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OFFICE EMAIL (office@monkfrithschool.co.uk)
From
now on, please use the email at the top of the newsletter to report absences
or send notes to the office. Thank you.
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N.B. YEAR 6 PARENTS-2ND
ISLE OF WIGHT PAYMENT DUE ON FRIDAY 10TH FEBRUARY
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CURRICULUM
MEETING FOR PARENTS-Wednesday 15th March at 6.00 p.m.
Miss
Donaghy will be running a curriculum meeting so
that you can find out how to help your child in their journey to fluency in
reading and writing. She will provide lots of ideas about how you can help
your child at home and information about the extra challenges of the new
English curriculum. We do hope you can join us.
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ONE PARENT
GOVERNOR POSITION
We
have one position for a parent governor on the governing body and invite
interested parents to fill in a nomination form and submit it to the office
by Friday 24th February. Being a governor is really rewarding and
gives you the opportunity to make a very real difference to the education,
welfare and experience that all children have at Monkfrith.
Parent
election letters and nomination forms will be emailed out today and can also
be downloaded on the governor download page of the school website. Our next
governing body meeting is on the 22nd March and we look forward to
our new parent governor being in place for this meeting.
For
more details about the role of the governing body please see the governor
pages on the website. The 2016 governing body annual statement will give you
an insight into the issues governors have addressed over the past year.
Please also feel free to approach some of our current parent governors or to
email the Chair of Governors on monkfrithgovernors@hotmail.co.uk to find out more
about the role.
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CHANGES TO PARENT
CONSULTATION TIMES
Please
note the extra morning slots added to the Monday consultation times and the
earlier start on Wednesday.
Monday
27th February: 8.00am to 8.40am
4.00pm – 6.00pm
Wed 1st March: 5.30pm – 8.00pm
Sign up sheets will be available at the main gate on Monkfrith Way on Tuesday 21st February from
8.30am. After that they will be held
in the office and you may text, phone and leave a message or email your
requested time.
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SWIMMING IN YEAR
4
Please
note that swimming is an important part of the Physical Education curriculum
and that children should only miss these sessions on very rare occasions. If
a child is well enough to be in school then they are well enough to swim.
Unless the hospital has advised against swimming or you have a note from a
doctor, all children are expected to take part in swimming lessons.
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A MESSAGE FROM
PCSO BURDA
Dear All,
Below are the Ward crime stats for January.
We had sixteen burglaries last month, which is up considerably on the
six we had in December. Five of the burglaries happened during the last three
days of the month. In one of these burglaries, in Osidge
Lane, an alarm linked directly to the police was triggered but the suspects
still quickly burgled the house. Police arrived within ten minutes of the
alarm going off but the suspects had already gone, they were seen by a member
of the public climbing over fences into Shamrock Way and fleeing in a waiting
blue Nissan Qashqai or similar vehicle.
There were nine motor vehicle offences last month, which was again up
on December's figures. One of these offences was the theft of a handbag from
a vehicle parked in New Southgate Cemetery. Several years ago we had a spate
of handbag thefts from the Cemetery so please try to remember to lock your
vehicle and remove valuables from it regardless of where you are parked.
