Newsletter

Happy New Year! I hope all

families had a lovely, relaxing

Christmas holiday. The children have

had a great start to the new term

and are working hard, full of the

enthusiasm and energy a new year

brings.

Many thanks to families for your

continued support to improve

attendance which in turn should

improve even further the progress

the children make in school. I have

recent l y handed ou t 100%

certificates to children who attended

every session in the Autumn Term. I

am pleased to say that 245 children

achieved the Autumn term bronze

award which is by far the highest

number we have had for this point in

the school year. A further 268

children received gold attendance

stickers because their attendance

was 97% or above. This is excellent

CRANFORD

PARK

ACADEMY

In this issue:

Happy New Year

Year 3 Brazilian Fiesta

Success at the Winter

Fair

Staff Spotlight

E Safety

Tips on Handwriting

and General

Presentation

January 2018 Issue 60

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photographs to show you the

expectations we are working

towards.

Thank you once again for your

support.

news and well worth celebrating.

The children have also returned

looking particularly smart in their

school uniforms and again I would

like to thank families for their

support with the slightly tighter

expectations around smartness.

I would like to repeat the

message that went out in the

letter before the holiday that I am

not expecting families to go and

buy anything new. It’s simply that

when replacing school trousers at

any point to buy grey ones, when

replacing sweatshirts and

cardigans to buy navy blue and

when replacing footwear to buy

black shoes not trainers.

Many of the children are looking

very proud in their uniforms and I

have taken a couple of

delighted that they

beat their parents

and knew more

information about

t h e c o u n t r y .

( A l t h o u g h

most parents knew

a lot from helping

their children with

their Brazil Projects!)

Throughout the

a f t e r n o on , t h e

c h i l d r e n w o r e

vibrant masks they

had created when learning about

Carnival, and taught their grown

ups some Brazilian

salsa moves!

Thank you to all of

the adults who

attended. It was an

afternoon enjoyed by

all!

Miss McNeill Year

3 Team Leader

On Monday

the 11th of

D e c e m b e r

the Year 3

children and

parents were

transported

from freezing,

snowy Hayes

to warm,

exotic Brazil!

After learning

much about

the country

of Brazil, the children decided to

invite their families into school to

have a Brazilian fiesta.

They created

d e l i c i o u s

empanadas, a

traditional dish

from Brazil, which their

adults enjoyed.

There was also

a quiz about

Braz i l . The

children were

Year 3 Brazilian Fiesta!

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Cranford Park Academy Year News

Success at the Winter Fair

The Winter Fair

was a huge

success! Mr

Matthews and

the Year 6

Enterprise Team

organ ised a

fantastic fair on

Monday 18 th

December.

There were

games, raffles,

r e f r e shmen t s

and music. We

would like to say thank you to everyone who

showed support for the CPA Winter Fair.

The stalls were busy and all of the children seemed

to enjoy the activities available to them.

As a result of the fantastic support we have been

able to raise £1500 which is being used to purchase

new history topic books for each year group.

Without the incredible support shown by the CPA

community this event wouldn't have been the

success it was.

Miss Chester

Vice Principal of Years 5 and 6

Meet the SMSA’s

Our dinner ladies do a

fantastic job of looking

after the children in the

playground and canteen

at lunchtimes, they are a

friendly group of ladies who enjoy making sure the

children have an enjoyable but safe lunchtime.

Here are some of the things our SMSA’s enjoy

about their job:

Talking with the children outside of the

classroom

Building relationships with the children

Joining in with the children’s games

Key Stage 1

Key Stage 2 SMSA’s

Ebado Ahmed Pam Samra

Linda Ellard Gurmit Sidhu

Surjit Gill Hafsa Ahmed

Pratixa Gohil Harbinder Bhupal

Wiji Ravivarman Jas Sagoo

Brenda Mclean Miki Carli

Hamda Ahmed Gail Dunford

Rahma Elmi Simarjeet Gill

Pam Jatana Fatma Kana

Sue Bevan Paula Proenca Matos

Sahra Curry Shaida Rahman

Jenny Diaz Michelle O’Connor

Sara Coles

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Cranford Park Academy E Safety

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Cranford Park Academy News

E-safety Cont’d

Tips on Handwriting and General Presentation.

