Canterbury Cross Newsletter 21st July 2012

Non-Uniform Day – Friday 22^nd June 2012

On Friday children can come in their bright summer clothes instead of uniform.  No money needs to be paid we are just asking for donations of chocolates tins and bottles.  The Key stage 1 and Key Stage 2 class that brings in the most items will receive extra playtime and a little gift.

Contact Details

Can you please make sure that the school has ALL of your correct contact details this means that we NEED to have your correct address, house telephone number and mobile telephone numbers for all parent/carers of your child/children.

Main School Gates

Due to the amount of children who arrive too early for school, we are now closing the main gates at 8.30am.  Please note children should not be arriving at school before 8.45 am.

Cake Sale – Thursday 28^th June 2012

Next Thursday we will be having a cake sale in the playground after school.  We will be having yummy scrumptious cakes which are only from 20p each!

All money raised will go to the School Fund.  Children please remember to bring your pocket money.

Spanish Day

On Friday 6^th July we will be having a ‘Spanish Day’ and a Spanish themed meal at lunchtime.  If there are any home dinners or sandwiches children that would like a meal, could parents please come to the school office and  pay £1.90 for the meal.   There will no invitations sent out for this meal.    

Dinner Money

Please pay dinner money on a Monday.  Due to some of our school procedures,if you pay later in the week, you may not receive a receipt until the following week.    

If you wish to pay for the whole of next half term, the cost of this is £55.10.  Please place payment in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name and class.

If you are entitled to Free School Meals but choose not to have school meals, it is still beneficial to the school to inform them as it helps with the funding the school receives from the Birmingham City Council.

If your child is entitled to Free School Meals, please come to the office to complete a new form for the new school year.  Please also provide recent proof of entitlement, otherwise you will be given a letter asking for payment of dinners your child has already had.  

Dinners

Please note that children must stay on a lunchtime arrangement for the whole of the half term.  We cannot allow children to keep changing their arrangements through the week.  We need to know where all of the children are for health and safety reasons.

Good to Be Green –Week ending 15/6/12

F2P         Amaan Hussain

F2T      Maaria Naguthney

1F        Suhail Ismail 

2H       Nabiha Akhtar

2T       Asim Khan

3W      Moosa Yasir

4B       Khadija Hossain

4N       Faatimah Patel

5L       Abdullah Ahmed

5K       Aakifah Tariq

6C       Hasan Hussain Khan  

6J       Samir Turkay

 

Star of the Week – Week ending

15/6/12

F2P    Ibrahim Siddique Dunyal Arif          

F2T   Muskaan Mahate  Rehaan Akhtar

1F     Aqsa Rani  Aysha Siddique 

1SB   Arnav Gosain  Leyla Ali

2H    Azaan Iltaf Hussain  Maryam Bibi

2T    Misbah Hussain  Zanib Israr

3A    Abujaker Choudhury  Moneeb Asif

3W   Moosa Yasir  Mahreen Khan

4B     Khadija Hossain  Zarine Shaikh

4N    Summayyah Begum 

5K    Sahil Hussain  Aakib Baz

5L    Aminul Haque Awais Hussain

6C    Maryum Bi  

6J    Hamza Hussain

Golden Tickets given out – how many in class

• F2P – 9                                           3A – 15         
• F2T – 15                                        3W – 19
• 1F – 19                                           4B – 15
• 1SB – 11                                         4N – 17
• 2H – 15                                           5K – 23          
• 2T –  16                                           5L – 21
•                                                          6C – 15
•                                                          6J – 18

 

Attendance/Lates

If your child is absent, please telephone the school office before 9.45 am to inform us of the reason your child is absent.  Please do not inform teachers or teaching assistants of your child’s absence as they are so busy during the morning your message may not be passed on to the office.

If you do not ring the office, a call will be sent out from the office via Truancy Call.  Please leave a message when requested to do so.    If a message is not left, your child will receive an unauthorised absence mark. 

Please could parents try and bring their children into school on time.  Not only is it unsettling for the children, but they do miss the start of lessons.  

Appointments – please could parents try and make appointments for doctors, dentists etc. after school as this affects the whole school attendance and also your child’s attendance and therefore their learning.

 

 Mr Din’s Homework

       Design a 3 course meal for an athlete/sports person. 

 

Canterbury Cross Primary School is on Twitter!