Regards,
Justin
PCSO Justin Burda | Brunswick Park Safer
Neighbourhood Team
Tel: 0207
161 8020 | Email: Justin.Burda@met.police.uk
Address: 29 Friern Barnet Road N11
www.met.police.uk/teams/barnet/brunswickpark
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JANUARY CRIME STATS
Burglaries: 16 - Compared to 6 burglaries December 2016 and 12
burglaries January 2016
Residential Burglaries (12) - Cowper Road N14 (entry via garage
door) Hampden Way N14 (entry through first floor window), Hampden Way N14
(rear door forced open), Brunswick Park Road N11 (smashed window), Marshalls
Close N11 (forced patio door), Oakleigh Road South N11 (climbed through small
ground floor window), Friars Walk N14 (glass smashed in rear door), Pymmes Green Road N11 (front door forced open), Burleigh Gardens N14 (smashed glass at rear), Osidge Lane N14 (glass in rear door smashed), East Walk
EN4 (rear window forced open), Russell Lane N20 (entered through insecure
door)
Attempted Residential Burglaries (2) - Friern
Barnet Road N11 (forced window open), Nurserymans
Road N11 (tool marks on front door)
Non Residential Burglaries (2) - Russell Lane N20 (shutters forced up
and glass smashed), Church Hill Road EN4 (vacant house, front door forced
open)
Motor Vehicle Offences: 9 - Compared to 6 offences December 2016
and 10 offences January 2016
Theft of vehicle (3) - Hampden Way N14 (Nissan Juke on '63' plate),
Hampden Way N14 (Mercedes sprinter van on '65' plate), Russell Lane N20
(Citroen Saxo on '02' plate)
Theft from vehicle (4) - Summit Way N14 (cash and wallet stolen), New
Southgate Cemetery N11 (handbag stolen), Oakleigh Road South N11 (wing mirror
stolen), Oak Way N14 (tool box stolen)
Theft of number plates (2) - Marne Avenue N11, Parkside Gardens EN4
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BRICKS
AND BREEZE BLOCKS NEEDED FOR RECEPTION CLASSES
The bricks and breeze blocks in our Reception
outside area have been so well used that we have almost worn them away! We
need more house bricks (any type) and breeze blocks (cut in half, if
possible) for little hands to be creative with. Please let us know if you can
provide either. Thank you hopefully!
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BIKE
TRAINING FOR YEAR 3 AND 4
We
have been offered more Level 1 Bike Training! The training is open
to children in Year 3 and any children in Year 4 who did not take part
last year.
The outcomes of the training are:
• To encourage and develop basic
cycle control skills.
• To give trainees the confidence to use their cycles
more often.
If
you would be interested in your child receiving this free training, then
please let the Office know by Monday 20th February - we can
have a maximum of 24 children taking part and places will be offered on a
first come/first served basis. Children will need a bike
(without stabilisers) and a helmet to take part.
Dates
and times will be confirmed nearer the time.
Free Cycle Training for Adults and Families
If you live, work or study in the London Borough of Barnet
you can receive free adult one to one cycle training or free family cycle
training for up to 3 people, one of which must be an adult. If you
would like to arrange your free cycle training, then visit www.cycleconfident.com.
Miss Deasey
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PARKING PROBLEMS
IN BROOKSIDE SOUTH
Thank
you to all the parents who have tried to improve the parking problems in
Brookside South by parking considerately. There are still a few parents who
are still parking too close to dropped kerbs meaning our neighbours cannot
turn into or out of their drives. Please park carefully or even better, further
away!
Parking Sin Bin
Ford
B Max LM64 UHK parked across one of the drives and left the car sticking out
while they ran to collect a child from KS1.
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BE SAFE, BE SEEN
Make
sure your child is seen easily in the dark mornings and evenings.
We
are selling fluorescent armbands (to go on coat sleeves) for Reception and
Key Stage 1 children (£2 each) and fluorescent reflectors to attach to bags
or zippers for Key Stage 2 classes (£1.50).
If
you would like to purchase an armband (KS1) or a reflector (KS2), please send
the money into school with your child in a named envelope labelled ‘armband’
or ‘reflector’(please specify either football,
dinosaur or owl).
We
have a limited number for sale so ‘first come first served!’
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HEADLICE REMINDER
We
are currently seeing a few cases of head lice mostly in Year 1 at the moment.
Please make sure that you let us know if your child has head lice so that we
can warn other parents to check their child’s hair. After treating your
child’s hair make sure you continue to check every few days for any eggs that
may still have hatched. A good way of keeping them at bay is to put plenty of
conditioner on your child’s hair at bath time and comb through with a very
fine tooth comb.
