FRIDAY FLYER
Friday 3rd February 2017
Headteacher’s Message
Recently, the senior team spoke to a number of
pupils across the school about reading habits and
their opinion about our new school library.
We found that the vast majority of pupils we spoke
to, really enjoyed visiting our school library and felt
it had motivated them to read more. Great news!
This week, we also sent out a letter to parents of
pupils in Years 4-6, about our new Garfield College
that is starting after half term every Wednesday
afternoon.
The letter and details will be on the website shortly,
if you want to find out more.
Wishing you all happy weekend.
Ms Karen Khwaja
A big thank you goes to Ms
Clement, our cook, and her
wonderful kitchen team. They
dressed up, cooked delicious
Chinese food and made our
Chinese New Year celebration
VISIONS & VALUE OF
THE MONTH
DIARY DATES
Monday 6th February
 Year 2 Art Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)
 Year 6 Reading Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)
 Year 3/4 Football Club (3.15-4.30pm)
Tuesday 7th February
 Year 3/4 Arts & Craft Club(3.15pm-4.30pm)
 KS1/2 Playground Club - selected children only (3.15pm-
4.00pm)
 Year 5 Computer Coding Club (3.15-4.15pm)
 Year 3/4 Girls Football Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)
Wednesday 8th February
 KS2 Gymnastics Club (8.00am-8.45am)
 KS2 Basketball Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)
 Year 6 Reading Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)
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KS2 Young Voices Choir (3.30pm-4.30pm)
Thursday 9th February
 Year 2 Dress Up as Character Day
 Year 3 Dress Up as a Bear Day
 KS2 Steel Pans Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)
 Year 6 Football (3.15pm-4.30pm)
 Year 6 Garfield Newspaper Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)
 Year 1 Soto Dance Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)
 Tiger Assembly 9.15am (All Parents Welcome)
Friday 10th February
INSET DAY - SCHOOL CLOSED
Monday 13th February-Friday 17th February
HALF TERM
SCHOOL RE-OPENS MONDAY 20TH FEBRUARY
AT 8.50AM
FUTURE DATES
 Wednesday 22nd February - Year 5 Trip to Royal Observatory
Planetarium
 Friday 24th February - Cup Winners Assembly 9.15am (All Parents
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Monday 27th February - Book Week
Tuesday 28th February - Year 4 Freshwater Theatre
Thursday 2nd March - Year 6 Trip to Science Museum
Thursday 2nd March - Book Day, Dress as a Book Character
Thursday 2nd March - Book Week Assembly 9.15am (All Parents
Welcome)
Friday 10th March - Flamingo Class Assembly 9.15am (All Parents
Welcome)
Wednesday 15th March - Churchbury Photographers (to take
individual photographs)
Thursday 16th March - Year 1 Trip to Science Museum
Friday 17th March - Dance/Gymnastics Assembly 9.15am (All
Parents Welcome)
Wednesday 22nd March - Parents Evening (3.30pm-7.00pm)
Friday 24th March - Comic Relief Day Assembly –Theme: Garfield’s
Got Talent 9.15am (All Parents Welcome)
Friday 31st March - Year 3 Easter Assembly 9.15am (All Parents
Welcome)
Friday 31st March End of Term - School Closes at 2.15pm
INSET Days (School will be closed on these days)
 Tuesday 18th April 2017
 Friday 26th May 2017
BETT SHOW
On Thursday 26th January, the children had a fantastic time attending the BETT show at the ExCel Centre in Greenwich.
10 children from Year 4 were selected to go and visit the show with Miss Pawson. Children met big computing
companies like Minecraft, Google, Brainpop. They also got hands on experience with new technology for education for
example Robotics, Lego, drum less drum kit, interactive flooring to play football and answer Math questions on! We
even got to see a 3D printer printing out an Octopus! The children, as always, were a credit to the School and their
parents/carers.
Miss Pawson
ICT Teacher
LOST PROPERTY Our lost property barrels are full to overflowing! If your child has misplaced anything please come and have a look through on any day a er school. The barrels are labelled and situated near the table tennis area. Happy hun ng! YEAR 6 FOOTBALL NEWS The year 6 boys football team took part in the Enfield Schools Football Tournament last week, playing 6 matches against schools from all over the borough. On a freezing cold day, the boys struggled to reach their usual high standards and came away with three draws and three losses, meaning they did not progress into the knockout stages of the compe on. However the boys learnt some important lessons and they look forward to ge ng back to winning ways in their upcoming league matches. Look out for more results soon! Mr McKenzie PE Teacher ATTENDANCE
Week Ending 27th January 2017
Rose
= 91.00%
Ruby
= 97.00%
Bluebell
= 92.54%
Kingfisher
= 95.83%
Sapphire
= 92.38%
Carnelian
= 95.93%
Marigold
= 99.13%
Tiger
= 97.39%
Flamingo
= 97.59%
Fuchsia
= 98.57%
Hummingbird = 93.67%
Lavender
= 92.33%
Grasshopper = 97.33%
Hellebore
= 96.00%
TOTAL
= 95.73%
Congratulations to Marigold who achieved 99.13%
Excellent. Keep up the good work. National expected
standard is 96.00%
YEAR 3 RECORDERS AT DUNELM OPENING
It was a cold, wet and rather drizzly morning on Tuesday;
however the 38 children in year 3 who came to perform at
the opening of the new Dunelm store at Friern Bridge
retail park, were not in the least bit discouraged.
The store management were very impressed by both the
children’s behaviour and their beautiful playing!
I want to thank them all and their wonderfully supportive
parents who came along and helped make the morning a
great success!
Miss Sierfert
Music Teacher
YEAR 5 CHINESE ASSEMBLY
Well done to Year 5 for their fantas c performances for the Chinese New Year Assembly last Friday! The children spoke loudly and clearly and also sang beau fully. A special well done to Dani for his performance in the Dragon Dance and to Malakhi for being a commanding, impressive, Jade Emperor. Gung Hei Fat Choi! Ms Getley Year 5 Achievement Leader UP‐TO‐DATE PARENT MOBILE NUMBERS Please ensure the school has your up‐to‐date mobile details and email address, if applicable. This is par cu‐
larly important in case of an emergency with your child or severe weather condi ons, where we would need to contact parents immediately. We sent out a text message, “TESTING TEXT SERVICE ‐ 19TH JANUARY” If you did not receive this message, please come to the office as soon as possible to update your details. Thank you.