Sunday 27 September 2020

September Newsletter

Please be aware of the September Newsletter which can be found below as well as a link to a PDF version.

September Newsletter



Weekly reminders for week beginning 27th September 2020

We had another good week at Clockhouse last week despite the strange and tricky times we are living through. The children continue to be fabulous as do our whole community. We really could not do this without your unreserved support. 

Thank you to all those parents who are really supporting their children and practising the children's reading and spellings with them at home as well as number bond, times tables and completing home learning. We are really seeing the difference in school and it is lovely to see all your messages about this on Dojo. Remember every time the children read at home that get a raffle ticket and are entered into our weekly prize draw - you have to be in it to win it!

Harvest Festival
On Tuesday we will be having our annual Harvest Festival with the children. As per the letter that came out, we will not be able to accept tins but urge you, should you be out shopping, to put a food donation in one of the Food Bank drop off points at a supermarket. If you wish to take a picture doing this we would love to see it.

Year 6
As is normal at this time of year, secondary schools want to introduce themselves to the Year 6 children prior to you all making your final decision regarding choices for Secondary School. On Tuesday morning Bower Park Academy will be Zooming into Year 6 to introduce themselves.

Coronavirus
Thank you to all those parents and carers who have responded positively to our request to wear masks when queuing and on site. This is really appreciated. We also do understand that some people are exempt and if you are able to wear your badge we would be grateful. Thank you also to you for ensuring orderly queueing and social distancing whilst doing so. Whilst I know the queuing system is not ideal, please can I request that people do not push in the queue as tempting as it is. It is not fair on others who have queued which I am sure you can understand.

Just as a reminder, please be aware, should your child or anyone in your household develop symptoms of Coronavirus - a temperature of 37.8 or above (this is in line with Government guidance), a loss of taste or smell or a continuous cough, your child must NOT come to school. As a family you will all need to isolate and get a test for the person who has symptoms only. Tests can be booked using the link below:


Other than for the above reason, or your child is too unwell to attend school, they should come to school everyday. If you are unsure, please ask.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:
Welcome Back letters
Wearing Masks on school site
Letter from Havering Council 
Letter from Department of Education
Harvest Festival

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do.

Have a good week everyone and stay safe!
#ourclockhousefamily

For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link:

Friday 25 September 2020

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

Here is this week's Weekly Wow and as usual there are a lot of things to 'wow' about this week.

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League continued this week - well done everyone for helping your class!

The dojo scores have been analysed and the results are in!

Reception and Key Stage 1:
A big well done to Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland , France, Spain, USA, Mexico and Canada who lead the Reception and Key Stage 1 Dojo league.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Brazil, Argentina, Uganda, South Africa, China, India, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji who are all in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 league with Peru, Kenya and Japan in second place.

Well done to everyone for really trying to earn Dojos for their class.

The attendance winners this week are...

  Great attendance leads to 

great learning and progress!

Congratulations to the three classes below who are our winners for this week - keep it up!

A big well done to this weeks winners who are:

France - 99.7%
Brazil - 97.9%
Australia - 99.3%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above. An even bigger well done to France and Australia who win for the second week in the row and who will receive prizes next week for having attendance above 99%! A big well done also to China and Italy who have attendance of 99% or above and will also receive prizes next week.

Only 14 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - a huge well done to those classes!

A further well done to Nursery, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, South Africa, Kenya, China, India, Japan, Fiji and New Zealand who have all had no children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance for this week is:

95.9%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 96.2%

Well done everyone and thank you all for your continued support in ensuring that the
children come to school everyday and on time!

It is still important that we all work to improve our attendance. 
Please remember that our school target is 96%.

Hot Chocolate with the Head

 Hot Chocolate with the Head!

As we all know, Hot Chocolate with the Head is an important part of Clockhouse. Obviously due to the current situation we find ourselves in, sadly it is not possible for us to come together to celebrate which is such a shame. However, we do not want the children to miss out and therefore the chosen children will get a special Hot Chocolate pack to enjoy at home! 


As you all know we are constantly striving to improve Clockhouse for your children. 

