Brampton Bulletin

B r a m p t o n P r i m a r y S c h o o l S t r i v i n g t o R e a c h t h e B e s t Week ending: 21.10.11 Autumn Term: Issue 7

Inside this weeks issue: FOB Fund Raising Forthcoming Dates Road Safety Week 2 Menu Bonfire Night Governor News Building News Gold Book Entries Weekly Attendance And finally Paths

FO B F UND RAISING
Last Tuesday FOB held a successful book sale in the hall to raise extra funds to help the school replace infant book stock. Staff, children and parents enjoyed browsing through the donations of books brought in from home. For some choosing the right book was a very serious task. Over 130 was raised and this term they will be aiming to raise even more money from a childrens disco and a new event - a Christmas Shopping Evening. Many thanks to everyone who supported the book sale with donations and purchases and also to the parents who organised the event and gave up time to man the stalls.

Forthcoming Dates: Friday 21st Oct School ClosureStaff Training Day Monday 24thFriday 28th October Half term Monday 31st October School Photos - Individual Tuesday 1st November Year 6 Europa Town visit Italian Club starts Friday 4th November 2nd Family SEAL group Tuesday 8th November Governors Meeting Tuesday 15th November 12.30 FOB AGM Thursday 24th November Year 5 to Science Museum

FOB Christmas Shopping Evening There are still a few stalls available for Wednesday 16th November at 6.30-9.30pm so if you sell unique Christmas gifts at reasonable prices please contact [email protected] or on 07952 183657. Stalls cost just 15.00 for a table roughly 6ft by 2ft. Thank youFOB.
Brampton Primary is a restorative school where the initial response to conflict is to find a solution where things are put right, the victims needs are met whilst also meeting the needs of the wrong doer and meet all the schools responsibilities.

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In response to a request from our Community Police Officers we would like to remind children and parents to use The Green Cross Code at all times
Children need to learn how to cross the road safely. In 2009, around 18 child pedestrians (aged 011) were killed or seriously injured every week in Britain. The Green Cross Code is taught in schools but needs to be reinforced from home - and not just by memorising the words, but by parents practicing and explaining the code to their children. Do you know it? Do you follow it? The code is for everyone. 1. First find the safest place to cross If possible, cross the road at: subways, footbridges, islands, zebra, puffin, pelican or toucan crossings, or where there is a crossing point controlled by a police officer, a school crossing patrol or a traffic warden. Otherwise, choose a place where you can see clearly in all directions, and where drivers can see you. Try to avoid crossing between parked cars and on sharp bends or close to the top of a hill. Move to a space where drivers and riders can see you clearly. There should be space to reach the pavement on the other side. 2. Stop just before you get to the kerb Do not get too close to the traffic. If there is no pavement, keep back from the edge of the road but make sure you can still see approaching traffic. Give yourself lots of time to have a good look all around. 3. Look all around for traffic and listen Look all around for traffic and listen. Look in every direction. Listen carefully because you can sometimes hear traffic before you can see it. 4. If traffic is coming, let it pass Look all around again and listen. Do not cross until there is a safe gap in the traffic and you are certain that there is plenty of time. Remember, even if traffic is a long way off, it may be approaching very quickly. 5. When it is safe, go straight across the road do not run Keep looking and listening for traffic while you cross, in case there is any traffic you did not see, or in case other traffic appears suddenly. Look out for cyclists and motorcyclists traveling between lanes of traffic. Do not cross diagonally. How you can help your child and other children Set a good example. Use the Green Cross Code yourself. Show your child how to use the Code to cross the road when youre out and about. Let your child show you that they know how to cross the road safely start practising on quiet roads first. Point out dangerous places to cross on local roads. Point out safer places as well. Some places may be safer at some times of the day than at others. Use pedestrian crossings even if it involves a small detour. Talk about the importance of not using a mobile phone or texting while crossing the road. Remind your child that they cannot hear traffic if listening to music through earphones or see it properly if wearing a large hood. But lets get one thing clear: its still important for children to be outside. Walking is good for children's health and fitness and we support parents who encourage their children to walk as much as possible. Taking your child in the car for short journeys puts more traffic on the road and adds to the problem.

