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We have our parent hotline number 08447 707 576 in place and we will be using this more over the coming months to add school messages.
When you dial 08447 707 576 you need to then dial our school ID Number:
71486 to hear our school messages.
Parent Hotline
Dear Parents/Carers, The first half of the summer term has been a very busy time for pupils and staff. During this time we have been completing a range of assessment activities within classes so that teachers can make their teacher assess-ment judgements.
We now have a new gov-ernment in power at West-minster and we now know the first cuts to education funding will affect some specialised support pro-grammes. It is pleasing that the improved weather has seen a small improve-ment in attendance at school. We still need to im-prove this further so that
our attendance rate is above 95%. We now have a new educa-tion social worker (ESW) and she will shortly be issu-ing some fixed penalty fines (£100) to some families. We also need to improve our punctu-ality in the morning. School starts at 8:50 am and your child is late if they are not in the line at this time. We ex-pect that pupils should be in the playground by 8:45 am every morning. We have a busy six weeks ahead with our 4th Interna-tional Evening along with the popular sea-side trip to Bourne-mouth (tickets selling fast) and many other events.
Please read through the newsletter to see the many events that have taken place and the dates for future events. Our term began on a very sad note for our commu-nity with the news that Mrs Jenny Salmon had lost her battle with cancer and died during the holi-day period. Jenny had worked with us at school for some time and even though we knew she had become very ill, her death was a sad time for every-one. I’d like to thank everyone in the commu-nity for your thoughts and well wishes for Jenny’s family and for your sup-port with our efforts to raise money for Macmillan and Marie Curie cancer nurses Mr D Woods
Head Teacher
Message from Mr Woods May 2010
Newsletter No
The day was very exciting with children encouraged to dress up in the colours of the
French flag (blue, white and red). There was a French cafe` set-up where the chil-dren exchanged their pounds
(£) for euros (€) before they could buy a range of different French snacks and treats. Children also enjoyed a ‘French themed health hus-tle’, a story-telling workshop and some classes completed art activities linked with fa-mous French artists. A very big thank-you to Miss
Amra for her efforts in or-
ganising such an exciting
day.
During the half-term we have reviewed and updated our English Policy. This is a very important policy as skills in speaking, reading and writing are vital for good learning and progress. This week we have celebrated with our first “French Day” on Thursday, 27th May. The chil-dren in Year 3 – Year 6 learn French each week as part of learning in MFL (Modern For-eign Languages).
Our school has been asked by the London Borough of Ealing to develop some of our class spaces for Primary Support Base (PSB). During summer some prelimi-nary works for our PSB will take place as the Music Room
is converted back to use as a classroom with ICT cabling enabled. We will also be con-
structing a sensory/soft-play area in an upstairs room.
In the autumn term more works are planned for the va-
cant downstairs rooms, infant toilets and front fence. Our PSB classes open in January
2011. We will be the only school in Southall with a PSB.
Building Works (PSB)
Curriculum News
Newsletter No 10—May 2010 Page 2
and look forward to telling you
more about what we have done
in our next newsletter.
By Jasmin & Jitin
During this term we have being
doing a variety of things our
biggest project has been to pro-
duce individual projects based
on China. We have learnt even
more about the amazing country
China!
Did you know that ice cream was
invented in China around
2000BC?
Did you know China is the fourth
largest country in the world?
Did you know according to read-
ings Buddha named the years
after the twelve animals that
came to visit him before he left
the earth?
Did you know when a Chinese
child loses a baby tooth; it
doesn't get tucked under the
pillow for the tooth fairy. If
the child loses an upper tooth,
the child's parents plant the
tooth in the ground, so the new
tooth will grow in straight and
healthy?
We are hoping to display our
projects in school, for everyone
to enjoy. Our latest post to San
Yuan Primary will include the
latest news around Beaconsfield
Primary together with pictures
and examples of work from our
project.
