We are proud to be taking on the mental health and well-being award for schools. The award is helping us provide information, support and awareness across our whole school community. Our vision is to ensure good emotional well-being and mental health are at the heart of the culture and ethos of Northmead, so that pupils, with the support of their teachers, can build confidence and flourish.
We are having a Astra Recycling textile bank installed on the school premises. It will be located at the bottom of the driveway next to the building by the food hall.
We have had a lovely sunny start to the summer term and children and staff have returned refreshed from the Easter break. We have a busy term ahead filled with exciting activities, visits and residential trips, so there is a lot to look forward to.
We would love you to support our book fair if you are able. The commission from sales at the fair allows us to purchase new books for the library and class reading lessons, so every book you buy helps us.
SUMMER EVENT – COLOUR RUN! - Saturday18th June 11am-3pm
Northmead School field (entrance off Deeprose Close)
£14 per ticket
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Learning Partners Parent Newsletter
We are delighted to welcome you to the first of our Parent Newsletters in which our main aim is to celebrate the fantastic environments that our schools within the trust have successfully created and to keep you updated with what we are endeavouring to achieve for your children. We know that your children's education and well-being is your biggest concern and I can guarantee that it is ours too!
I was privileged to attend the Guildford school music festival yesterday evening at G-live. A group of our children sang with a combined choir from eight primary schools across Guildford and a small group of children played in the joint orchestra. It was a wonderful performance and fantastic for our school to be able to take part in a collaborative event once more. I was very proud of our children who sang, read and played their instruments to a very high standard. They were patient during the lengthy rehearsals and their behaviour was excellent at all times.
Special thanks to Miss Ramsay for working with them to support and prepare them for this performance.
Accelerated reader; As a school- since the beginning of the year – we have read 66,588,171 words!
So far this year we have celebrated 16 children becoming Millionaire Readers. To become a word millionaire, pupils have to read one million words and pass the relevant accelerated reader quizzes.
We now have four children who are multi-millionaires. Which means they have read over two million words since the start of the academic year.
We are so impressed with the children’s home reading efforts. Thank you for your support with this.
We have enjoyed an exciting time in school over the past two weeks when we have celebrated the breadth of the curriculum at Northmead. Our subject leaders have organised exciting learning opportunities for the children. We have put pictures of these events on our Facebook page to keep you all updated and have included a snapshot of the events on this newsletter.
This week is World Book week, and we are taking the opportunity to turn the spotlight once more on reading. We are always looking for ways to support children to become engaged with reading and become lifelong readers. It was a pleasure visiting classrooms on Monday morning and sharing the children's delight in their stories to start book week. Year 3 – “The Misadventures of Frederick” by Ben Manley, Year 4 – “Bog Baby” by Jeanne Millward, Year 5 – “The True Story of the three little pigs” by Jon Scieszka and Year 6 – “Dinosaurs and all that rubbish” by Michael Foreman.
As you will be aware the government announced their plans for Living with COVID-19 this week. The DFE have outlined the changes for schools, and we wanted to communicate these to you. The changes will be effective from today, Thursday 24th February 2022.
Obviously, the changes are significant adjustments to the way that we have been operating in school, but please be advised that we are following government guidance and the local schools in our trust are also updating information for parents and carers. We are sure that many of you will welcome these changes, and we hope that it will feel closer to normality for children and adults in our community.
On Tuesday 22nd February SportsCool (providers for sport and education in primary schools) will deliver a taster day that will feature PE curriculum coaching, including handball and other classic sports.