Keep up to date with the goings on at Canterbury Cross with the new Twitter account:  follow us @canterburycross – www.twitter.com/CanterburyCross.

We are also pleased to announce our new blogging site www.canterburycross.wordpress.com.  This is a great opportunity for pupils to have their work published online.  If you have a look today, you can see the film clubs latest reviews.

And finally….

We are now an ECO Friendly School      

A HUGE thank you to all of the children who have helped make the school ECO friendly by recycling plastics and buying fair trade products.

Good news – we have achieved the Bronze award and are now an ECO SCHOOL. Well done everybody.

Year 6 Residential to Woodlands Camp

Our year six students went to Woodlands Camp last week on a residential trip. They arrived at the activity centre on Monday, and returned on Friday.

The majority of the year 6 pupils went on the trip, and those who couldn’t, or didn’t want to go on the residential had the opportunity to go on the day trip on the Wednesday.

Activities that the children got to enjoy were archery, kayaking, rock climbing and they also had the opportunity to fly down the zip line. The students that were on the residential enjoyed these activities as well as many more, including night-time hide and seek in the woods and sports hall games when the weather wasn’t quite cooperating.

Over the course of the week many different staff members from Canterbury Cross went over to the Streetly ad venture centre to enjoy an evening or two with the students and, to the pupils amazement, the adults enjoyed playing hide and seek more than they did!

The year six children that went on the day trip also got to enjoy some activities, and to their enjoyment, they had the chance to get really muddy doing the assault course. All kids, and some adults (I’m including myself in that) love the chance to take on the challenge, especially when it means that they get dirty in the process.When the children arrived back from the day trip, they all looked tired out, and I bet that they all went home, had a nice hot shower and collapsed in a heap on their bed. But, on their arrival back to school, they all looked happy, and some gutted that they didn’t go on the trip for the week.

On the Wednesday evening, I had my opportunity to go to Woodlands camp, and I have to say that I really did have a good time. We were treated to lovely food that was cooked in school by a couple of members of staff, and after that I had the chance to judge a Canterbury Woodlands Talent Show, which was interesting, to say the least.

After the talent show I had my first opportunity to play hide and seek in the woods, something I haven’t done for many, many years, and I was excited like a child on Christmas Eve! After an hour or so of playing, the rain wasn’t going away, so we all returned to the dormitories where we enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate and biscuits before all the children went to brush their teeth, and clean-up for bed. Some of the students were fighting their tiredness, but after 10 minutes or so of light out, they were all fast asleep, ready for their penultimate day at Woodlands Camp.

The Thursday of Woodlands is always a special one. It is the BBQ evening, where the parents of the students on the trip can come and visit, share dinner and chat to their child about their week at woodlands, and also a chance to see their child in a different environment, which is a brilliant opportunity for parents to have. It is also a great chance for Mr Din, our Head Teacher to go out to the camp, and chat to the parents and children about the week their experiences over the week.

When all of the children returned to school on the Friday afternoon, they were all happy with their experiences, and I’m pretty certain they were all very pleased to be home on Friday, and I guess they had a long rest, and plenty of sleep over the weekend.

I would like to say a very big well done to all of the children that went on the trip, they were all excellently behaved, and generally seemed to really enjoy themselves, taking part in all activities and making the most of their opportunities.

Also thank you to all the staff that organised stayed over or went for the day to Woodlands, it is a very tiring, but fulfilling opportunity and the week wouldn’t have been a success without all the staff.  

And finally, a HUGE thanks to all the staff and parents who cooked for the trip, the food was lovely and you’re welcome to cook me another meal anytime.

(All of the above pictures are directly off the  Woodlands website ; http://www.woodlandsadventure.co.uk/)

Canterbury Cross Primary School Newsletter

Newsletter for 14th July 2012

Trips

This week 32 Year 6 students went to Woodlands camp on a residential trip, and they have really had fun doing all the activities available. Over the course of the week they have done activities such as; archery, the assault course, kayaking and the zip line.   On Wednesday another group of year 6 students went to join them on a day trip, and everyone came back with a smile on their face after a fabulous day of outdoor fun!

Contact Details

Can you please make sure that the school has ALL of your correct contact details, this means that we NEED to have your correct address, house telephone number and mobile telephone numbers for all parents/carers of your child.