In our final few weeks of this
term, we will be linking to our
school in China through a blog
an improved medical room. We will also be having some electrical re-wiring completed and a new curriculum re-source area will be created. There will be some disrup-tions during this time, but we will aim to keep this to a minimum
Our 27 solar panels were in-stalled during the Easter holi-day period. Our school is now generating its own elec-tricity every day. We esti-mate that we have saved ap-proximately £330 on our electricity bill during the last 6 weeks. The savings of money are important but we are producing ‘clean’ electric-ity with no CO2 emissions so we are also helping to reduce air pollution and global warm-ing.
During this half-term we are having work completed to the upstairs hall (Year 6 class). By the end of June this area will have been completely re-decorated and re-furbished into two large classrooms for Year 5 and Year 6. We will be installing a moveable wall so that the space can be opened up into one large space or it can be closed to make two classrooms. The flooring will be updated along with re-painting to all of the walls, doors and fittings. Starting from 5th July we have a major refurbishment works. By the end of Septem-ber we will have a new com-bined library/ICT learning room, some new small group work spaces, new children’s toilets downstairs with new disabled toilet facilities and
The China Project
Premises News
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Reception
The Reception class have been
finding out about minibeasts.
We looked very carefully at
some real snails and talked
about the patterns on their
shell and body.
Then we drew them.
Nursery
Nursery
have been
learning all
about the
people who
help us. We
have been
dressing up
and pre-
tending to be doctors, dentists,
teachers, bus drivers and postal
workers. They all work very
hard to look hard to look after
us.
Some of our Mum’s also
came to stay and play at
Nursery to find out what
we get up to! They all
enjoyed themselves and
it was lovely to have
them with us. We hope
to invite parents to visit
us every term from now
as it was a success.
Newsletter No 10—May 2010 Page 4
Classroom News
Years old I had new friends an
d I played with them. Now I a
m clever And I good at foot-
ball. When I am older I want to
become a policeman.
Year 1
After lots of discussion work
on our life stories, we used
ICT to word process our very
own autobiographies in Liter-
acy. We used word banks to
help us with this.
This linked to the work that
we have been doing on re-
counts and also the work that
we have been doing in IPC &
RE on ‘My World’.
In ICT lessons we learnt how
to use a scanner to load up
images of how we looked when
we were younger and how we
look now.
We then added these to our
autobiographies.
My name is Abdul. When I was a
baby I use to crawl and I use to
go to sleep very late. When I was
a toddler I started walking
and running. When I was 4
When I am older I want to be a teacher because I can help peo-ple be doctors and teachers. And I live in Northolt. A belong to a Muslim family and I used to go Abu Bakr mosque. And my favourite subject is Liter-acy why because it helps me with my writing.
My name is Marwah. I was born on the 1st October 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. I am of Af-ghan origin. When I was 1 year old I started to crawl up the stairs and I stared to walking when I was 2 years old I started to go in to the push chair and used to have a best friend in my old school her name was Alezza.
When I was 3 years old I used to go to shops. When I was 4 years old I started to come to primary school. When I was 5 years old I went to Beaconsfield Primary School. Now I can read and write
My name is Humna. I was born on 13th of
July 2004 in London. I am of Pakistani origin. I have one brother called Talha. When I was 1 year old I started teeth-ing. When I was 2 years old I also started crawling. When I was 3 years old I started nurs-ery. When I was 4 years old my mum had a baby boy. When I was 5 years old I started riding my bike by myself. Now I am in year 1 and I enjoy learn-ing and taking part in assemblies.
My name is Hathmi. I was born on 10th September 2004 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am of Sri Lankan origin. I have 2 sis-ters called Hayaam and Hafa. When I was 1 year old my tooth started grow-ing and I started to crawl. I started to walk alone carrying little things with my hands. When I was 2 years old I started to walk and eat. I enjoyed scribbling with crayons. I learned to kick, throw the ball. When I was 3 years old I started to go to nursery but I was scared. When I was 4 years old I could run really fast. When I was 5 years old I went to Re-
ception. Now I am in year 1 I can read,
understand the story books. I live in
Southall.
My religion is Islam and I go to mosque on Sunday and Saturday. When I am older I will be an engineer. I will make wonderful maps to build houses.
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Year 2 planted cauliflowers to be a green school.
