Brampton Bulletin

B r a m p t o n P r i m a r y S c h o o l Week ending: 27.5.11

S t r i v i n g t o R e a c h t h e B e s t Summer Term: Issue 5

Inside this week’s issue:

G A RY W I L S O N S P E A K S TO O U R
• Gary Wilson
JUNIORS
• Multi-Cultural Week On Friday Gary Wilson made his last visit
• Forthcoming Dates to Brampton as part of the Boys Will Be…
• SEAL Home Activities project. He spoke to our all of juniors and
• Children’s Achievements was joined by some of their parents. His
theme
• Week 3 Menu
was
• FOB/Governor/New Build believe in
News yourself
• Gold Book Entries and he amazed the children and
• Weekly Attendance adults with several exercises to
• And finally—
improve their own abilities. The
most important message of the
Forthcoming Dates: afternoon was to have a good breakfast and to always be listening.
Mon 30th May-Fri 3rd
M U L T I - C U L TU R A L W E E K
June Mr Power has been very busy recently organising a Multi-Cultural
HALF TERM Week for us after half term. He has arranged for each year to have a
Monday 6th June visit or visitor connected to a particular religion. There will be special
Multi Cultural Week assemblies every day and Mr Raggett, our Chair of Governors will be
Thursday 9th June supporting the week with special lessons taking place on the CRIBS
CRIBs in Y5/ Reception Bus. On Monday year 1, 2 and 6 will look at Sikhism; Tuesday Year 1
are visiting St Peter’s Church and Year 3 visiting the Gurdwara at
Friday 10th June
Belvedere while Year 4 and 5 have a talk on Islam; on Wednesday
Family SEAL Session 1
Year 2 have a trip to St Michael’s church while Year 4 visit the Islamic
Wednesday 15th June temple; Thursday sees a talk on Judaism for Year 1, 3 and 4 and Year
Reception Farm Visit 6 visit the Hindu Mandir in Neasden and finally on Friday Year 1, 2
Thursday 16th June and 3 will have a talk on Hinduism. During the week some parents
CRIBs in Y5/ reception have offered to come in and help. Classes will also be covering plenty
Friday 17th June of other exciting activities during the week. This is the first time we
Family SEAL Session 2 have had a multi-cultural week with such a full programme of events
so many thanks to Mr Power for his hard work , we are all looking
9.30 New Entrants Meeting
forward to this special focus.
1.45 Performance to Infants
Monday 20th June Brampton Primary is a restorative school where the initial response to conflict is to
find a solution where things are put right, the victims needs are met whilst also
Class photos meeting the needs of the wrong doer and meet all the schools responsibilities.
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S E AL H O M E A C T I V I T I E S F OR PAR E NT S T O US E - R E L AT I O N SH I P S

Family quiz time

How well do the important people in your life really know you? Think of some questions to
find out. Here are some to get you started.
What is my favourite meal?
Who is my best friend?
How many brothers and sisters do I have? (parents/carers only)
Who do I sit next to in class? (child only)
Where was I born? (parents and carers only)
Lost
Think about anything that you have lost that you felt was particularly special. It might be a
favourite object or toy. It might be a friend who has moved away or a pet that has died. Take it in turns to
tell each other about your thoughts. You might like to draw a picture or write something to remind you.
Family collage or display
Make a list of the people in your family who are important to you. Try to include the people who you don't
see very often, important people you have never met and people who have died. Is there a special way of
helping you remember special people in your community or family?
Think about the things that remind you of these people. Collect things or pictures of these things and put
them in a display or make a collage.
If you were …
Take it in turns to finish the sentences for members of the family.
If you were an animal I think you would be ….
If you were a biscuit I think you would be …
If you were a piece of furniture I think you would be …
If you were a place I think you would be …
Make up some sentences of your own to finish.
If anyone has tried any of the activities suggested this term we would love to hear about it.

Children’s Achievements
Recently Charlotte Pullen in 5M and Aimee Irving in 1B appeared at the Albert Hall to perform with
their dance school—’Dance Act Theatre School’. Their piece was called Rain Mix and was a jazz
dance. Megan Sanderson in her dance group ‘Illuminate’ competed in ‘Starpower’, an American
competition in Central London. They did amazingly well, not only did they win the ‘Award of
Excellence’, the Victory Cup, win their category and achieve best overall 12-14 age group but were
awarded the ‘Triple Threat’ award. They were then chosen by the American industry judges to
represent the UK on the Starpower website, and if enough votes are achieved they will fly them to
Dallas, USA to represent the UK in the international competition.