This year we are all 'Going the extra mile' to ensure our school is a fabulous place to be. Each week, the Heads of Year as well as Miss Ward, Mrs Reinecke and Mrs Savidge choose a person (child or adult) who has been seen to do this! We hope all the children enjoy their hot chocolate pack - send us a picture of you enjoying your special celebration drink!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile':

Reception - Freya C for working extra hard all week.
Year 1 - Oliver L for being a really caring friend to everyone in his class as well as always being ready for learning and wanting to learn!
Year 2Lexi G for being for a good role model and making her friends and teachers smile.
Year 3Holly D for working really hard in RE and being confident to share her ideas.
Year 4 - Olly A for being really focused on his presentation for his display work and working really hard on his Cinderella story and even managing to try the super sentence work.
Year 5 - Liam F for a positive return to school, being resilient in his learning and demonstrating a good understanding of his English work.
Year 6 - Shaila M for her excellent maths work this week and developing her confidence.
Miss Ward - Racim A for being so polite in class and around the school.
Mrs Reinecke - Christine A for showing great resilience during her grammar work.
Mrs Savidge - Josiah A for trying so hard in school each day. 

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile' this week!

Our treats are ready to go and we are looking forward to Hot Chocolate Friday next week to celebrate with more fantastic Clockhouse people!

Reading Raffle Winners!

As you may already know, once again, this year we are holding a weekly Reading Raffle. Each time the children read at home and a message gets sent to their teacher on Class Dojo they get a raffle ticket which gets entered into the Reading Raffle draw. This takes place in Celebration Assembly on a Friday.



This week we were overwhelmed with the number of people who entered. Well done to the following children who were this week's winners and are busy deciding on their prizes:

Key Stage 1
Hugo
Andrew
Kuba
Aimee
Sienna
Maia

Key Stage 2
Ethan
Louie
Caitlin
Holly
Kristina
Damian
Sonny
Alex
Denzel
Abigail
Noah
Fabio
Jah-Kai

KEEP READING - 
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!

Citizen of the Week

 Citizen of the Week!


Well done to the following children who are Clockhouse Citizen of the Week for this week:

Reception - Liam M
Year 1 - Savana R
Year 2 - Noah J
Year 3 - Katie A
Year 4 - Millie M
Year 5 - Hamza S
Year 6 - Lois B
Greenland - Bobby M

We have many fantastic citizens at Clockhouse and look forward to rewarding them!

Well done everyone!

Sunday 20 September 2020

Weekly reminders for week beginning 21st September 2020

Another good week was had at Clockhouse last week and we are slowly adjusting to the new normal! I have to say the children have been nothing short of amazing and we continue to be thankful to work with such a supportive community. It was lovely to welcome the new Reception children and some of the new Nursery children to Clockhouse last week and like the rest of our new children, they have settled so well. We look forward to welcoming more Nursery children this week.

Thank you also for the support given to Jeans for Genes day. We will let you know how much we have raised for this worthwhile charity once the counting has been completed.

No Cost Uniform Shop
I know many of you have asked about this very important provision. We are currently working together to devise a system that will allow clothing to be got from the No Cost Uniform Shop and will communicate this with you all soon.

Coronavirus
In the near future we will be updating our website to reflect the most current information with regards to Coronavirus including a frequently asked questions section to help you. Please also watch the video that was sent out last weeek if you have not already seen it:


Please be aware, should your child or anyone in your household develop symptoms of Coronavirus - a temperature of 37.8 or above (this is in line with Government guidance), a loss of taste or smell or a continuous cough, your child must NOT come to school. As a family you will need to isolate and get a test for the person who has symptoms only. Tests can be booked using the link below:


Other than for the above reason, or your child is too unwell to attend school, they should come to school everyday. If you are unsure, please ask.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:
What the children will be learning this year (all year groups)

Please look out for the first newsletter of the new school year which will be coming out this week.

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do.

Have a good week everyone!

For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link:

Friday 18 September 2020

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

 Here is this week's Weekly Wow and as usual there are a lot of things to 'wow' about this week.



The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League got off to a great start this week - well done everyone for helping your class!

The dojo scores have been analysed and the results are in!

Reception and Key Stage 1:
A big well done to Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland , France, Spain, USA, Mexico and Canada who lead the Reception and Key Stage 1 Dojo league.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji who are all in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 league.

