LIME ACADEMY WATERGALL 7 February 2020

Dear Parents and Carers,

It has been really pleasing to see children across the school working so hard on their learning and demonstrating our trust values. On Monday, school council delivered an excellent presentation to KS2 all about their visit to the 999 club at Peterborough City Hospital.

Music has been sounding very good across school this week. Children in Rock Steady on a Monday morning are making very good progress and already sounding great, just a few weeks into this term. Piano and guitar lessons have also been sounding good. This afternoon, Year 3 have been working very hard on developing their music skills through their samba lessons and they have generated a pleasant sound across school. I look forward to being able to showcase this talent with you during term 4.

Year 4 had a wonderful visit from Zoolab into school on Tuesday, where they were learning all about the rainforest. The children particularly enjoyed holding the gecko lizard called ‘Honey’ who enjoyed climbing over children, observing ‘Princess Katie’ the rat run over the handlers arms with a command and a white corn snake which most of the children were brave enough to handle. There are some photographs on the next page of the newsletter.

Thank you to the parents of Year 1 who supported the reading workshop on Thursday, I have heard that this was a great success and hope that you benefitted from this too.

I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate the importance and expectations of school uniform. Our uniform ensures that no student feels disadvantaged in terms of appearance, removes the need to keep up with constantly changing and expensive fashion trends, and instils a sense of pride. Therefore, please ensure that your child is wearing a school tie every day and that they have black school shoes. Trainers in any colour are not appropriate as school footwear.

Have a lovely weekend.

Regards,

Mr Newstead

Deputy Headteacher

EVENTS AND VISITS

14 February End of term, school closes 3.15pm

24 February School Re-opens

27 February Year 4 Mosque Visit

4 March World Book day—Year 5 only

5 March Beatles Day Year 5

5 March World book day—all years except Year

5

6 /7 March Drama Festival—selected students

11 March Pirate Day Year 1

19 March VIAM—Selected pupils 3-6

20 March Billionaire Boy—Year 6

23 March Woodgreen to visit—Whole School

24/25 KS1 Library Book bus visit

24 March Drumming performance Year 4

26 March Year 3 Stow Bardolph

School Reports and Parents Evenings Please see below for details on parents evenings and reports split by year groups. Please book all parents evening appointments via Parentmail.

Year Group Parents Evening Report

EYFS 31 March End of Summer

Term

1-6 16 June 31 March

SEND Coffee Morning Mr Harfield will being having an open coffee morning on Thursday 13 February 10am—11am. If you have any concerns regarding your child’s social or educational development please come and have an informal chat.

After School Club

Please note that any changes to pupils attending After School Club need to phoned into the office by 12 noon latest on the day of the change.

World Book Day On 5 March it is World Book Day. All pupils except Year 5 are invited to come to school dressed as their favourite book character. If your child does not wish to dress up they will need to come to school in school uniform. On 5 March Year 5 will be on a school trip so they can come to school on 4 March dressed as their favourite book character.

After school Clubs As the evenings become lighter we have decided that after February half term, children in Years 3,4,5 & 6 will be able to walk home alone from the following school clubs, providing we have your permission in advance Football Club Year 6 Homework club Drama club Choir (Voice in a million) Children in Reception, Year 1 & 2 must always be collected by an adult who is a named contact on your child/rens file. Children who attend After School Club MUST BE collected by a named contact AT ALL TIMES.

ATTENDANCE Week commencing 03/02/2020

For the academic year our attendance target is 97%. As a school we monitor attendance daily to ensure that pupils in school and making the most of the learning opportunities on offer and make expected progress dur-ing the year.

Green: above national average 97%

Amber: national average 96%

Red: below average 95% or below

Whole school attendance: 95.19%

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

93.96% 96.46% 95.10% 94.44% 94.65% 95.83%

Year 4—Zoolab