COLBY PRIMARY SCHOOL
Bridge Road
Colby
Norwich
NR11 7EA
Tel: 01263 733381 Fax: 01263 731300
E-mail: office@colby.norfolk.sch.uk
Website: www.colby.norfolk.sch.uk
Headteacher: Mrs Christine Mead
School News Issue 18– 16th January 2015
The Week Ahead
Monday 19
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January:
Tuesday 20th January:
Wednesday 21st January:
Thursday 22nd January:
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Friday 23rd January:
Breakfast Club from 8am. £2.50 per session. Every day this week.
Book Club in The Jungle for Emerald class at lunch-time.
Recorder Club at lunch-time with Mrs Towers (Year 5 and 6).
No Premier Sport – cancelled due to low numbers. See below.
Mrs Mead’s Choir in the hall from 8.40am – all ages welcome.
Piano lessons continue.
Book Club in The Jungle for Amber class at lunch-time.
Knitting Club at lunchtime with Mrs Wymer.
Eco Club at lunchtime with Zaranne (Head of Eco) and Mrs Ward.
Computer Club (Ruby) at lunchtime with Mrs Moulton.
After School Club. 3 – 4.30pm. £3 per session.
Ashleigh’s Key Stage 1 Art Club. 3 – 4.15pm. £3 per session.
Lucinda’s Cosy Cartoon Club. 3 – 4.30pm. £3 per session.
Table Tennis after school - spaces available.
No Football Club until later this term.
Stay and Play restarts 9 – 10.15am.
Guitar lessons continue – places available.
Book Club in The Jungle for Sapphire class at lunch-time.
Handbell team at lunchtime with Mrs Towers – Year 6 only.
After School Club. 3 – 4.30pm. £3 per session.
Georgi’s Key Stage 2 Cookery Club. 3 – 4.30pm. £5 per session.
Lucinda’s Wii Club. 3 – 4.30pm. £3 per session.
Digital Leader Club with Mrs Towers.
KS! Cookery Club with Mrs Williams 3 - 4pm - places allocated.
Swimming for selected Year 5 children from Amethyst.
Cross Country for Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 at lunch-time. Must have packed lunch.
Computer Club (Amethyst) at lunchtime with Mrs Moulton.
Book Club in The Jungle for Ruby class at lunch-time.
After School Club. 3 – 4.30pm. £3 per session.
Ashleigh’s Key Stage 2 Art Club. 3 – 4.15pm. £3 per session.
Ed’s Chess and Puzzle Club. 3 – 4.30pm. £3 per session.
Book Club in The Jungle for Amethyst class at lunchtime.
Art Club at lunchtime with Mrs Ward.
Georgina’s Wii Club at lunch-time.
No Premier Sport – cancelled due to low numbers. See below.
Dates for your diary
PLEASE NOTE THE TERM DATES BELOW –
PLEASE KEEP A COPY BECAUSE THEY WON’T BE INCLUDED ON EVERY NEWSLETTER.
Monday 2nd February: TKF Karate taster sessions for all children.
Friday 13th February: School Closes at 3pm for half term.
Monday 23rd February: School re-opens – please note there will be no Breakfast Club today.
Thursday 26th February: Phonics Family Learning for Reception and Year 1 parents / families 9 – 11am.
Friday 27th March:
School closes at 3pm for the Easter holidays.
Monday 13th April:
School re-opens for the Summer Term – please note there will be no Breakfast Club
today.
Monday 4th May:
School Closed – Bank Holiday.
Monday 11th May:
National Test Week for Year 6 children – please note there will be no hot dinners
this week due to test administration and arrangements.
Friday 22nd May:
Monday 1st June:
Tuesday 21st July:
School closes at 3pm for half term.
School re-opens.
School closes at 3pm for the Summer holidays.
Thursday 3rd September:
Wednesday 21st October:
Monday 2nd November:
Friday 18th December:
School re-opens for the Autumn Term.
School closes at 3pm for half term.
School re-opens – please note there will be no Breakfast Club today.
School closes at 3pm for the Christmas holidays.
Swimming Success
Congratulations to Mia (Ruby)
for achieving the Kellogg’s ASA Water Skills Award Grade 4
Awesome!
Change for Healthy Tuck
Please remember that Healthy Tuck items cost 20 pence each. Please send your child with the correct money
so that customers can be dealt with quickly. Thank you for your help with this – Healthy Tuck is very popular
and it helps if children bring the correct change. I don’t want them to have to queue for too long!
Thank you.
Megan (Amethyst) – Head of Healthy Tuck.
