Larkswood Primary School Newsletter Issue: 86 w/e 23rd May 2014 New Road, Chingford, E4 8ET. Tel: 020 8529 4979 Fax: 020 8506 3649 E:school@larkswoodprimary.waltham.sch.uk

Message from the Head

After another fantastic week at Larkswood half term has arrived. The week has been full of activities for both children

and parents culminating in the LPSA Quiz Night for parents and staff. The feedback has been very positive and parents

are already asking for the date of the next quiz.

I had a very enjoyable afternoon on Tuesday with the parents who attended afternoon ‘Tea with the Head’ and would like

to thank all the parents that attended the academy consultations meetings this week. Your involvement is valued and

this week’s newsletter contains details of a further meeting.

You should have received your sponsor form for the annual whole school sponsored walk so please ask aunts, uncles,

grandparents and friends to sponsor your child for this great event.

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe half term.

See you back at school on Monday, 2nd June.

Lynne Harrowell

Larkswood Parent & Staff Association LPSA

Quiz Night Success!!

A great night was had by all on Thursday at the first LPSA Quiz Night!

11 tables of parents, carers, friends and staff from Larkswood pitted their wits against each other at

the first ever LPSA Quiz Night. You could hear the cogs turning through each round of questions

between the sips of green tea and hot chocolate ;)

Teams took a well deserved break half way through the evening with a fish supper and a choice of condiments. The second

half of the night concluded with further rounds of questions, a raffle and the final results.

Many thanks to the LPSA for organising such a successful evening which was both great fun and also a wonderful way to

raise funds for the school. We all look forward the next one.

A whopping £600 was raised and as usual every penny will go back into the school to benefit the children of Larkswood.

Our Quiz Night raised £600 Well done everyone!

The winners! The Larky Ladies!

Last but certainly not least Risky Quizness!

The best team name The Dolly Rockers!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Every Monday 9:00-11:00am

Larkswood Playgroup for under 3s– Blue Hall

Every Tuesday 1.30— 3.00 pm

Stay and Play Eastern European Parents Group

At Chingford Hall Children’s Centre

Every Tuesday 3- 4 pm

Meeting room near the school office Parents drop in session with Headteacher Every Thursday 9:00-10:00am

Time 2 Train with Gary in the Wooden Hall Thursday, 22nd May: 2:00 - 3:00pm LPSA Meeting Thursday, 22nd May Quiz Night for the Adults!! Wednesday, 4th June: 4:45pm Academy Status: Parents Consultation Meeting Wednesday, 4th June Yr6 Theatre trip to ‘Wicked’ Friday, 6th June Year 6 Cake Sale to raise funds for the Year 6 Prom Monday, 16th June Yr2 Trip to Colchester Zoo Thursday 19th June Whole School Sponsored Walk Saturday, 21st June Larkswood Summer Fair 30th June - 4th July Year 6 Residential: Condover Hall Friday, 11th July 6:00pm - 8:00pm Year 6 Prom

SCHOOL MENU W/C 2nd June 2014

ATTENDANCE :Period: 12/05/2014 to 16/05/2014

Congratulations to the following classes who achieved the best class attendance in their year group. RDS: 98.3% 1SF: 97.6% 2DW: 98.3% 3MB: 98.5% 4DP: 96.7% 5OO: 98.7% 6VB: 99.3%

Monday: Sausages & Caramelised Onions / Pasta with Basil & Tomato Sauce

Tuesday: Meatballs & Pasta / Cheese & Broccoli Flan

Wednesday: Lemon & Garlic Chicken / Roasted Vegetable Fajitas

Thursday: Lasagne / Vegetable Korma

Friday: Fish Fingers / Homemade Jamaican Vegetable Patty

COURSES FOR PARENTS & CARERS English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Class

Every Wednesday starting from 30th April: 1:15 – 3:15pm Maths for Families: For children in Year 1 or 2 Every Tuesday starting from 29th April: 1:15 – 3:15pm Setting & Keeping Boundaries Course for parents Every Friday starting from 25th April: 1:15 – 3:15pm

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Well done everyone!! The school target for attendance

is 96% and we beat our target this week!

96.5% Great news – Keep it up!

