This week saw the amazing Year 5 Residential trip to Carroty Wood. I decided to extend the Year

5 Residential trip to three days rather than two this year, so that everything was less rushed and so

that the children had more of an experience of being away from home in preparation for the Year

6 Residential trip to Stubbers. This worked really well and I am pleased I made this decision. The

weather was kind to us for all three days, and this meant that children spent the vast majority of

time outdoors enjoying the woodland surroundings of the centre. They took part in a range of

exciting outward bound activities, including archery, high ropes, low ropes, climbing, BMXing and

swimming. There was also plenty of opportunity just ‘to be’- playing games, building woodland dens,

using their imagination and of course, performing at the talent show. It was a real pleasure spending

time with Year 5 and I saw how well behaved, polite and sensible they are - I know they will make

a super Year 6 next year.

My heartfelt thanks to Miss Ingram and Mrs Rolfe for organising the trip and ensuring that everything

went smoothly and to Mrs Gambier, Mrs Eagers-Bee, Mrs Krekis and Dr Springett for giving up their

time to lead groups, rally the troops and get stuck in with the children.

Here's to another great week at Atwood!

Rob Veale, Kate Standing, Nina Gambier,

Hannah Townsend & Michaela Groves

Senior Leadership Team

NEWSLETTER 3 MAY 2019

SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM’S WELCOME

TEAM POINTS

Water 67

Fire 63

Earth 56

Air 40

Mrs Standing will be running another Parent Gym course, starting next week.

Parent Gym is a course of six 2-hour workshops for parents and carers with ‘missions’ to complete

in between each one. Each ‘gym’ has up to 20 parents and one Parent Gym Coach.

Each week’s session is devoted to a different topic and comes with its own unique Parent Gym

magazine packed with practical tips. The highly participative sessions explore a vast range of

questions such as "How can I get my child to open up?" "How can I resolve family disagreements in

a positive way?" or “How can I build my child's resilience?"

The course will begin with a taster session on Tuesday 7th May, which runs from 2:00pm until

3:00pm. The six week course then starts on Tuesday 14th May, from 1:00pm until 3:00pm, and runs

until Tuesday 25th June (with a week’s break for half term).

If you would like to book a place, please visit:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NL2RR6F

Well-Being Room Pledge

The FOAP are happy to be pledging £1,380 to purchase a bubble tube and

associated fixings for the new Well-Being room. This pledge means that

the project of creating a safe space that is available for any pupil that needs

it can now get underway. The FOAP would like to thank Mrs Townsend

for all the time she has put in to planning this project and the funds she has already raised to support

it.

PARENT GYM

NEWS FROM THE FRIENDS OF ATWOOD

Uniform and Club Clothing Donations

The FOAP will now also be collecting any good condition club clothing e.g. Cubs, Beavers, Rainbows,

Brownies etc to be sold alongside our Nearly New Uniform.

The FOAP will be selling uniform and club clothing at the Table Top Sale on Sunday 19th May,

from12 noon to 2pm. If you have any items to donate please bring them to the library decking on

any Friday drop off leading up to the event.

Event Sponsorship (standard and bespoke packages)

This year we have introduced event sponsorship ranging from £50 to £500 and letters have been

sent out to families and carers. If you would be interested in sponsorship but these packages do not

meet your needs please get in contact by email at contactatwoodpa@gmail.com as we are able to

make up bespoke packages.

Summer Fair Stalls

Stalls have now been allocated to year groups for the Summer Fair.

Each year group has been allocated a number of stall to man throughout the Fair. We also need help

on Friday 28th June to prepare and on the Fair day itself to set up and pack away. If you are able to

offer any help please speak to your class reps or email contactatwoodpa@gmail.com

Stall Name

Volunteers Per

Hour Allocated To

BBQ 8

ALL- 1 volunteer/hr per year

group

Cupcake Decorating 2 nursery

Refreshments, Sweets and Snacks 3 Reception

Hook a Duck 1 reception

Coconut Shy 1 reception

Alcohol Tombola 3 year 1

Soft Drink Tombola 3 year 1

Craft 3 year 2

Hook a Bag 2 (to take money) Year 2

Nerf Gun Challenge 1 year 3

3 Fair Games 1 year 3

Stocks 1 year 3

Inflatables 1 (to take money) year 3

Matching Pairs Card Game 1 year 3

Veg Pots and Fruit Pots 2 year 4

Gin Inn 3 year 4

Human Fruit Machine 1 year 5

PA Stand/Bags/Raffle/Auction 2 year 5

Front Gates 1 year 5

Toddler Rollercoaster 1 year 5

Jerk Chicken Stand 1 (to take money) Year 6

Save the Date!

