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Belmont School 31st March 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,

What a fabulous term we have all had at Belmont School. I would like to say thank you to all the staff, pupils and parents for the amazing partnership, learning and progress that has been made over the Spring Term. We are truly 'Stronger Together'!

As mentioned earlier in the week, we are saying goodbye to Miss Bhalla and Miss Brown from Stargazers. We will miss you both and wish you all the success as you move into your new roles after the Easter break. 

I would like to thank the Year 2 team, pupils and parents for their contribution to amazing production of 'Joseph and the technicolour dream coat'. It was wonderfully directed, with great action and beautiful singing! Well done! 

The Year 3 trip to the British Museum on Tuesday was a huge success and all the pupils have got to see lots of 'Mummies'. 

The Scholastics Book Fair, helped raise £198 for the school in vouchers that Ms. Ali will be using towards refreshing our school library collection. 

Year 6 boys Football Finals were held on Tuesday 28th March at Bannisters sports ground. The team did not come top, but came in 5th place out of 7 other schools. We are proud of our team and coaches, Mr Ayeh-Datey and Mr Clifton for their hard work and dedication to training and supporting Belmont into getting into the Harrow primary school team finals! Well done! 

We had two wonderful performances from Star 1 and Star 3! Both class assemblies were well attended, and all pupils performed and sang so well! Well done to you all too. 

After the Easter break, we will be holding Curriculum Meetings for parents to discuss what the Summer Term curriculum will look like for each year group as follows:

  • Curriculum Meeting for Years 1 and 2 on Wednesday 19th April from 9am to 10am. 
  • Curriculum Meeting for Years 5 and 6 on Thursday 20th April from 9am to 10am. 
  • Curriculum Meeting for Nursery and Reception on Tuesday 25th April from 9am to 10am. 
  • Curriculum Meeting for Years 3 and 4 on Wednesday 26th April from 9am to 10am. 

We would like to wish all of our families who are celebrating the holy month of Ramazan, Ramadan Mubarak and all of our families who are celebrating Easter, a Happy Easter

Finally, I would like to wish you all restful break, and we all look forward to seeing you back in school on Monday 17th April wearing the correct school uniform and black shoes or trainers!

Yours sincerely,

Mrs P Aggarwall

Headteacher 

Wishing You a Safe & Happy Easter

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 - 31/03/23

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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