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Week beginning 24th April 2023
Sat 22 Apr 2023Week beginning 24th April 2023
Welcome back, here’s to a fabulous summer term and we hope the children have enjoyed their first week back at school.
Eid Mubarak! We would like to wish a happy Eid-al-Fitr to all those celebrating yesterday and over the weekend. We wish you a blessed Eid, filled with joy, love and peace. Additionally, a massive thank you to our parents who ran a hugely successful Eid bake sale on Thursday and raised a massive £702 for our school! Thank you also to those of you (there were many!) who supported this by purchasing the lovely items. It was another example of our school community getting together and was great fun!
ABCD Award: congratulations to Miss Hale and Mrs Spencer who this week have won the staff award of going Above and Beyond the Call of Duty, for stepping in to help school council and always being lovely and positive and for always being kind and on hand to help us! Superstars.
Our Amazing Mixed Football Team: colossal congratulations again to our Mixed Football Team who have come top of the Croydon Schools League Division A. They won all 10 matches with the following scores: Hayes 5-1 Kenley; Hayes 7-0 Oasis Byron; Hayes 4-1 Oakwood; Hayes 8-1 Oasis Byron; Hayes 3-0 St Davids; Hayes 3-0 Oakwood; Hayes 6-2 Kenley; Hayes 8-0 St Davids; Hayes 4-0 Beaumont; Hayes 4-0 Beaumont (repeat score).
We are immensely proud of you all and yesterday in assembly awarded you with your certificates and medals. You continually played with resilience, passion, respect and pride for your school and are simply fabulous. 1000s of thanks to the coaches, including Miss Hale and Mr Clottey, alongside our parents – this accomplishment could not have happened without you as well. The below photos (and more) can be seen on our on the school website.Here is what’s coming up next week…
We were delighted to welcome back Miss Harman this week following her maternity leave, she has resumed her role as Year 1 class teacher in a job share with Mrs Lishmund. Miss Harman has enjoyed getting to know the children and their families over the last 2 days, we also thank Mrs Lishmund for agreeing to work full time to cover this period of maternity leave. Now that Miss Harman is back at work, Mrs Lishmund can return to teaching Class 4 on a Friday which was her original role prior to covering for maternity. We also thank Miss Smallwood for working full time to ensure consistency for the children up until this point.
St Georges Day: on Monday 24th April, we are celebrating St George’s day in school and the children who are members of uniformed organisations are invited to wear their rainbows, brownies, guides, cubs, scouts, beavers etc uniforms to school.
Science Week: we will also be celebrating Science week this week and the theme is ‘connections’. We thank Miss Piamya, our science co-ordinator, for the hard work that has been put into organising the week’s event. All children will participate in a science workshop and will take part in several Science investigations over the course of the week. A reminder for payment for Science workshops which is £2.50 to enable these events to continue.
Assembly: Class 1 will be leading their assembly to parents on Tuesday 25th April. If you have a child in this class and wish to join us, please do come to the school hall for a 9:15 start.
Strike Day: on Thursday the 27th April (and the 2nd May), the National Union of Teachers (NEU) have called for further strike action. As explained previously, there is no requirement for staff to tell us of their intention to strike. Unfortunately, following the last period of strike action, when advance notice was given, some of our staff faced negative/unpleasant comments from parents in our school community ahead of their industrial action. This was disappointing to hear. Whilst we recognise that strike action can cause disruption to families, it is the right of an individual to take this action if they feel strongly about issues affecting the education sector and the issues they are fighting for span well beyond teacher pay. For this reason, whilst previously we tried to get information out earlier, we will not now be in a position to let you know which classes will be closing until the morning of the strike when we will send a text message at 8:00am to confirm arrangements. Please do make contingency plans for child care in the event of class closures.
Free School Meals: please may we remind all parents to check their eligibility for Free School Meals (FSM) including those in the infants who receive universal free school meals. This can attract extra funding to our school that can be used to support the children’s learning needs. As a thank you for parents checking their eligibility, any parent that confirms positive eligibility via lgfl checker or is found to be eligible for free school meals via the checker will receive a £20 voucher to spend in M&S on school uniform as a thank you for taking the time to do this.
Welcome to Mrs Blewit, an experienced teacher who will be teaching Class 3 from next week. She is covering for Miss Hale whilst she is on maternity leave. Miss Hale’s last day was Friday and we wish her and her partner all the very best and much love for the forthcoming months. We cannot wait to see the baby!
Lolly sales will begin after school on Friday 28th April. We thank the PTA for organising these sales. Ice lollies will be available at a cost of 50p or £1 each Friday after school during the summer term.
Thank you for your ongoing support.
The Hayes Team
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Week beginning 17th April 2023
Sun 02 Apr 2023Week beginning 17th April 2023
On Friday, we broke up for the Easter holiday and school will be closed for two weeks. We return back on the 17th April when we start our summer term of learning and fun.