It may be a way off yet, but get out those diaries and note down that Happy’s

Circus will be at Atwood again on Sunday 3rd May 2020 for another

fantastic evening of fun and entertainment. More details to follow next year!

FOAP is inviting all Year 6 children to a summer fair challenge! The mission: to run a stall at the

summer fair and make more money than the other class! The winning class will all get an ice cream

on the last day of term.

What you need to do:

Come up with new fair games and choose your 1st and 2nd choice stall

Plan the stock you need (each class has a £20 budget - teachers will email your shopping lists

to FOAP By 17th May)

Plan and organise volunteers - each session must include one adult to supervise - to set up

your stall in the day - to run the stall 12-3pm - to pack up your stall (teachers to email your

rotas to the FOAP By 14th June)

The Friends of Atwood look forward to some fantastic stall suggestions!

Thank you to everyone who entered the poster

competition for the Summer Fair. The voting was

close but we are pleased to announce that the

Winner is James in 6HB!

Well done James, your prize will be with you soon!

YEAR 6 SUMMER FAIR CHALLENGE

SUMMER FAIR POSTER WINNER!

Atwood children will be taking part in a ‘Walk on Wednesday’

challenge. On the first Wednesday of each month, children are

invited to walk, scoot or cycle to school and earn their monthly

WOW sticker (KS1) or badge (KS2).

As the first Wednesday of the month has already passed, this

month our WOW day will be Wednesday 8th May, so please

do consider leaving the car at home that day if you can!

Our Junior Travel Ambassadors (Emma, Nyla and Laiya in 5I and

Holly, Mia and Austin in 5R) have been working with staff on plans for Walk to School Week (20th

– 24th May), so watch this space for more details on this!

For more information on Walk on Wednesday, please visit:

https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/products-and-services/projects/wow

For more information on Walk to School Week, please visit:

https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/products-and-services/projects/walk-to-school-week

Nursery and Reception classes are looking at the topic of 'People Who Help Us' in the weeks before

half term. We would love to have people to come in and talk to the children about their jobs. If you

do anything that you feel you would like to share with the children e.g. nurse, paramedic, firefighter,

police officer, vet, dentist, builder etc, then we would love to have you in.

Please speak to a member of the Early Years team or email in to the office

(school@atwood.croydon.sch.uk ) if you could help us.

PEOPLE WHO HELP US

WALK ON WEDNESDAYS!

T-10 is a school sports and clubs provider that will be working with Atwood from the summer term

onwards to provide a range of before and after school sports clubs alongside our own. Your child

will have come home with a flyer this week detailing all the clubs on offer. Details of how to book

are below. Half term and summer holiday camps are also available – please see www.t10.co.uk for

details and booking information.

HALF TERM AND SUMMER HOLIDAY CAMPS AT ATWOOD

Released this month was a report conducted by SWGfL on the role of technology in the

family home to manage concerns around online safety and interactions around digital technology

use. It made for interesting reading and echoed Atwood's ongoing advice that having clear

communication and interactions regarding children's online worlds is the most beneficial thing we

can do to keep our children safe online.

The key message from the report is that while house rules (restrictions on apps to use etc) help,

and technology (parental controls etc) provides some valuable tools to help address some concerns

(such as access to harmful content), as young people get older, they will learn to bypass these

“reassurances” for parents and become less confident in their parent’s support if things go wrong.

We also know that tools and rules will do less to prevent contact risks, such as grooming and

bullying, two things parents are very concerned with. Tools and rules are no replacement for open

dialogue. They can only ever be part of the solution.

