Global Goal 4 – Quality Education - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you are well. I want to start this newsletter by saying a huge thank you for all the support you have given the school this term. The whole school has such a positive atmosphere, and this wouldn’t happen without the positive messages you give to your children.

I know the staff feel proud to be part of a school where the parents, carers, staff and children work in partnership to create such a safe and caring atmosphere and where all children make excellent academic and social progress. I know this will continue next term, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

What is evident is how supportive you are in relation to your child's home learning. This week, Mrs McKenzie and I have seen so many wonderful pieces, and it is great to see your children bringing their home learning into school and wanting to show it off! You should feel so proud of yourselves! 

Alongside your support for the children, many of you have been incredibly generous in donating to the school, the school’s chosen charity and the themed days we have had this term. For the Poppy Appeal, we raised £767, thank you. 

This term has been incredible, from class assemblies, to the organised trips and visits, as well as the most wonderful end of term productions performed by Nursery, Reception and Year 1. We have such budding stars, and I would like to thank all parents who took the time out of their busy schedules and attended. Your children are awesome!

Parent Pupil and Staff Partnership (PPS)

I would like to extend my gratitude to all the parents who supported Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Pusey in organising our amazing Christmas Fair. It was such an amazing community event, and we are happy to announce that with your help, we raised  over £1000 for the OPAL project! Thank you once again!

The raffle prize draw happened this morning, and for those lucky winners, the school office will be in contact with you to collect your prizes!

Thank you to all of the local companies that donated the prizes for the raffle. 

Uniform Expectations

A reminder that you should be sending your child into school wearing the correct uniform:

1. All children will be allowed to wear black shoes or black trainers. The black trainers must have no

White/coloured soles or laces. If there are logos, these must be black (see pictures below):

2. The PE kit worn into school must be as follows:

• Black or white trainers with plain laces. (No brightly coloured trainers please)
• Black/Grey PE shorts, jogging bottoms (when it gets colder) or skorts – with no logo.
• Plain white T-shirt or polo shirt (with no logo)
• Pupils wear their purple school sweatshirt.

Please note that children should not be wearing any branded clothing and must only wear what is stated above.

Children in Year 5 and 6 will be expected to wear a school tie that can be bought from Teeny Wear in Harrow Weald. They must come to school wearing it on the first day back.

Long hair must be tied up. Hair accessories are not allowed and hijabs worn must be white.

What's on

To help you plan your time, please find a list of what events are taking place in the first half term:

Date	Event	Year group	Time
Monday 8th January 2024	School Closed for Staff Training Day	All	All Day
Tuesday 9th January 2024	First day of the Spring Term	All	08.35am
Tuesday 9th January 2024	Phase Curriculum Morning – Year 1 and Year 2 Parents Only	Year 1 and Year 2	09.00am to 10.00am
Wednesday 10th January 2024	Phase Curriculum Morning – Year 3 and Year 4 Parents Only	Year 3 and Year 4	09.00am to 10.00am
Thursday 11th January 2024	Phase Curriculum Morning – Year 5 and Year 5 Parents Only	Year 5 and Year 6	09.00am to 10.00am
Friday 12th January 2024	Phase Curriculum Morning – Nursery and Reception Parents Only	Nursery and Reception	Whole day
Friday 12th January 2024	Year 5 Happy Harrow Trip	Year 5	08.30am to 15.30pm approx
Monday 15th January 2024	School Clubs Start	TBC	TBC
Friday 19th January	4 Neptune Class Assembly	4 Neptune	09.00am-09.30am
Tuesday 23rd January 2024	National Handwriting Day	All	All Day
Tuesday 30th January to 4th February	National Storytelling Week	Whole School	All Week
Friday 2nd February	Number Day (Dress Up as numbers)	Whole School	All Day
Friday 2nd February	4 Venus Class Assembly	4 Venus	09.00am-09.30am
Monday 5th February 2024	Parents Meeting Evening – In Person	Whole School	3.30pm to 6.20pm
Monday 5th February 2024 – Friday 9th February	Children's Mental Health Week	All	All Week
Wednesday 7th February 2024	Parents Meeting Evening – Virtual via MS Teams	Whole School	3.30pm to 6.20pm
Friday 9th February	4 Mars Class Assembly	4 Mars	09.00am-09.30am
Friday 9th February 2024	Last day of first half term	All	15.15pm
Monday 12th February to Friday 16th February 2024	Half Term – School Closed	All	All Week
Monday 19th February 2024	First day of the Second Half of Spring Term	All	08.35am

Communication

A reminder to all parents/carers, that if you have any issues or concerns, please do not hesitate to speak to any member of staff on duty or email the school office via office@belmont.harrow.sch.uk or by submitting your query on our virtual form found on our website (https://www.belmont.harrow.sch.uk/contact-us-form). We aim to respond to queries within 10 working days as outlined in our Positive Communication Policy, which can be found in the policy section on our website, where you will also find:

• Community Behaviour Policy 
• Complaints Policy and Procedure 
• Managing Serial and Unreasonable Complaints Policy

End of term reports will be sent out via Arbor on Thursday 21st December.

We are looking forward to yet another exciting term of learning and working in partnership with you.

We hope you have a restful and relaxing break, and we look forward to welcoming you all back on Tuesday 9th January 2024 in full uniform!

Yours sincerely,

Mrs P Aggarwall

Headteacher 

 

Online Learning Expectations and Support 

We continue to set online weekly home learning online via 'Microsoft My Teams'. Staff will review what has been completed and leave feedback on the pupil’s page.

We are digitising the way the school operates, this means you will have access to all of the pupils daily learning so that pupils can review what they have learnt during the school day at home.

Please focus on reading with your child every day for at least 20 minutes, help them to learn their times tables and spellings and talk to them about their learning in school.

If you need help or support with online home learning, Mr Baig, our Computing Technician will be available to support you every morning from 8.30am to 9am. You will need to complete the following form to let us know what you need help with:

https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/ComputingSupport@belmont.harrow.sch.uk/bookings/