The attendance winners this week are...

Well done to everyone for trying hard to ensure the children's attendance has been high this week but sadly this has dropped again this week - we need to improve next week which we certainly can. 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 - 97.00%

Peru - 99.31%
New Zealand - 94.67% 

Well done to Peru who will receive prizes in Achievement Assembly next week for having attendance over 99% and to New Zealand who win for the second week in a row.

A further well done to Wales, Scotland, Spain, Mexico, Canada,  Peru and Japan who have not had any children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance currently stands at

 95.1%!

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%.

Sponsored Walk

Well done and thank you to all the children, adults and younger siblings who completed the Sponsored Walk today.

It was lovely to see so many of you join us - a true community effort!

Please send sponsors forms into school by 15th July. Thank you.

Fantastic News for Clockhouse - well done everyone!

As we are sure you all already know Clockhouse Primary School was inspected by OFSTED on 17th and 18th May 2016.

Following the disappointment of the OFSTED Inspection in February 2014 when the school was deemed to ‘Require Improvement’ we have worked tirelessly with your support and that of the children, to improve the school. We are therefore absolutely delighted and very proud to be able to attach the report that has now been published. As you will see the OFSTED Inspectors agreed with our judgement that Clockhouse is now a GOOD school in all five areas in which we are judged.

Your eldest child at Clockhouse will today have come home with the report which identifies the many strengths of our school and also gives us useful information as to how we can improve even further. We are sure you will be pleased to hear, as we were, that the Inspectors were very impressed with the children, they certainly lived up to expectation and as you will see from the report were highly commended for their manners, their eagerness to learn as well as the progress that they are making with their learning and much more. Please thank them on our behalf.

Further thanks must go to you all. As parents / carers, you continue to work with us and support us and for that we thank you. Thank you to the many parents / carers who took the time out of their busy days to speak to the Inspectors and say such lovely things about Clockhouse, it was certainly very humbling to hear and the Inspectors were overwhelmed with how supportive you all are. A further thank you must go to the parents / carers who took the time to respond to the OFSTED questionnaire themselves or help their children complete the children’s version.

If you wish to discuss any matters raised in the report with either of us, please contact us via the school.

Here’s to the next chapter in the life of Clockhouse as our journey to Outstanding begins. We both look forward to sharing this with you!

Yours sincerely

Mrs J Collard David Leaper
Headteacher Chair of Governors

Year 6 are in the Romford Recorder

This Friday saw the publication of the Junior School Leavers in the Romford Recorder.

Follow the link below to see pictures of New Zealand, Fiji and Australia, our Year 6 classes, on pages 5 and 6.

Junior School Leavers

Weekly reminders for the week beginning 4th July 2016

As we are getting ever closer to the end of the term, life at Clockhouse is just getting busier and busier!

Peru and Scotland
Peru and Scotland perform the last of this years Celebration Assemblies on Monday, we look forward to seeing many of you there to celebrate all the learning that they have done so far this year. The assemblies promise to be a wonderful occasion if the efforts that the children have put into practising are anything to go by. 

Peru - 9.00am (Key Stage 2 Hall)

Scotland - 2.50pm (Key stage 1 Hall)

Year 6

Our resident artist will be in school for the final time this year when he works with Year 6 on Monday. This will involve the children learning about the artist Banksy and recreating art in his style. They will also be receiving a talk from TfL on Tuesday morning as part of the transition to secondary school.

Year 4

The last Year 4 class are off to Havering Country Park this week. South Africa will be going on Tuesday. Please send in consent forms if you have not done so already as without these the children will not be able to go on the trip.

Sponsored Walk
On Wednesday the children (and parents if they wish) will be taking part in the Sponsored Walk event, following the success of the last 2 years. We are currently investigating the possibility of adding some obstacles in as well! The children will come home with a card showing you the laps they completed so that sponsor money can be gathered or it can be kept as a memento for the day. If the children have managed to get any sponsors, please send these into school and thank you for your support.

The times below for the event are a guide, we will do our very best to stick to times. Please note the slight change to the Nursery afternoon time for the event.

Time	Year Group
9.10 – 9.30	Nursery (am)
9.30 – 10.00	Reception
10.00 – 10.30	Year 1
10.45 – 11.15	Year 2
11.15 – 11.45	Year 3
1.00 – 1.15	Nursery (pm)
1.15 – 1.45	Year 4
1.45 – 2.15	Year 5
2.15 – 2.45	Year 6

Please ensure that the children come to school with water bottles every day but especially on Wednesday.

Year 1
We look forward to welcoming our Year 1 parents for Learn with my Child on Thursday morning at 9.30am. The morning will finish at 11.45am. Please come for as little or as much as you can. Regrettably we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at these events.

Year 3
Year 3 look forward to welcoming families in for Greek food tasting after the sponsored walk on Wednesday. The Year 3 children are looking forward to welcoming Portals to the Past for their Ancient Greek Day on Friday. The children are also invited to dress up for this. Please send the money into school for this if you have not done so already.

Sport

Good luck to the Year 2 Athletics Team and the Year 5 and 6 team, who take part in the Borough Quad Kids Tournament on Tuesday! Good luck to the cricket team who take part in a the Cricket Festival on Thursday and to the boys football team who play Parklands away on Thursday. Good luck also to the gym team who will be putting on a display at 3.45pm on Friday.

A busy week ahead but enjoy it!

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

Lots of Dojos have been awarded this week, well done everyone!

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

Reception and Key Stage 1:

A big well done to Wales who have taken the overall lead in the Dojo League. Scotland are just behind them in second place with USA and Italy in third.

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

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

The attendance winners this week are...

Well done to everyone for trying hard to ensure the children's attendance has been high this week but sadly this has dropped this week - we need to improve next week which we certainly can. 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 - 95.00%

Argentina - 97.93%
New Zealand - 97.67% 

A further well done to Wales, Scotland, Italy, Mexico, Canada, USA , Peru, South Africa and India who have not had any children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance currently stands at

 95.2%!

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%.