Spring 2019 - 15/01/19

Newsletter

Congratulations to our

Star of the Week

Reception: Charlie, Alfie Year 1 Angel-Rain, Riley-Lee, Brett Year 2: Tyler, Aman, Diego Year 3: Phabian, Joshua, Wiktoria Year 4: Tanya, Maya, Jack Year 5: Chloe, Maisy, Summer Year 6: Jayden, Acacia, Ezekiah

VIP’s of the Week

Year 1: Regan, Benson, Leyland Year 2: Divine, Maja, Rajunjay Year 3: Jonathan, Mason, Khloe Year 4: Kai, Kyle, Tamzin Year 5: Laraybha, Angel, Brooke, Callum Year 6: Cody, Mackenzie-Leigh, Sasha

Awarded Value of the Week

Perseverance

‘...Persistence in doing something despite

difficulty or delay in achieving success…’

Year 2: Chloe

Year 3: Noah, Jayden,

Year 4: Finlay, Evangeline

Year 5: Taylor, Reuben, Lilly

Year 6: Ryan, Julia A

Focus: English

New website

Our new website will become live

on Friday, 18th January.

Please visit https://tamesideprimary.academy

Welcome back and Happy New Year!!

All the children and staff have been excited to

return back to school. Already we have had

robots in school, World War II day, designed

sea creatures for the Abyss which is now used

as class display for children to add work to,

and a trip to the Birmingham Hippodrome with

parents and children. Please keep checking

our website for more exciting updates

happening in school.

We have also had some changes since

Christmas. Four new members of staff have

started, Mr Mills in Year 5, Miss Ritchie in Year

4, Mrs McGregor has joined us as a second

Vice Principal with responsibility for behaviour

and safeguarding, and Mrs Dhesi as our new

Safeguarding Officer.

You will also notice that we have updated our

Reception area ‘with a lick of paint’, plus, we

have had a brand new website - address is

below.

Mrs Mahoney, Principal

Our Christmas Carol Service at St

Francis of Assisi was lovely, Church

was filled with Christmas spirit with

some outstanding reading from Year

4, beautiful singing, performances by

Violins and Brass players

and the school choir. A

wonderful way to finish

the Autumn term.

Reception: Felix the robot came to visit

Reception this week to start off our new

topic Toy Story.

Thank you to all our parents who supported up

as we celebrated Try-A-School-dinner Day.

Contact us: Tel: 0121 556 0340; Address: Price Road, Wednesbury, West Midlands. WS10 0EZ;

Email: admin@tameside.sandwell.sch.uk; Website: https://tamesideprimary.academy

Parking on Walton Road and Price Road.

We have some issues at school with parents parking in front of emergency access,

across dropped kerbs, over junctions and zigzags outside our school. Some of these

areas have yellow lines—please adhere to parking restrictions as inconsiderate parking

can cause inconvenience to neighbours and other road users.

The existing school entrance markings on Walton Road are ‘No Stopping Monday to Friday 8am

– 4pm’.

Due to inconsiderate parking across a junction a child was nearly knocked over. To ensure the

safety of our children we have spoken with West Midlands Police. The outcome of this is that

around the hours of 8.30am - 8.50am, 11.30am and 3.25pm vehicular activity will be monitored.

In December parents/staff/neighbours/members of the public will be asked to take photographic

evidence of any vehicle that is causing an obstruction or parked in a dangerous manner. Any

vehicle registration number (VRM) we receive will be recorded, published in the school

Newsletter and passed on to West Midlands Police where a Fixed Penalty Notice will be issued.

The photographic evidence must show where and how the car was parked and show the vehicle

registration.

These actions are legal.

For your Information

Year 4—Birmingham Hippodrome

We are working alongside the

Birmingham Hippodrome -

introducing the world of drama to

our children.

The children had a fantastic day working with

Mr Hallsworth on Tuesday. All the children

took part in the drama activities which was

linked to their new theme 'Blue Abyss'. He

will be back working with year 4 next week

and then after that, he will be working with

another year group. We are all looking

forward to that!

Year 6 - Joseph and the Amazing

Technicolour Dream Coat

We are excited to tell you this year, Year 6,

will be performing ‘Joseph and the Amazing

Technicolour Dream Coat’ as an end of year

production.

This a great opportunity for our children to

work alongside Birmingham

Hippodrome. This will be replacing

the end of year Prom for this year,

and in the future.

Peter Pan - Birmingham Hippodrome

Children visited Birmingham

Hippodrome to see

‘Peter Pan - the

high-flying pantomime

adventure’ with their moms and

dads. A fantastic time was had by

all….oh yes they did!!

Declan and Ruby were invited

up on stage with ‘Mr Smee’

‘...I loved going on stage with

Mr Smee…’. Declan

Spoiler Alert: ‘…My favourite part was when the

crocodile stuck his head through the crack and

ate Captain Hook - I loved that part…’ Ruby

Thank you to our parents, Miss McDonald,

Birmingham Hippodrome and Shireland CAT for

making this possible.

Dates for your diary

January Fri, 18th - Training Day Thurs, 31st - Year 6 Parent SAT Meeting February Half term: Monday, 18th to Friday, 22nd April Fri, 12th - Training Day Easter holiday: Monday, 15th to Friday, 26th May May Bank Holiday: Monday, 6th Half term: Monday, 27th to Friday, 31st June Thurs, 6th & Friday, 7th - Yr 3 Residential at Cannock Chase July Wed, 3rd - Summer Fete Mon, 8th to Wed, 10th - Yr 6 Pioneer Centre Residential visit Monday, 22nd July—Training Day

Safeguarding our children

Please inform school when someone else is

collecting your child. We do not release

children to someone who we are unaware of

or do not know. Anyone collecting children

must be over 16 years old. You must provide

us with a password, and the person collecting

your child must give your chosen password to

the member of staff releasing your child.

Head lice

There have been cases of head lice in school.

Please check your child for these. Information

on how to deal with head lice can be found on

our website. (overleaf)

Nut Allergy

A child in Reception has a severe

nut allergy. Could we please ask

that you are more vigilant with the

products that you put in lunch

boxes and check they do not contain nuts.

Wearing earrings during P.E.

If your child wears earrings, as school policy states, you must send in plasters as we are not able to apply these. If you do not send in plasters to cover earrings, or remove earrings on P.E. day, your child will not be able to participate in P.E.

Violin lessons

If your child plays the violin you will be aware

that there have been no lessons over the past

few weeks. We have now been informed that

lessons will resume on:

Tuesday, 22nd January.

Please remind your child to bring in

their violins in to school.