For the first time ever, all classes had 100% on their Dojo for the whole week - amazing and a great start to the new school year! 

Well done to everyone for really trying to earn Dojos for their class.

The attendance winners this week are...

 Great attendance leads to 

great learning and progress!

Congratulations to the three classes below who are our winners for this week - keep it up!

A big well done to this weeks winners who are:

France - 99.3%
Kenya - 98.9%
Australia - 97.1%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above. An even bigger well done to France who will receive prizes next week for having attendance above 99%!

Only 6 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - a huge well done to those classes!

A further well done to Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Italy, Canada, USA, Brazil, Kenya, China, India and New Zealand who have all had no children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance for this week is:

94.7%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 95.5%

Well done everyone and thank you all for your continued support in ensuring that the
children come to school everyday and on time!

It is still important that we all work to improve our attendance. 
Please remember that our school target is 96%.

Hot Chocolate with the Head

 Hot Chocolate with the Head!

As we all know, Hot Chocolate with the Head is an important part of Clockhouse. Obviously due to the current situation we find ourselves in, sadly it is not possible for us to come together to celebrate which is such a shame. However, we do not want the children to miss out and therefore the chosen children will get a special Hot Chocolate pack to enjoy at home! 



As you all know we are constantly striving to improve Clockhouse for your children. 

This year we are all 'Going the extra mile' to ensure our school is a fabulous place to be. Each week, the Heads of Year as well as Miss Ward, Mrs Reinecke and Mrs Savidge choose a person (child or adult) who has been seen to do this! We hope all the children enjoy their hot chocolate pack - send us a picture of you enjoying your special celebration drink!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile':

Reception - Riley F for making a wonderful start to school and helping others.
Year 1 - Frankie S for always being ready, respectful and responsible.
Year 2 - Alfie T for always doing his job and setting an outstanding example to others.
Year 3 - Danny S-L for accepting the challenges set him in his work.  This was particularly seen in his maths work.
Year 4 - Faith W for going the extra mile and helping adults throughout the day and at lunch time.
Year 5 - Swaley R for his fabulous return to school and his attitude towards to school.
Year 6 - Mia B-A for an amazing disco dance routine and her enthusiam when teaching it to the rest of the class.
Miss Ward - Mrs Orchard for going the extra mile to help at lunchtime. 
Mrs Reinecke - Harrison D for and extra big effort during his art lesson. 
Mrs Savidge - Lucas P for trying so hard with his learning and getting involved in lessons.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile' this week!

Our treats are ready to go and we are looking forward to Hot Chocolate Friday next week to celebrate with more fantastic Clockhouse people!

Citizen of the Week

 Citizen of the Week!


Well done to the following children who are Clockhouse Citizen of the Week for this week:

Reception - Blake B
Year 1 - Ahziah B
Year 2 - Lavinia T
Year 3 - Mason T
Year 4 - Arry M
Year 5 - Denzel A
Year 6 - Harry T

We have many fantastic citizens at Clockhouse and look forward to rewarding them!

Well done everyone!





 

Sunday 13 September 2020

Weekly reminders of week beginning 14th September 2020

It was certainly lovely to welcome the children from Year 1 to Year 6 back to school last week as well as welcoming our Reception and Nursery families throughout the week. The children certainly lived up to expectation and took the changes in their stride. They settled quickly into their classes with lots of learning taking place. We hope, as the week progressed, dropping off and picking your children up became easier. Thank you for your understanding regarding this.

Reception
Welcome to our Reception children who all start on Monday. We look forward to welcoming the children and their families to Clockhouse.

Nursery
Welcome to some of our Nursery children who will be starting with us later in the week, as with Reception we look forward to welcoming the children and their families to Clockhouse.

Meet the Teacher
As many of you know, normally during this time we hold short 'Meet the Teacher' sessions. Obviously this is not possible at the moment but again we are not put off by this and have come up with an alternative. Look out for a short presentation video coming out from each teacher towards the end of the week, where they will talk to you about the year ahead. If you have any questions that you would like them to answer please send them a message.