Head Lice

We have had a few cases of head lice reported in school. To enable us to try and control the situation please will you thoroughly check your child’s hair. If you do find and lice or eggs treat the situation straight away. You can treat the hair effectively with conditioner and a fine tooth comb or a lotion bought from the pharmacist. Tea Tree shampoo and conditioner are good at keeping lice away from hair once they’ve been treated and combed through.

Parking Outside the School

Please can you make sure that you are not parked on the yellow lines outside the school or across from the main gates AT ANY TIME as this is a Health and Safety issue.

Wrap up Warm

Can you make sure that ALL children have a coat, waterproof or warm jacket in school at all times. The weather is always unpredictable so as a precaution can you please make sure that all children have something to keep them warm and dry.

Dinner Money

Please pay dinner money on a Monday. All school monies are banked on Thursdays, so therefore if you pay later in the week you may not receive a receipt until the following week. If you wish to pay for the whole week it is £9.50, otherwise it is £1.90 a day.

You can pay at the start of a school term but you will need to come to the school office to find out the price for that term. Please place your payment in a clearly marked envelope with your child’s name and class.

If you are entitled to Free School Meals but choose not to have school meals, it is still beneficial to the school to inform them as it helps with the funding the school receives from the Birmingham City Council.

Graduation

Could we ask parents if any of the boys have spare strong topis that they can please bring into school so that we can make graduation hats for the Year 6 Graduation.  Thank you.

Attendance/Lates

If your child is absent, please telephone the school office before 9.45 am to inform us of the reason your child is absent.  Please do not inform teachers or teaching assistants of your child’s absence as they are so busy during the morning your message may not be passed on to the office.

If you do not ring the office, a call will be sent out from the office via Truancy Call.  Please leave a message when requested to do so.  If a message is not left, your child will receive an unauthorised absence mark. 

Please could parents try and bring their children into school on time.  Not only is it unsettling for the children, but they do miss the start of lessons.  

Appointments – please could parents try and make appointments for doctors, dentists etc. after school as this affects the whole school attendance and also your child’s attendance and therefore their learning.

Dates for your Diary

19^th June –   12 Year 3/4 and 10 year 5/6 to Trinity Road

25^th June –    Quantum Theatre Company performance for KS2

25^th June –    World Sports Day

27^th June –    Nursery Summer trip to Birmingham Nature Reserve

2^nd July –       Enterprise morning for Year 6 – Key Stage 2

3^rd July –       Year 4 to Dudley Zoo 

3^rd July   –     Enterprise morning –Year 6 for KS1 children

3^rd July –       KS1 Quantum Theatre – healthy eating production  

4^th July –       Reception induction

4^th July –       3A Trip to Hamstead Hall

5^th July –       3W Trip to Hamstead Hall

5^th July –       Key Stage 2 Musical Performance

5^th July –       Year 6 YPP to Birmingham City University

6^th July –       Spanish Day

Healthy Lunch Box

Below are some ideas for keeping your children healthy. All the meals have been given to us by the goodtoknow healthy kids’ website:

• Tuna and Sweetcorn wholemeal roll
• Reduced fat cheese triangle
• Satsuma segments in orange jelly
• Apple Juice

Average cost of this meal: £0.81

• Egg and Tomato Roll
• Two oatcakes and low-fat cheese
• Carrot sticks
• Dried apricots
• Apple juice

Average cost of this meal: £0.85

• Pasta and Vegetarian Sausage Salad with spring onions and red peppers
• Stewed apple and blackberry with crumble top
• Reduced-fat natural yogurt
• Bottle of water

 Average cost of this meal: £0.93

• Mexican chicken wrap
• Carrot sticks and baby corn
• Mixed fruit salad
• Malt loaf
• Yogurt drink

Average cost of meal: £1.23

Mr Din’s Homework

Please design a T-shirt for the schools Summerfair

And finally….

We are now an ECO Friendly School        

A HUGE thank you to all of the children who have helped make the school ECO friendly by recycling plastics and buying fair trade products.

Good news – we have achieved the Bronze award and are now an ECO SCHOOL. Well done everybody.

                                                  

Olympic Torch Mania

 For those that don’t know that the Olympics will be here in just under 7 weeks. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

Well, now it’s becoming more and more real, as the Olympic Torch has started parading around the United Kingdom.

The torch, which landed in Britain on Friday 18th May, has now made it from Lands’ End to Bristol since the relay began.

