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Don't forget, Wake up and Shake up Wednesday is back this week after a two week break. Mr Nicholls will be on the Junior playground from 8.35 on Wednesday morning help us all to have a great start to Wednesday.
Don't forget tomorrow Friday 19th November is non-school uniform day- on this day we would welcome any donations for items for the class Christmas Hampers. Please hand your donation to your child's class teacher. The class themes are:
Nursery - Christmas Day Hamper
Reception - Christmas Eve Hamper
Year 1 - Childrens Christmas Hamper
Year 2 - Green Hamper
Year 3 - Red Hamper
Year 4 - Gold Hamper
Year 5 - Christmas Party Hamper
Year 6 - Silver Hamper
Good Luck to the Tanworth Junior Choir who are off to Warwick Arts Centre this afternoon. The choir will be performing with Armonico in The Armed Man. Thank you to Mr Fidler, who is only a couple of weeks, has created a choir of Junior children and has spent many playtimes rehearsing with the children.
Friday 19th November - on this day we would welcome any donations for items for the class Christmas Hampers. Please hand your donation to your child's class teacher. The class themes are:
Nursery - Christmas Day Hamper
Reception - Christmas Eve Hamper
Year 1 - Childrens Christmas Hamper
Year 2 - Green Hamper
Year 3 - Red Hamper
Year 4 - Gold Hamper
Year 5 - Christmas Party Hamper
Year 6 - Silver Hamper
Friday 26th November - on this day we would welcome any donations for the tombola stalls.
Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 - donations of items for the children's tombola
Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 - donations of items for the adult tombola
Friday 3rd December - this will be 'Dingle Dangle and Sparkle Day'. On this day we are inviting children to wear something Christmassy or Sparkly as we make Christmas decorations to decorate the classrooms and the hall.
The Eco-Committee have suggested that on this day children donate a filled jar for a stall at the Christmas Fayre. This is a jar that has been reused for another purpose. The jar can be filled with anything i.e. sweets, hair accessories, crayons, novelty soap, pamper products, pair of socks etc.
The Eco-Committee will be sending an additional letter about this, but I wanted to give you advance notice.
Friday 10th December - Christmas Jumper Day. On this day we invite children to wear a Christmas Jumper with their school trousers/skirt and ask for donations to 'Save the Children'.
Wednesday 15th December - Christmas Lunch and Party Day. Children may wear party clothes for our Christmas Lunch and Party Days.
As always donations are not compulsory, but we are always very grateful of any donations you are able to make.
Don't forget that next week we have Parent's Evening Meetings on Tuesday and Thursday. Both evenings are virtual. We also break up for half-term on Friday 22nd October for a well earned rest. We will all return to school on Tuesday 2nd November, as we have a Teacher Training Day on Monday 1st November.
On Wednesday I led an assembly discussing our 4 core values at Tanworth. The values of community, hope, wisdom and dignity and shared with the children the logo that Mr Fidler has designed which incorporates our school badge, the cross and the 4 core values. You can see a copy of this on the Our Faith and SIAMS page of our website.
Every year the leaders and Governors of the school complete a self-evaluation of the school. This self-evaluation leads us to identifying priorities for the year ahead. This year the school's four main priorities are:
1: TO SUPPORT ALL CHILDREN TO MAKE GOOD OR BETTER PROGRESS in all core subjects so that children are back on track from their pre-covid starting point April 2020
2: CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FURTHER A ‘CULTURE OF READING which contributes to the raising of standards
3: THE SCHOOL’S CURRICULUM INTENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ARE EMBEDDED consistently across the school
4: TO ENSURE PUPIL’S MENTAL AND PHYSCAL WELL-BEING IS SUPPORTED across the curriculum and beyond
Over the coming weeks and months I will be sharing with you how we are going to achieve our priorities and keep you updated on the progress we have made.
Today was the first Parent Focus Group meeting of this new academic year. All year groups were represented except for Year 2 and Year 3. Today we discussed the format for Parents Evening, PE Kit, parental engagement and parental support. The minutes from the meeting will be on the Parent Focus Group page by Friday for all parents to access.
Today the children with roles and responsibilities were all presented with their badges today. All of the Year 6 children applied by writing letters of application explaining which role they were interested in and why. Other roles were also assigned in each class through children nominating and then class votes. Details of the roles and responsibilities will be on the newsletter this week.
Thank you to Year 4 for the wonderful Harvest Service today. I really enjoyed the songs, a mixture of modern and songs that I can remember singing when I was at school. Thank you to everyone for their food and toiletry donations. It is just amazing the amount of produce that has been brought in. I am sure the Birmingham City Mission will be overjoyed when it is delivered next week.