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Belmont School 3rd May 2022 Newsletter

Global Goal 4 – Quality Education - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Dear Parents and Carers,

I do hope that you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend! For some of our community, you would have been taking part in Eid Celebrations and we wanted to wish you all a Happy Eid, Eid Mubarak from all at Belmont School. 

Next week, the year 6 children will ba taking part in the SATs tests. Thank you to the parents who were able to attend the meeting last week, you all should have received the presentation and a letter to invite all children to attend the special breakfast club for YEAR 6 Pupils only. All pupils are expected to be in school for 8am and will have the opportunity to eat with their friends and have time to settle down for the tests. Please make sure you check you Pings for further information. 

For parent who require wraparound care, please contact Mr Floyd Bennett by phone or email — 07947 682787 or info@activitycentresofexcellence.co.uk. Breakfast club will be up and running  at a new start time of 7.45am and after-school club till 6pm.

BOOKS

As part of our school being committed to the Global Goals and our strong commitment to being a sustainable school, we have recently sorted lots of reading and text books in school that we no longer need. We will be selling the books to stop them going into refuse centres and The books will be on sale in the playground over the next few weeks and any small donation will be accepted, these will go towards refreshing texts for the library. Will ping you in advance to let you know which days will be selling.  

Updated NHS COVID-19 information and symptoms lists Reminder. 

Another reminder to all that the NHS COVID-19 symptoms in adults and symptoms in children have been updated. Please do click the underline text to take you directly 

Adults and children who have symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19, should follow the UKHSA guidance. Children and young people who are unwell and have a high temperature should stay at home and avoid contact with other people, where they can. They can come back to school and resume normal activities when they no longer have a high temperature, and they are well enough to attend. If your child is ill, please notify the school office on 0208 427 0903.

If you have an questions or queries, do not hesitate to speak to any member of the team.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs P Aggarwall

Headteacher 

Eid Mubarak 2022 – daneelyunus

Activity Centre for Excellence (ACE) Breakfast Club and After school Club

Activity Centres of Excellence provide our wraparound provision for pupils in Reception to Year 6.

Breakfast club will open at 7.45am till school opens.

After school club run from the end of the school day to 6pm.

If you would like to make regular bookings, please contact Mr Floyd Bennett by phone or email — 07947 682787 or info@activitycentresofexcellence.co.uk. 

Be Active - May Half Term Holiday Camp News

We are delighted to announce that Be Active will be running another Dodgeball and Multi-Sport club at Belmont School during the May half-term! We will be running 3 days of fun filled activity in a range of sports, please see the dates below: 

Week 1- Monday 30th May - Wednesday 1st June 2022

REMINDER-OUR EARLY BIRD PRICE EXPIRES ON FRIDAY 20TH MAY! We only have limited availability, so places are based on FIRST come, FIRST served. Parents can book online via our website http://www.beactivesportsandclubs.co.uk/book-online or if you wish to pay via bank transfer then please call/text the Be Active booking line on 07715847132 where a member of staff will provide the relevant information to make payment via bank transfer.

If you do have any questions or require any further information then please do not hesitate to contact our booking line 07715847132 or email beactiveclubs@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing your child/children at our Be Active May holiday camp!'

Best wishes,

James O'Donovan

Be Active Sports & Clubs

Director

Attendance

School attendance is mandatory for all pupils.

If your child is ill, please notify the school office on 0208 427 0903.

Updated NHS COVID-19 information and symptoms lists

The NHS COVID-19 symptoms in adults and symptoms in children have been updated.

Adults and children who have symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19, should follow the UKHSA guidance. Children and young people who are unwell and have a high temperature should stay at home and avoid contact with other people, where they can. They can come back to school and resume normal activities when they no longer have a high temperature, and they are well enough to attend.

Punctuality

All pupils must in school and collected at their designated time:

 

Start Time:

Finish Time

Year 6

8.30am

3.00pm

Year 5

8.30am

3.05pm

Year 4

8.35am

3.05pm

Year 3

8.35am

3.05pm

Year 2

8.40am

3.15pm

Year 1

8.40am

3.15pm

Reception

8.50am

3.15pm

Nursery am

8.50am

11.50am

Nursery pm

12.15pm

3.15pm

It is important that your child starts school with their peers as this will help them to get ready for the amazing learning planned. It is your responsibility to ensure that your child is in school at their designated times. Repeated lateness means that your child is losing out on valuable learning, therefore the school’s safeguarding procedures will be followed and referrals will be made to external agencies where necessary.