Last Monday, the Local Authority Advisor visited The Hayes. She always writes a report to follow, please read some wonderful comments about our VIP Pupil Advocates alongside the learning behaviours of our children: ‘It was great to be shown around the school by some of your Year 6 pupil VIP advocates who clearly take seriously their pupil leadership roles; they demonstrated good knowledge and genuine pride in their school. They were keen to point out the school values display and explain how everyone in the school understands them. They also described some of the enrichment experiences, such as a visit from a former Olympian, and the value of having a swimming pool on site. They enjoyed showing me the cabinet of trophies and talking about the sporting successes. It was encouraging that, without prompting, they described sporting behaviours and commented on the opposition teams being ‘good sports’ and ‘taking it well when they lost’. During the walk around the school, we observed Little Wandle reading practice groups. This is now fully embedded and there is early evidence of good progress in pupils’ phonics knowledge. As always, pupils throughout the school displayed highly positive learning behaviours and respectful relationships with their peers and adults. Pupils are happy to speak up and it is clear that there is a strong focus on valuing pupil voice in the school.
Class 2 Assembly: a HUGE well done to the children in class 2 who led a fantastic assembly this week all about Lyla and the Secret of Rain and taught us all about Kenya. They performed with great confidence and one child said they had enjoyed the experience of performing to parents so much that they asked Miss Slade if they could do it all over again!
Egg rolling: we would also like to say thank you to our PTA who provided the prizes for the egg rolling competition. The children had fun taking part in this last week and cheered for each other showing great sportsmanship!
Carroty Wood: we were delighted to welcome our Year 5 children back to school on Friday following their residential to Carroty Wood. The children all reported having an amazing time and we thank, once more, the staff who accompanied the children on this exciting opportunity. Despite the rainy weather, the children had a blast and one child reported that it was ‘the best school trip I have ever been on!’ Others said: we really liked the high ropes because we could jump really far and accomplished something that we thought we would never be able to do!’; ‘my favourite part was trying the leap of faith, I actually did it!’ We will upload photographs of the children on the school website, shortly!
ABCD Awards: last week, the going Above and Beyond the Call of Duty award (to celebrate the greatness of our staffing team), went to three of our support staff: Mrs Thornton, for always being kind, caring and helpful and taking us into lunch with a smile! Mr Rainsbury, by always looking after our school and keeping it running. Mrs Scola, for always having a massive smile on her face and making us happy and to Mrs Lee, by being Superhuman! Well done to all.
A message from The Hub at Kenley Memorial Hall: every Thursday during school term time, from 1-2.30pm, the large hall at Kenley Memorial Hall hosts a Play Cafe for adults with pre-school children, offering a light lunch, drinks and a large space for the children to play for a suggested £1 donation. The same day and time, the small hall hosts a Warm Hub Cafe for adults in the community to use, offering a place to meet and chat or relax, with soup, bread and hot drinks. No booking is required. If this is something you are interested in but the day and time don’t work for you, Croydon Council has a list of all the local warm spaces on its website and there is something on offer most days.
Work Experience: over the summer term, we will be working hard to support members of our local community to learn and gain new skills. We will be welcoming a number of work experience students and adults working towards teaching assistant qualifications. We are sure they will be given a warm welcome while they are with us.
Football team: our football team are through to the ‘super league’ and we wish them the best of luck in their first match against St Josephs on 18th April (first week back). We are proud of you and know that you will be the best you can be.
Eid Event: after school on Thursday 20th April, there will be a cake sale in the playground to celebrate Eid. We thank the parents who have organised this event and wish all the members of our school community celebrating Eid-al- Fitr a special day on Saturday 22nd.
Lolly Sales: PTA summer term lolly sales will resume on Fridays after school. Lollies can be brought for 50p-£1. This is a much cheaper option than the ice cream van that parks outside of the school and all profits go to the PTA/school.
Science Week: we are excited to let you know that the week beginning 24th April will be our whole school ‘Science Week’. The children will have the opportunity to take part in a range of practical experiments throughout the week. We are thrilled that we have been able to book Fizz Pop as part of our ‘Science Week’. Fizz Pop currently runs our afterschool Science club and Stuart is delighted to run Science workshops for the whole school during the week, where each class will take part in hands on experiments. These workshops inspire young people to develop a passion for learning, experimenting and scientific investigation. A donation of £2:50 would be gratefully received to help fund these exciting opportunities. Please pay on ParentPay.
Share Your Creativity in the Great Outdoors Photography Competition: It is time again for a new season of photos for our Great Outdoors Seasonal photography competition. Believe it or not, Spring began on the 20th March and ends on the 21st June. So, during the half term holiday, get out in the great outdoors and enjoy the wonders of nature and wildlife around us!
What to do: take a photograph that celebrates spring as you see it. Photos should feature landscape or portrait photographs of natural settings. It can be of wildlife, woodland, seascape – of anything that depicts Spring at its finest. Equipment: the photo can be taken on a tablet, phone or camera.
Winners: there will be one winner from the following key stages EYFS, KS1 (Year 1/2); lower KS2 (Year 3/4), upper KS2. Prizes: winning photos will take pride of place in our news bulletin, website and Twitter pages. The winning photos will be displayed in a large frame in the school corridor in the form of a collage.Terms and Conditions:
*Photograph to be taken by a child (not adult) on either a camera, tablet or smart phone.
*One entry per child.
*Photo to have a title.*Entrants email to Mrs Staines: wstaines.306@lgflmail.org who is the administrator for this exciting, new competition.
*With entries (jpg), please state name of child and class.
*Closing date: Friday 9th June, 12pm
*Judges: our School Council, Governors and Miss Slade.That just leaves us to say, have a happy and safe break and see you on the 17th April.
