Belgrave School News
January 2012 Issue 5
Dates for the diary
Wall Art Art Trip at The Tobacco Factory
Dear Parents and Students,
Happy New Year!
I hope you had a great time over
the holidays. The staff and I are
eager to make this term a very
productive and fun term. The
first half term we will be focusing
on the learning and teaching of
reading and phonics. Later in the
term maths will be a focus. In
particular resources and
planning.
School Trips so far
Geography Trip to the bridge
ASDAN Lashings coffee shop trip
ART GCSE Victoria Albert
Museum, London
Art Wall Art Tobacco Factory
Playground and Fund Raising
The visit by the planning Department did
not take place and so we continue
without the use of the second play area!
It is all very frustrating and costly as we
have to pay for the scaffolding to hold the
wall up.
If you have any links with Bristol Planning
and can help speed this process we could
do with the help!
If you would like to enquire at the
planning office the number is 0117
9223000 and the planning reference is
11/03840/H
Recycle School Uniform!
A list of items of uniform that have been
donated by parents for sale will shortly be
circulated to parents together with
revised prices now applicable for the
purchase of new uniform. Please drop off
any donations at the school office.
Friends of Belgrave
Thursday 26 January
3.30-4.30pm
(Free after school club
available)
Mufti / Muffin Day
Friday 10 February
World Book Day
Thursday 1 March
School Term Dates
Spring Term 2012
3 Jan to 10 Feb
Half Term Holiday
13 Feb to 17 Feb
20 Feb in service day
Term recommences
21 Feb to 23 Mar
Parents’ Open
Afternoon
Thursday 22 March 2pm
onwards
Easter Service
Friday 23 March at 2pm
Staffing News
Clare Haines an English
GCSE examiner has joined
the team to help give the
English GCSE group a
boost and an insight into
what is required at GCSE
level.
India Morgan has joined
the team as LSA. She is a
qualified teacher and an
experienced LSA.
Duke of Edinburgh Award
Scheme
Some of our students have
expressed an interest in The
Duke of Edinburgh Award. We
held a meeting which several
students and parents attended.
I have contacted the D of E Coordinator. I have also applied for
a grant of £3,500 to run the
award. We hope to start the
programme in the summer term.
I will keep you posted.
Friends of Belgrave
After School Club
Many thanks to the parents who
attended the last meeting. To help
parents attend the Friends of Belgrave
meetings we will now be holding them
after school. Children will be able to
attend the after school club whilst we
meet. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be
provided. We hope this will help more
parents to attend.
The next meeting will be Thursday 23
February at 3.30pm until 4.15pm
The After School Club will
continue to run from
Monday to Thursdays
from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
at the charge of £2.50 per
half hour session. When
collecting your child please
remember to sign them
out. Please note that all
students have to be
collected by 5:30 pm, after
this time an additional
increased charge will
apply.
Choir and Mosaic clubs
need to be paid for in
advance, invoices for all
other clubs will be issued
at the end of each half
term.
E-Bay Sale!
Non School Uniform Days
Please note that Fridays are no
longer ‘non uniform days’,
students should attend school
wearing uniform on every school
day.
However, special ‘mufti days’ will
be held once a term when
students will able to wear their
choice of clothing, paying £1 for
the privilege. The first ‘Mufti /
Muffin’ day will be held on Friday
10 February – wear clothes of
your choice and enjoy eating a
muffin, all for £1.50! The
proceeds will go towards school
trips.
Laptops
James Hogan has volunteered to
send letters out to local schools
and businesses asking for any
spare or unwanted laptops that
we could sell or re-vamp for
school purpose.
Greeting Cards – Still
Available
Don’t forget to call in to the
School Office where a selection
of unique handmade greeting
cards can be bought
Many thanks for your support
Deborah
Headteacher
You can now pledge any unwanted items
big or small to the school e-bay sale.
Please bring the sale items in to school or
e-mail the details to
[email protected]. Many
thanks to Mrs Gray for volunteering to
sort out the sale for us. The proceeds will
go towards the matched funding for the
playground area and ICT equipment. No
pledge is too small or big. So pledge away
now!!
NEW Art Club!
Monday Clubs
Homework
Choir
Mosaic
Tuesday Clubs
Homework
We have exciting news on the art front!
ICT
We now have enough students to start
Wednesday Clubs
the mosaic club. The club will be start on
Homework
Monday 27 February, initially for 6 weeks.
Cooking
The club will be run by Frankie Hudson, a
Warhammer
qualified teacher and professional mosaic
Thursday Clubs
artist. The cost including materials is £6
Homework
per session. As we do for the choir, we
Football
ask for payment for the 6 weeks in
advance to be able to book the teacher.