Dear Parents and Carers,

INSET

Please note that the school will be closed on Friday 17th June for staff training.

Wellbeing

 

Filwood Hope 

Filwood Hope is a registered charity based at Filwood Broadway providing support around housing, money, employment and general advice. They have been working within Knowle West since 1996 and have become an integral part of the community. Unfortunately, in recent years, funding for this valuable service has been cut, so they are now having to ask for public donations to enable them to continue to run their invaluable services. 

If you are interested in making a donation, please visit www.filwoodhope.org/appeal  - all donations will be gratefully received and help the team at Filwood Hope carry on supporting our community. 

Lent Fundraising Events 

As you know we have now started our Lent Fundraising Events, which will be running until the end of this term. 

We started today with our cake sale, and have already started to raise lots of money. 

Events for the rest of term are as follows:

Easter Egg Raffle - Friday 8th April - Children can start buying tickets NOW at a cost of 20p each and the raffle will be announced on the last day of term. 

Break the Rules Day - Friday 8th April  - 50p per rule broken or £3 to break them all!

The rules that can be broken are:

• School uniform
• No nail polish
• No hats
• No crazy hair
• No squash in their water bottle
• School shoes only
• No odd socks
• No wearing clothes back to front
• No temporary tattoos
• No make up

These are the only rules that may be broken.

We will be raising money for the following charities, and thank you all for your support in helping these worthy causes: 

• Refuge - for women and children against domestic violence - https://www.refuge.org.uk/
• The Ukrainian Refugee crisis - https://www.savethechildren.org/us/what-we-do/emergency-response/refugee-children-crisis/ukrainian-refugees
• CAFOD - https://cafod.org.uk/News/Emergencies-news/Ukraine-crisis

Attendance 

Congratulations to class 5R who have achieved 99% attendance this week! This is their second week in a row of AMAZING attendance! Keep up the good work!

Thank you for your continued support in helping us to improve attendance. 

Information for Nursery Parents 

As you know, our Nursery Class does not start until 9am. If you are arriving at school early, to bring older siblings to school, we would like to ask that you wait with your nursery children inside the school gates until Nursery is open. This will keep the children away from the busy road and the path clear for other pedestrians. 

Lateness 

Please be reminded that the school day starts at 8.50am, with the doors opening at 8.40am to enable children to come onto site and get settled. We have recently had a number of children arriving late, and as well as starting the day off in a stressful way for the late child, it can also be disruptive to the rest of the class. Please ensure children arrive at school on time, every day. Frequent lateness may result in a Penalty Notice (fine)  being issued.

Breakfast Club 

As you may know we run a daily Breakfast Club for our pupils. Breakfast Club runs daily from 8am and is a great opportunity for children to have a healthy breakfast and socialise with their friends before school. Not only is Breakfast Club great for socialising and promoting healthy eating habits, it can also greatly benefit children’s attendance and behaviour. For pupils from Reception-Year 6, Breakfast Club is just £1 per day, and doors are open for breakfast until 8.20am (children arriving after this time will miss food service). If you would like to book a space at Breakfast Club, you can do this using the School Gateway app. 

If you have a nursery aged child and would like further information about a space at Breakfast Club, please contact the school office. 

Headteachers Awards

The following children will receive an award in next week’s Celebration Assembly. Videos of Celebration Assemblies are now shared on our Facebook page. 

Reception - 

• Hollie for doing some fabulous number sentences and for using a number line to work out addition and subtraction facts within 10. Well done Hollie! 

 Year 1 -  

• Toby - for making a great start since joining our school. He is enthusiastic about learning and has been kind, polite and helpful to his friends and teachers. 

Year 2 -  

• Chloe and Megan - For persevering  and achieving a high score in their NFER Maths Arithmetic paper.  Well done to you both!

Year 3 -

• Summer- For showing great resilience and working outside her comfort zone during assessment week. We have been blown away by her positive attitude and determination. Well done, Summer!   

Year 4 - 

• Sofia- For writing a persuasive letter from the Queen of Narnia using features to persuade the Pevensie family to visit her palace.  

Year 5 -  

• Mason - For managing his distractions and focusing on his stitching in design and technology..
• Harmony - For her brilliant determination and initiative when learning how to sew. She successfully sewed her Mother’s Day card without any assistance! 

Y5/6 Special mention - 

• Well done to the Y5/6 girls netball team who represented CTK at a tournament this week. They made the school proud, showed clear improvement over the afternoon, even having other schools come and tell the girls how well they were doing and how good their shooting was and played with huge smiles all the time. Played four games, won one - well done!  

Year 6 -  

• Emily Z - for an amazing week! Her confidence has has absolutely grown and she can be so proud of herself.

Dates for Diaries

• Friday 8th April 2022 - End of Term 4
• Monday 25 April 2022 - Start of Term 5
• Monday 9th May 2022 - SATs Week
• Monday 23rd May - INSET Day
• Friday 27 May 2022 - End of Term 5
• Monday 6 June 2022 - Start of Term 6
• Friday 17th June - INSET Day
• Friday 1st July - INSET Day
• Thursday 21 July 2022 -  End of the school year

Yours sincerely

Matt Condon

Headteacher