FRIDAY 20TH DECEMBER 2019 DESIGNATED NATIONAL LEAD SCHOOL & ENGLISH HUB

Head Teacher Mrs R Davis BEd Hons

National Leader of Education

DeputyHead Teacher Mrs N Arkinstall BA Hons

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Closures 6th Jan Training Day 7th May Elections 8th May Bank Holiday

Dates for your Diary December

20th Break up January

6th School Closed 7th School re-opens 24th Y2 Literacy and SATS Workshop for Parents 31st Y6 Workshop for Parents Y5&6 Science Quiz

February 3rd Book fair week 6th Parents Evening 11th Parents Evening 12th Y4 Class Assembly 14th Break up for half term 24th School re-opens

March 5th World Book day 12th KS2 General Knowledge Quiz 14th Swimming Gala 20th YR Mothering Sunday Assembly 25th Y5 Assembly 9am

April 3rd Break up for Easter 20th School re-opens 24th FOLSS Quiz Night

May 11th KS2 SATS Week 18th KS1 SATS Week 22nd Break up for half term

June 1st School re-opens 12th Y6 Residential 24th Y1 Assembly 9am 26th Sports Day

July 3rd Reserve Sports Day 4th FOLSS Family Day 7th Y2 Class Assembly 16th Y6 Leavers Assembly 16th Disco 17th Break up for summer

This Week’s Headlines

Dinner Money and Toast—The amount of dinner money credit needed to cover next half term is £69.60. If your child would like toast, this must be ordered in advance of the start of the term via Parentpay. The cost for this is £11.80 for Years 1 to 6 and £5.90 for Reception.

Parking/ driving near school— This week I have again received complaints from our neighbours about parking across drives. Please respect our neighbours and park considerately. More worry-ingly, we have had reports of cars driving at speed along the pavements while children are close by. The safety of our children is paramount, so please do not drive on or obstruct pavements. We will be asking the police to attend in the new year to reinforce this important message.

It has been a busy few weeks, building up to the end of term. Following our wonderful performances from KS1 last week, this week we have enjoyed productions from KS2.

On Wednesday morning, parents were treat-ed to a spectacular performance by the Year 3 children of ‘ Straw and Order’- a lively re-

telling of the Christmas story. The chil-dren were a real credit and demonstrated enormous confidence when singing and acting, looking marvellous in their cos-tumes. I think we have some budding

actors and actresses in the making! A fantastic show Year 3– we are immensely proud of you.

Year 4 were lucky enough to perform twice at Four Oaks Baptist Church this week. First for the congregation on Monday and then for their parents on Tuesday. In spite of some technical issues on Monday, the children received wonderful compli-ments from the audience which were mirrored on Tuesday after a spectacular performance for par-ents. We are so proud of them, well done!

On Thursday afternoon Y5 and Y6 put on a lovely Carol Service for their parents. We are grateful to Reverend Ramble for allowing us to hold the event at St James's Church, which made it special.

All our Christmas performances reminded us of the true meaning of Christmas, to celebrate the birth of Jesus and God’s love for us, which is easy to forget at this busy time of year.

The children enjoyed the discos on Thursday evening. It was lovely to see our special visitor who took time out of his busy schedule to pop in and remind the children to leave him a mince pie and a carrot for Rudolf on Christmas Eve. Our thanks go to FoLSS for all their hard work in organising the event.

Finally on Friday morning, the staff took to the stage to perform for the children. They presented Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. It was a lively and amusing performance, which the chil-dren loved! The show ended with our well loved tradition of singing the 12 Days of Christmas. The children enjoyed party food for lunch and our thanks go to our cook Mrs Gallier and her team for their hard work to provide a tasty menu. To complete the fun filled day the children played party games in the afternoon.

As 2019 comes to an end, I would like to thank all of our staff for their hard work and our children for making our school such a lovely place to be. Our heartfelt thanks go to all our families for your fantastic support. Thank you also for all the cards and generous gifts the staff and I have received, they are much appreciat-ed.

It has been a successful year for the school with the English Hub going from strength to strength and the news that we were the top performing school in Birmingham and high up on the list nationally. We look forward to an exciting year ahead in 2020. May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

LITTLE SUTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

Menu For The First Week Back In addition, there is a salad / fruit bar and a crusty bread basket. Please note, choices may vary slightly due to circumstances beyond our control. We also offer addi-tional items to encourage children to try different foods.

