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Belmont School 10th February 2023 Newsletter

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

Dear Parents and Carers,

I am amazed that this half-term has flown by! We have had a successful Number Day when we raised over £100 pounds for the NSPCC. Staff have been raising awareness about children's mental health this week, as well as having Microsoft presenting pupils with an assembly about how they can keep themselves safe online on Tuesday for Safer Internet Day. 

Parent and Teacher Meetings were well attended this week. I have had really strong positive feedback from parents stating how much progress that you could see from the start of this academic year! So, I would like to thank staff, pupils, and you parent/carer's for your continued support! 

Our football teams have also been participating in various events this half-term and our girls football team came second place in a tournament! Well done to our football teams, Mr Ayeh-Datey and Mr Clifton!  

I would like to welcome Mr Revens back who was on Paternity leave and who is now the proud father of two wonderful girls! 

Class Assemblies

Congratulations to 3 Mercury who presented a wonderful assembly this morning that was all about 'The Pied Piper of Hamlin'! There was great acting, singing and body percussion! It was excellently planned and delivered! Well done. 

We also had 4 Venus teach us all about the power of story telling and shared some of the stories that they have been learning in school, congratulations and keep up the great acting! 

Thank you to all the parents who attended both of the class assemblies and 3 Galaxy and 3 Planet will have their turn after the half-term break, please do check the school calendar. 

Keeping Children Safe Parent Workshops

A reminder that we will still be hosting three further workshops after the holidays. We had more parents attend Tuesday's session. The parents who attended all agreed on how valuable it was to support their understanding of some of the key issues linked to current safeguarding concerns.

This project has been funded through the John Lyons Charity and will be delivered in schools across Ealing, Brent and Harrow. The project aims to support schools to develop a whole school approach to keeping children safe. As you will be aware, safeguarding is at the forefront of everything we do at Belmont School, therefore we feel this project will build on the outstanding safeguarding work we already do and will ensure that pupils, staff, parents and governors have increased understanding of how to keep children safe.

As part of this project, we will be running a series of parent workshops focused on keeping children safe. Each workshop will focus on a different aspect of safeguarding and parents who attend three or more workshops will receive a certificate of completion.

Below are the dates and topics for the workshops at our school. Each workshop will start at 9am and will last for approximately 60 minutes:

 

Date

Topic

1

Tuesday 24th January 2023

Introduction to safeguarding

2

Tuesday 7th February 2023

Good and bad touch and the PSHE curriculum

3

Tuesday 21st February 2023

Online safety

4

Tuesday 28th February 2023

My Body, My Rules, including FGM

5

Tuesday 7th March 2023

My Body, My Rules, including FGM

 

If you have attended any of the sessions, please complete the short survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Year3FGMParentBaseline​

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Finally, I would like to wish you restful break, and we all look forward to seeing you back in school on Monday 20th January wearing to correct school uniform and black shoes or trainers!

Yours sincerely,

Mrs P Aggarwall

Headteacher 

Discounted Zoo tickets

As part of our Community Access Scheme, you can now buy reduced price tickets for London Zoo at our entry kiosks from as little as £3 per person, if you are receiving Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support or Jobseeker’s Allowance. 

Please find the link for those who would like to visit London Zoo that maybe eligible for the scheme: 

https://www.londonzoo.org/plan-your-visit/community-access-scheme

 

Young Harrow Foundation

Young Harrow Foundation have developed a new hub for cost of living support on their website: www.youngharrowfoundation.org/cost-of-living-support

This hub aims to signpost people to local services from the voluntary sector and local authority - and is particularly aimed at families or carers that have children and young people in their household.

The online hub, developed by Young Harrow Foundation, lists services that can help with things like, mental health and wellbeing, warm hubs in the borough, help with accessing food, housing support and low cost furniture providers.

PE KIT days

Below are the year group PE days:

Reception - Friday

  • Y1 - Monday & Wednesday
  • Stargazers - Wednesday
  • Y2 - Monday & Thursday
  • Y3 - Tuesday & Friday
  • Y4 - Tuesday & Thursday
  • Y5 - Monday & Thursday
  • Y6 - Wednesday (swimming) & Thursday

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 or jewellery. They must only wear what is stated above. 

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. 

Attendance

School attendance is mandatory for all pupils.

If your child is ill, please notify the school office on 0208 427 0903. You can now leave a voicemail to report your child's absence.

Punctuality

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

Key Stage 

Start of School time

End of School time 

Reception 

8.40am

3.15pm

Key Stage 1

8.40am

3.15pm

Key Stage 2

8.40am

3.05pm

Nursery am

8.50am

11.50am

Nursery pm 

12.15am

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, 5 and 6 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://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/ComputingSupport@belmont.harrow.sch.uk/bookings/ 

 

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 - 10/02/23

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

  • Please all follow the 1-way system to help you move around the site safely.
  • Ensuring that you are joining the queueing system and not pushing in.
  • Wash your hands regularly with soap.
  • Cover your face when coughing and sneezing, dispose of any tissues immediately. 

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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UNCRC Article 19
I have the right to be protected from being hurt or badly treated

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