Year 2
Ourselves
In our IPC topic ‘Ourselves’ we
have learned so many things
about ourselves, our families, and
our friends. We have talked
about the things we like and the
things we find hard to do. In Sci-
ence we are learning all about our
body parts. In ICT we are using
lap tops to do research about the
food eaten in different countries.
We also learned how to use digi-
tal cameras and took pictures of
our friends in the class room
which was great fun! Here are
some of the pictures we took our-
selves. We didn’t forget to smile!
Newsletter No 10—May 2010 Page 6
I have 1 brother, 1 big cousin,
me, my dad and my mum.
My family is special to me be-
cause they help me.
By Nive
About me
I am a boy.
My name is Nive.
I go to Beaconsfield primary
school.
I am 7 years old.
My favourite teams are Barce-
lona, man u ,Chealse and Eng-
land.
I like playing ps3 ,ps2, psp, x-
box and x-box live.
When I was a baby I can’t swim
but now I can swim.
I find it hard to swim in the
deep end.
I find it hard to write joined up
writing.
I find it hard to draw a cool
car.
I find it hard stop talking.
I find it hard correct things.
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I am a girl. I am a sensible girl. I go to the Gurdwara. I am a Sikh. I am a 7 years old. I am a very good girl. I like all the subjects. I have medium size hair. I have an excellent teacher Mrs Sharma. I am a excellent student.
I go to the temple. I like all of the teachers in my school. I like going on trips at school because it is fun. I like pizza and chips. My favorite food is chicken and chips. I like going to the park. Rajvir
I find it hard to climb a mountain. I find it hard to go on the monkey bars. I find it hard to wake up early in the morning. Rajvir
Year 3
Year 3 have been planting seeds
in the pond grassy area. We are
growing radishes and cucum-
bers. When they have grown we
are going to give it to the cooks
to make delicious salad for our
lunch. It has been very hot so
we have to make sure we water
the seeds regularly. We first
grew them in pots and when
they grow bigger we will put
them in the ground. I can’t wait
to see how big the cucumbers
grow!
By Moqdas Khan, Year 3
We are promoting healthy food
in our school. We are growing
our own cucumbers and rad-
ishes. Some of them are already
growing and we are watering
them regularly. They are also
getting lots of light. Cucumbers
and radishes are so delicious to
eat. I can’t wait to taste them
when we eat them in our
school canteen.
By Fareeha Ilyas, Year 3
people because people never
work hard enough. So she
chopped people’s head off.
Henry 8th died because he ate
too much rich food. He was
good at dancing and tennis.
Bloody Mary she has jewellers
and lots of other things. She
looks nice but she was the cru-
ellest woman in the world. Peo-
ple say if you say Bloody Mary in
the Mirror 3 times she will
We think we made a simple yet
effective bird cage for the
birds.
By Rajpreet, Jasmin & Hani
Year 5
Year5 have been studying dif-
ferent materials in their IPC
topic, our project was to make a
bird cage which would be strong
as well as attractive to attract
the birds in to.
Materials:
• Card/Paper
• Straws
• Plant Tray
• Cellotape
• Scissors
Method
First we used a plate to put un-
der our cage.
Next we cut some strips of
card.
Then we cut a circle shape out
of the card.
After wards we stuck the strips
on to the plant tray.
Then we joined the strips to the
circle.
Finally we cut a small paper for
the birds address and stuck it
on the cage with Cellotape.
come out of the mirror and chop
your head off.
25th May 2010
Shazad Syed, Year 4
Tudors
We have been working about
the Tudors. We drew lots of
pictures about the Tudors. We
drew Bloody Mary. She used to
burn people alive. We drew
Henry 8th. He had 6 wives. He
had a ship called Mary Rose.
Henry 8th was so cruel to the
Year 4
Hussain Masalawala/ Yea 4
Titanic
One day when I woke up I real-
ised that today was the day
when I would be riding on the
largest ship called the TI-
TANIC. In the Titanic there 1st
2nd 3rd classes. The 1st class is
at the top, 2nd class in the mid-
dle, 3rd class at the bottom in
the hull. The captain’s name was
Captain Smith.
