Dear Parents/Carers,

It has nearly come to the end of the first full term of this academic year and my first full term as the

Head Teacher. I have thoroughly enjoyed leading our school into a new era, supporting staff to

provide the best learning experiences for your children and ensuring we all work together to have the

highest of expectations in everything we do.

Today we celebrated the good behaviour that has been noticed throughout the term. We have

celebrated the way your children have shown our school values of co-operation, honesty,

perseverance, responsibility, belonging and respect to abide by our school rules. The children had a

wonderful morning (and so did the staff) and I would like to say a huge thank you to all the staff for

going above and beyond to make the experience special. An extra special thank you to Mrs Shields for

organising the whole thing.

I would like to take this opportunity to say Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year and I look forward

to seeing you all on Wednesday 4th January 2017.

Kate O’Connor

Head teacher

Lessness Heath Primary School Newsletter

Respect Belonging Co-operation Honesty Perseverance Responsibility

16.12.16

Headteacher

Mrs K O’Connor

Deputy Head

Mrs L Shields

Quotes from Rewards morning

"You get to have fun with your friends!" Phoebe

"I think it really makes you work hard because you know you'll get a better reward!" Darcy

"It encourages people to behave and come to school." George W

"Everyone gets to have fun! If you have good behaviour and come to school everyday you get

the best rewards!" Amelia

"It was very fun! Really fun!" Zak

Additional INSET day on Friday 3rd February 2017

All the schools in the Primary First Trust are having an additional INSET day on Friday 3rd February. All

schools in the Trust will be closed to the children on this day. This day is in response to the government’s changes in Primary Assessment. We are notifying parents now in order to give you

reasonable notice of the long weekend for the children.

The school is also closed on Tuesday 3rd January for a staff INSET day. Children return to school on

Wednesday 4th January after the Christmas break.

Family Christmas Event - Monday 19th December

The school and parent group would like to invite you to come and hear the choir sing and have a mince pie and a mulled wine with us at 3.30pm in the front playground. We will be calling the raffle at

4pm and announcing the winners of the bear colouring competition.

There will be no charge for the event but we will have collection tins available to raise funds for the

school.

A special visitor in Year 6

Year 6 have had a special visitor this week who was a 'WW2 child evacuee'. We gained an insight of how it felt to be evacuated away from your friends and family during this war time period. The lady

was only eight-years-old when she was evacuated to Sussex with her 2 siblings, she then moved to Wales. She even went to 5 different schools! We learnt more about 'Barrage Balloons, V1 "Buzz"

bombs and V2 Rockets'. It was a great way to complete our topic, 'Tragedy and Triumph'.

Hayley House

Our choir sang for the residents at Hayley House last Friday. We received an email from them to let us know how much they enjoyed the performance.

Good afternoon,

I would whole heartedly like to thank the children, teachers and parents for coming to Hayley House to

sing for us last Friday. We all noticed the choir has improved so much. The children behaved excellently

and mingled with the residents afterwards.

We hope to see them all again before Christmas 2017.

Kind regards,

Tracy

Millwall visit Lessness

The Millwall FC Scholars and Steve Sallis came into Lessness Heath to discuss the school values and how the values can be linked into sport. After speaking with the children about how each value was,

and still is to this day, vital for the Millwall FC scholars to progress into the world of football. They were then shown around the school by the ‘Sports Leaders’ where the Millwall FC scholars and Mr Sallis labelled them as an ‘asset’ to the school.

Picture here of Kadie Leigh Rea (Year 6) at Lessness Heath Primary School with (from left to right) Nick

Farrell (Sports coach at Lessness Heath and Post 16 Educator at Millwall FC), Isaac Tanitoluwaloba Olaofe, Jethro Hanson, Matt Neary, Lewis White, Joe Wicks and Steve Sallis (Head of Education and

Player Welfare).

Changes in staff after Christmas

We will be saying goodbye to Mrs Lee this term as she leaves us at Lessness to pursue other roles in teaching. We would like to thank Mrs Lee for all her hard work and we wish her the best of luck for the future.

We welcome Mr Martin and Ms Fredua to Lessness after Christmas who will be working in Year 5 and Year 3 respectively. We look forward to them joining the team.

Asthma pumps

If your child has an asthma pump in school, on the last day of term we will be handing them back to

parents to check and then return to us on the first day of term. This is for parents to ensure the pump is still in date and to check all paperwork is up to date and still valid. All asthma pumps need to be in

the box they came in with the pharmacy sticker on and the child's name when they are returned.

Thank you for your co-operation with this.

Photos from our Christmas performances

Weekly attendance

Congratulations to Pelican in KS1 and Heron in KS2 for getting the highest attendance this week.

Registration Group

Percentage Attendance

Mrs Lee AM 80

Mrs Lee PM 78.7

Miss Baker 92.1

Miss Ransom 96.1

Miss Bennett 95.8

Miss Hunt 92.8

Miss Koonkoon 96.1

Mrs Dhana 96.7

Miss Nwko 95.5

Mrs Tongue 98

Mr Butler 95

Mrs Jensen 96.4

Miss Thorpe 94.8

Miss Bolton 96.2

Miss Watt 97.2

Mrs Sadler 93.1

Mrs Adedoyin 99.3

Mrs Hubbard 95.7

Mrs Adepetun 90.3

Miss Kanu 94.7

Miss Steele 92.9

Mrs Handley 95.7

The class who gets the best attendance in Nursery or Reception each week will be rewarded by having

the teddy in their class.

Congratulations to Miss Ransom in Cygnet class.

Miss Butler 91.4