Congratulations 2DW (96.4%) & 3MB (97.4%) The parents and carers of classes 2DW and 3MB had tea with the Head on Tuesday to celebrate achieving the best class attendance for the Spring term. Ms Harrowell said that she was so pleased that both classes had achieved the schools attendance target and noted that the overall improvement in whole school attendance had had a positive effect on the children’s work and behaviour in the school. Keep up the good work!

Dear Parents and Carers

please note that the following items are banned from Larkswood School:

Loom Bands All Wrestling Cards All Jewellery Can you please ensure that along with these items your child/children do not bring in personal items, i.e. books, foot-

balls or toys. Larkswood school cannot be responsible for the loss of any personal items.

Many thanks for your co-operation.

Advance warning: Planned Bug Club maintenance on 29th May

Just in case you’ve missed the message on the Bug club site, we are letting you know that access

to Bug Club will be disrupted on Thursday 29th May 2014 as essential maintenance is carried out.

The Bug Club site will be offline from 6am to 2pm GMT.

Bug Club apologise in advance for any inconvenience.

Academy Status: Parents Consultation Meeting Wednesday, 4th June: 4:45pm Just in case you’ve missed the message on the Bug club site, we are letting you know that access to Bug Club will be A further parents consultation meeting will be taking place at the above time and date at Larkswood Primary. We hope you are able to come along to ask any questions that you may have and to listen to what academy status will mean for Larkswood Primary. We look forward to seeing you there.

As part of working with the wider community, we are devel-oping our links with Chingford Islamic Society on Chingford Mount. This week some Year 3 children went to visit the school with

Miss Myers and Mr Wybrant during their learning time. We observed some of their learning and asked ques-tions about the Islamic religion. Year 2 will be learning about Islam next half term! Miss Myers

The children’s comments….

'They welcomed us really kindly and sang a song especially for us'

'We learnt about the holy books and stories'

Chingford Islamic Society

We are looking for girl’s aged between 9 – 16 who would like to join our football club.

We are hosting open football trials on

Wednesday 21st

& Wednesday 28th

May

Low Hall Sports Ground,

South Access Road,

E17 8AX

5.30-7pm.

Are you interested in playing Girls Football?

For further information please contact

Joe Sheehan on 07903-305484 or

email jeysheehan@hotmail.com

This is an amazing opportunity to become

part of a team, learn new skills and keep you fit.

Larkswood Parent & Staff Association LPSA

Thank you for a great quiz night………………..

But there’s no time to rest. What’s next?..............................

LARKSWOOD SUMMER FAIR

SATURDAY, 21st JUNE: 12:30-4:30pm

Would you like to volunteer to help at the summer

fair or set up a stall of your own?

Please email us at summerfairlpsa@gmail.com or

leave your details at the school office.

All hands on deck!!

Food Rodeo Bouncy castle

DJ G

Face

Painting

Funfair

Games

Creative

Craft

Please fill in the form over-leaf if you would like to secure a stall and return to the school office by 10th June.

Copies are available at the school office

Year 1 Fashion Show…………………………. Linking into their ‘Dressing Up’ project, Year one wowed their parents and carers with a fabulous fashion show that re-

volved around the changing seasons. Larkswood teachers were also allowed to strut their stuff on the catwalk wearing

summer clothes and winter woollies.

Irish Dancing After School Club

Goes from Strength to

Strength……..

Well done to the Irish Dancing after school club. The club has been running for nearly a year and the students have developed excel-lent dancing skills since it started. Congratulations to some of the students in the class who performed in a competition back in February in Chingford, Tilly, Char-lotte, Megan, Hannah and Mia. All the girls walked away with a medal and a top 10 place. Also congratulations to Megan who came 5th & 6th place at a dance competition in Hemel Hempstead recently. Keep up the good work girls.

The club runs Wednesday after school 3:30 - 4:30pm.

Whole School Sponsored Walk

Thursday, 19th June 2014: Larkswood Fields

Dear Parents and Carers

I am writing to invite you to our 2nd Whole School Sponsored Walk that will take place on Thursday, 19th June at

Larkswood Fields.

