Important Covid Update! Please read!

Dear Parents / Carers

As we come to the end of a very different, difficult but none the less successful term, I write to outline the plans regarding Covid over the Easter holiday and for the return to school. Please read the below carefully as it is important!

You only need to inform the school of a child receiving a positive test if the symptoms appeared within 48 hours of them last being in school. Please inform us using Class Dojo or by emailing office@clockhouse.havering.sch.uk. A member of the team will then contact you. We will then follow the necessary steps in terms of contact tracing. As a school we are required to contact trace up until Wednesday 7th April, therefore please do keep an eye on the Dojo and please do answer calls that come from an unknown number as it could be us! If we inform you that your child has come into close contact with a positive test case before the end of term, they must self-isolate your child up to the date that we give you.

If the symptoms appear after 48 hours of the last being in school, you should follow the contact tracing instructions provided by the NHS Test and Trace. You can also inform the school using the above channels but there would be no further action for us to take.

As you are aware, even though it is the Easter holiday it is still vital that you of arrange for your child to be tested as soon as symptoms appear and that the household isolate until results are received. This must be through a PCR test. We would strongly advise that you do NOT order a home test, but that you book an appointment at a local test center as you will receive the results far quicker.

As always, thank you for you on-going support. It is such a tough time for us all, in so many different ways but we are in it together and will get thought it together.

I really do hope you all have a lovely Easter and here is hoping we will not be in touch over the holiday!

Stay safe!

Kind regards
Mrs Savidge

Clockhouse Matters

 

March Newsletter

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

March Newsletter

Comic Relief 2021

We are delighted to let you know that we raised a fabulous £458.72 for Comic Relief.

Everyone looked great in their red and enjoyed raising money for this worth cause.

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, Italy, Spain, USA, Mexico and Canada who lead the Reception and Key Stage 1 Dojo League.

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

Spain - 96.6%

Uganda - 95.3%
China - 98.1%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above for being the attendance winners for this week.

Sadly on 4 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - well done to those classes! 

We certainly need more next week - please help us!

A further well done to Nursery AM and PM, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Italy, Canada, USA, Brazil, Uganda and Fiji who were the only classes who had no lates this week. We are certainly hoping for a few more classes next time!

Whole school attendance for this week is:

93.5%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 96.8%

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

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':

Nursery - Ayyub C for making excellent progress since joining Clockhouse Nursery.  He should be very proud. 

Reception - Darine A (Scotland) for trying very hard with her phonics since returning to school.
Year 1 - Jack A (Italy) for trying hard with maths this week and supporting other children with their learning.
Year 2 - Abigail O (Mexico) for trying extremely hard with her reading and writing and amazing us with her effort when writing a diary entry as Mulan.
Year 3 -  Caitlin H-K (Peru) for always trying so hard to go the extra mile and showing the 3 R's.
Year 4 - Ivan (Kenya) for consistently showing the 3 R's since returning to school and making his teacher extremely proud!
Year 5 - Freddy E (India) for working relentlessly hard in maths.
Year 6 - Emma S (Australia) for showing maturity and making fantastic choices in school. 
Miss Ward - Mrs Moore for going the extra mile to help with lots of admin work.
Mrs Reinecke - Ava C (Japan) for showing fantastic resilience and determination in maths.
Mrs Savidge - Harrison E (South Africa) for working super hard with his writing.

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

Oscar

Imani

Harkaran

Amelia

Lavinia

Abigail

Key Stage 2

Dolly

Leani

Seren

Oliver

Jax

Cruz

Ryan

Teddy

Freddy

Dan-Luka

Donovan

Harrison

Grace

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:

Nursery - James D

Reception - Spencer W (Northern Ireland)

Year 1 - Scarlett H (Spain)

Year 2 - Aidan V (USA)

Year 3 - Omar A (Brazil)       

Year 4 - Lusian K (South Africa)
Year 5 - Ryan C (China)
Year 6 - Lucie L (New Zealand)

Greenland - Bobby M-J

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

Well done everyone!

Year 3 learn about Holi

In R.E. Year 3 have been learning all about different types of celebrations. 

Last week they were learning all about the Hindu festival of Holi. Holi is a festival that celebrates spring, love, and new life. For many Hindu's Holi is a time for fun. It is a colourful festival, with dancing, singing and throwing of powder paint and coloured water, which year 3 were able to see for themselves!  

Although currently unable to sing and dance, they enjoyed a demonstration of paint throwing before getting involved in throwing and flicking paint themselves to create their own celebratory masterpiece, eating a selection of colourful foods and making puppets to retell the story of Holika and Prahlad. The children and adults alike really enjoyed this memorable learning experience!

