Aveley Primary School A Centre of Learning for Over One Hundred Years www.aveleyprimary.net Spring Term Newsletter 010 20th January 2015 Dear Parents, 2015 did not start as we had planned with the sad and unexpected news that Mrs Jan Foy had passed away on Monday 5th January. Mrs Foy has lived in Aveley all her life and worked at Aveley Primary since September 1986. (Originally at Aveley Junior School). Mrs Foy volunteered at Aveley Infants School before working at the school, originally working as a Welfare Assistant, then a Midday Assistant before beginning to work in the school office selling dinner tickets. Mrs Foy was invaluable as the Admin Assistant in 2001 as I joined Aveley Primary. She was the person that everyone visiting or ringing the school spoke to first. Mrs Foy knew everyone’s name, knew everyone’s family and would do her utmost to ensure that everyone was safe and happy, be that passing on a message, sorting out a forgotten lunch and even sewing split trousers! Mrs Foy was very proud to be a member of Aveley Primary School and we will all miss and remember her friendly, caring presence. Our book of Condolence is still available in the school foyer for any families that would like to leave a message. We have ordered flowers on behalf of the school community and would now like to plan for a tribute fitting for such an exceptional lady. Thank-you to everyone that has returned their slip for Thursday. Children that are staying to pay their respects to Mrs Foy will have their packed lunch early at approximately 11.45am before we gather on the front playground for approximately 12.30pm. Unfortunately, in order to keep everyone safe, we are unable to invite parents to join us on the playground, but the school gates will be opened just after 1pm to allow parents to collect their children once the family have moved on to the Church. BUG CLUB UPDATE You will have received a letter informing you of the updated access information for the Bug Club website which now also allows access via an ipad. Unfortunately the children’s logins and passwords have not all been transferred smoothly across to the new site. As this is a paid subscription service, we are currently awaiting for this situation to be rectified. We shall update you just as soon as we have more information. Thank you for your understanding and patience. EARLY BIRDS We are delighted that our children are keen to come to school, but there is a small group of early birds gathering in the, still very dark, playground just after 8:00 am. We must remind parents that the playground is not supervised at this time of day and we would urge you to take advantage of our Breakfast Club that opens at 8:00 am. For £1.50 per child the Breakfast Club offers pupils a choice of cereal or toast and a drink of juice or milk. After breakfast the children can choose to take part in a variety of activities and on Monday and Wednesday’s the Club is supported by an outside provider of sports coaching, who offers supervised games to the children in our MultiUse games Area or Hall. Diary Dates  JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 Fri 30 Jan - CR Class Assembly Parents Welcome at 2:30 pm th         TERMLY LEARNING CONFERENCES Fri 13th Feb - 6S Mon 23rd Feb – 2L Mon 23rd Feb - 4W Wed 25th Feb - 4D Thurs 26th Feb - 2B Thurs 26th Feb - 5C Fri 27th Feb - 5M Fri 27th Feb – 4W Class Assembly Parents Welcome at 2:30 pm SPRING HALF TERM HOLIDAY Mon 16th – 20th February ALL CHILDREN RETURN TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2015 SCOOTERS AND BICYCLES We must remind parents and children that they should dismount from their scooters and bicycles at the school gate and then walk them to the parking bays provided. The school now has a twitter account to keep parents updated with events and to answer any small questions that they may have. You can follow us @aveleyschool CLUBS There are now a few spaces available at Karate. If your child is interested please take them to the school hall at 3.15pm on Tuesday 27th January. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THERE WILL BE NO AFTERSCHOOL CLUBS ON THURSDAY 22ND JANUARY. Spring Term Newsletter 010 20th January 2015 Stars of the Week 6th January 2015 6M 6S 5C 5M 4D 4W 3L - Star Tomlinson - Jack Stouchbury - Mia Filipiak - Victoria Darko - Ishaque Zaman - Luke Hutson - Katharine-Lily Hiam 3VT 2B 2L 1M 1S BR CR - Renee Redburne - Cody-Lee Willard - The Whole Class - Reece Hutson - Poppy Summerhayes - Aaron Fox - Erin Risk 12th January 2015 6M 6S 5C 5M 4D 4W 3L - Lee Layfield - James Perkins - Canan Cevizli - Patrick Wall - Charlie Cooper - Preston Williams - Isabelle Franklin-Huffstead 3VT 2B 2L 1M 1S BR CR - Bobby Seward - Kevin Zvatongwa - Dylan Johnson - Hercus Macijauskas - Stanley Burpitt - Jacob Stevens - Joanne Zvatongwa ACHIEVEMENT ASSEMBLY Week ending 9th January 2015 3VT Indiana Hurley-Pooni Tabatha Poole Riley James - For showing increased focus in numeracy and literacy lessons and achieving great progress as a result. - For working hard on her times tables and reaching silver award in the Olympic times table challenge. - For working hard to improve the presentation of his work and making great progress in numeracy. 3L Dylan Westgate Lucy Kentish Brooke Lashmar - For working hard to learn his times tables and earning his silver award in our times table challenge. - For working really hard to improve in reading, writing and maths. - For trying to include exciting words and phrases her writing to make it interesting for the reader. ATTENDANCE CUP 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd Week ending 9th January 2015 BR 100% 5M 99.6% 5C 99.2% th Week ending 19 December 2014 5M 97.6% 6M 96.9% 4W 96.3% Week ending 12th Dec 2014 CR 98.4% 6M 97.2% 3VT 96.3%