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THE
MONKFRITH SPRING RAFFLE EXTRAVAGANZA
Do you or a friend / family member have their own business? Can you help us
fundraise for our children's playground? FOMS are planning a big springtime
raffle and we are looking for businesses who would be happy to donate a
raffle prize. This could be donations such as a gift card for a service
(beautician etc ), a voucher for a restaurant, or an item or voucher from
a shop. If you are able to donate something to help the fundraising for
the playground, please do contact us at F.O.M.S@outlook.com, speak to a
committee member, or put a note in your child's book bag for the attention of
FOMS. We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Thanks and best wishes for 2017,
The FOMS committee
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48 HOUR RULE RE
SICKNESS AND DIARRHOEA
We are
experiencing a lot of cases of the winter vomiting bug at the moment
especially in Key Stage 1. Please make sure that children stay off school for
48 hours counted from the last bout of sickness or diarrhoea. Thank you for
your help.
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CLASS ASSEMBLIES
Wednesday 8th
February- Y5 football tournament for selected team.
Wednesday 8th
March at 3.00 p.m.-Y1D
Thursday 16th
March 9.00 a.m. Ukelele concert for Year 3 parents
Wednesday 22nd
March at 3.00 p.m.- Y1C
All families and
friends welcome.
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DATES FOR THIS TERM
Tues 7th
February: 2.30 p.m. Key Stage 1 Concert (Y1 and Y2). Parents welcome. (£1 on
the door per person)
Wed 8th
February: 9.30 a.m. Key Stage 1 Concert (Y1 and Y2). Parents welcome. (£1 on
the door per person)
Thurs 9th
February: 9.30 Reception parents coffee morning
Fri 10th
February: Second payment for Y6 IOW trip due.
Mon 13th Feb-Fri 17th Feb: Half term
holiday ( school closes at the usual time, After School Club in operation)
Wed 22nd
February: Y4 football tournment for selected team.
Mon 27th
February: Parent consultations 2.00 p.m.-6.00 p.m. (There may be some changes
to times so ‘watch this space’)
Wed 1st
March: Parent consultations 6.00 p.m.-8.00 p.m.
Friday 10th
March: Barnet Dance Festival for dance club members-from noon.
Friday 17th
March: Y5 visit to British Museum-packed lunch required
Friday 17th
March: FoMS Bingo Night (to be confirmed) 7.30 p.m.
Thursday 23rd
March: Last drama club for this term
Friday 24th-
Comic Relief day-information to follow nearer the time.
Monday 27th
March: Spring Art competition closing date
Thursday 30th
March: FoMs raffle/Easter event
Thursday 30th
March: Choir concert 2.30 p.m.
Friday 31st
March: End of Spring term. School closes at 2.00 p.m. NO AFTER SCHOOL CLUB
New term begins Tuesday 18th April at the usual
time.
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ART CLUBS AFTER THE
HALF-TERM BREAK
Key stage 1 Wednesday
12.15-1.15 (Y1 and 2) : 22 Feb, 1 Mar, 8 Mar, 15 Mar, 22 Mar.
Peter 2S, Alexander
1D, Thea 2D, Tobias 1D, Leo 2D, Mia C 2D, Daania 2S, Alexandria 2S, Louis 2S,
Ece 2D, Chinedu 1D, Nicholas 2S. CLUB FULL.
Key stage 2 Thursday
3.30-4.45 (Y3-6) : 23 Feb, 2 Mar, 9 Mar, 16 Mar, 23 Mar.
Charis 3, Yashvi 4,
Leyla 4, Poppy 6, Molly 4, Jenaya 4, Priya 6, Elliot 4, Harley 4, Neanne 5,
Lorin 4. CLUB FULL
Please send in £3 on the first
session only.
Anyone who has
requested, but hasn’t been offered a space, will stay on the waiting list for
the club after the Easter break.
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