Whole School

We are advertising for a new OPAL Play Lead to take over from the brilliant Mr Coetzee who will commence his new teaching role from next week. If you know anyone who would be suitable, or if you would like to apply, please see the advert here: https://www.coldfall.haringey.sch.uk/job-vacancies

Save the date - Friends of Coldfall Christmas movie afternoon - Saturday 7th December.

Raffle Prizes for the Winter Concert - On Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th December will be holding our annual Christmas Concert featuring all children in Year 5 and 6. Funds raised from the concert will go to EducAid, our school partner charity. We will hold a raffle on each evening of the concert, if you or someone you know would be able to donate goods or services as prizes for this the we would be very grateful! Please contact Miss Vetch k.vetch@coldfall.haringey.sch.uk if you can help. Thanks

Please note any lost property 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

The Nursery Sing-a-Longs will be On Wednesday 11th December at 11.30am and 2.30pm.

Reception

The Nativities will be on the following dates:

Chaffinch – Monday 9th December at 3pm

Dove – Tuesday 10th December at 9.15am

Eagle – Tuesday 10th December 3pm

Year 2

The Year 2 performances of the Nut Cracker will be on the following dates:

Kingfisher – Thursday 12th December 9.15am

Kestrel - Thursday 12th December 3pm

Kookaburra – Friday 13th December 9.25am

Year 4

On Friday 15th it is Puffin class assembly.

Whole School

The annual FOC Fireworks Night will be held on Friday 8th November. Grab your tickets and volunteer to help on a stall www.pta-events.co.uk/friendsofcoldfall . FOC need parent volunteers to be able to put on these fantastic events so please do sign up for a lot.

Also, the FOC are having a Halloween cake sale after school (3.30pm) on Friday 25th October. Please come along and celebrate the start of the half term holiday with a delicious home-made cake.

Community Gardening - Wednesday 23rd October, 3:45-4:30 on the school allotment (to the left of the Main Hall, just behind the playhouse). FREE, drop-in session with Mrs Greene. This week, we'll be planting bulbs that you can take home with you. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Please make sure you download the Arbor app as Parents’ Evening bookings will be bookable after half term break via the app only.

On Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th December at 18.00 we are holding our annual Christmas Concert in support of EducAid. All children in Year 5 and 6 will be performing on both evenings. Children who sing in Junior Chorus with Mrs Gazzard will be performing on Tuesday 17th only. More information will follow in due course but in the meantime please save the date to ensure you and your children can attend.

Don’t forget, we will be celebrating the Harvest Festival on Friday 25th October. Children can dress in Autumn colours or as farmers. We ask that each child brings in £1 for EducAid and a tin or non-perishable food item for our local soup kitchen. The Soup Kitchen have said they would really love to receive tinned soup this year.

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.

Booking for Night Owls for the next term (from January) will be available from 5th November.

Nursery

The Nursery Sing-a-Longs will be On Wednesday 11th December at 11.30am and 2.30pm.

Reception

The Nativities will be on the following dates:

Chaffinch – Monday 9th December at 3pm

Dove – Tuesday 10th December at 9.15am

Eagle – Tuesday 10th December 3pm

Year 2

The Year 2 performances of the Nut Cracker will be on the following dates:

Kingfisher – Thursday 12th December 9.15am

Kestrel - Thursday 12th December 3pm

Kookaburra – Friday 13th December 9.25am

Year 4

On Friday 25th it is Pelican class assembly.

Year 6

It is Toucan class’s turn to head to Tollesbury. We hope the children have a wonderful time.

Please be reminded of the following:

Year 1-5

We are excited to announce that Parent Gym is offering a free six-week programme designed to support you in your parenting journey. This programme will begin in October and will take place on Mondays, immediately after school drop-off, here at the school. The sessions will provide valuable insights and practical strategies to help you navigate the challenges of parenting. The programme is entirely free and offers a wonderful opportunity to connect with other parents and learn together. Please note that there are only 20 places available, and participants must commit to attending all six sessions to ensure the best experience for everyone involved. If you are interested in participating, please register your interest by clicking on the link below:

https://parentgym.arlo.co/courses/10-parent-gym?e=407a9c3d94ef462284a4036c445035f8

Year 1

Please return all school reading books and reading diaries to school on Monday 22^nd July and we will pass them on to your child’s new teacher for September. 

Could children bring a bag to school on Monday to take all their work and other items home.

Year 6 

Monday- Y6 Football Competition & Bringing home of books

Many of the children have chosen to take part in a football competition on Monday. Please make sure children are in PE kit for this. We will be sending the children’s books home on Monday. Please make sure your child has a bag to put these in. If your child normally cycles to school, please consider whether they will be able to cycle and carry all of their things.

Tuesday- Y6 Science & Water fight

The children will be taking part in a science experiment that could get messy. Please send them in wearing older shoes/ trainers that do not matter if they get soapy and wet. The children will also be allowed to take part in a water fight on the field in the afternoon (this was the prize agreed for completing the Easter Maths revision packs.) Please send the children in with a water gun or a container that they can use to take part with. We will only be able to offer children a plastic cup for this. Please do not send children in with any water balloons as we will not be allowing the children to take part in this.

