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

Dear Parents and Carers,

The first term of Spring has come to end! We have had so much to celebrate and your children are progressing into confident readers and learners! 

We are participating in the Green School Project in Year 4, Outstandingly Happy Harrow School in Year 5 (see below for more exciting information) and providing experiences for your children to have cross curricular experiences such as DT Day, that involved your children developing their knowledge and understanding of food, hygiene and following recipes!

Next half term, we are looking forward to pupils exploring outside of school and have many exicitng trips, visits and tournaments organised, so please do watch this space!

OPAL Award

We are excited in annoucing that we have achieved the Gold Outdoor Learning and Play Award only 8 months into the process!

A huge congratulations to Mrs Verro, Mr Revens, Mrs McGlone, the Lunch Time Play Leaders, the OPAL Team and to you all for your kind donations that allows all pupils at Belmont School to have the right to relax and play! 

Parent and Carer Consultation Evenings

Once again, we had two successful evenings where many of you attended meetings with your child's teacher in person or virtually. 

I would like to thank our wonderful Year 6 Prefects and Digital Leaders, who gave up their time to show you around and showcase some of our extraordinary Computing Curriculum. 

Outstandingly Happy Harrow School!

On Friday 12th January, Year 5 attended the KP Centre in Harrow with 5 other schools to learn more information about what it takes to be truly happy!

They worked with Will Hussey from Art of Brilliance who ran the day and introduced the pupils and staff to:

• The Science of Flourishing
• Understand the concept of perspective; there is always an alternative
• Consider how to make positive choices
• Recognise that our thoughts impact our feelings, which in turn influence our behaviour and outcomes
• Contemplate the 2%er ‘best’ version of themselves
• Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
• Be challenged to consider how to become ‘brilliant’ at anything
• Embrace responsibility for their learning
• Understand the 5 key stepping stones to mastery
• Acknowledge and assess their own ‘resilient’ learning behaviours
• Harness the ‘5 Eyes’ (tools for getting to know someone new)
• Utilise ‘Indiana Jones’ thinking (how to deal with risk)
• Put things into perspective with ‘Snow Globe Thinking’
• Step outside the wardrobe and change their own personal narrative (Narnia Thinking)
• What next?  The importance of self-discipline and self-control
• How to cause a positive ripple effect

The day was designed to be positively challenging, interactive and fun.  The Year 5 pupils learnt about the art transformation and will be working on projects that are linked to ROAR that will inspire our school Community, but all of Harrow! We have a page dedicated to the project and will be sending quotes and examples of how we could all spread a bit of hapiness around as they have being doing all day! Watch this space! 

Assemblies

What an amazing class assembly by 4 Mars today who exemplifed the Happy Harrow Project by sharing the important message of Mental Health and Wellbeing! They shared that self love must come first! 

Last week, 4 Venus showcased National Story Telling Week! All pupils spoke and recited poetry confidently, sharing expectation learning and sang a wonderful song. You all should be super proud of yourselves. We had an amazing turnout from parents too. Thank you for your continued support.

Reading log 

This half term, we had many of our pupils who found 'Golden Tickets' in their reading books. We have loads more dotted around the school and in virtual books, so please do ensure that you log your child's reading on the App. 

Well done to all of our regular readers who have been reading non-stop at home since the beginning of term:

Class Name	Total Books Completed	Top Reader (Most Pages Read)
1 Earth	110	Zayyan (1275 pages)
1 Moon	267	Filip (2356 pages)
1 Sun	251	Zainab (2443 pages)
2 River	77	Marina (245 pages)
2 Sea	164	Safiya (2459 pages)
2 Sky	133	Ayla (3327 pages)
3 Galaxy	55	Minahil (1525 pages)
3 Mercury	141	Erika-Ami (2452 pages)
3 Planet	218	Zahid (4079 pages)
4 Mars	118	Ayaan (1904 pages)
4 Neptune	171	Andy (7992 pages)
4 Venus	76	Haniya Zahra (1938 pages)
5 Asteroid	89	Sarvesh (2519 pages)
5 Eclipse	115	Muhammad (2054 pages)
5 Meteor	242	Shaheer (12237 pages)
6 Pluto	64	Hibah (6060 pages)
6 Saturn	21	Shayanii (2610 pages)
NAM	39	Alexandru Gheorghita (273 pages)
NPM	44	Ismaeel (691 pages)
R Star 1	118	Ryan-Ionut (998 pages)
R Star 2	71	Jasmin Maria (583 pages)
R Star 3	54	Haadi (425 pages)

 

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 are looking forward to seeing you all on Monday 19th February, with all pupils wearing the correct uniform!

Finally, Happy Lunar New Year to all of our families who are celebrating this over the weekend:

Have a restful half term break! 

Yours sincerely,

Mrs P Aggarwall

Headteacher