Charity Fund Raising

The Lifeboat Collection box in school raised £8.81. Many thanks to those who made a
donation.
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SCHOOL M EALS
W E E K B E G I N N I N G - M O N DAY J U N E 6 T H 2 0 1 1
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Meat Minced Beef & Lamb Curry with Roast Chicken Homemade Beef BBQ Chicken
Vegetable Pie with Lemon Coriander with Homemade Meatballs with with Chips
Potatoes Rice Stuffing & Roast Rice
Potatoes
Fish or Tuna Pasta Bake Vegetable Stir Fry Sweet & Sour Salmon Fishcake
Pork with Rice with New
alternative
Potatoes
Vegetarian Tomato & Basil Jacket Potato with Sweet Potato Stir Bubble & Squeak Macaroni Cheese
Pasta Cheese & Beans

Desserts Chocolate Sponge Shortbread & Apple & Banana Carrot Cake with Jelly & Ice Cream
with Chocolate Yoghurt Crumble with Custard

A choice of salads, seasonal vegetables, fresh bread, fresh fruit platter,

fruit yoghurt, milk and drinking water are also available daily.

Peanut Allergies
Please can we remind everyone that we are a ‘Peanut Free’ school in our cooked meals and we ask
parents not to put any nuts or items containing nuts in their child’s packed lunches. Thank you

New Build
The new infant extension is coming on well. Staff have ordered their new furniture and
planned for their ICT needs. The extension will consist of new classrooms for Reception
and Year 2. Year 1 will be in the refurbished rooms. The Breakfast and After school club
will also be in there with doors onto the playground.

Governor News—Finance Committee

Last week the Governors Finance Committee held their
termly meeting. This committee is chaired by Mrs Bolton,
Local Authority governor. In her absence Mrs O’Brien took
the chair. They looked at the school development plan and financial implications for the
budget plan for 2011-2012. Part of their remit is also to consider any goods that need to be
written off. Their next formal meeting will be in September.

FOB News
Many thanks to FOB, Mrs Lee the DJ and all the parent helpers who made
last week’s Neon Disco a success. The children enjoyed themselves and
valuable funds were raised to support the school.
 BRAMPTON GOLD BOOK
Striving to Reach the Best Weekly Attendance
Every week we print the names of those children who have
achieved in either their work, conduct or behaviour around
school and have been entered in the Gold Book. They have
been mentioned in Monday’s celebratory assembly. After 3
mentions children receive a bronze certificate, 6 mentions for a
silver, 9 mentions for a gold, 12 mentions for a Super Gold and
15 mentions for a Platinum certificate, 18 for Diamond, 21+
for a Head teacher’s Award and 24 for a Special Head teacher
Award and Badge. Week ending 21.5.11
RB: 94.7%
RJ—Louise Jardine 6B– All of class
RJ– George Jarvis (Bronze) 6C – All of class RJ: 96%
RJ– Ravina Dhesi (Bronze) 1B: 96.7%
RJ– Maya Broughton (Bronze) And apologies to Conor Murphy
RJ– Ruby Halliday whose name was mis-spelt last 1BA: 95.7%
RJ—Aidan Wicks week.
1B– Jakub Kaminski 2H: 99%
1B– Ben Steiner Unfortunately there is not
1B– Oliver Box (Silver) enough space to mention the 2EW: 96.6%
1B—Charlie Tracey children’s achievements here 3W: 96.3%
1B—Kody Johnson but if you are interested to see
1BA– Leila Kimber your child’s mention the book is 3WH: 98.3%
1BA– Amy Bellett (Silver) usually kept in the office—so
1BA- Devan Vadukul please pop in and ask to see it. 4P: 97.3%
1BA—Ruben Bhandal
4C: 98%

And finally.......Medical appointments 5S: 99%

If you wish you child to keep a high attendance record 5M: 97.7%
we recommend where possible that medical or dentist 6B: 91.9%
appointments be made for during the morning. This way 6C: 97.7%
your child will get their registration mark and can return Well done to 2H, 5S and the
for the rest of the morning. The same thing applies for other classes above 96.1%
the afternoon session, if appointments can be made for Our School Total was 96.8%!
after registration time your child only needs to miss the
Raffle Prize Winners
end of the day and not lose their attendance mark.
The winners in this week’s draw for
Please can you also remember to let the office know as tea with Miss Fisher were Finlay
soon as possible of any absence due to sickness etc. Wicks in 1B and Waniya Ali in 3W.
For further advice pleased see our office staff. Well done to them for showing the
appropriate behaviour.
Remember if you like what we’re doing —tell Illegal Parking
us and others! If you don’t, please help us im- It has been reported that a small
prove! black car LX08RUO has parked in
School Office; 020 8303 2873 the middle of the yellow zigzag lines
Fax; 020 8298 0286 several times. If this is noted again
Email:admin@brampton.bexley.sch.uk the details will be passed to the
police.