Weekly reminders for week beginning 31st October 2016

Welcome back to the new half term everyone!

On behalf of us all a big thank you to the PA for arranging a very successful Fancy Dress Disco at the end of the term. The costumes were amazing and everyone certainly seemed to enjoy themselves. The children's behaviour was good - well done everyone and thank you for your support.

We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school tomorrow (Monday 31st October) and hope that you all had a lovely holiday!

Best of British Week
This week we will be celebrating Britain and the British Culture as per the letter that came out prior to the holidays. We are really looking forward to the street party on Friday 11th November as part of this.

Year 5 - Japan
Please remember that the children in Japan start swimming again in Monday of this week.

Nursery
The Local Authority will be holding a brief session for parents who need to apply for a place for their child for Reception next year. Please remember that even though your child has a place in the Nursery you still need to go through the Local Authority to get a place in Reception. The meeting will be at 9am on Tuesday (1st November) in the Key Stage 2 hall.

Year 4
Year 4 are off to the Saffron Walden Museum on Friday. Please ensure that money and consent forms are sent in by Tuesday if you have not done so alreaady.

Parents Evening 

Do not forget that on Wednesday and Thursday of this week it is Parents Evening after school. Teachers have been busy making appointments for everyone, so if, as yet, you do not have an appointment please contact your child's class teacher on Monday to make arrangements for a meeting. There will be a questionnaire for parents to complete whilst you are waiting. We do appreciate that this takes time but your feedback is invaluable to us as we continually strive to improve the educational experience we provide for the children and families we serve.

Sport

Good luck to the Tag Rugby team who play Towers Junior at home on Tuesday as well as taking part in a Borough competition on Thursday.

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:
Best of British Week

Have a good week everyone!

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

Clockhouse Primary School Website

Happy Half Term

From all of us at Clockhouse we hope that you have a fantastic half term.
Thank you for all your support this half term.
 We look forward to seeing you all and welcoming you back on Monday 31st October.

The attendance winners this week are...

Well done with attendance everyone, although not quite so good this week. We need to improve after the holiday! Remember:

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 - 96.25%

Argentina - 99.17%
China - 100%

A big well done to Argentina who will receive prizes next week for having attendance which is 99% and above! A huge well done to China for their 100% attendance, a fantastic achievement - they will also receive prizes!

A further well done to  Spain, Peru and Fiji who have not had any children arriving late to school this week! We need more classes next week!

Whole school attendance currently stands at

 96.4%!

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%.

October Newsletter

Please be aware of this month's newsletter which should have come home today. This does include important dates for this term.

Stand Up To Cancer on Thursday

Please remember that we are supporting this worthwhile charity on Thursday. You should have received this letter last week.

Harvest Festival

Please see this letter which came out last week about the Harvest Festival we are having this week. Thank you in advance for your support! 

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

Lots of positive Dojos have been earned 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:

There is no change in the Lower School league. A big well done to Northern Ireland and Wales who continue to be in the overall lead in the Dojo League. Canada are just behind them in second place with France in third.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to China who go into the overall league of the Upper School league with Peru in second place and Brazil and Kenya in third.

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

The attendance winners this week are...

We have just about maintained our improvements from last week this week, well done everyone, keep it up! Remember:

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 - 98.67%

Brazil - 98.00%
India - 99.33%

A big well done to India who will receive prizes next week for having attendance which is 99% and above! 

A further well done to Italy, France, Spain, Canada and Uganda who have not had any children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance currently stands at

 96.6%!

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%.

Parents evening - 2nd and 3rd November

Please be aware of this letter which came home last week. Please ensure this is returned to teachers this week so that appointments can be made.

Weekly reminder for the week beginning 17th October 2016

We cannot believe it is the last week of this half term already - where is the time going! We have another busy week ahead and it is only four days for the children.

Harvest Festival
On Tuesday we will be having our annual Harvest Festival with the children. If you have any tins or non perishables to send in please do so. The food bank is always grateful for what we give to them.

Year 4

We look forward to welcoming our Year 4 parents for Learn with my Child on Thursday morning at 9.30 am. Please come for as little or as much as you can. Regrettably we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at these events.