Attendance and Punctuality Updates 

Parents, it is important that you drop your children at the correct time and pick them up at their designated collection times, Year 3, 4 and 5 at 3.05pm and Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and 2 at 3.15pm. A reminder that any child/ren not collected at their designated time will be escorted to the after-school club (ACE), which will result in a charge for this service. If you are interested with signing your children up to after-school club, do contact Mr Bennett on 07947 682787 or info@activitycentresofexcellence.co.uk, who will provide you with the price and other information. 

Pupils who are not collected at the designated times at the end of the day will be escorted to the afterschool club (ACE) which will result in a charge for this service for parents.

 

Online Learning Expectations and Support 

We continue to set online weekly home learning online via 'Microsoft My Teams'. Staff will review what has been completed and leave feedback on the pupil’s page.

We are digitising the way the school operates, this means you will have access to all of the pupils daily learning so that pupils can review what they have learnt during the school day at home.

Please focus on reading with your child every day for at least 20 minutes, help them to learn their times tables and spellings and talk to them about their learning in school.

If you need help or support with online home learning, Mr Baig, our Computing Technician will be available to support you every morning from 8.30am to 9am. You will need to complete the following form to let us know what you need help with:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=_V8ndTzT4UCYwoCKGgyMk4jHI5EEwytEqwJbw1OWdthUM0xGV0RaTk1YNVc1MlBLTDlDMFczQ04yMyQlQCN0PWcu

 

Uniform Reminders

As mentioned in the final letter before the summer break, we have decided to keep the rules on wearing PE kit on PE days and wearing trainers the same. However, please read the changes below very carefully as we want to maintain the high standards that Belmont has:

1. All children will be allowed to wear black shoes or black trainers. The black trainers must have no

White/coloured soles or laces. If there are logos, these must be black (see pictures below):

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2. The PE kit worn into school must be as follows:

  • Black or white trainers with plain laces. (No brightly coloured trainers please)
  • Black/Grey PE shorts, jogging bottoms (when it gets colder) or skorts – with no logo.
  • Plain white T-shirt or polo shirt (with no logo)
  • Pupils wear their purple school sweatshirt.

Please note that children should not be wearing any branded clothing and must only wear what is stated above.

Children in Year 6 will be expected to wear a school tie that can be bought from Teeny Wear in Harrow Weald. They must come to school wearing it on the first day back.

Long hair must be tied up. Hair accessories are not allowed and hijabs worn must be white.

We will be monitoring pupils’ presentation and expect all children to be wearing the correct uniform from the first day of school.

Ordering Hot School Lunches

All hot lunch bookings must be made online. 

Please order your child's hot meals for next week via the ParentPay website - www.parentpay.com.  This is for ALL pupils including Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils. 

All meals will need to be ordered in advance and the menu can be found on the website. 

If you need any help, please contact the school office on 0208 427 0903.

Health & Safety and general reminders - 03/05/22

To ensure that we are following safeguarding measures, we ask you to continue to help us by:

  • Only ONE parent to drop off and collect pupils to the teachers at the allocated times. If you have children in other year groups, you will only be allowed in school at the correct times – Please note - No parents will be allowed to wait on the school site.
  • Ensuring that you spread out and maintain a safe social distance from others when waiting to come on site – Keep your distance.
  • Do not gather in groups outside of the school gates and leave site as soon as possible – Keep your distance.
  • Wearing a face covering when dropping off and collecting pupils is now a personal choice.
  • Wash your hands regularly.

No parents may come into building without an appointment.  All communication must be by email, website or telephone.  We must maintain social distancing and strict timings

Safeguarding remains ‘EVERYONE’S BUSINESS AT BELMONT SCHOOL.’

Harrow Children Services’ Golden Number is available to everyone, and gives people one number to call for information or advice on services for children, young people and their families.

Golden Number: 020 8901 2690.

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Year 6 Sats Week
0:00am – 11:00pm
From 09 May until 13 May
09
May
Last Day of Half Term For Pupil
0:00am – 11:00pm
From 26 May until 27 May
26
May
Staff INSET Day - School Closed for Pupils
0:00am – 11:00pm
27
May
Half Term Holiday
0:00am – 11:00pm
From 30 May until 03 Jun
30
May
Staff INSET Day - School Closed For Pupils
0:00am – 11:00pm
06
June