Weekly reminders for week beginning 29th March 2021

Well, it is almost impossible to believe that we are in the final week of the Spring term. What another strange but successful term is has been! Without your support, determination, trust and understanding we would not have been able to do what we have done and achieve all that we have. Thank you from us all. I am sure you are ready for the holiday and a good break especially as some of the restrictions begin to be lifted. I know the staff will be ready for the break come Thursday.

We are very excited to be welcoming back Wales on Monday - we missed you all last week!

OCA Easter Egg Roll

Please remember that on Wednesday, each class will be taking part in the OCA Easter Egg Roll. To enter your child needs to bring in 50p's worth of 10p's (5 x 10p's in total). The closest coin to the egg after all have been rolled wins the egg. OCA provide a great support to the school so please do help them help us, help your children by getting involved. Thank you in advance and good luck everyone!

Easter School Meal Holiday Scheme

As I am sure you have seen, Havering are once again providing support for families who are eligible for Free School Meals during the Easter Holiday. If you have signed up previously you do not need to do anything. If you have not you need to sign up by Tuesday 6th April in order to receive support. For more information please click on this link - https://www.havering.gov.uk/covid19mealsupport

Please look out for information coming out later in the week regarding contact tracing over the Easter holiday.

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:

Easter Holiday dayes

Please look out for the March Newsletter which will be coming out this week.

All that leaves me to do is wish you a very happy Easter and Easter holiday from us all when it arrives. We finish school on Thursday and we look forward to seeing you after the break on Monday 19th April. Enjoy lots of chocolate!

Have a good week everyone!

Stay safe team Clockhouse!

#ourclockhousefamily

Mrs Savidge

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

Clockhouse Primary School Website

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 started again 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, Italy, Spain, USA, Mexico and Canada who lead the Reception and Key Stage 1 Dojo League.

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

USA - 99.3%

Brazil - 99.4%
Japan - 99.3%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above. Well done to Japan who win for the second week in a row. 

  10 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 AM and PM, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil, Kenya and Japan who have all had 

no children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance for this week is:

95.1%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 97.0%

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

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':

Nursery - Bradley H for doing some amazing work with Mrs Weimer recognising all his numbers and reading words.

Reception - Jaiden F (Northern Ireland) for coming back to school knowing all of his numbers to 20 and working very hard.
Year 1 - Harry T (France) for going the extra mile to help another child during lunch times.
Year 2 - James B (USA) for working so well independently.
Year 3 -  Inaya R (Argentina) for being super positive with all her learning and being resilience and her imagination when a challenge was difficult.
Year 4 - Frankie S (Uganda) for coming back to school with such a positive attitude and being extremely enthusiastic and resilient with his learning.
Year 5 - Swaley R (China) for returning to school in a mature manner, and showing consistent good behaviour.
Year 6 - Melanie A (New Zealand) for going the extra mile in her learning and always trying her best to overcome any challenge. 
Miss Ward - Victoria C (USA) for showing great resilience and fabulous team work.
Mrs Reinecke - Azra K (USA) for being a great OPAL model and showing kindness to others.
Mrs Savidge - Jessica R (Italy) for her amazing story writing.

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

Mahi

Iris

Kuba

Dina

David

Isabelle

Key Stage 2

Bogdan

Ruby

Hawra

Alessya

Millie

Lacie

Daisy

Lenny

Karla

Maia

Klaudia

Mason

Grace

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:

Nursery - Maya S

Reception - Yuqub A (Scotland)

Year 1 - Frankie S (Italy)

Year 2 - Ruby T (Canada)

Year 3 - Dolly-Rose D (Peru)       

Year 4 - Harry S (Kenya)
Year 5 - Mason M (Japan)
Year 6 - Joseph T (Fiji)

Greenland -  Khloe F

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

Well done everyone!

Golden Letters of Success Spring 2021

A huge well done to all the children below who have received a Golden Letter of Success from Mrs Savidge. This was either for Outstanding Work, being an Outstanding Clockhouse Citizen or showing Outstanding Behaviour. If you have not received letters yet, they are on their way!

What an honour and we are all very proud of you!

We already busy looking for who will receive this awarded in the Summer Term.