Stand up to Cancer
We will be supporting Stand up to Cancer this week. For a small donation, the children can come to school in non-school uniform on Thursday.

Fancy Dress Disco
The PA have their  disco on Thursday. This is a fancy dress theme. Please take your children to the Key Stage 2 hall and pick them up from here after.

Year 1, 2 and 3: 4pm-5.30pm

Year 4, 5 and 6: 6pm-7.30pm

School Closure

Please do not forget that Friday 21st October is a staff training day and therefore the school will be closed to children.

Sport
Good luck to the Boys Football team who play in a competition on Wednesday and to the boys also who play Harold Court on Tuesday evening.

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:
Harvest Festival - request
Parent - Teacher Consultations (Year R to Year 6)
Year Books (Year 6)
Reception Class Application Process (Nursery)
Reminder about School Closure - Friday 21st October
Stand Up To Cancer
Flatbread Making (Year 3)
Holiday Sports Club (Year 1 to 6)

Please look out for the October Newsletter coming home this week.

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do and we wish you a happy half term from us all when it gets here. We look forward to welcoming the Clockhouse Community back on Monday 31st October.

Have a good week everyone!

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

Clockhouse Primary School Website

Citizen of the Week

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

Reception - Jessica P
Year 1 - Alex C
Year 2 - Fabio R
Year 3 - Keira C
Year 4 - Daniel G
Year 5 - Franky B
Year 6 - Lilly-May T-J

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

Well done everyone!

Clockhouse explode into netball league action to top table!

Today Clockhouse kicked off their netball league campaign in emphatic style with a 13 - 2 victory over St Peters, to send Clockhouse top of the table.

After a poor warm up and a slow start Clockhouse sprung into life and dominated every aspect of the fixture. St Peters did well to capitalise on Clockhouse switching off and leaving players unmarked to score there two baskets.

But credit must go to the Clockhouse team who were led in a mature way by captain Gracie H who grabbed herself 4 of the Clockhouse points whilst also playing out of position for 10 minutes. Her help to motivate her peers was so passionate and a credit to the school. As the team continue to build, players continue to grow and the speed of the Clockhouse game gets ever quicker. Great performances tonight include Beth C, Kayleigh M, Bobby B, Rosie K, and Sophie L. There was also an impressive debut for Emma F.. Paris K also took another step to improving her defensive game.

Other scorers included Callum L, Charlie B x 2, and Year 4 Lily S-E who scored 6 goals as she continues to impress. Lily's movement off the ball to loose her marker who was a very tall, athletic Year 6 girl was fantastic.

A great effort played with Clockhouse passion! I look forward to seeing the squad at netball practise next week. Well done team!!!

Player of the Match - Lily S-E

Join the Collier Row Community around the Christmas Tree to switch on the town lights and spend an evening of free family fun.

Children can collect cards to get stamped at the five festive locations around Collier Row and finish with a visit to Santa in his grotto at Chigwell Window Centre.  You can also meet real reindeer and see Santa’s magical sleigh. There will be trampolines, children’s rides, activities and stalls in Ascension Church Hall, plus lots more!

Also, the Christmas Lights switch-on in Romford Market will take place on Thursday 17 November from 4.30pm - 6.30pm. There will be performances from Che Chesterman of X Factor fame and Lydia Lucy of The Voice, along with entertainers, fireworks and personal appearances from Sid and Scrat from Ice Age during the evening! 

Are you looking for something to do during half term?

Follow the link below to the Havering Website to find out what is going on in the local area:

School Holiday Activities

Please help us boost our IT Budget

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League has continued this week and there is a lot of competition for first place - well done everyone!

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

Reception and Key Stage 1:

A big well done to Northern Ireland and Wales who continue to be in the overall lead in the Dojo League. Canada are just behind them in second place with France in third.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Peru and China who are currently in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 Dojo League with Kenya in second place and Brazil in third.

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

The attendance winners this week are...

We have just about maintained our improvements from last week this week, well done everyone, keep it up! Remember:

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:

Mexico - 99.27%

South Africa - 98.97%
Japan - 98.00%

A big well done to Mexioc who will receive prizes next week for having attendance which is 99% and above! 

