5th December 2016

posted onto the school’s web-site, under PTA. We think we have raised more than £4000. This is fabulous!

This week’s music concerts This week we have not one, but two music concerts to look forward to, including an Infant concert on Tuesday 6th at 10.15am and our first Rock Steady Concert on Thursday at 10.00am Next Tuesday (13th December), it will be the turn of the Juniors who will be performing at 10.00am. Many thanks to Faye for organising these. We hope to see lots of you there. Speaking kindly to one another Last week, I discovered that some children in years 4 and 5 have not been speaking kindly to each other about their mums. I have spoken to the children and parents concerned and hope that this will be the last of it. Please could you monitor this carefully, particularly children’s use of the internet and youtube channels which encourages this type of behaviour and report anything which you think might be of a concern. Many thanks!

‘Appreciation’

‘Positive and

supportive

Relationships’

‘Achievement’

‘Confident and Independent

Pupils’

‘LEARNING TOGETHER ACHIEVING MORE’

Events this week… Tuesday Infant Concert 10.15am Wednesday - Y6 School Journey assembly Thursday— Y4 Open Morning 9.00am Rock Steady Assembly 10.00am Y2 production dress rehearsal pm 1C to the CLC YR to The Living Nativity at London Zoo Friday - Y2 production at 2.00pm (Please note new time of Rock Steady assembly) Curriculum news Winter Fair Many thanks to all those who attended Saturday’s Winter fair. We enjoyed some great weather and lots of fun was had by all.

Highlights included visiting Santa’s grotto, hearing the choirs sing, buying a gift from Secret Santa and our annual gingerbread competition. A massive thank you extends to all those who volunteered their time to help out and particularly to Victoria for taking charge of this and the tea towels. More photos of the Winter fair have been

End of term treats to Hackney Empire and The London Coliseum

Following on from last week’s EYFS / Y1 panto, during our final week, Years 2 - 6 will also be experiencing a free end of term treat, courtesy of the PTA. Years 2 and 3 will be visiting The Hackney Empire to see Sleeping Beauty and years 4 - 6, The London Coliseum to see The Nutcracker.

Letters were sent home last Thursday and if you are interested in attending as a parent helper, please return the slips at the bottom of the letters asap. NB Names will be drawn out of the hat, if there are more parents than tickets. Many, many thanks to the PTA for raising this money to make these magical experiences possible. Sports News The Y6 dance performances take place on Thursday, 6R at 12.10pm and 6K at 3.10p.m Parents/carers welcome. There is a Bench ball tournament for Y3 and Y4 at Talacre this Wednesday. No football match this Tuesday for the Y5 and Y6 school football teams. Finally, there will be no Ballsports until January. Clubs News Please note that there will be no clubs next week during the last week of term. News from the office School Lunches - This half term’s lunches are £80.50

Christmas Dinner The school Christmas lunch is next Wednesday. Those who usually bring a packed lunch have the opportunity to join their friends in having a cooked Christmas meal if they would like to. The cost is £2.30 and this must be ordered through Carole in the office before Friday of this week.

Lost property Please make an attempt to visit the lost property pile before the end of this term. It will be recycled over the Christmas holiday.

Please collect The office have accumulated lots of trays left behind from the winter fair. Please pop in and claim yours

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Thank-you After all of the hard work and planning that went into the Winter Fair, we hope you had a brilliant time

on Saturday. There are so many people to thank so please forgive us if we’ve missed you out:

Victoria Knowles Collette Clio Valeria Kellee Ali M Michael Grace Sonia Penny Tabitha Ali C Ja-

son Will Anna L Ricky HNCC Junior Mariana Derek Mark the amazing Brookfield office and

teaching staff Charlie Philip Sharon Polly Karin Class reps and their teams the Moyram sisters

Pizza East Luxury Beauty & Spa Spence Bakery MeatW5 Al Parco Theatre of Wine Owl

Bookshop The Star pub Face to Face Gail's Bakery Tesco Deli Junction Map Gift Shop Absolute

Print Santa & his elves...

And especially everyone who baked cakes and came to the fair and bought and drank and ate and

baked gingerbread and chanced their luck on the tombola and raffle....

THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU

2017 News

After the excitement of the fair, we wanted to tell you about other plans we have for the coming year.

We’re organising another film night to lift those winter blues so keep an eye on the newsletter for more

details. We’re also investigating a fundraising avenue that doesn’t require cakes to be baked, grottos built

or even blood pressure to be raised. Again, we’ll bring you more information in the new year.

Also, from next year, there’ll be at least one PTA newsletter going in book bags per term to provide an

overview of what will be taking place and to enlist support. We hope this will encourage more parents to

get involved, as the PTA can only be successful with your support and input.

Sonia and Charlie PTA Chairs

Drop us a line: brookfieldschoolpta@gmail.com

Brookfield PTA News

December 5th-December 11th