Children can be safer on the streets if we show them how. Best wishes for a safe Half Term Holiday

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SCHOOL M EALS W E E K B E G I N N I N G - 3 1 O C TO B E R 2 0 1 1
Monday Meat
Cheddar & Tomato or spicy Chicken Pizza served with Pasta

Tuesday
Beef Lasagne

Wednesday
Roast Beef with Roast Potatoes & Parsnips

Thursday Friday Bonfire Lunch

Bangers and Mash Jerk Chicken with Chipped Potatoes

Fish or alternative Vegetarian Desserts

Vegetable Chilli Tuna or Cheese Cauliflower & served with Crusty Wraps with Sweet Broccoli Bake with Bread Corn Salsa & Rice Roast Potatoes BBQ Cheese Wraps with Rice Steamed Lemon Sponge with Custard Jelly with Fruit Wedges Chocolate Sponge with Chocolate Sauce Pumpkin Pudding with Custard

Jacket Potato with Cheese, Beans or Tuna

Warm Apple & Cinnamon Cake with Ice Cream

A choice of salads, seasonal vegetables, fresh bread, fresh fruit platter, fruit yoghurt, milk and drinking water are also available daily. Peanut Allergies Please can we remind everyone that we are a Peanut Free school in our cooked meals and we ask parents not to put any nuts or items containing nuts in their childs packed lunches. Thank you Bonfire Night On Thursday 3rd November we are offering a special Bonfire Lunch to any child who would like one. Permission slip and payment needs to be in by Monday 31st October. Following lunch we will be having a whole school assembly with the Police Community Support officers to talk about Bonfire night safety. Building News We are pleased to see to report that the building work is proceeding in line with the timetable. The roof truss work has commenced and we now have planning consent from the local authority for the pond area and work has started on the wildlife pond area. Following concerns raised by one or two of our neighbours all the external safety lights will be changed to down-lights to minimise external light pollution. Governor News Last week the Teaching and Learning Committee met. They reviewed last years results in Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and 2, along with provision for SEN and Gifted and Talented pupils. Attendance and the new curriculum was discussed and well as the new School Development Plan. Anti-Bullying, Music and Creative Curriculum policies were approved.

BRAMPTON GOLD BOOK Striving to Reach the Best Every week we print the names of those children who have achieved in either their work, conduct or behaviour around school and have been entered in the Gold Book. They have been mentioned in Mondays celebratory assembly. After 3 mentions children receive a bronze certificate, 6 mentions for a silver, 9 mentions for a gold, 12 mentions for a Super Gold and 15 mentions for a Platinum certificate, 18 for Diamond, 21+ for a Head teachers Award and 24 for a Special Head teacher Award and Badge.
1B Ruby Arthurs 1B Maddy Baxter 1B Cameron Greene 5C Rebecca Nicklin 5C Mollie Beale 5C Sydney Tracey 5C Angie Nandra 5C Faye Johnson 5C Jale Zekioglu x2 (Platinum) 5C Victoria Obinya x 2 5C Amber Thind 5CDylan Varney (Gold) 5CTeddy Langston 5C Ryan Freestone 5CCan Tuzun (Super Gold) 6MHolly Tanner 6M Caitlin Morris 6M Leyla Ucar 6M Anna Tolfrey 6M Abitha Calistus Unfortunately there is not enough space to mention the childrens achievements here but if you are interested to see your childs mention please pop in and ask to see it. Apologies to Grace Stuchbery whos name was mis-spelt recently and it should have also mentioned that Grace had achieved a Bronze certificate. Well done to Grace Clow who was also mentioned recently as she had achieved her Silver Certificate.

Weekly Attendance

Week ending 15.10.11 RB: RJ: 1B: 1W: 2PW: 2B: 3W: 3WH: 4C: 4H: 5B: 5C: 6S: 6M: 93.3 96.3% 99% 96.7% 96.9% 99.3% 98% 98.3% 98.7% 96.3% 97.7% 93.7% 96.7% 98.1%

HOUSE POINTS Week ending 14.10.10

1st Green= 232 2nd Blue= 218 3rdYellow = 207 4th Red = 177

Well done to 2B and the other classes above 96.1%

Our School Total was 97.1%! Raffle Prize Winners The winners in this weeks draw for a treat with Miss Fisher were Lucy Courtney in 1W and Bani Dhoofer in 4H. Well done to them for showing the appropriate behaviour.

Congratulations to Green House members!

And finally.......Entering and Leaving School Please may we remind all parents and children to use the appropriate In and Out gates when entering and exiting school-some children recently bumped into a parent injuring them and then received verbal abuse from the parent when he tried to remind them to use the correct path. Remember if you like what were doing tell us and others! If you dont, please help us improve! School Office; 020 8303 2873 Fax; 020 8298 0286 Email:[email protected]

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