Influential sportsmen and women have teamed up with some lucky Torchbearers to take the torch to 8,000 miles, with 8,000 runners in just 70 days leading up to the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

So far a number of current and former British Athletes have helped transfer the torch from once city to another.

Three-times Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie is the first Torchbearer to carry the Olympic Flame in the UK, other Torchbearers include 2004 Olympic gold medallist Jason Gardner who carried the torch through Bath, Amy Williams, who was the first Brit to win an individual gold medal in 30 years in 2010 at the Winter Olympics carried the torch through Yeovil and Jonathan Edwards the former Olympic, European and World triple jump champion, who has held the world record in the event for 17 years carried the torch on day 3 through Illfracombe, which is near his childhood home.

It isn’t just former athletes who have been carrying the torch, there have been a number of sports stars and celebrities who have been invited to be Torchbearers. Somerset County Cricket Club captain and former England opening batsmen Marcus Treschothick carried the torch through Taunton, as well as Black Eyed Peas and The Voice star Will.I.Am, who ran the mile through Taunton tweeting all the way.

Why am I telling you this? Well because you can have your own chance to see this prestigious event as the torch will arrive in Birmingham on Saturday 30th June, before leaving a day later.

It will be taken all around the West Midlands on the 30th, as the torch arrives from Derby through Lichfield and Tamworth onto Walsall and Wolverhampton where eventually it will end up viewing the Edgbaston Cricket Ground before arriving to celebrations in Cannon Hill Park.

The Wanted, Loick Essien and Morning Parade are three of the acts that have been signed up to be at Cannon Hill Park on the day to hold a huge music festival that will be sponsored by Coca Cola.

Cllr Martin Mullaney, Cabinet Member for Birmingham City Council, Sport and Culture said: “This is another great opportunity for people in Birmingham and the West Midlands to get involved in the Olympic story which will be remembered for generations to come and leave a lasting legacy.”

The links below show you who the Torchbearers are for when the torch arrives in your local area, so please, get on the streets and celebrate with the rest of the country.

http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/torchbearers/day=2012-06-29/index.html

 http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/torchbearers/day=2012-06-30/index.html

Here is a map with the dates and times of where the Olympic Torch Relay will be, this is an event that you may never get to see again, so take advantage of it.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchrelay/day43

Movies for the School Holidays

With the final half term holidays before the run in to the summer, we look at what movies will be out at the cinema for when you have the Whitsun Holidays.

This year Whitsun Holidays split up the spring and summer term, and give the children the chance to have a week off before the final run in of the school year.

We are hoping that the weather will be nice and bright for everybody so that the children can enjoy that and do lots of outdoor activities that will keep them busy, at minimal cost. But this blog will be a contingency plan for being disappointed, for a change, by the un-predictable British ‘summer time’.

Below are a few movies that will be available to watch at the cinema over the coming weeks;

Beauty and the Beast in 3D. – The old classic is back 21 years after Disney first released it, and this time it is taking us even further, as you can view the film in 3D. Disney also released The Lion King earlier in the year, and with that being a huge hit, thy have now decided to release another classic movie.

‘Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town, constantly trying to fend off the misplaced “affections” of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle’s father, causes the two to meet.’ (IMDb Website)

Official Movie Trailer – http://youtu.be/EkyAHwRY3JM

Release Date: Friday 4^th May                                       Certificate: U

Men in Black III (Also in 3D) – This is the 3^rd film of the Men in Black series, starring Fresh Prince of Bel Air star Will Smith and Hollywood veteran Tommy Lee Jones. The two men are back to save planet Earth from an Alien takeover.

‘An alien criminal kills the young Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) in 1969, altering the timeline, changing the Agency and placing the Earth in danger. Veteran Agent J (Will Smith) must travel back in time to 1969 to before the murder and work with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save him, the Agency, the Earth and humanity itself.’ (IMDb Website)

Official Movie Trailer – http://www.mib3-movie.co.uk/

Release Date: Friday 25^th May                                    Certificate: PG

Top Cat (Also in 3D) – The movie that I am looking forward to the most. TC is bound to be up to no good, and with a new police officer to outwit it will be an incredibly funny movie.