Below is a link to the full report:

https://swgfl.org.uk/assets/documents/technology-in-the-home.pdf?_=1554892988

Crisp Packet & Pen Recycling

We collected loads of crisp packets and pens this morning.

Thank you to everyone who helped to collect them. We are in

this for the long haul and will be there again next Friday, so

please keep collecting! We will continue to be in front of the

library on Friday mornings until we have a permanent system in

place.

Please remember that the crisp packet must say crisps on it.

Walkers are very specific about what they collect, and even

though other packets might look similar, Walkers only want

crisp packets (any brand).

We can also collect batteries from you and take them round to

the office for you, if you don’t have time to drop them off to

the office.

ONLINE SAFETY AT HOME

GREEN TEAM NEWS

We would also like to ask parents if they have any spare old style Croydon collection boxes that

they no longer need and could bring in on a Friday morning at drop off. This will enable us to store

the crisp packets/pens.

Printer Cartridge Recycling

We are pleased to let you know that from next Friday (10th May) we will also be recycling Canon,

HP and Samsung printer cartridges. For the time being, until a proper collection bin is established,

please bring these to the decked area outside the library on Friday mornings at drop off. You will

have received an email letting you know what makes of cartridges we can accept, so please check

that yours is on the list before bringing them to school.

Litter Pick

We also did a litter pick in the bushes that the children often run through next to the clothes

collection bins this morning and were surprised to collect two black sacks full of rubbish. We ran

out of time but will go back in next week to complete the task.

Ideas & Suggestions

Green Ideas? Please email atwoodgreenteam@gmail.com or speak to Siobhán Fitzgerald, Emily

Horne, Anna Orridge, Margarita Polyviou, or Marianne Daniels.

Week ending

26th Apr

Week ending

3rd May

Infants (highest) Violet

100%

Yellow & Blue

99.3%

Juniors (highest) 6HB

99.2%

5I

99.4%

Whole School (weekly) 96.9% 97.2%

Whole School (year to date) 96.4%

Here are some useful dates for your diary for the Summer Term. Some of these dates are

provisional: we aim to keep the dates as they are; however, there might be reasons why we need

to amend dates. If this is the case, we will let you know as soon as possible. Newly added items are

in red.

Tues 7th May – Year 3 to Wakehurst Place

Mon 13th May – Thurs 16th May – Year 6 SATS Week

Fri 17th May - Ruby Class Assembly – 10:10am

Sun 19th May – FOAP Table Top Sale – 12:00pm

Mon 20th May – Fri 24th May – Year 6 to Stubbers

Tues 21st May – Reception Vision Screening

Wed 22nd May – Reception Vision Screening

Fri 24th May – Mufti Day - £2 donation in aid of Water Aid

Mon 27th May – HALF TERM

Mon 3rd Jun – Children return to school

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

ATTENDANCE

Tues 4th Jun – Year 2 Wild Science Workshop

Wed 12th Jun – Reception to Bore Place

Wed 12th Jun – Year 6 to Chessington

Mon 17th Jun – 4D Class Assembly

Tues 18th Jun – New EYFS Parents’ Meeting

Thurs 27th Jun – Sports Day

Sat 29th Jun – Summer Fair

Mon 1st Jul – 4P Class Assembly

Mon 1st Jul – Year 1 to the British Wildlife Centre

Tues 2nd Jul – Reception Induction Day

Tues 2nd Jul – Warlingham Induction Day

Wed 3rd Jul – Early Years Fun Day

Wed 3rd Jul - Warlingham Induction Day

Thurs 4th Jul – Reception Induction Day

Thurs 4th Jul – Riddlesdown Induction Evening – 7:00pm

Fri 5th Jul – Camp Atwood

Fri 5th Jul – Riddlesdown Induction Day

Tues 9th Jul – EYFS Summer Production – 9:30am and 2:00pm

Wed 10th Jul – Sports Day Backup Date (please note change of date from 8th July)

Fri 19th Jul – Year 6 Leavers’ Party

Tues 23rd Jul – Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly – 9:30am

Tues 23rd Jul – LAST DAY OF TERM. School closes at 1:30pm. No After School Care.