I was working as a chef. The
thing I hate about my job is
that the lady Astor’s want eve-
rything perfectly cooked.
April 14th 1912 it was Mrs John-
sons birthday a little boy
wanted to go on a ship race Cap-
tain Smith said yes.
April 15th 1912 the ship was 1st
in the race. But iceberg warn-
ings were ignored. SUDDENLY
when someone said icebergs
ahead 1500 people died, 705
survived.
Newsletter No 10—May 2010 Page 8
First we got a polystyrene box
or a cup holder
protecter polystyrene container.
Then we got a mat to paint on
and chose 1-2 colors and started
making a bird hive.
Then we painted it yellow all
round except the main place. We
coloured the main feeder orange
with a little yellow.
We dried it so we could colour it
and outline it using black feltip.
After that we can
put different sec-
tions of food water
play etc.
By Yaseen, Ehsan,
and Aymaan
turn the wire cooking rack. Then
each group left there cake until
it is warm. In the end we cut
the cake in half and spread jam
in the centre.
At the end, we ate our cake
which was delicious and had a
wonderful time!
Melissa and Simran (Year 6)
Year 6
In topic, Year 6 has been learn-
ing about irreversible and re-
versible substances which led us
to bake a cake. Whilst baking
the cake, we considered about
what changes will occur.
Firstly, to avoid the cake stick-
ing to the container, we had to
grease the tin. Then we meas-
ured the sugar, butter and flour
(175g). After that, we added
the mixture to the beaten eggs.
Currently, it would make the
sugar dissolve because of the
water in the eggs, which make
this an irreversible change- a
change that cannot be undone.
Mixing this together creates
air.
Once, you have got the correct
amount of butter, sugar and
flour; use a separate pan to
melt the butter over a low heat
so the butter will transform
into a liquid which can be re-
versible however the liquid
[butter] will lose its water. Beat
the flour and all the other in-
gredients which you have en-
closed and then add a table
spoon at a time of flour. Next,
we stirred the mixture well un-
til it is a liquid, so there are no
lumps and can rise.
Finally, we bake the mixture at
180 c for about 25- 30 minutes.
If the cake raises, the colour
should be a golden brown and
must be vitally firm. We left it
in the tins for 2 –3 minutes and
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courage children to wear a hat to protect the sun on their faces. School hats are
Help Needed Occasionally in school chil-dren have an accident where a change of clothes is re-quired. We would greatly ap-preciate any donations from parents of trousers and shirts that your child has now grown out of. Please give these clothing donations to Mrs Poonai.
Lost Property
We know that as parents you spend a great deal of money on your child’s uniform. Un-fortunately we continue to have large amounts of lost property each half-term. The lost property is located just inside the door from the play-ground. Please look through for any lost items.
available for pur-chase for just £2.75.
Uniform
We expect children to always be wearing the correct school uniform at all times. Our uni-form includes black shoes (NOT BOOTS OR TRAIN-
ERS). Now that the weather is getting warmer and the sun is stronger we would en-
Spring Fair
Whilst we did not enjoy the best of weather for our Spring Fair, it was great to see so many children and their families come along on the day to take part and browse the different stalls.
We raised a total of £826 on the day
which will be used to pur-
chase brand new books for our new library in September.
Voucher Collections It is almost the end of the Tesco and Sainsbury’s voucher collection schemes for this year. Please do send in all vouchers as soon as possible. Please ask your friends and neighbours for any vouchers that they may have. These schemes save us between £400 - £600 each
year on valuable resources. The collection boxes are lo-cated in the foyer near the school office. The Nestle box tops are al-ways available. If your chil-dren eat Nestle cereals we’d ask you to send in the box tops that we can use to pur-chase books.
Community News
Newsletter No 10—May 2010 Page 10
School Information/Procedures
The cost of the next ½ term will be £60.00 (7th June – 16th July = 30 days @ £2 per day). School staff do not have access to dinner money. It is the responsibility of par-ents/carers to inform Harri-sons when children are ab-sent from school. If you do not inform them you will be charged for the meal.