Nursery

Antonio G

Nancy H-K

Olivia M

Reception
Freya C

Lleyton R

Riley F

Daniel K

Mikhaeel U

Zion R

Radu M

Agnes C

Year 1 
George F

Tommy-Lee M

Latifah-Bella D

Ahziah B-T

Ousman J

Andrea P-H

Freddie T

Iris B

Tommy Y

Ella S

Year 2

Dina T

Azra K

Dylan M

Noah J

David C

Amaan H

Lois M

Zahra M

Mariyah K

Maddison S

Archie C

Abigail O

Danilo R

Eliza S

Year 3
Demi-Leigh S

Piper P

Jake W

Ethan B

Leani F

Jack C

Katie A

Amelia E

Jacob M

Louie R

Hayley R

Layla M

Mason T

Holly D

Danial R

Year 4

Freddy R

Gracie B

Fabian S

Ronnie C

Harry S

Jessica W

Aania H

Jack C

Jai C

Year 5

Isla H

Harry M

Jaya C

Bubbacarr J

Sonny S

Ava C

Courtney B

George G

Tia B

Year 6
Lacey S 

Alexandra D

Dillan C

Ronnie D

Megan H

Umamah F

Brooke S-S

Jesse O 

Lucie L

Lola C

Christine A

Albie H

Freya R

Alvin S

Mason E

Greenland

Harlie S 

Ben A

Bobby M-J

Weekly reminders for the week beginning 22nd March 2021

We certainly had another good week at school. Your children continue to be fabulous but it would be remiss of me not to thank our incredible staff team for all that they are doing at the time! I am sure you will agree we are very lucky to have them all and they continue to do all they can to make it the best possible school experience for the children and families despite the considerable restrictions we all have to work to! 

Well done to all those who took part in Comic Relief and helped us raise money for this worthwhile charity. I will of course communicate the final amount with you in due course. Everyone certainly looked fabulous in red.

Help us, help you!

As I have said regularly, as a staff body we will do all we can to keep the children, you and ourselves safe but we do need your help. Below is set out how you can help us and I really do ask for your support and cooperation with this:

• Please ensure that you do not send the children to school if they or anyone in the household have any Covid symptoms.
• Please wear masks when waiting to come onto the school site and on the school site (unless exempt).
• Please ensure that when queuing to get on site, you maintain a social distance and you do not push into queues.
• Please continue to move when dropping off and picking up.
• Please do not hang around at the school gates after drop off and pick up.
• Please stick to the rules outside of school as per the Government expectations.
• Please think carefully about how you are queuing to ensure that there is still room to walk along the pavement.

Should you get a Lateral Flow (Rapid) Test or a PCR Test?

If your child or anyone in your household has Covid symptoms - a cough, temperature or a loss / change to taste or smell you must all isolate and get a PCR test. A PCR test is for people with symptoms. A number of parents have been getting LFT tests (the ones they do at the Collier Row Library or the ones that can be ordered for families who live with school age children). These are ONLY for asymptotic testing (people without symptoms) to help reduce the spread of the virus. As a school we cannot accept LFT results as proof that your child is negative if they have Covid symptoms. 

Japan

Japan do not forget that you have a non-uniform day on Tuesday as your reward for getting 100% attendance for the week. Well done to you all!

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:

OCA Easter Egg Roll

Have a good week everyone!

Stay safe team Clockhouse!

#ourclockhousefamily

Mrs Savidge

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

Clockhouse Primary School Website

Weekly reminders for the week beginning 15th March 2021

It was so lovely to welcome you all back to school. To see the playgrounds full and the school come to life was just wonderful and made us realise how much we have missed this. The children were absolute superstars last week and we are all looking forward to more of the same next week!

As I have said in a number of my communication, as a staff body we will do all we can to keep the children, you and ourselves safe but we do need your help. Below is set out how you can help us and I really do ask for your support and cooperation with this:

• Please ensure that you do not send the children to school if they or anyone in the household have any Covid symptoms.
• Please wear masks when waiting to come onto the school site and on the school site (unless exempt).
• Please ensure that when queuing to get on site, you maintain a social distance and you do not push into queues.
• Please continue to move when dropping off and picking up.
• Please do not hang around at the school gates after drop off and pick up.
• Please stick to the rules outside of school as per the Government expectations.

We have had a number of parents talk to us about the children's safety when walking down Lynwood Drive whilst Reception and Year 1 parents are queuing and waiting to come onto the site. Due the pavement being quite narrow, please can we ask the parents and children queue away from the road edge in order to allow pavement space for others to walk on and ensure they do not have to walk in the road. Thank you in advance for your support and your help for our whole community. 

Sumdog Competition

Do not forget that Mrs Overton has entered Clockhouse into the national wide Sumdog contest following our huge success last time. The contest started on Friday and will finish next Thursday 18th March at 8pm. Help us do as well as we can and get answering those questions! Good luck everyone!

Comic Relief

On Friday we will be supporting Comic Relief, please remember that for a small donation we ask that the children come to school dressed in something red or with red on.

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:

Comic Relief

OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) 

Have a good week everyone!

Stay safe team Clockhouse!

#ourclockhousefamily

Mrs Savidge

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

Clockhouse Primary School Website