A further well done to Northern Ireland, Scotland, France and Fiji who have not had any children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance currently stands at

 96.6%!

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%.

PA Fancy Dress Disco

Please be aware of this letter that came home from the PA last week. This is for the fancy dress disco on Thursday 20th October for children in Year 1 to Year 6. Please note money and slips need to be returned by this Friday (14th October).

Thank you for your support.

Weekly reminders for week beginning 10th October 2016

Another good week was had at Clockhouse last week with another busy week coming up.

Year 5 - Japan
Monday will be the last swimming session of this half term. The children in Japan will re-start swimming on Monday 31st October.

Year 2 and Year 1

We look forward to welcoming our Year 2 parents for Learn with my Child on Wednesday morning at 9.30am - 11.45. Please come for as little or as much as you can. Regrettably we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at these events.

We also look forward to welcoming Year 1 parents for Learn with my Child on Thursday morning from 9.15 - 10.30. Again regrettably we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at these events.

Sport

Good luck to the Netball team who play St. Peters away on Wednesday and to the Tag Rugby team who also play St. Peters at home on Friday.

School Closure

Please do not forget that Friday 21st October is a staff training day and therefore the school will be closed to children.

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:
Help us boost our IT budget
Fancy Dress Dicso (Year 1 - 6)
Birds of Prey visit (Year 1)
Trip to Saffron Walden Museum (Year 4)
Learn with my Child (Year 1, Year 2 and Year 4)
Bournemouth Trip (Year 6)
Welcome to Nursery

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:

Clockhouse Primary School Website

Clockhouse Get GOLD!

It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Clockhouse Primary School has been awarded the Gold School Games Mark for our excellent PE and extracurricular provision. Over the past 4 years Clockhouse have climbed the ladder starting with a bronze, then spending 2 years at silver, before finally being awarded the highest accreditation.

Clockhouse become only the 5th school in the whole of the Borough of Havering to receive this accolade. To achieve this award we had to meet some rigorous criteria including providing leadership opportunities through sport, working with a number of local clubs to form links, and provide opportunities for ALL children to participate in sport.

In addition to providing leadership and external opportunities Clockhouse had to offer a certain percentage of children extracurricular opportunities. Our data shows that over 75% of our children attend clubs. Furthermore, the school had to enter a certain number of tournaments and festivals whilst also compiling a huge fixture list in a range of sports where we proved to be very successful.

Finally we had to ensure our children were being offered a minimum of 2 hours physical activity a week in curriculum time, that engaged all aspects and levels of learning, whilst also monitoring the growth of our pupils recording levels where appropriate.

The process to achieve a Gold School Games Mark for PE was not easy and huge thanks and congratulations have to go to Mr Yarrow for all that he has done for sport at Clockhouse - he has certainly put us on the map!

As we mentioned earlier, only 5 schools in a Borough of over 80 schools have achieved this Mark, and this is credit to our hard working and dedicated pupils and parents. Thank you and well done to everyone for your help in making Clockhouse a well known sporting success!

Free Cycle Training at half term!

The borough are offering free cycle training this October half term.

Learn to Ride training (for complete beginners and wobblers):
Monday 25th Oct – 9-11am & 2-4pm
Tuesday 26th Oct – 9-11am & 2-4pm
Wednesday 27th Oct – 9-11am & 2-4pm
Thursday 28th Oct – 9-11am & 2-4pm

Bikeability Level 1 & 2 training (ages 9-11):
Monday 25th Oct – Thursday 28th Oct – 11.30am – 1.30pm

Location:
MyPlace, 343 Dagnam Park Drive, Harold Hill, Romford, RM3 9EN

To book free places please visit http://www.cycleconfident.com/sponsors/havering/ or call Cycle Confident on 020 3031 6730.

Citizen of the week

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

Reception - Stanley G
Year 1 - Lucia B
Year 2 - Lola C
Year 3 - Taylor H
Year 4 - Lola P-W
Year 5 - Miles L
Year 6 - Taser Y

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

Well done everyone!

