performance Dates are all on the School Calendar!

There are performances for the parents of each year group but as always if you are unable to make that date, you may watch at one of the other performances.