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Chicken Pie Chicken Fillets

Fish Fingers Cheese Pas-

ta Jacket potato

* Broccoli

Sweetcorn *

Pasta New

Potatoes *

Iced Sponge Custard

Chicken Curry

Haddock GrillPizza

Jacket potato

* Sweetcorn

Peas *

Rice New Pota-

toes *

Chocolate Crunch

Roast Chicken

Fish Fingers Cheese

Flan Baguettes/

wraps Jacket

Potatoes *

Carrots Broccoli

* Roast

Potatoes Mash

* Shortbread

Chicken/ veg meat-

balls Chicken Fillets

Fish Fin-gers

Jacket Potatoes

* Sweetcorn

Broccoli *

Pasta New

Potatoes *

Muffins

Music Assembly On Wednesday children who learn the cello and double bass players put on a lovely performance. The children played a selec-tion of songs which they have been learning, displaying amazing confidence in front of an audience. Well done to all the children who performed so well!

Musician of the Month Michael Buble

Artist of the Month Guido Reni

Word of the Month- Arduous

Synonym– Burdensome

Antonym– Simplistic

Inspirational Person of the Month Greta Thunberg

Environmental Activist

Buddies Today Year 1 and Year 5 spent time with their buddies helping each other to make Christmas cards. They have also been shar-ing stories with each other.

Merit Assembly Our congratulations go to the following children who received awards in Merit As-semblies this week. In KS1 Adaleen, Isabelle, Leo, Emily, Harry, Evie received certifi-cates and in KS2 it was Molly, Avneet, Zahra, Poppy, Sid and Oscar.

Good Manners trophies were awarded to Sophia & Simran. The Governors’ Award was received by Alicia and the recipients of the award for Upholding Trust Values were Sofia & Arcelia.The Tidy Classroom Award went to 2AW & 4TV and the termly attendance award was received by 2AW & 4TV .

Invited to afternoon tea with the Head Teacher were ; ;Jessica RMF, Sidney RKS, Lucas 1JF ,Annabelle 2AW, Amara 3LB, Isabel 4KP, Isabelle 5AL & Noah 6EW.

Kids UK On Monday morning, Reception and Key Stage 1 had a lovely assembly delivered by Kids UK explaining the significance of the tra-ditional Christmas can-dy cane. The children learnt through a variety of activities the signifi-cance of each colour on the cane and its

shape. The 5 meanings are: J for Jesus or when inverted a shep-herds crook to protect us all, white for purity, red for blood and the love in our hearts and finally green to represent the evergreen or ever present love of Jesus. The children really enjoyed learning about the meaning and every child was presented with a cane at the end of the assembly. Our thanks to Kids UK and the super assemblies we've enjoyed so far this year, we look forward to those to come in the New Year.

A message from FOLSS It hasbeen a busy and fun packed fundraising few months for FOLSS with our annual fireworks night back in November as well as the Christmas Fayre and the school discos both taking place this month. We also got out on patrol with Santa on Tuesday to bring some festive cheer direct to your doorsteps. Whilst we are still fundraising, we estimate our totals to be in excess of £5500 across the 4 events, all of which will go directly back to the school fund and those added extras which en-rich and support the children's learning. Thank you so much to absolutely everyone, parents, Grandparents, staff as well as our partners at Birmingham Hospital Charity and the Rotary, who have supported us directly or indirectly—we certainly couldn't have run these events or made such a success of them without you and your continued support. This year, we have been lucky enough to see FOLSS grow as a group but we always need more help and we would invite and encourage anyone who would like to get involved in any capacity to get in touch. I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in the New Year.

Plastic Needed for an exciting art project We are going to be creating art work using unwanted plastic to enter into a national competition. We would really appreciate donations of any unwanted plastic such as bottle tops, beads, small plastic toys, old lego, plastic straws, old plastic cutlery, unwanted cracker toys etc. Please send any donations with your child

Kindness in the Community We have had several collections lately for our wider community, including a Christmas Jumper day in aid of Kids UK and Good Hope Hospital, Erdington Food Bank and cake sales for various charities. Your donations are much appreciated and will make a difference to other people’s lives. Thank you so much for your fantastic support.