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Belmont School 7th June 2024 Newsletter

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

Dear Families,

Welcome back to the final half-term of the academic year. I hope that you all had a restful and relaxing half-term break. The summer term is always very busy in school, and June and July are especially busy.

We will be organising leavers’ activities, presentation assemblies, drama performances, residential visits and sporting events to name just a few events. As always, we are keeping fingers crossed that the weather is kind to us over the coming weeks to allow all of these activities to happen without delay.

It was really noticeable how smart everyone looked this week, so thank you all for your efforts with this! A reminder that when it gets warmer, please put sunscreen on your child before school, they will be allowed to wear sun hats and label everything!

We send good wishes to our Year 1 children on their upcoming phonics check and our Year 4 children for their Multiplication Check. We have to wait for the pass boundaries to be sent to us (again in early July) and these will be shared with families as soon as we can after this.

This half-term, we will be helping the children to prepare for the transition to the group next year, and we will be mixing classes from Year 1 to Year 5. You will be notified of your child's new class teacher and class name in your child's end of year report. 

Sustainability Pledge - Triad Competition

Earlier this week, children from Key Stage 2 had an assembly from Jose who works with the charity 'TRIAD'. He explained the importance of trying to prevent wearable clothes, bags and linen being put out in the bins and ending up in landfills. 

So, over the next few weeks, Belmont School will be asking for your help! If you have any unwanted clean clothing including shoes, linen, bags and curtains, please donate these items in clearly marked bags and leave them in the main office. Items must be washed and clean to be donated!

They will be coming to school on Friday 21st June at 8.am with a big van to collect what we can donate. Every item counts. 

Please help us do our bit on our sustainability plan. Thank you.   

Sustainability Pledge - 'YESfest'

Before the holiday, we had some of our Year 4 pupils attend Harrow School for 'YESFest'. 

'YESfest' aims to give its delegates the knowledge, skills and, most importantly, the enthusiasm to go back to their community and make a positive difference to their part of the planet and be part of a national network - encouraged by an international network - of young people. 

Here is a short presentation of what the pupils took part in, and we are looking forward to potentially having 6 pupils from the current Year 4 to attend the 'Eden Project' in the Autumn Term. More details to follow:

https://vimeo.com/951231906/b01f41be13?share=copy

Assembly

Thank you to Star 1 for kicking off this half-term's assembly with a wonderful interpretation of the book, 'Handa's Surprise'. 

All the children were amazing, and we just want to say a big thank you to the staff, children and parents for putting on such a wonderful assembly! 

Bringing Unhealthy Snacks into school

Recently we have seen an increase in families bringing in unhealthy snacks to school at the end of the day and part of after-school snacks. 

We will not allow snacks on school site as they may contain allergens that are harmful to members of our school community. Therefore, we are requesting no unhealthy snacks such as juice, crisps, biscuits and sweet treats be brought onto the school site. If seen, the staff will ask you to put it away and take it home. So please do not bring these items on site. 

Lego League Festival

On Wednesday, some pupils attended the Year 4/5 Lego League Festival. Pupils celebrated their achievements during Lego League, made their own medals out of Lego and celebrated together as a team at Ninja Warrior UK. They had so much fun and have come back with their well deserved medals and certificates of completion from Lego!

Outstandingly Happy Harrow School!

Children in Year 5 would like to share the following quote with you:

Do not forget that as a school we are all working in the 2% Mindset mode:

Belmont School's Summer Fair - Reminder

A reminder that our Belmont School Summer Fair will be held on Friday 28th June from 2.45-4.30pm.

Would you like your own stall at the fair?

We welcome parents/carers or local businesses to run their own stalls? The cost for a stall will be £30 for 1 table. To apply for a stall please fill out the Microsoft team's form below.

https://forms.office.com/e/h52XLSmSj1

Please note, stalls will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, to ensure we have a balance of different types of stalls. Thanks for all your invaluable support!

Mud Kitchen - OPAL

We are really excited to have opened our mud restaurant as part of our OPAL play provision at lunchtimes! This is an excellent resource to support your children's imaginations and creativity and the children have loved exploring it! There are aprons to use if children would like them, but they may get a bit muddy as part of this play!

A big thank you to our wonderful site team for creating such a wonderful area for our children to explore. 

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

We look forward to seeing you all on Monday 10th June! 

Have a lovely weekend.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs P Aggarwall

Headteacher 

Pal World - Parent Information

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.

Early Support in Harrow 

For all Harrow residents, Harrow Early Support Services provide families with strategies and advice groups to help you with your children, wellbeing and health. Please click the links for the timetables and further information:

https://www.facebook.com/harrowcc/?locale=en_GB

https://www.harrow.gov.uk/downloads/download/12765/childrens-centres-timetables

https://www.harrow.gov.uk/childrenscentres

PE KIT days

Below are the days that pupils will be coming into school wearing their PE Kit:

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

The PE kit worn into school must be as follows:

  • Black 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. 

Be Active Breakfast and After school Club

Dear Parent/Carer,

As you may have seen Be Active are our new provider for Breakfast and After school clubs, if you would like your child to attend any these then you MUST book online prior to attendance at https://www.beactivesportsandclubs.co.uk/book-online otherwise your child will not be able to attend, this MUST be done to attend.

Please book directly on the Be Active website:

 https://www.beactivesportsandclubs.co.uk/book-online?category=63a1cf71-22a1-490d-b7c9-234b714c799b

Our new provider is ‘Be Active’. They will initially be running the breakfast club from 7.30am to start of the school day and from end of school day, until either 4.30pm or 6.00pm. Please find booking information below:

Please note that any children who are not collected at the designated end times of the session will be escorted to the after school club (Be Active) which will result in a charge for this service for parents.

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 

8.35am

3.15pm

Key Stage 1

8.35am

3.15pm

Key Stage 2

8.35am

3.05pm

Nursery am

8.35am

11.35am

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 would like your child to attend any these then you MUST book online prior to attendance at https://www.beactivesportsandclubs.co.uk/book-online, 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 (Be Active) 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

Children must come into school wearing the correct uniform listed below. on PE days, pupils should come into school wearing the correct PE kit:

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 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.

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

Health & Safety and general reminders - 7/06/23

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

  • Ensure that you come to school at the allocated time
  • 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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