Good afternoon,

here we are at the end of our third week back and time is whizzing by.

I wanted to say a huge thank you to you all: I know it is early days but our new “Drop Off” system went really well this morning. The children came in superbly, joined their friends and classes to wait for the whistle. They were all safely into their classes quickly.

The children were very positive this morning.

Thank you for your support, changes can be hard but with Team Crowmoor working together we can make changes a little easier.

“Always Proud To Be Crowmoor.”

Mrs P

Hello,

welcome back to everyone, it has been super to see all of you and your children again after the Summer break. I hope you all had a good Summer, what a shame that the weather has only just arrived.

You will see by the heading that I am Acting Head for a while longer. As soon as there is any news I will let you know. We continue to work with Shine Academies, we are all committed to improving the children’s learning and achievements.

I have been really pleased to see that the children have returned in their new uniforms: our uniform requirements are on the web but just in case; blue and white dresses, black/grey trousers and white/blue polo shirts (with or without our logo,)grey skirts or pinafores, navy blue sweatshirt or cardigan with or without our logo and black, flat shoes. Our PE uniform is very similar with black/navy shorts, white T shirt and/or black/navy jogging bottoms with trainers. Please let us know if you are finding it difficult to buy uniform, come and talk to us – we can help.

Our jewelry policy is also available on the web: earrings should be studs and removed for PE, no other jewelry but a watch, which is named, can be worn but your child will be responsible for it. The watch should not have the ability to send or receive messages.

I am very proud of our uniform and the children look extremely smart in it.

We pride ourselves in promoting a healthy lifestyle and eating healthily is part of our curriculum. We would really appreciate your help, if your child brings a snack to school it should be fruit, raisins, vegetables and/or a healthy bar. All of Beech, Elm and Chestnut classes have access to fruit at break times. Our school policy is for all children to have a water bottle in school with their name on it. They can refill with water throughout the day. Thank you for your support.

Two other reminders are as follows:

You should not drive into the car park unless you have a registered disability – there is a parking space for disabled drivers on site. The car park is extremely busy throughout the day with deliveries and staff coming to school and is not suitable for children to be walking across. Please drop off and collect your child via walking through the main gate.

I am extremely pleased to see more children cycling or using a scooter to get to and from school wearing their helmets. Once you and your child are at the outside school gate cycles and scooters should be pushed and parked in the designated cycle structures. We have a lot of adults and children and some very small children on our play-ground, cycling and scooting is dangerous on a crowded play-ground. I hope you can support us with this and everyone will be much safer.

Goodness, I seem to have had to add rather a lot of reminders but at least we will start as we mean to go on. If you have any questions or concerns, please ask – my door is open and the team at Crowmoor are willing to help. You can contact us/me in the usual way via a visit to the office, telephone or email.

admin@crowmoorschool.co.uk

I hope you have a super weekend, “Always Proud to be Crowmoor.”

Mrs P

P.S. Are there any of you with “green” fingers out there? We desperately need some help weeding The Late Queen’s Memorial Garden which is at the front of the school. There honestly are some beautiful roses, lavender and other plants in amongst Jack’s Beanstalk! Please let me know if you can help… Thank you.

Dear Parent/Carers,

I just wanted to let you know that we are pleased to announce that “Shine Academies” have been named as our Sponsors. Over the coming weeks and months there will be a number of meetings which you will be invited to to find out more about the process of academisation and how it will affect Crowmoor. The one certainty is that there will be changes but “The Crowmoor Family” are ready to embrace these. Indeed, we have already started to implement training for phonics, we have ensured consistency in out approaches to behaviours across the school and we have reviewed our curriculum in our foundation subjects. These are just a few things which we have been busy doing.

On Monday we welcome our new children to their Reception Class: Beech; for a “Stay and Play” session. This is such an exciting time but also one of anxiety for some parents and children. It is an enormous step starting school. The children will stay in their new classroom with their new teacher: Miss Shadbolt. Mrs Kenny will continue to be part of the EYFS team in Beech Class. It was great to have met many of you this week at the first “Induction” session. I wish them all lots of luck as they start their school journey at Crowmoor.

As we move nearer to the end of term and then the new academic year all of our children will have the opportunity to meet their new teachers in their new classrooms on Monday 3rd July for the morning.

Our staff structure will look like this from September:

Reception: Miss Shadbolt

Year 1: Mrs Dowell

Year 2: Miss Jones

Year 3: Mrs Roberts

Year 4: Mrs Brunyard (3 days) Mrs Fairclough (2 days.)

Year 5: Miss Hipkiss

Year 6: Mr Reynolds

The staff are all looking forward to meeting their new classes.

My door is always open if you have any questions. I have met many parents who have been extremely supportive and kind over the last year, to you I say a huge thank you.

We are, as our new signs say, “Proud To Be Crowmoor” always.

Enjoy your weekend,

Mrs P x

Good afternoon,

just a quick note to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate the Coronation of King Charles 111 this afternoon. The rain did not dampen our enjoyment. It was lovely to welcome so many of you and I really enjoyed chatting to you all. Crowmoor did it again and a good time was had by all. We were pretty lucky and I know lots of you managed to eat your picnics between the showers! Certainly dancing in the rain has a whole new meaning…

Thank you to The Friends of Crowmoor and all of the Staff who help to make these super events run so smoothly. But it has to be said the children just made the afternoon, all dressed in their red, white and blue outfits. The effort that was put into making the crowns was plain for all to see – well done. The winners will be announced and a prize awarded during next week’s assemblies.

Enjoy the rest of the long weekend and I shall see you all next Tuesday.

Best wishes,

Mrs.P. x