June is our main fundraising month here at Larkswood and all previous money raised has been ploughed straight

back into the school. Our main fund raising project ‘Bringing the Wood Back to Larkswood’ has gone from

strength to strength with the implementation of the EYFS and KS2 playscapes and the on-going development of

the wilderness area. We couldn’t have done any of this without your continual support.

You should now have received your sponsorship form (keep it safe!). A copy is also included in this newsletter and fur-

ther copies can be found at the school office.

Please ask family and friends if they would like to support the school by sponsoring your child or children to put their

best foot forward for this year’s event.

The distance walked depends on the Key Stage that your child/children are in.

More information about the day and distance to walk for each key stage will follow.

No amount is too small and every penny raised benefits the children of Larkswood.

It’s going to be a great day!

Lynne Harrowell - Headteacher

Larkswood Sponsored Walk 2013 FLASHBACK……………….

As part of working with the wider community, we are working with the police in Waltham Forest on their 'Speed Watch Project'. Last week, Michelle (PSCO) came into school to work with KS2 about road safety. As part of this work, Michelle explained to the children the laws that drivers need to adhere to in order to keep themselves and others safe, and keep their licence. This included using the speed gun to measure some of our fastest runners speeds (including Mr Hau's!).

This week, six of our year 5 children went with a police team to participate in the speed watch project in Chingford. The children supported the police in their speed watch project. We spoke to the adults who were caught speeding about the im-portance of driving safely and keeping to the speed limit, especially close to busy areas like our school. We asked them questions about why they were speeding. One adult said 'you're right there is no excuse, I won't be doing it again.' The police team were very grateful for our help!

Year 2 Interview Superheroes in their literacy lesson

The children’s comments….

'That was the best afternoon at school ever!'

'I can't believe people drive too fast near a school'

'The police are so good at explaining how to stay safe, they are here to help us'

'Being in the police van was well cool'

Dad’s Football the Re-match!!

The Father’s day football challenge returns and will take place at Chase Lane School.

Come and cheer on our Larkswood dads as they return centre stage to defend their title.

Tickets cost £3 on the gate: All Larkswood ticket sales come straight back to Larkswood school.

Refreshments and pizza will be available to buy.

It’s going to be a great event see you there!

Larkswood V Chase Lane Where? Chase Lane Primary, York Road, Chingford E4

When? Saturday, 7th June

What time? Gates open at 10:30am. Match starts 11:00am

QuadKids is the way to go!

QuadKids in the glorious sunshine! On a quiet and warm Tuesday morning on 20th May 2014, more than 15 teams arrived at Pool and Track to com-

pete in the second of three QuadKids competitions. QuadKids is an exciting athletics concept designed to give more children the opportunity to participate in and enjoy the benefits of track and field athletics. It is a team based quadrathalon competition where each athlete does a sprint, a longer run, a jump and a throw. Larkswood had entered 2 teams – Year 5 and 6, and they have toiled and worked tremendously hard during training to get themselves up to speed and into competitive fitness. We were ready! All of the children were split into their respective groups and were soon off to do one of their four events.After the

Year 5 children had completed their 600m run, and the Year 6 children had thrown the vortex howler (javelin) three times, they swapped over. In the Year 5 600m run, we finished in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place – what a perfor-mance! Soon, it was lunch time and an opportunity for all of the chil-dren to have some food and refreshments – well deserved! The children were anxious about how we were performing and were constantly asking what position we were in. Howev-er, due to the nature of the competition, and the competition being carried over 3 days, it was extremely difficult to tell or estimate our position. After lunch it was time for the standing long jump and the 75m sprint. Both year groups performed exceptionally well and finished in excellent positions, earning valuable points for

the team! Before we knew it, all of the events had been completed and there was a short presenta-tion for certificates and recognition was handed out to all those who had helped organise and brought the competition to life! Overall, it was a fantastic day and the children performed outstandingly! We still do not have the result, but I am sure that once Shona Gordan, a SGO from Chingford Foun-dation, has calculated all of the results and scores, she will inform all of the school with the results. When

WATCH OUT FOR THE RESULTS IN THE NEXT NEWSLETTER! The winning school will be going to the London Youth Games at Crystal Palace! Onwards and upwards!

Larkswood Primary S

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