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Belmont School 21st April 2023 Newsletter

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

Dear Parents and Carers,

We hope you all managed to rest and enjoy the holidays, and it has been lovely to see all of our pupils coming back into school ready to learn. It is hard to believe that we are in our final term for this academic year! We have many activities and events planned for this half-term, so please do check the school calendar. 

We have started to include a variety of music based projects that are delivered as part of our work with Wigmore Hall. Year 3 have started this week and Year 1 will be going to Wigmore Hall next Friday to watch a concert called 'Marvellous Magical Jukebox'!

Wigmore Hall are also delighted to be able to offer up to 40 free tickets to Belmont families to attend our upcoming Family Concert: Marvellous Magical Jukebox on Saturday 29 April at 1pm. This will be for families with children in Year 1 and 2. If you are interested in attending the concert as a family, please complete the form below:

https://forms.office.com/e/48KTem7eM9

This concert is suitable for families with children in Key Stage 1 (children aged 5-7). For further information, please visit our website: Family Concert: Marvellous Magical Jukebox (wigmore-hall.org.uk)

Curriculum Meetings

Thank you to all the parents who attended the Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and 2) and the Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5 and 6) curriculum mornings. You will find the information has been uploaded onto our website and has been pinged out to all parents. 

Next week, we will be holding Curriculum Meetings for the following year groups where parents are able to find out and discuss what the Summer Term curriculum will look like:

  • Curriculum Meeting for Nursery and Reception on Tuesday 25th April from 9am to 10am. 
  • Curriculum Meeting for Years 3 and 4 on Wednesday 26th April from 9am to 10am. 

Year 2 and Year 6 SATs 

May is the month for testing, and we wanted to remind you that over this month the Year 2 pupils will be taken out in small groups for them to complete the end of Key Stage One tests. The results will be used to support the class teacher's end of year judgement for how well your child has remembered and applied the Year 1 and Year 2 curriculum. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to the Year 2 Team. 

On Tuesday 9th May, Year 6 will start their end of Key Stage 2 tests and all pupils will be invited to attend a special year 6 breakfast club that will provide social and emotional support as well as providing a nutritious breakfast to get them ready for the day. Again, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to the Year 6 Team. 

Strike Action

As you all will know the teaching union 'NEU' have announced two further days of strike action on Thursday 27th April and Tuesday 2nd May. We will inform you of any partial or full school closure as soon as we can. Please do check school ping for more information. 

Sporting Achievements

Well done and a huge congratulation to Jessica Gadirova who won the European golden gymnastics treble! We are incredibly proud of your progress and wish you all the success in future events! 

We also have to congratulate Brandon in Year 3, who has just signed to train with and play for Reading Football Club! What an amazing achievement, we wish you the best of luck and look forward to publishing more of your success stories for our school community to read! Well done Brandon!

The Coronation of His Majesty The King

To mark the occasion, we are pulling forward our famous family picnic to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III on Friday 5th May, and we would like to invite all of our families to come in the afternoon to have a party on the field (or if it rains, inside!). Please put this date in your diary, we will be sending more information out next week. 

We would like to wish all of our families who are celebrating Eid today or tomorrow a very happy Eid Mubarak!

Finally, wishing you all an enjoyable and safe weekend. See you Monday!

Yours sincerely,

Mrs P Aggarwall

Headteacher 

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Discounted Zoo tickets

As part of our Community Access Scheme, you can now buy reduced price tickets for London Zoo at our entry kiosks from as little as £3 per person, if you are receiving Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support or Jobseeker’s Allowance. 

Please find the link for those who would like to visit London Zoo that maybe eligible for the scheme: 

https://www.londonzoo.org/plan-your-visit/community-access-scheme

 

Young Harrow Foundation

Young Harrow Foundation have developed a new hub for cost of living support on their website: www.youngharrowfoundation.org/cost-of-living-support

This hub aims to signpost people to local services from the voluntary sector and local authority - and is particularly aimed at families or carers that have children and young people in their household.