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Headteacher Awards
Joel (Amber) for fantastic fractions work
Honor (Amber) for great reading
Ava and Bella (Amber) for making a beautiful Teddy Bears’ Picnic Party
Abigail (Sapphire) for wonderful writing
Thomas C (Sapphire) for wonderful writing
Harry (Amber) for great reading
Maisie, Will I-G and Grace (Sapphire) for brilliant classifying of animals
Melody, Jessie and Holly (Sapphire) for brilliant number work
Sterling (Emerald) for bringing in a fantastic book to show the class
Bella, Ava, Finley, Lily, Isabel T and Eliza (Amber) for fantastic writing and drawing
Charlie (Amber) for beautiful reading
Isabel N and Charlie (Amber) for great verbal descriptions
Samson, Gabriel and Oliver (Amber) for great toy descriptions
Jessie (Sapphire) for super subtraction
Oliver (Sapphire) for brilliant reading
Isabel N, Rudi, Henry, Honor and Alexander (Amber) for fantastic descriptive writing about toys
Joseph (Amethyst) for being really helpful with grounds-work
Isabelle, Maddy, Freddie, Sophie, Daisy, Mae, Reuben, Imogen E, Emma, Oliver, Evie and Luke
(Emerald)
for fantastic times tables
Reuben, Louie, Mae, Imogen E and Maddy (Emerald) for great written addition
Evan, Millie, Imogen H, Holly and William (Emerald) for fantastic times table tests
Hannah, Reuben and Evan (Emerald) for great attitudes to learning
Lily (Sapphire) for brilliant 10 x tables
Lily (Sapphire) for answering three questions about koalas from memory
William (Sapphire) for sharing a Tasmanian Devil picture with the class
Ben (Sapphire) for remembering five facts about koalas
Jamie (Sapphire) for bringing in a book about the human body to share with the class
Jacob (Sapphire) for excellent Aboriginal art
Andre and Will I-G (Sapphire) for fantastic animal classification
Emily S (Amethyst) for five mastered levels on IXL
Tom (Sapphire) for brilliant typing challenges in ICT
Mia (Ruby) for marvellous mathematics
Ruby S and George W (Sapphire) for marvellous mathematics
Holly (Sapphire) for brilliant reading
Emily S (Amethyst) for excellent effort in IXL
Rhianna (Amethyst) for being Star of the Day
Lois, Macy and Emma (Amethyst) for challenging themselves in mathematics
Emily S (Amethyst) for being Star of the Day
Finley (Amber) for fantastic concentration
Nathaniel (Sapphire) for brilliant reading
Lily, Ben and Thomas (Sapphire) for brilliant reading
Maisie (Sapphire) for beautiful Aboriginal objects
Jacob and Jessie (Sapphire) for brilliant adding
Courtney (Ruby) for excellent ICT and being really helpful to a friend
The Amethyst Year 5 Swimmers for being an awesome advert for Colby School
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More Headteacher Awards
Rose, Rosa, Sophie and Milly (Ruby) for excellent writing
Thomas (Ruby) for a great answer to a question
Jim (Ruby) for knowing the word “prefix”
Sophie and Leah (Ruby) for helping Mrs Towers
Elise, Joe and Frank (Ruby) for writing and using algorithms
Joe (Ruby) for thoughtful comments about Special Places
Leah and Elen (Ruby) for multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100
Felix (Ruby) for an excellent answer during RE
Freya (Ruby) for great knowledge about cathedrals during RE
Rosa (Ruby) for helping to tidy up
Axel (Ruby) for a great answer in RE
The Amethyst Year 6 Bike-ability Group for being an awesome advert for Colby School
Rudi (Amber) for beautiful reading
Florence, Phoebe, Reece, James, Isla and Harry (Amber) for great toy descriptions
School Council for great participation in the FOCS meeting
Patrick and Leila (Amethyst) for providing excellent child care at the FOCS meeting
Colby Primary School Table Tennis for Schools Project
Autumn Term 2014
Congratulations to the following children, who were awarded certificates on the last day of term last year.
Emma (Amethyst) for Level 1, Level 1 Umpire, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4.
Rose (Ruby) for Level 1, Level 1 Umpire and Level 2.
Frank (Ruby) for Level 1, Level 1 Umpire, Level 2 and Level 3.
William (Emerald) for Level 6.
Tom (Amethyst) for Level 13, Level 14, Level 15 and Level 3 Coach.
Brae (Sapphire) for Level 1, Level 1 Umpire, Level 2 and Level 3.