Although I‘m sure we do not need to convince any of you about the

importance of neat presentation and handwriting, I believe it is worth

emphasising it again at the start of a new year! These are really

important and valuable skills which will be used all through life – not just

at school. After all, the purpose of writing is to create something for

someone to read – if it can’t be easily read, then

what is the point?

What may be less well-known is that evidence clearly shows that a child’s self-

esteem is raised when they are encouraged to take pride in their handwriting and

overall presentation and we can see that for ourselves when we have the

opportunity to praise a child for their work.

Therefore, we are continuing to put a really strong focus on developing and

improving these skills throughout the school and would welcome your support at

home in encouraging your children to spend some extra time on improving their

written work.

Our top 5 tips to encourage more handwriting at home are:

Make handwriting fun and meaningful, so-

Create opportunities e.g. shopping lists/labels/signs around the house.

Display great examples –on fridges/in scrapbooks/ on notice boards.

Ensure your child is sitting properly when writing e.g. table not floor.

Give lots of praise and encouragement when they create a lovely example, but –

don’t accept poor examples!

Hopefully, together, we can ensure that the saying – ‘practice makes perfect’ can come true when it

comes to better handwriting and presentation!

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Dates for Your Diary

Thank You for your

Generosity

Thank you for all the Christmas

cards and gifts so kindly given to

myself and the staff at the end of

term.

It was particularly touching to

receive so many cards from the

children themselves.

Charity Fundraising

So far this school year we have

raised an amazing amount of

money, £4837.89, for charity,.

This is a fantastic amount and

wouldn’t have been possible

without the support of our

wonderful families.

News and Notices

Class Photos 23rd January

Reception Windsor Castle 1st February

Year 6 Open Evening 6th February

Friday 9th February Term Ends

Monday 12 February—Half Term

Monday 19th February—Term Begins

Thursday 29th March—Term Ends at 2.30pm

Monday 16th April—Term Begins

Monday 7th May—May Day Bank Holiday

Thursday 24th May Term Ends

Friday 25th May Training Day

Monday 4th June Term Begins

Friday 20th July - Term Ends at 2.30pm

The totaliser below shows how

this money has been raised so

far:

Finally I would like to say a

special thank you to parent

governor, Ravinder Chander,

who organised some office

Phelps Way

Harlington

Middlesex

UB3 4LQ

Phone: 020 8573 3453/0638

Fax: 020 8813 6189

E-mail: cpaoffice@

theparkfederation.org

CRANFORD

PARK

ACADEMY

We’re on the web

www.cranfordpark.academy

Thank you for

your continued

support.

Sarah Evans

Principal

Cranford Park

Academy

Congratulations to the following chil-

dren who received awards recently:

Aisha Alblezi - 6RH

Amiya Bhullar - 6CM

Neal Dhap - 6PP

Tanvir Hansra - 6RH

Mohammad Iqbal - 6RH

Ishraj Kabli - 6LD

Bintou Keita - 6RH

Owen Long - 6CM

Head Teachers Awards

Shaipiravin Sivaranjan - 6PP

Piya Walia - 6PP

Mohamed Al-Atteaby - 6CM

Jaisdeep Singh - 6LD

Farah Yusuf - 2ZA

Arham Saulat -2ZA

furniture donations to the school

through her work.

A huge thank you also ex parent

Raj Kalsi who very kindly helped

to transport the furniture to

CPA.

As a result we have gained

additional whiteboards for the

classrooms and filing cabinets for

the offices amongst other items.

Many thanks!

Little Acorns and Breakfast

Club

There are a number of parents

who are owing monies for one or

both of these services the school

provides.

Can I remind you to register on

Paren tPay and pay any

outstanding debt. Please go to

the school office if you require

help with setting up or accessing

your account.