‘Top Cat and the gang face a new police chief, who is not at all happy with officer Dibble’s performance in trying to prevent Top Cat’s scams. Strickland, the new police chief, will test Top Cat and his gang while proving to be the greatest foe Top Cat has ever encountered.’ (IMDb Website)

Here are the theme tune lyrics to Top Cat, so you can impress your friends by knowing the theme song:

Top Cat!
The most effectual Top Cat!
Who’s intellectual close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it’s with dignity.

Top Cat!
The indisputable leader of the gang.
He’s the boss, he’s a pip, he’s the championship.
He’s the most tip top,
Top Cat.

Yes he’s a chief, he’s a king,
But above everything,
He’s the most tip top,
Top Cat.

Top Cat!

Official Movie Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VQ9VBMJcBg

Release Date: Friday 1^st June                                                      Certificate: U

These are just some of the movies that will be out in the cinema when the half term holidays begin, and if the weather is bad, which in this country it probably will be, or even as a treat for your children after the SATs exams, or good behaviour in school and at home, these movies will guarantee laughter and amusement.

If you do choose to go and see these films over the holidays, then please find us on Twitter @CanterburyCross and let us know what you thought. You can also comment below and let other people see what you thought of the movies.

Muppets From Space: Film Club Review

This week in film club we enjoyed a true classic movie, Muppets from Space.

The film, is one of the later releases in the Muppets collection, and is as enjoyable as the rest of series. The movie was released in 1999 and was full of excitement and comedy values that the film buffs really enjoyed.

IMDB Movie plot;

“After Gonzo receives messages from his breakfast cereal, he determines that he is an alien and tries to contact his alien brethren, but is captured by an overzealous secret government agency determined to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. It’s up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help reunite him with his long-lost family”

Ms Holmes is on a role recently with her film choices as Muppets in Space was well received once more.

Zahirah really enjoyed the movie, stating ‘that it was really funny’, and now will ‘let friends know about it’.

Deen called the movie ‘very funny, and really enjoyed Miss Piggy’s role’ in the classic.

Shaumik said “When I watched the film I felt happy because it was not sad at all and it had a happy end to it and I like happy endings.”

This film was slightly different to other Muppets movies, as Kermit and Miss Piggy took more of a back seat, and let the two of the funnier characters, Gonzo and Rizzo the rat take the lead and it worked really well. Both characters are very funny anyway, so this film was made for people who love the Muppets, but also love comedy.

Some memorable quotes from the film;

• Rizzo: What? I cannot believe that little shrimp left us behind!
  Pepe: I am not a shrimp. I am a king prawn!
• Gonzo: Rizzo?
  Rizzo: No, it’s Santa, but I forgot my reindeer.
• Pepe: Hey, Kermit. When will you fix the oven, okay?
  Kermit: What’s wrong with the oven?
  [oven explodes]
  Pepe: That.
• Agent Barker: Black belt, third degree.
  Miss Piggy: Platinum belt, with an unlimited line of credit.
• Dr. Van Neuter: Hello, I’m Dr. Van Neuter. I’ll be your brain surgeon today, if you don’t mind. Ha! Get it? “Brain surgeon.” “Mind.” Hahaha!

These are just a handful of quotes that make this film really enjoyable, all of the fantastic quotes from this film can be seen at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158811/quotes

The rating was again a high one from the Film Club, as they gave it a big thumbs up and a brilliant 4 out of 5 on the ratings board.

Canterbury Cross Weekly Newsletter

Lunchtime Supervisor Vacancy

Required as soon as possible for 6.25 hours per week, term time only. This post is fixed term until 19^th July 2012 initially.

We wish to appoint a Lunchtime Supervisor to join our team of friendly experienced staff who are responsible for supervising the children during the lunchtime break. You will be responsible for supervising children in the dinner hall, playground and/or classroom.

Previous experience is not necessary but you will need to be reliable and dedicated, have an interest in working with children and be an excellent role model.

Closing Date: 25^th May

For an application pack and further details please contact the school office.

Jubilee Celebrations

We will be celebrating the Queens Jubilee all day with various activities on Friday 1^st June. We would like all children to wear red, white and blue on that day to celebrate the occasion.

We are taking dinner money for the Celebration meal until 23^rd May (£1.90)

Gas Works around School

We have been informed by the National Grid that there will be gas road works on Canterbury and Thornbury Roads from this week through to the middle of July. Where possible can you park away from the school as parking is going to be restricted around the school area.        

