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Belmont School 20th December 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 hope you are well. I want to start this newsletter by saying a huge thank you for all the support you have given the school this term. The whole school has such a positive atmosphere, and this wouldn’t happen without the positive messages you give to your children.

I know the staff feel proud to be part of a school where the parents, carers, staff and children work in partnership to create such a safe and caring atmosphere and where all children make excellent academic and social progress. I know this will continue next term, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

What is evident is how supportive you are in relation to your child's home learning. This week, Mrs McKenzie and I have seen so many wonderful pieces, and it is great to see your children bringing their home learning into school and wanting to show it off! You should feel so proud of yourselves! 

Alongside your support for the children, many of you have been incredibly generous in donating to the school, the school’s chosen charity and the themed days we have had this term. For the Poppy Appeal, we raised £767, thank you. 

This term has been incredible, from class assemblies, to the organised trips and visits, as well as the most wonderful end of term productions performed by Nursery, Reception and Year 1. We have such budding stars, and I would like to thank all parents who took the time out of their busy schedules and attended. Your children are awesome!

Parent Pupil and Staff Partnership (PPS)

I would like to extend my gratitude to all the parents who supported Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Pusey in organising our amazing Christmas Fair. It was such an amazing community event, and we are happy to announce that with your help, we raised  over £1000 for the OPAL project! Thank you once again!

The raffle prize draw happened this morning, and for those lucky winners, the school office will be in contact with you to collect your prizes!

Thank you to all of the local companies that donated the prizes for the raffle. 

Uniform Expectations

A reminder that you should be sending your child into school wearing the correct uniform:

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 5 and 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.

What's on

To help you plan your time, please find a list of what events are taking place in the first half term:

Date

Event

Year group

Time

Monday 8th January 2024

School Closed for Staff Training Day

All

All Day

Tuesday 9th January 2024

First day of the Spring Term

All

08.35am

Tuesday 9th January 2024

Phase Curriculum Morning – Year 1 and Year 2

Parents Only

Year 1 and Year 2

09.00am to 10.00am

Wednesday 10th January 2024

Phase Curriculum Morning – Year 3 and Year 4

Parents Only

Year 3 and Year 4

09.00am to 10.00am

Thursday 11th January 2024

Phase Curriculum Morning – Year 5 and Year 5

Parents Only

Year 5 and Year 6

09.00am to 10.00am

Friday 12th January 2024

Phase Curriculum Morning – Nursery and Reception Parents Only

Nursery and Reception

Whole day

Friday 12th January 2024

Year 5 Happy Harrow Trip

Year 5

08.30am to 15.30pm approx

Monday 15th January 2024

School Clubs Start

TBC

TBC
Friday 19th January 4 Neptune Class Assembly 4 Neptune 09.00am-09.30am

Tuesday 23rd January 2024

National Handwriting Day

All

All Day

Tuesday 30th January to 4th February

National Storytelling Week

Whole School

All Week
Friday 2nd February Number Day (Dress Up as numbers) Whole School All Day
Friday 2nd February 4 Venus Class Assembly 4 Venus 09.00am-09.30am

Monday 5th February 2024

Parents Meeting Evening – In Person

Whole School

3.30pm to 6.20pm

Monday 5th February 2024 – Friday 9th February

Children's Mental Health Week

All

All Week

Wednesday 7th February 2024

Parents Meeting Evening – Virtual via MS Teams

Whole School

3.30pm to 6.20pm
Friday 9th February 4 Mars Class Assembly 4 Mars 09.00am-09.30am

Friday 9th February 2024

Last day of first half term

All

15.15pm

Monday 12th February to Friday 16th February 2024

Half Term – School Closed

All

All Week

Monday 19th February 2024

First day of the Second Half of Spring Term

All

08.35am

Communication

A reminder to all parents/carers, that if you have any issues or concerns, please do not hesitate to speak to any member of staff on duty or email the school office via office@belmont.harrow.sch.uk or by submitting your query on our virtual form found on our website (https://www.belmont.harrow.sch.uk/contact-us-form). We aim to respond to queries within 10 working days as outlined in our Positive Communication Policy, which can be found in the policy section on our website, where you will also find:

  • Community Behaviour Policy 
  • Complaints Policy and Procedure 
  • Managing Serial and Unreasonable Complaints Policy

End of term reports will be sent out via Arbor on Thursday 21st December.

We are looking forward to yet another exciting term of learning and working in partnership with you.

We hope you have a restful and relaxing break, and we look forward to welcoming you all back on Tuesday 9th January 2024 in full uniform!

Yours sincerely,

Mrs P Aggarwall

Headteacher 

 

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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.

Early Support in Harrow 

For all Harrow residents, Harrow Early Support Services provide families with strategies and advice groups to help you with your children, wellbeing and health. Please click the links for the timetables and further information:

https://www.facebook.com/harrowcc/?locale=en_GB

https://www.harrow.gov.uk/downloads/download/12765/childrens-centres-timetables

https://www.harrow.gov.uk/childrenscentres

PE KIT days

Below are the days that pupils will be coming into school wearing their PE Kit:

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

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. 

Be Active Breakfast and After school Club

Dear Parent/Carer,

As you may have seen Be Active are our new provider for Breakfast and After school clubs, if you would like your child to attend any these then you MUST book online prior to attendance at https://www.beactivesportsandclubs.co.uk/book-online otherwise your child will not be able to attend, this MUST be done to attend.

Please book directly on the Be Active website:

 https://www.beactivesportsandclubs.co.uk/book-online?category=63a1cf71-22a1-490d-b7c9-234b714c799b

Our new provider is ‘Be Active’. They will initially be running the breakfast club from 7.30am to start of the school day and from end of school day, until either 4.30pm or 5.15pm. Please find booking information below:

Please note that any children who are not collected at the designated end times of the session will be escorted to the after school club (Be Active) which will result in a charge for this service for parents.

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 

8.35am

3.15pm

Key Stage 1

8.35am

3.15pm

Key Stage 2

8.35am

3.05pm

Nursery am

8.35am

11.35am

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 would like your child to attend any these then you MUST book online prior to attendance at https://www.beactivesportsandclubs.co.uk/book-online, 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 (Be Active) 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

Children must come into school wearing the correct uniform listed below. on PE days, pupils should come into school wearing the correct PE kit:

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):

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSCEPqzaQMIGZHyx6XorNbbxpFZcQBqgWTCD9gOk8HwMFx_lIy99nQJFQCk_l6cBWI5N-5AXHPE&usqp=CAc

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 5 and 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.

Health & Safety and general reminders - 20/12/23

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

  • Ensure that you come to school at the allocated time
  • 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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I have the right to be protected from being hurt or badly treated

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End of term holiday
All Day
From 21 Dec until 07 Jan
21
December
End of term class parties
All Day
21
December
Last Day - School Closing Early - KS2 at 1.20pm and EYFS and KS1 at 1.30pm
8:35am – 1:30pm
21
December
INSET Day
All Day
08
January
Term Starts – First day for children
All Day
09
January