School Dinners
Our school has achieved healthy school status
which we are aiming to keep. Food eaten in school is cov-ered by our ‘Food Policy’ guidelines. We want to re-mind parents that children who have a packed lunch are only allowed to have healthy items. Items such as crisps, biscuits, small chocolate are only allowed on a Friday as part of children’s lunch. This is part of encouraging re-sponsible healthy eating.
Dinner Money
School dinners must be paid for before the meal is eaten. The daily meal cost is £2 (£10 per week). Cheques are not accepted for payment. Payments need to be made using the internet payment services at www.ealingmeals.com or by phoning Harrisons on 020 8280 0318. Cash payments can be made using the enve-lopes in the payment box in school.
rise to £2.10 per day. This is to cover the additional costs with chasing and collecting debts.
Changes to School Meals
We have been advised by Ealing Catering Consortium and Harrisons about changes to prices for school meals from September.
These changes will only affect parents who do not pay for meals in advance. If meals are paid in advance the cost will remain at £2 per meal. The consortium was keen to avoid any price rise during these tough economic times. However if you accrue dinner debts the cost of meals will
Food Menus
Our menu for school dinner is designed to provide as many children as possible with ac-cess to a hot lunch. Meat dishes are served from Mon-day – Thursday and vegetar-ian dishes are available every day.
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Monday Non-halal meat + vegetarian
Tuesday Halal meat + vegetarian
Wednesday Non-halal meat + vegetarian
Thursday Halal meat + vegetarian
Friday Fish (not always) + vegetarian
This is a great opportunity for parents to meet and socialise together while their young children play safely and hap-pily. We want to see more parents and toddlers attend-ing each week so please in-vite friend and neighbours to come along.
Parent/Carer Toddler Group
The toddler group runs on Friday morning from 9:00 am. We are continuing to ex-pand the re-sources avail-able for chil-dren from 18 months up to 3 years of age.
Over the last four weeks, an excited group, from Year 3 to 4 has been meeting at lunch-times. They have all been ap-pointed on the Beacs Eco Council and have already had an enterprising start to their new project. They have taken their role as Waste Warriors, Activity Agents and Green Team very seriously and pride themselves on their ability to improve the envi-ronment. They have been recording and monitoring food waste, recycling and reducing the amount of paper used. En-ergy savings are looked after at the school by the Eco Bust-ers who ensure lights and computers are turned off when not in use. In fact, a survey has been carried out looking at how best we as a whole school community, save energy, helping in the global awareness of environ-mental issues. These findings have been shared with the whole school.
Most recently, a whole school assembly introduced the Beacs Eco Council. We shared our action planned and we all pledged our agreement in supporting this whole school project. We hope to have our Eco notice-board set up very soon; this will inform our school community of any cur-rent projects the Eco team is taking part in.
All classes have had an op-portunity to get their hands dirty, by growing their own vegetables and herbs which it is hoped will be used in some of our healthy lunches. On top of the fruit, vegetables, and flowers grown in the Eco garden, we will soon have a bird feeder to encourage a diversity of birds.
Well as you can see the Eco council is determined to bring environmental changes on board. Our biggest goal, is to improve the school grounds, no doubt soon you will see members of the Eco Council
helping to ensure the school grounds are clean. Perhaps you could help in this part of the pledge the next time you are at the school, how about picking up litter that you might see near you, but most importantly, dispose of any rubbish in the bins provided. Keep Beacs
clean! Finally, it is hoped that on behalf of the school, the Beacs Eco Council will apply and are awarded an ‘Eco-School Bronze Award’ by the end of this Summer Term. We hope to bring you more exciting news on our pledge to improve the whole school Environment in our next newsletter.
If you would like to contribute time or resources to our Eco Council, please get in touch with me. Ms Starr
Assistant Head Teacher
Newsletter No 10—May 2010 Page 12
Beaconsfield Primary has an Eco Council!
Attendance
We expect children to be in school for 96% of all possible school days each year. Atten-dance is closely monitored by the Education Social Worker (ESW). If it is found that you are not sending your child to school you can be issued with a penalty fine no-tice, prosecuted in court and even sent to prison.