Dinner Money

Please pay dinner money on a Monday. All school monies are banked on Thursdays, so therefore if you pay later in the week you may not receive a receipt until the following week. If you wish to pay for the whole week it is £9.50, otherwise it is £1.90 a day.

You can pay at the start of a school term but you will need to come to the school office to find out the price for that term. Please place your payment in a clearly marked envelope with your child’s name and class.

If you are entitled to Free School Meals but choose not to have school meals, it is still beneficial to the school to inform them as it helps with the funding the school receives from the Birmingham City Council.

 

Home Dinners

If your child/children is/are going home for dinners, they must be accompanied by an adult on their return to school after lunch. 

Healthy Lunch Box

Below are some ideas for keeping your children healthy. All the meals have been given to us by the ‘goodtoknow healthy kids’ website:

• Tuna and sweetcorn wholemeal roll
• Reduced-fat cheese triangle
• Satsuma segments in orange jelly
• Apple juice

 Average cost of meal: £0.81

• Pasta and vegetarian sausage Salad with spring onions and red peppers
• Stewed apple and blackberry with crumble top
• Reduced-fat natural yogurt
• Bottle of water

 Average cost of this meal: £0.93

• Mexican chicken wrap
• Carrot sticks and baby corn
• Mixed fruit salad
• Malt loaf
• Yogurt drink

Average cost of meal: £1.23

Celebration Assembly

If your child is to receive an award, please come to the Celebration Assembly on Friday at 9.05am to celebrate with them.

9.05 – 9.30am – Key Stage 1 (R, Y1, Y2) Infant Hall

9.05 – 9.30am – Key Stage 2 (Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6) Junior Hall  

 

Star of the Week – Week ending 18^th May 2012

Key Stage 1

F2P   Ramisha Hussain,   Aamina

F2T  Subhan Rashid, Shamil Hussain

1F     Bilal Mohammed, Alsiha Ali, Fatimah Rashid

1SB   Habibah Yasir, Ayesha Malwankar, Saif Ali  

2H    Maryam Hussain, Humairah Abar

2T    Aaliyah Hoque, Yammah Safi

Canterbury Bear for Attendance was awarded to F2T

Key Stage 2  

3A     Sara Hussain, Mohammad Maaz

3W    Mohammed Bilal, Safwaan Mahate

4B     Halima Begum, Khadija Hossain

4N    Zahra Fatima, Mahfuz Ahmed

5L    Whole Class

5K    Salwa Mryyian, Mosope Osiyale-Osifalujo

6C    Saniya Khan, Leya Hussain

6J    Zainab Akhtar, Umar Rafi

Canterbury Bear was awarded to – 6J

 

Dates for your Diary

22^nd May –  Meeting for year 6 parents RE: Woodlands

23^rd May –    Stay and Play Trip to Dudley Zoo

24th May –   Year 2 to Pizza Express

25^th May –    Year 1 Class Assembly  

28^th May –    30 Year 6 pupils to Birmingham City University

29^th May –    Year 2 to Pizza Express

29^th May –    School Nurse visiting year 5

30^th May –    School photograph day – class photos

31^st May –     Year 6 to the Peak District

1^st June –      Year 6 school council to YPP in London

1^st June –      Jubilee Celebrations, classic British food menu

1^st June –      School closes for half term

11^th June –    SCHOOL RE-OPENS

 Attendance/Lates

If your child is absent, please telephone the school office before 9.45 am to inform us of the reason your child is absent.  Please do not inform teachers or teaching assistants of your child’s absence as they are so busy during the morning your message may not be passed on to the office.

If you do not ring the office, a call will be sent out from the office via Truancy Call.  Please leave a message when requested to do so.  If a message is not left, your child will receive an unauthorised absence mark. 

Please could parents try and bring their children into school on time.  Not only is it unsettling for the children, but they do miss the start of lessons.  

Appointments – please could parents try and make appointments for doctors, dentists etc. after school as this affects the whole school attendance and also your child’s attendance and therefore their learning.

 Mr Din’s Homework

Please design some decorations for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations.

 And finally….

We are now an ECO Friendly School  

A HUGE thank you to all of the children who have helped make the school ECO friendly by recycling plastics and buying fair trade products.

Good news – we have achieved the Bronze award and are now an ECO SCHOOL. Well done everybody.

Cars 2: Movie Review

This week the Film Club got together and enjoyed the Disney Pixar Animation Cars 2. The film, is the sequel to ‘Cars’ which was a hit in 2006.