Wednesday- Leavers T-shirts & Surprise

We will be giving the children some time to sign each other’s T-shirts on Wednesday. We have arranged a surprise for the children on this day which will be best enjoyed by the children if they are in their PE kits. We ask that the children bring in a school t shirt separately for signing.

 

Next Year

We would like to invite you to attend a class meeting at 3pm on the following dates:

Year 6 – 4^th September

Year 5 – 5^th September

Year 4 – 6^th September

Year 3 – 9^th September

Year 2 – 10^th September

Year 1 – 11^th September

These meetings are an opportunity to meet the class teacher and find out what your child will be learning this year.

Whole School

• Exhibition Evening – Thursday, 11th July from 4pm until 6pm – NO ACTIVITY CLUBS (Only Night Owls will be running)
• Enterprise Fair – Thursday, 11th July from 3:45pm - Y6 will be holding their enterprise fair during exhibition evening, so please come along a little early to have a look
• Choir Concert – During Exhibition evening at 4:30pm – lower hall
• Book Fair – 8^th, 9^th, 10^th and 11^th July 2024

The Travelling Book Fair will arrive at Coldfall Primary School on Monday. You will find the fair, weather permitting, on the front playground every day after school until Friday. Please do come along and see what books and offers are available. For every £1 spent the school gets 20p to spend on books for the school.

• Donations for the Mud Kitchen

Thank you so much for donating items for our mud kitchen. Please only donate items that we requested as we don’t have enough storage for any items that were not asked for.

• Concerns that you may have

Can we please ask parents to contact the school directly for any concerns that they might have by e-mailing the school office: office@coldfall.haringey.sch.uk .

Reception

• Graduation Garden Party– Friday, 19^th July at 2pm - in your child’s classroom

Bring your favourite family dish to the party.

• Interactive Dinosaur Show – Wednesday, 10^th July

Just a reminder that Reception children will be enjoying an Interactive Dinosaur show on Wednesday. Please make a payment via your Arbor account, if you haven’t done so already, thank you.

Year 1

• Hummingbird class assembly and coffee – Friday, 12^th July at 9.05am – Main Hall
• SEND Support meetings – Wednesday, 10^th July

Year 2

• Aldenham Country Park Trip – Friday, 12^th July – leaving at 8.30am and returning 3.30pm

Year 6

• Fair during Exhibition Evening – Thursday, 11^th July

The Y6 children have been working on an enterprise project in their maths lessons. They will be running a fair during Exhibition Evening from 3:45 - 4:45, offering a wide variety of snacks, drinks, crafts, games and even beauty treatments. The children are all hoping to turn a profit on the investment they were given, so please come along and see what they have to offer.

• The Y6 children have plans for what they need to do for their enterprise project stall at exhibition evening. They may need some support in shopping and making for this. Thank you.

Information

• Activity Clubs for the Autumn term are going live on Monday, 8th July 2024 at 8pm (timetable attached) Please note that club bookings can ONLY be done via Arbor – Please make sure you have downloaded the Arbor app (see below information), otherwise you will not be able to book.

 

• Arbor - New Management School System (MIS) - Please download the Arbor App - everyone will need to download the Parent App from Google Play Store on android phones or the Apple Store on iPhones.

To create your account, you just need to set a password. Your username is the email address that you have provided the school with.  Go to https://login.arbor.sc and click Forgot your password? to finish setting up your account.

Separate e-mails were sent out to parents on 2^nd July and 5^th July on how to log in. Please contact Roopa via e-mail r.makena@coldfall.haringey.sch.uk in the school office if you are having issues logging in.

 

Ongoing Information

 

Outstanding Debt

We would like to ask parents to please clear any outstanding debt that they have on Arbor as we are at this time moving to our new MIS, Arbor. In order for the move to go smoothly all debt needs to be cleared from everyone’s Arbor account. If there are any issues, please contact the school office as soon as possible.

Please check you e-mail box /junk/spam for the e-mail that went out on 2^nd July where you received information on how to register to the new Payment System. The new system will have an app that everyone will need to download, as outlined above. Thank you.

Leavers (Nursery to Year 5): If you are planning to leave Coldfall Primary school at the end of the school year please e-mail the school office and let us know your child’s new school name and address as well as your new address, if applicable. Thank you to those parents who have already contacted the school office.

Whole School

TAD day - Friday, 28th June – School is Closed for children

Weather – as the weather is warming up, please remember to apply sun cream in the morning to your child/children, send them to school with a sun hat and make sure that they bring in a water bottle every day.

 

School Meals Questionnaire - We would like the children’s feedback on the school meals that we provide.