The easiest way to avoid any problems is to send your child to school each day. When children miss school they have to ‘catch-up’ on work and this can be very disrup-tive for their leaning.
policy is strictly enforced at all times. The Education So-cial Worker will issue fixed penalty fines for unapproved leave.
Request for Leave
Holidays should be taken dur-ing the 13 weeks of the year when school is closed. There is no right to take holidays in term time. Our assessment data clearly shows year after year that
the pupils who make the slowest learning progress are those that have the highest number of days absent from school. The governing body has ap-proved a strict policy of not approving any leave for pu-pils during term time. This
to school on a regular basis. It is not acceptable and families will be referred to the
ESW.
Punctuality
Being prompt and on time is an important life-skill that all children need to learn. It is very sad that a persistent number of parents regularly arrive late with their children to school. Our school day starts at 8:50 am and we ex-
pect that children should be in the playground by 8:45 am. As parents/carers you would rightly be annoyed and angry if staff arrived late as it would disrupt your child’s learning, yet a significant number of parents/carers seem to think it is acceptable to arrive late
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Parent Council
We are looking to establish a Parent Council group within the school to further develop links between the school and our community. This council will provide a monthly meet-ing between parents and the senior leadership team to dis-
cuss the curriculum and de-velopment of the school. Please come along to an in-troductory coffee morning/meeting on Tuesday 15th June at 9:00 am in the Par-ent’s Room. It is very impor-tant that we have a good mix of parents across all year
groups. Please speak to Mr Woods for more information about this new group.
Important Dates
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Date Event
Monday 7th June School return from ½ term break
Friday 11th June ICT Safety assembly (Parents/Carers welcome)
Tuesday 15th June Coffee meeting to introduce Parent Council
Friday 18th June Year 1 class assembly
Friday 18th June Years 3 and 4 Trip to Central London
Friday 18th June Apna Football Tournament
Tuesday 22nd June Marie Curie ‘Giant Tea-Party’
Wednesday 23rd June Meeting for new Reception parents
Thursday 24th June (Year 6) Police Junior Citizen Scheme
Friday 25th June Year 2 class assembly
Saturday 26th June Bournemouth Sea-side Trip
Monday 28th June Year 6 School Journey to Isle of Wight
Tuesday 29th June Extended Schools Athletics Day
Friday 2nd July Year 6 return from Isle of Wight
Tuesday 6th July Meeting for new Nursery parents
Wednesday 7th July Sport Day
Wednesday 7th July School Picnic Lunch
Thursday 8th July Celebration of Work Evening (Reception - Yr 6)
Friday 9th July International Evening
Tuesday 13th July Reports go home
Tuesday 13th July Year 6 Class Musical
Thursday 15th July Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly
Friday 16th July School closes at 1:30 pm for summer holidays
Thursday 2nd September Pupils return for Autumn Term
Below are our approved school holiday dates through until July 2011. Please note
these dates and ensure that any holiday bookings are made outside of the school
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Summer Term 2010
Monday 19th April 2010 – Friday 28th
May 2010
Bank Holiday – 3rd
May 2010
Half term – Monday 31st
May – Fri-
day 4th
June 2010
Monday 7th June 2010 – Friday 16th
July 2010
Autumn Term 2010
INSET DAY – Wednesday 1st
Septem-
ber
Pupils return – Thursday 2nd
Septem-
ber – Friday 22nd
October 2010
Half term – Monday 25th
October –
Friday 29th
October 2010
Monday 1st
November – Friday 17th
December 2010
INSET DAY - Monday 22nd
November
Spring Term 2011
Tuesday 4th
January 2011 – Friday
18th
February 2011
Half term – Monday 21st
February –
Friday 25th
February 2011
Monday 28th
February –
Friday 8th
April 2011
Summer Term 2011
Tuesday 26th
April 2011 –
Friday 27th
May 2011
Bank Holiday – 2nd
May
Half-term – Monday 30th
May – Fri-
day 3rd
June 2011
INSET Day – Monday 6th
June
Tuesday 7th
June 2011 – Tuesday 19th
July 2011