Unfortunately, due to lots of school work, and SATs revision the film buffs were unable to review this piece, but I will do my best to sum it up for you.

The film boasts some huge Hollywood stars, including Eddie Izzard, Michael Caine and Owen Wilson, to name only three.

IMDB gave the film 6.4 out of 10, but the children of film club really enjoyed the tale of the race car drivers. From the reaction of the students, I would say that they enjoyed this film as much as they enjoyed previous movies, Lemony Snickett and the old classic, The Jungle Book.

The film itself is a real rollercoaster of a movie, with one of the lead characters, Mater going on an adventure of his own, leaving the world of the Grand Prix racing behind for this trip.

IMDB plot;

“After Mater gets his best friend, star race car Lightning McQueen, a spot in the very first World Grand Prix, he is given the job of pit crew chief. But while they are in Japan, Mater crosses paths with Holly Shiftwell, a spy searching for an American spy. Unknown to Mater, the American spy attached a tracking device on him while being attacked. Thinking the tow truck is the spy, Holly and another spy, Finn McMissile, take Mater around the world to find and stop an evil plot created by “lemons,” old cars considered ugly.”

The children seemed to really enjoy the movie, getting restless at times, because the story line isn’t the best, but all in all they seemed to enjoy the characters, with the story of the spy, and the good and bad car routine it really was a fun movie to watch.

Link to Cars 2 trailer, via YouTube

RATING

All in the film was received well, but not as successful as recent movies in film club. An overall rating of 4 out of 5 is the generous rating from the Canterbury Cross Film Club.

Canterbury Keeping Active in Great School Run

Today, Tuesday 8th May is the TESCO School run at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium.

The event will include a helicopter landing in Perry Park, bringing Britain’s athletics legend Colin Jackson, and Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton. The stars’ visit to Birmingham will be the third of four helicopter stops across the country as the Olympics grows nearer. Joining Helen and Colin on-board the helicopter will be CBBC Newsround.

Helen Skelton and Colin Jackson will lead a mass warm up and the start the TESCO School run, cheering on all of the schoolchildren as they complete the one mile Great School Run, in and around the Alexander Stadium. After this, there will be a cool down session with the celebrities.

The TESCO Great School Run is a national fitness campaign designed to help get schools active, with the challenge of a nationwide series of exciting mass participation fun run events. The campaign links education with physical activity. It was created to help teachers deliver elements of primary school curriculum in a fun and engaging way to children.

The event has three aims;

1. READY – the theme is motivation: how to get children enthused and kept on track
2. STEADY – the theme is nutrition: eating for energy and well-being
3. GO – the theme is active leisure: activity for health and fitness

The event will be filmed, and the footage will air on the main 5 o’clock news programme this week.

Keep up to date with all the happenings at Canterbury Cross Primary School on twitter @CanterburyCross.

Long Weekend

Just a reminder to all parent that there is no school on Thursday 3rd May, Friday 4th May or Monday 7th May.

This does mean that you have an extra-long weekend to enjoy, so let’s hope that the weather improves so you can fully enjoy it. We are off on Thursday due to the local elections being held, and Canterbury Cross Primary School is used as a polling station, so although your child isn’t in school, the school is still open for voting. Local elections take place every year and they determine which parliamentary party run your area, so it is a great opportunity for you to come in and vote on who you would like to see dealing with all the problems in your area.

If you do not live local, it will say on your voting card where your polling station is, so go along, because your vote matters.

It is then teachers training day on Friday, where teachers will have the day to make sure that your children are being taught to their best standards, and it also gives the teachers the opportunity to assess their own teaching skills with the other members of staff. It is also a chance to view the pupils’ progress and make sure that everybody is ready for the busy part of the year. It is used mainly for in house training, so working with colleagues to progress teaching methods.

Monday’s day off is for a public bank holiday. It is the first Monday of May, also known as May Day. May Day has been a traditional day of festivities throughout the centuries. May Day is most associated with towns and villages celebrating springtime fertility and revelry with village fetes and community gatherings, and was traditionally the only one to affect the state school calendar.

There are always things to do on May Day, with parties and festivals been held all over the place, so if you are going to celebrate these prestigious festivities enjoy them thoroughly and we will see you all back in school next Tuesday, which is the 8th May.