Whole School

World Book Day Celebrations: Friday 7th March

We can’t wait to see the children dressed up as their favourite book characters on Friday. We look forward to welcoming the Harry Potters, the Hermiones, the Gangsta Grannies, the Goldilocks, the wolves, and whoever else may walk through our doors! We have lots of exciting activities planned for the children including a special assembly from Peacock Class.

International Women’s Day Concert 8th May

Please see the attached poster.

Parents Evening

Parents’ Evening will be held on 19th March from 5- 7.30pm and 20th March from 4-6.30pm. If you are having trouble booking, please call the office.

SEND Support Meetings

Parents of children on the SEND register can attend a SEND support meeting with their child’s class teacher and Miss Buckley (SENDCo). If you have not booked and would like to, please call the office.

As Miss Buckley has very limited availability, any meetings not attended will not be rescheduled. If you cannot attend your meeting, please inform us in advance by contacting the school office.

Many of you have previously shared an interest in ‘masking’ therefore we are putting on a workshop to further support this.

Please find attached an invite and more details on this workshop, Social Battery and Masking workshop, which will be led by Rodanthi Chatzinikolaou, Educational Psychologist.

We hope you are able to attend. Unfortunately this is not available online and won’t be recorded.

OPAL

Helpers needed! Please come along and join us for OPAL ‘get it done’ afternoon on Friday 21st March from 3.45pm to 6pm. We will provide tea and cake in exchange for any help you can offer. We will be working on digging an area for the sandpit, building a scooter track, installing some musical instruments and generally making our playtimes even more fun for our children. You are welcome to bring your own children with you if they are able to help too!

Community Gardening

Our free Community Gardening sessions restart next Wednesday 5th on our school allotment with Mrs Greene and we will be planting seeds to grow vegetables at home. All welcome - no experience or commitment required!

Who: Parents/Grandparents/Carers/Staff and up to two children
(adults must stay to supervise them)

When: Weds 5^th March & Weds 2^nd April 3:45 – 4:30

Where: School allotment (fenced off area left of the dining hall) behind playhouse

Bring: Nothing required, but bring gardening gloves if you have them

Community Litter Pick – Coldfall Woods

We are joining together with other local primary schools to clean up our beautiful ancient woodland, Coldfall Woods. Please join us if you can!

Children need to accompanied by an adult. We will have litter pickers for the first 30 people who arrive.

Date: Wednesday 12^th March
Time: 3:45 – 4:30
Place: Meet by the gate from Coldfall Primary that goes directly into the woods (go down the path closest to school that leads from Everington Road into the woods, and you’ll see a blue fence on the left when you enter the woods – we’ll meet there)
Bring: Gardening gloves if you have them.

Concerts

If your child has piano, violin or singing lessons at school, you are invited to watch them perform on the following dates:

Wednesday 19^th March 2:45pm Lower Hall – Rebekah Raa piano students

Friday 28^th March 2:45pm Lower Hall – Naomi Kilby Voice students

Monday 31^st March 3:00pm Lower Hall – Laura Woods Voice students

Wednesday 2^nd April 9:10am Lower Hall – Pablo Castro Violin students (pupils to arrive at 8:50 to tune instruments and warm-up)

Please arrive 5 minutes before the start of each performance.

Absence Reporting

Please continue to report your child’s absence on the Arbor app instead of emailing or calling the absence line this half term.

Lost Property

Please note any clothing that is not clearly named will be donated to Friends of Coldfall each Friday for their second-hand uniform sales.

Any named lost property will be returned to your child’s class or can be collected from the playground every Friday after school.

Nursery and Reception

Nursery and Reception are inviting parents in to read with their children for World Book Day.

Reception parents are welcome at 2.45pm. Please come to the usual wooden gate and staff will let parents in.

Nursery parents are welcome at 11.30am or 2.40pm. Please come to the usual gate/ door.

Year 6

You are invited to come and watch the Year 6 Samba Competition on Wednesday 26^th March 3pm in the Main Hall. Children should come in their school uniform and bring colourful clothing and accessories to change into for the competition. We hope to see many of you there.