Friday 30th September

2016

Mosscroft Primary School Newsletter visit us at:

www.mosscroft.co.uk

Knowsley Local Authority

Headteacher: Mrs. P. France Deputy Headteacher:

Mrs. Wilbraham

ATTENDANCE

Our attendance target this year is

96+%

Whole school attendance at the end of September : 97.7%

WOW—this is brilliant!!! Lets keep it going!!!

Star Pupils Role

Call!! Well done to all our September

Stars!!

Jacob Fisher, Faye Murphy, Frankie Preston, Daniel Guy, Jack Moss, Harry Humphries, Anthony Lloyd, Amelia Reilly, Kiera Cooke, James Cavanagh, Ryan O’Hara, Connor Latta, Jade Smith, Robert

Coleman, Matthew Newby

Dear Parents ,

I have seen many of you in the playground or the gate, but for those I haven't

‘Welcome back’. I do hope you all had wonderful summers—and it doesn't feel

too long ago! The pupils returned to school so very smart and it was the first

year that every child was in full uniform with school shoes. Thank you so much

for your support with this. Mrs . France

Good

Behaviour Role Call:

Well done to all our September Angels!!!

Heidi Hall, George Canavan, Marcus Conlan, Scarlett Winrow, Alfie Davies, Lily Bond, Hannah Prosser, Connie Winrow, Freddie Howarth, Rhiannon Owens, Alexandra Calin, Ben Evans-Stone, Laurie Weston, Steven Irelan-Hill, Ruby Stewart

WHATS BEEN GOING ON?

SEPTEMBER’S NEWSLETTERSEPTEMBER’S NEWSLETTER

YEAR 6 SECONDARY SCHOOL

ADMISSION PROCESS

The Knowsley secondary school booklets have

already been given out to Y6 pupils—and I hope as

Y6 parents you have been able to take the

opportunity of visiting some secondary schools at

their open nights in order to help you make this

big decision.

All applications, either in paper or electronic form

need returning to the Local Authority by

OCTOBER 31st 2016

NURSERY & RECEPTION CHILDREN

A special welcome to all our new Nursery and Reception pupils who are now fully attending school. It is an absolute delight spending time in our wonderful Foundation Stage Unit and the children are a real credit to you—happy, confident and well behaved :) A particular warm welcome to those pupils and families of Reception children who are totally new to Mosscroft and to

CREATIVITY WEEK This week has been Creativity Week and the children and teachers have all been de-veloping their artistic skills ready for our new whole school hall art display. This year the theme is to be: “Celebrating ‘Britishness’ through Art.” On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. France and Mrs. Rogers led workshops in years 1 to 6 to teach a variety of art techniques. It was lots of fun! Y1 looked at the work of Jasper Johns and learnt how to mix and paint with thick textured paint; Y2 looked at the work of Andy Warhol and learnt how to apply bright, bold colours in a ‘flat way’ on top of their computer generated portrait images; Y3/4 used fun techniques and paint to recreate the optical artwork of Bridget Riley Y5 experimented with printing techniques to reproduce ‘Banksy’ style graffiti Y6 leant how to mix and apply watercolours correctly to reproduce work based on that of LS Lowry Then on Friday every pupil in every class had a chance to work with Mrs. Rogers on transforming our playground wall with a mural to reflect our commitment to the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) and our new 8 Personal Goals. Make sure you take a look!

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MEET THE TEACHER MEETINGS Many thank yous to all the par-

ents who took up the invitation to come into school to find out about the expecta-tions for their children as they move into their new school year group. Those parents who came to the original meeting were able to attend a short pres-entation by Mrs. France which celebrated all our school successes from 2015/16; explored what will make us outstanding as a school and the role of the school and the role of parents in achieving this; and our forthcoming priorities for school im-provement. Thank you also to all those parents who took advantage of the additional morn-ing sessions that were held so all your children’s teachers could be seen.

FORTHCOMING OCTOBER EVENTS /DATES 3.10.16: Reception Hand Hygiene talk & demonstration 4.10.16: Year 6 Taster Afternoon at Lord Derby Acad-emy 5.10.16: Y5 & Y6 Parents Colomendy Meeting 3.15p.m 7.10.16 Y5 & Y6 Ministry of Science Theatre trip 11.10.16: Y2 trip to Museum of Liverpool Life 13.10.16: Y6 Pottery Workshop @ Kirkby Library

MOSSCROFT SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2016/ 2017

Each year it is the responsibility of the Governing Body, in partnership with the school’s

Leadership Team, to produce the school’s development plan to bring about school

Improvement.

For 2016/ 2017, the school’s actions will continue to link to the outcomes from our Ofsted

Inspection ( May 2015),together with any patterns identified from our school data.

So the key priorities for the coming year are continuing to ensure:

* all work is pitched correctly and their is challenge for all and particularly the most able

and boys

* marking and feedback within books is meaningful and motivating and helps to improve

pupils work.

*there are plenty of opportunities for cross curricular writing

*expectations of the way pupils present their work and of the standard of their

handwriting are always high

*actions planned by leaders, at all levels improve the quality of

teaching and the achievement of pupils

* attendance is closer to National averages of 96%

NEW AREAS for focus:

* reading in KS1

* spelling, grammar and punctuation across school

WEBSITE INFORMATION Can I just remind parents that our school

website contains lots of useful information including term dates—so you should never be unsure of when we break up or when we return. Teachers have updated all their webpages so you should be able to take a look at your child’s new class pages and what's planned ahead for them! www.mosscroft.co.uk

READING CORNER Your children by now should have been provided with a school reading book for home and a book mark to record your reading sessions on and have been bringing them home every night.

I cannot emphasise how important and valuable it is to hear your child read on a regular basis—and the benefits that brings to not only their reading ability but also their spelling, understanding of grammar and punctuation and therefore their writing ability too. So no matter how old your child is LITTLE & OFTEN is the key. Encourage your child to read to you by creating a cosy reading time somewhere quiet and inviting with no disruptions. Be positive and support your child’s efforts. Remember to talk about the book: the characters, plot and story-line. Don’t forget to enjoy any humour too. Reading should be FUN!!!

NURSERY ATTENDANCE In line with the Local Authority initiative to improve school attendance and in an effort to build positive attitudes and habits towards attendance, Nursery children are to become a focus in this area. The attendance of Nursery pupils will now be tracked by school and absences recorded as being authorised or unauthorised. In order for absences of Nursery children to recorded accurately and be author-ised, Nursery parents are requested to follow the same requirements as all other parents in that: proof of absence must be presented at the school office to explain absence this can be doctors appointment cards, pre-scribed medicines or care of the chemist proof. The Learning Mentor will provide a first response phone call to follow up any absences.

A BIG THANK YOU On behalf of all the staff

can we thank all the chil-

dren and

parents for the wonder-

ful gifts that you gave to

us before the Summer

holidays to mark the end

of the school year.

Your kindness and

generosity is always

touching and all the gifts

and cards were very

gratefully

received.

Thank you all.

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