Special Dinner Day - Thursday

Do not forget that we have our first special dinner day of the year this Thursday!

We would like as many children as possible to have school dinners on Thursday so even if your child does not normally have school dinners, why not try it on Thursday!

Fund Raising

Thank you to all those that have supported our two fund raising events so far this half term.

I am delighted to inform you that we raised a fantastic £403.79 for Genes for Jeans and a further £171 from the Macmillan Coffee Morning.

Both fantastic causes - well done everyone!

Clockhouse netball team suffer narrow defeat but learn so much in the process.

On Friday the new look Clockhouse netball team took a trip to Brentwood to play a very strong St Peters Netball Side.

Clockhouse used the game as a learning curve with many new faces representing the school before openning our league campaign next week.

Clockhouse started brightly and netball captain Gracie H put Clockhouse ahead finding the hoop for her first of six scores on the day. Lily S-E scored Clockhouse's other hoop, and playing throughout with a maturity beyond her years.

Clockhouse moved  the ball around well and looked particularly comfortable in the attacking third. That being said it was the Clockhouse defence that deserves a lot of praise, a totally new look defence with all players making their school debuts and impressing under a baptism of fire.

As we move forward we will look to inject a lot more pace into our game whilst remaining in control and also working hard with marking and footwork.

Final Score St Peters 9 - 7 Clockhouse

A strong start for a new look team that will continue to grow in confidemce as we look towards the High 5 competition and our first league game.

WELL DONE TO EVERYONE ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO REPRESENTED THE SCHOOL FOR THE FIRST TIME AND GRACIE H WHO LED BY EXAMPLE THROUGHOUT!

Onwards and upwards!!!

Player of the Match - Lily S-E

September Newsletter

Please be aware of this month's newsletter which came out last week. This does include important dates for this term.

Please be aware that the date for School Photographs is incorrect on the newsletter, it is in fact 8th November. Apologies in advance.

The importance of attendance

Please be aware of this letter which came out last week. This highlights the importance of attendance and how only a few days absence can affect overall attendance and therefore the progress your child makes whilst with us. Thank you in advance for your support with this.

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The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League has continued this week and there is a lot of competition for first place - well done everyone!

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

Reception and Key Stage 1:

A big well done to Northern Ireland and Wales who continue to be in the overall lead in the Dojo League. Canada are just behind them in second place with Scotland and France in third.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Brazil, Kenya, South Africa and China who are currently in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 Dojo League with Japan in second place and Brazil and Uganda in third.

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

The attendance winners this week are...

We have just about maintained our improvements from last week this week, well done everyone, keep it up! Remember:

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:

Scotland - 99%

Kenya - 98.56%
Australia - 98.33%

A big well done to Scotland who who win for the second week in a row and again to Scotland who will receive prizes next week for having attendance which is 99% and above! 

A further well done to Northern Ireland, Spain, Canada, Peru and Fiji who have not had any children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance currently stands at

 96.7%!

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%.

Weekly reminders for week beginning 3rd October 2016

We have had another good week at Clockhouse and are already looking forward to what the next week has in store.

Thank you to all those parents who are really 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. Please do remember to fill in their Learning Diaries to provide teachers with feedback.

Year 1, 2, 3 and 4
The Year 1, 2, 3 and 4 children will be watching a Theatre production about Road Safety on Wednesday, please do take the time to discuss this with the children.

Year 6
Year 6 parents and carers, do not forget we have the SATs and Bournemouth residential meeting on Wednesday at 5pm in the Key Stage 2 hall. There were big changes to how the children are assessed last year and this will continue this year so please do try to attend. We look forward to seeing many of you there.

Year 3

We look forward to welcoming our Year 3 parents for Learn with my Child on Thursday morning at 9.30 am. Please come for as little or as much as you can. Regrettably we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at these events.

Sport

Good luck to the netball team who take part in the borough high 5 Netball competition on Wednesday and to the boys football team who play St. Edwards away on Wednesday and Scotts away on Friday.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:
September Newsletter
Important Information about Attendance

Learn with my Child (Year 3)
SATs and Bournemouth Meeting (Year 6)

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:

Clockhouse Primary School Website