The Player Award
was awarded to
Emma (Amethyst)
who received a table tennis bat and 4 hours free coaching with Young England coaches in Norwich.
The Player Award Runner Up
was awarded to
Frank (Ruby)
who received a table tennis bat.
Thank you to John for his excellent table tennis coaching. Places are still available this term, if your child
would like to join.
Unwanted visitors
We have had head lice in school this week. Please could you check your child’s hair for unwanted visitors and
treat accordingly if you find any! Thank you. Itch itch!
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KS2 Cross Country Club
Mr Brown will be starting Cross Country Club again on Thursday next week. Due to the increase in hot meals
being served at lunch-time, we are unable to keep meals hot to eat after clubs. Therefore, we ask that
children bring packed lunch if they want to take part in KS2 Cross Country Club. If you have already ordered
a hot meal for your child on Thursday, you will be credited. Thank you for your help with this.
Thank you from John (a Kenyan pupil we sponsor)
To All the Colby School,
I hope that you are all going well and that you are all enjoying Christmas. I will write to you again after
Christmas. I thank you for all the things that you bought for me. I would like to tell you about the team that
I am supporting. I am supporting Chelsea. Thank you for the money you brought for me. I think one day you
should all come and visit me and we would have a great time.
From John Oteno.
Ofsted Parent Questionnaire
Ofsted have introduced a new way of gathering parent views, a website called Parent View. Anyone can view
the results for a school once 3 parents have completed the survey. Information is collected by means of a 12
question online survey, answering each question strongly agree to strongly disagree. The questions are:
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My child is happy at this school.
My child feels safe at this school.
My child makes good progress at this school.
My child is well looked after at this school.
My child is taught well at this school.
My child receives appropriate homework for their age.
This school ensures the pupils are well behaved.
This school deals effectively with bullying.
The school is well led and managed.
This school responds well to any concern I raise.
I receive valuable information from the school about my child’s progress.
I would recommend this school to another parent.
If you could complete the questionnaire online that would be great, it is open now. Ofsted will view the
answers for our school before our next inspection, so if you are happy to spend a few moments completing
the form online it would be really appreciated. Please search for Ofsted Parent View and it will take you to
the website.
If you have any questions you might answer “Don’t know” to, please don’t be afraid to ask me or your child’s
class teacher.
If you have any questions you might answer “Strongly disagree” or “Disagree” to, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. If
there are areas we need to work on or misunderstandings we could sort out, we will want to do so (and
quickly!). Thank you.
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Dance Zenergy
Dance classes will be held at Buxton Village Hall every Wednesday
1.45 – 2.30 pm Pre-school Ballet classes (3yrs+)
3.15 – 4.15 pm Pre Prep Ballet/Modern
4.15 – 5.15 pm Primary Ballet/Modern
5.15 – 5.45 pm Grade 2 Ballet
5.45 – 6.15 pm Grade 3 Ballet
For more information and a free trial class, please contact Zoe on 01603 280235
or e-mail on: dancezenergy@hotmail.co.uk
Parent Support Advisors - Working with parents for their children
I’ve included details below from a Parent Support Advisors leaflet received in school. Do not hesitate to
contact me if you would like further information, or feel free to contact the Parent Support Advisor direct.
Parent Support Advisors are there to help you deal with any worries or concerns about how your child is doing
at home or school. We may not have the answers, but we might be able to help you work out how to find
them. Parenting isn’t an easy job and at times, things can get tough. Like every other parent, you want what
is best for your child.
Helping to prevent problem behaviour becoming more difficult.
Regular visits and meetings with you, at school or in your home.
Finding services and other agencies available to help families.
Supporting parents to get the best out of school life.
or if you just need to talk, we’re here to help you.
Carol Flatters - Parent Support Advisor - Tel: 07780 922 545
Premier Sport Cancelled – any Child Minders out there?
I am sorry that Premier Sport has cancelled Clubs on Monday and Friday. It was taken over by a new owner
during the Christmas holiday and unfortunately he has cancelled the Clubs due to low take-up (only 3 children
on Monday and 2 on Friday). We were disappointed about the lack of notice, and apologise for inconvenience
caused, but the decision was out of our hands. If you are a Child Minder, who has availability on Monday
and / or Friday, please contact the school office so we can pass your details on. Thank you.
Dance Success
Congratulations to Zaranne (Amethyst)
For achieving Grade 1 Tap at the Sutton School of Dancing
and
Grade 1 and Grade 2 Ballet. Fantastic!
Christine Mead
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