• Year 1 to Year 6 - You will find on your child’s Google Classroom profile a questionnaire regarding school meals that will need to be completed by each child. Children will need to log in to their Google Classroom and complete the questionnaire. Please note that each child will have to complete their own questionnaire. This is a survey for the children and NOT for parents, so please encourage your child to respond themselves.
• Nursery and Reception - Please complete this questionnaire based on your child’s response. Please use the link provided to access the questionnaire: https://forms.gle/HRjP3kkQcUckBv9VA
• If anyone needs any help with this, please e-mail the school office and address your query to Ms Clavé.

Reception

Transition Meeting - Tuesday, 25th June at 9.05am – Main Hall

Year 1

Southend School Trip – Thursday, 27th June at 8.30am - 3.30pm

Y6 Show Tickets

Later this term, you will be invited to buy tickets for Honk! You will initially be invited to buy two tickets, to ensure that nobody misses out on seeing their child perform. After this, the rest of the tickets will go on sale, so that you can buy tickets for siblings, friends and other family members. Though we will not be able to guarantee that everyone will get the number of tickets that they desire, we are hopeful that there will be more than enough space for everyone. Last year’s performances were all very well attended and there were still seats available for each evening. 

 

SUMMER FAIR EVENT

This Saturday – At Coldfall Primary School

Please come and support us at our Summer Fair on Saturday, 22nd June 2024 from 1.00pm until 4.00pm, kindly organised by Friends of Coldfall. This year’s Summer Fair will also feature the launch of our Sensory Garden.

Tickets: Use the link to secure your tickets https://www.pta-events.co.uk/friendsofcoldfall/ .

Online tickets are £2 (adults) and £1 (children). Tickets can also be bought at the gate £3 (adults) and £2 (children).

What to expect at this year’s Summer Fair:

• Raffle Prizes – Please see attached poster to view the exciting prizes Friends of Coldfall have lined up for you.
• Wood Carving Workshop
• Sensory Garden Activity trail
• Inflatable Slide and a Bouncy Castle
• Book Swap
• Games Zone
• Market Stalls
• Come and have your nails done and/or get a fun temporary tattoo
• Food – BBQ, Burgers, Hot Dogs, Donuts, Ice Cream, Popcorn, Candy floss, Vegan and Vegetarian options also available
• Summer bar (with PIMM’S)
• Music throughout the day

We need your help for the Summer Fair!

We rely on your help to run some of the stalls, please volunteer to help on any stall that has gaps. Volunteer to help at www.pta-events.co.uk/friendsofcoldfall . Thank you!

Sensory Garden Grand Opening

After years of fundraising and months of digging, building, and planting, we are thrilled to announce that this year’s fair will coincide with the grand opening of the Sensory Garden. Wander around the garden and follow the free interactive Sensory Garden Trail to learn more about this exciting project.

Wood carving workshops

The entrance to the sensory garden is going to have a fabulous owl sculpture. The workshops will give your child a chance to make a wooden feather for the owl. These sessions are led by Yes Make who have created the sensory garden. The children will use a special type of saw and sander, then dip their feather in paint, ready to go on the owl sculpture when it's ready.

Workshops are £3 per child and run every 15 minutes throughout the fair. Please only book for children currently at Coldfall School/Nursery. Sessions can be booked online. (A parent must remain with children under 5 years).

Summer Fair – ‘Golden Threads’

One of our ‘Golden Threads’ at Coldfall is to teach our children to be environmentally aware and responsible. Before coming to the Summer fair please talk to your children about putting wrappers, containers etc in the bins.  Please model this yourself and don’t leave cans, cups etc on tables or walk past them when you go home. We have a beautiful space to enjoy. Let’s respect it and look after it.

Information

You Tube

There have been some incidents at school this week involving children using racist, homophobic and aggressive language. When looking into these incidents, all the children involved have shared that this language is something they have watched on You Tube. Please see below a couple of links, which give some guidance on how to keep children safe when watching You Tube. Some of the things that children have reported watching are racist jokes, homophobic jokes and slap battles.

We would encourage you to watch You Tube with your child as inappropriate and offensive content can often follow a video which may have been age appropriate.

There is also a You Tube Kids channel which has some restriction on content. Children watching this content and sharing it with others at school is causing real distress to some of our pupils and we would urge you to consider the impact of what your child is watching.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this any further. Thank you.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/parents-ultimate-guide-to-youtube-kids

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/online-safety-blog/how-to-keep-your-child-safe-on-youtube/

 

Ongoing Information

Outstanding debt

We would like to ask parents to please clear any outstanding debt that they have on Arbor as we will be moving to a new system called Arbor. In order for the move to go smoothly all debt needs to be cleared from everyone’s Arbor account. If there are any issues, please contact the school office as soon as possible.

Please watch out for an e-mail from school where you will receive information on how to register to the new Payment System. The new system will have an app that everyone will need to download. Thank you.

Leavers (Nursery to Year 5): If you are planning to leave Coldfall Primary school at the end of the school year please e-mail the school office and let us know your child’s new school name and address as well as your new address, if applicable. Thank you to those parents who have already contacted the school office.