The online hub, developed by Young Harrow Foundation, lists services that can help with things like, mental health and wellbeing, warm hubs in the borough, help with accessing food, housing support and low cost furniture providers.

PE KIT days

Below are the year group PE days:

Reception - Friday

  • Y1 - Monday & Wednesday
  • Stargazers - Wednesday
  • Y2 - Monday & Thursday
  • Y3 - Tuesday & Friday
  • Y4 - Tuesday & Thursday
  • Y5 - Monday & Thursday
  • Y6 - Wednesday (swimming) & Thursday

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 or jewellery. They must only wear what is stated above. 

Activity Centre for Excellence (ACE) Breakfast Club and After school Club

Activity Centres of Excellence provide our wraparound provision for pupils in Reception to Year 6.

Breakfast club will open at 7.45am till school opens.

After school club run from the end of the school day to 6pm.

If you would like to make regular bookings, please contact Mr Floyd Bennett by phone or email — 07947 682787 or info@activitycentresofexcellence.co.uk. 

Attendance

School attendance is mandatory for all pupils.

If your child is ill, please notify the school office on 0208 427 0903. You can now leave a voicemail to report your child's absence.

Punctuality

All pupils must in school and collected at their designated time:

Key Stage 

Start of School time

End of School time 

Reception 

8.40am

3.15pm

Key Stage 1

8.40am

3.15pm

Key Stage 2

8.40am

3.05pm

Nursery am

8.50am

11.50am

Nursery pm 

12.15am

3.15pm

It is important that your child starts school with their peers as this will help them to get ready for the amazing learning planned. It is your responsibility to ensure that your child is in school at their designated times. Repeated lateness means that your child is losing out on valuable learning, therefore the school’s safeguarding procedures will be followed and referrals will be made to external agencies where necessary.

Attendance and Punctuality Updates 

Parents, it is important that you drop your children at the correct time and pick them up at their designated collection times, Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 at 3.05pm and Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and 2 at 3.15pm. A reminder that any child/ren not collected at their designated time will be escorted to the after-school club (ACE), which will result in a charge for this service. If you are interested with signing your children up to after-school club, do contact Mr Bennett on 07947 682787 or info@activitycentresofexcellence.co.uk, who will provide you with the price and other information. 

Pupils who are not collected at the designated times at the end of the day will be escorted to the afterschool club (ACE) which will result in a charge for this service for parents.

 

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/ 

 

Uniform Reminders

As mentioned in the final letter before the summer break, we have decided to keep the rules on wearing PE kit on PE days and wearing trainers the same. However, please read the changes below very carefully as we want to maintain the high standards that Belmont has:

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):

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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 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.

We will be monitoring pupils’ presentation and expect all children to be wearing the correct uniform from the first day of school.

Ordering Hot School Lunches

All hot lunch bookings must be made online. 

Please order your child's hot meals for next week via the ParentPay website - www.parentpay.com.  This is for ALL pupils including Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils. 

All meals will need to be ordered in advance and the menu can be found on the website. 

If you need any help, please contact the school office on 0208 427 0903.

Health & Safety and general reminders - 31/03/23

To ensure that we are following safeguarding measures, we ask you to continue to help us by:

  • Please all follow the 1-way system to help you move around the site safely.
  • Ensuring that you are joining the queueing system and not pushing in.
  • Wash your hands regularly with soap.
  • Cover your face when coughing and sneezing, dispose of any tissues immediately. 

Safeguarding remains ‘EVERYONE’S BUSINESS AT BELMONT SCHOOL.’

Harrow Children Services’ Golden Number is available to everyone, and gives people one number to call for information or advice on services for children, young people and their families.

Golden Number: 020 8901 2690.

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UNCRC Article 19
I have the right to be protected from being hurt or badly treated

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