Online Reading and Maths resources to use at home
Please remember that Reading Eggs, Reading Eggspress, Times Table Rock Stars and SumDog, the online programmes that we subscribe to, are available for the children. If you cannot remember your password please speak to your child’s class teacher who will be able to reissue it to you .

Class Dojo
If you have not yet signed into Class Dojo please ask your class teacher for your login details. If you have a new phone or device and need the password again to access the Dojo please also ask, it really is such a helpful and valuable communication tool for us and you as well as a way of celebrating your children's achievements in school. More so now than ever as, we will only be sending home paper letters in exceptional circumstances and we are sure you do not want to miss anything. 

Jeans for Genes Day
As you will already know, Friday is Jeans for Genes Day, for a small contribution to this worthwhile charity the children can come to school wearing jeans on Friday. If they do not have jeans, jogging bottoms or such are fine as well as own tops. Please ensure though that children are suitably dressed for school, including foot wear, school rules regarding jewellery still apply.
If your child has PE on Friday, please send them to school in their PE kit and we will arrange another day for them to take part. We will communicate this with you at the beginning of next week. 

Things to be aware of
Please remember to send children to school in PE kits on their PE Days, this will take some getting used to but we will get there.

When reading with your child at home, please comment about the on Class Dojo so that they get their raffle ticket and are entered into the weekly draw. 

Please remember to stick to allotted times when picking up and dropping off. Year 1 please do not worry if your queue is a little longer this week, this is inevitable with Reception joining us. Nursery children will be entering through the driveway gate when they start but this will be 10 minutes before Year 2 and Year 3 in the morning and 10 minutes after them in the afternoon so this should not affect the queue.  

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:
Walking home - Year 3 to Year 6
Nut Allergy - Nut Free School
Jeans for Genes Day

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do.

Have a good week everyone!
Stay safe everyone
Mrs Savidge


For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link:

Clockhouse Primary School Website

Friday 11 September 2020

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

Here is this week's Weekly Wow and as usual there are a lot of things to 'wow' about this week.





The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League got off to a great start this week - well done everyone for helping your class!

The dojo scores have been analysed and the results are in!

Reception and Key Stage 1:
A big well done to France, Spain, USA, Mexico and Canada who lead the Reception and Key Stage 1 Dojo league.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji who are all in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 league.

For the first time ever, all classes had 100% on their Dojo for the whole week - amazing and a great start to the new school year! 

Well done to everyone for really trying to earn Dojos for their class.

The attendance winners this week are...

Great attendance leads to 
great learning and progress!

Congratulations to the three classes below who are our winners for this week - keep it up!

A big well done to this weeks winners who are:

Italy - 97.9%
South Africa - 99.3%
Fiji - 98.9%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above. An even bigger well done to South Africa who will receive prizes next week for havign attendance above 99%!

9 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - a huge well done to those classes!

A further well done to France, Italy, Canada, Mexico, USA, Peru, Argentina, South Africa, Uganda, China, India and New Zealand who have all had no children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance for this week is:

95.9%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 95.9%

Well done everyone and thank you all for your continued support in ensuring that the
children come to school everyday and on time!

It is still important that we all work to improve our attendance. 
Please remember that our school target is 96%.

Hot Chocolate with the Head

Hot Chocolate with the Head!

As we all know, Hot Chocolate with the Head is an important part of Clockhouse. Obviously due to the current situation we find ourselves in, sadly it is not possible for us to come together to celebrate which is such a shame. However, we do not want the children to miss out and therefore the chosen children will get a special Hot Chocolate pack to enjoy at home! 



As you all know we are constantly striving to improve Clockhouse for your children. 

This year we are all 'Going the extra mile' to ensure our school is a fabulous place to be. Each week, the Heads of Year as well as Miss Ward, Mrs Reinecke and Mrs Savidge choose a person (child or adult) who has been seen to do this! We hope all the children enjoy their hot chocolate pack - send us a picture of you enjoying your special celebration drink!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile':

Year 1 - Amalie S for being very kind and helpful in class. 
Year 2 - Oscar G for settling into Year 2, showing such a positive attitude towards learning and producing some amazing writing.
Year 3 - Raees S for continually showing the three R's in all that he does.
Year 4 - Aaron W for settling in so well, working hard and showing positive behaviour for learning.
Year 5 - Luke S for settling so qucikly to being in Year 5.
Year 6 - Tyler D for a fantastic return to school.
Greenland - Jack D-F for trying super hard and showing great responsibility.
Mrs Savidge - Ruby Y for being so kind and thoughtful to children as well as adults.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile' this week!

