NEWSLETTER Issue 20

Newsletter Date:

29th June 2018

www.redbridgeprimary.redbridge.sch.uk

Well done to all of our

brave year 3 and 4 chil-

dren (and parents!) for

a successful sleepover

last Friday evening. We

were blessed with

wonderful weather and

the children had an

amazing evening. One

of the boys said his fa-

vourite activity was

making a sandwich as ‘my mum always does it

for me.’ Thank you to Mrs Raj for all of her hard

work in organising the event, and to the staff

who volunteered in the evening and throughout

the night to make sure the children had lots of

fun and stayed safe. It

was most definitely our

most successful sleepover

yet!

Our PTA

welcome

you all

tomorrow from 12—4pm for our Summer

Fayre. Please enter through the KS1 gate.

**Please note that some of the event dates have

changed since our last newsletter**

**30 June PTA Summer Fayre**

4 July 9:30 - 12 pm KS2 Sports Day (weather dependent)

5 July 10:15 Y5-6 Recorder performance for parents

Ilford County High Transition Day

6 July KS1 Graduation:

- 10 a.m. Skylarks & Nightingales Parents

- 2pm: Swallows and Pipits Parents

PTA Disco

Y6 Beal Transition Day

Tag Rugby Competition

9 July 12:30 Y3-4 recorder performance for parents

Yr2 Leigh on Sea visit Nightingales and Skylarks

10 July End of Year Reports published

Y6 afternoon performance 1:45pm

Woodpeckers British Library Visit

End of year reports sent home

11 July 9:30 - 12 pm KS1 Sports Day (weather dependent)

12:30 KS2 Choir Performance KS2 Hall

12 July 3:45 - 5pm Parent Open Evening

Jackdaws British Library

13 Jul 9:00 Rights Respect Coffee Morning KS1 Hall

Nursery Summer Picnic

Yr2 Leigh on Sea visit Pipits and Swallows

Magpies British Library Visit

16 July Inflatables Day /PTA Picnic in the field after school

17 July Y6 Evening Performance 7pm

18 Jul Y6 Leavers Assembly

19 Jul Last Day of School for the children

We had our first safe-

guarding visit from our

new Safeguarding link

governor last week. It

was a very successful

visit with positive feed-

back on our safeguard-

ing procedures.

“The school was a joy to

visit, with plenty of evi-

dence of being a sup-

portive, caring and joy-

ous learning environ-

ment.”

All parents are welcome to attend a coffee morning on Friday, 13th July in the KS1 Hall. It will be hosted by our Rights Respect champions who will be sharing a little about what they do to promote children’s rights.

During our celebration of

Heritage Week, the pupils in

Year 5 had the opportunity to

participate in a workshop

learning about the Roma cul-

ture. Thank you to our visitors Sue, Mihai and Andrea from

the Roma Support Group charity, for sharing information

about a different and interesting culture. Year 4 spent some

time discussing World Refugee Day and writing poems to

empathise with the plight of refugees. Ibrahim in Doves class

was given a Headteacher Award by Mr Henry for his wonder-

ful acrostic poem, which you can read on our school blog.

53 children from

Year 6 have had a

very busy week. Yesterday

they visited the Passchen-

daele War Memorial Museum and experienced the Last Post

at the Menin Gate. It was a day of reflection and appreciation

of the people who fought in the war. Thank you as always to

Mrs Raj for organising the event and to Mr Cordes, Miss Fran-

cis, Miss Bull, Miss Mistry, Miss Cornwall and Miss Porter for

travelling. We really appreciate the positive comments which

many of the Year 6 parents have made regarding communica-

tion, updates by email and on the school notice board. We

even managed to post some photos on our France blog de-

spite the lack of internet, which I’m sure are appreciated by

all! We look forward to seeing them this evening.

We say farewell to Mr

Rahman this week, who

has been teaching

across the school this

academic year. We

thank him for his dedi-

cation and commitment

over the past 5 years

and wish him the very

best as he completes his

postgraduate studies.

Two teams went to Redbridge Sports Centre to

play in a High 5 (five a side) netball competition.

For some of our girls this was their first ever net-

ball match. Our A team finished 4th out of eleven teams which

was a brilliant achievement. Our newly formed team finished

in 8th place. For a newly formed team they showed great po-

tential for the future. Netball training will continue every

Monday until the end of term. Information about training

next year will be sent out in July. Well done everyone. Miss

Cornwall and Miss Cooper are very proud of you all.

Two teams of ten students from year 5 were

taken to Mayfield High School to compete in a

golf competition where they showed off their skills in a varie-

ty of golf based activities. Our B team finished in 1st place and

will go on to represent the London Borough of Redbridge in

the School Games Finals at Crystal Palace in July. This is a fan-

tastic result for the team and our school. We are extremely

proud of the children and look forward to seeing them com-

pete at Crystal Palace.

Redbridge Primary entered two crick-

et competitions recently, one for girls

and one for boys. The girls travelled

to St Aubyns School in Woodford

where they played against other

schools in the borough. They were

really nervous to start with but their

confidence grew throughout the day

and they finished in bronze medal po-

sition. The next day it was the boys

turn. Their competition was at Hai-

nault Recreation Ground, again play-

ing other schools. The competition

was tough and the boys played really

well as a team. Ayman made a fantas-

tic captain and his organisa-

tion skills shone through. Fin-

ishing fourth in their group

was a great achievement.

A team of five boys and five girls were

taken to the Olympic Park Hockey Cen-

tre to take part in a Quicksticks Hockey

Tournament. This is the first time we

have competed in a hockey competi-

tion. The team got to watch the Eng-

land Women's Hockey Team who were

gold medallists in the 2016 Olympics

and Spain in a training session. They

also had the amazing opportunity to

meet the England players where they

got to ask questions, play against and

get autographs. The team did amazing-

ly well in the competition. With their

true sportsmanship, teamwork, deter-

mination and resilience they only lost

one match out of the five matches

they played. Well played everyone.

Congratulation to all of the children who completed the Sum-

mer Meet Fun Run at Fairlop Waters. The athletes had to

complete a one mile run around Fairlop Lake. An outstanding

performance by Nikita in year 6 for finishing in 1st

place, an improvement on her 2nd place finish for

the Spring Meet. All of the children crossed the fin-

ish line. We look forward to taking more children to

the next Fun Run.