Our treats are ready to go and we are looking forward to Hot Chocolate Friday next week to celebrate with more fantastic Clockhouse people!



Citizen of the Week

 Citizen of the Week!


Well done to the following children who are Clockhouse Citizen of the Week for this week:

Year 1 - Hallee V
Year 2 - Freddy H
Year 3 - Elissa D
Year 4 - Vlad C
Year 5 - Demi T
Year 6 - Charlotte B
Greenland - Ben A

We have many fantastic citizens at Clockhouse and look forward to rewarding them!

Well done everyone!

Monday 7 September 2020

First day back for the little people

What a lovely first day back we have all had. The children certainly came back to school ready and raring to go and you should be very proud of them all. We certianly are!

They all settled very quickly and have already done some fantastic learning. Well done everyone!

Thank you to you all for making sure the children were well prepared for today and for making sure they all looked so smart in their school uniform.

Thank you also for your support and understanding with the current arrangments, we know it is not perfect and we hope that tomorrow will be a little easier now that we have all experienced the procedures today.

Here's to another great day tomorrow and a great year! 















Sunday 6 September 2020

Weekly reminders for week beginning 7th September

 Welcome back to the new school year everyone!!

We all hope that you have had and are still having a fantastic Summer Holiday and enjoyed lots of time with family and friends. We are looking forward to hearing about all your adventures.

As you are aware the staff went back to school last Thursday and have been busy training and getting the school ready for the children's return. We really cannot wait to see you all and although probably a little apprehensive (understandably), we hope in the main families are excited to return and get some sense of normality back. Please do only come at your allotted time (in the morning and the evening) to make things easier for everyone. We recognise that the times do not suit everyone, but as we are sure you can understand had to make decisions for the good of everyone. We are sure once we get into the swing of things, the new routine will work.

I hope, by now, you have read and seen all the information that has been sent out about our return to help and reassure you as well as preparing the children for how school will look for the foreseeable future. I will not go over it again here, but all information can be found on School Story and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to message us. I know many of you have seen the video sent on Friday about entrances, exits and what the school look like. If you have not please follow the link below:


Please do remember that PE kit should be worn on the days that your child has PE. Up until half term and as far as is possible, this will be outside. I know teachers have already shared PE days, but again, if you have any questions please do ask.

This week we will be launching our 'Back Together' Curriculum to support the children in their return to school. Please do ask them about what they have been up to and if you or they have any questions, concerns or worries please communicate these with your class teacher via Class Dojo.

Those children in Year 4 to 6 who had permission to leave classrooms on their own last year will be allowed to leave from the back gate independently on Monday and Tuesday this week unless we are told otherwise. A new permission letter will be coming home on Monday, the new list will take effect from Wednesday.

There will also be a VERY IMPORTANT letter on Monday which is our Coronavirus addition to our Home School Agreement, please ensure that this is returned to school immediately. Look out also for a little gift to mark the children's return.

Please be aware that, moving forward, any letters sent home will be done so electronically, unless we need something returned. These will be posted on Class / School Story. Whole school letters will also be posted on the school's Facebook page.

Once again welcome back everyone, here's to another successful year at Clockhouse Primary!

We cannot wait to see our Clockhouse Family!

Kind regards
Mrs Savidge 
For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link:


Saturday 5 September 2020

Whole School Improvements

Whilst everyone has been busy trying to enjoy their summer holidays, things have not stopped at Clockhouse and we are now ready to welcome the children back on Monday!

Along with a very thorough clean, there has been some significant building work and improvements taking place.

We have had the whole roof replaced over Year 1 and the Key Stage 1 Hall.











The chimney stacks have been removed.

The final section of coat pegs in the Key Stage 1 building have been replaced.

The corridor leading to the staffroom and Hungary has been painted.


A mini Gruffalo trail has been added to the Nursery Garden.