Welcome Back

Welcome to the first newsletter of the new academic year. On behalf of the whole school team, I am delighted to officially welcome everyone back to school.

We hope you have had a great summer break and enjoyed some quality time together with loved ones, whether home or abroad.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome some new families to Carlton in Snaith Community Primary School, both to families with children joining in our Reception class (this week and next) and in older year groups too. We’ve had quite a few new starters in school this week and they’ve already made a good impression with their smiles, enthusiasm and good attitudes.  The new housing estate will likely mean we will be welcoming new pupils regularly throughout the year ahead.

Official welcome to Mrs Burton and Miss Watling to the team this week. Welcome aboard! A heartfelt welcome back to Mrs Pierce who returns from her absence – it’s great to have her energy and positivity back in school!

We are also delighted to hear about and see some of our former Y6 pupils popping back into school this week following their positive starts to Year 7, both at Holy Family and the Snaith School. We wish them well in their new chapter!

Our first group of Reception new starters began their time at Carlton in Snaith CPS this week too. They have been friendly, positive, and enthusiastic. The rest of the intake begins next Monday – we look forward to them joining the team too!

Premises:

Over the last 6 months, as you know, we have had major positive development to our building and learning environment with our canopy for the Reception class, and development of collaboration corner. We are delighted that over the summer, working in close conjunction with NYCC team, we have greatly improved the front of school. We now have a high quality disabled access toilet and changing facility, as well as greatly improved office area. We hope you like the improvements!

THANK YOU

I am very proud of the children and their efforts at the start of term. Change of classroom, end of summer, starting a new routine etc. can be challenging but the first week has been extremely successful. The atmosphere has been calm, productive and enthusiastic. Long may that continue! Well done everyone. I am also really pleased with the manner in which the staff team have ensured it has been a really great start to the term, with children settling into their new classes and classrooms quickly.

Carlton Skill Set

We have launched our Carlton Skill Set this term and had 8 superhero characters designed to represent 8 vital skills we want our pupils to develop. We are thrilled with the visual prompts for the superheroes that are displayed in the school hall and in each classroom. We hope the children and you love them as much as we do.

We will be using and promoting the skills in all aspects of the curriculum, and all ‘Special Mentions’ certificates will be tied into one of these skills.

Marvellous me

You will be receiving a letter very soon with details of our new ‘Marvellous Me’ system. This will provide you with the opportunity to download a free app for your mobile device and keep in touch with the positive news and achievement of your child in school.  We are excited about using the highly recommended system as a further way of involving you in the children’s learning, attitude, participation and achievements in school.  Class teachers will be rewarding children with ‘awards’ in class, which you then will get notification about via the app.  We again hope you find this to be really positive. Our Carlton Skills set is also linked to this easy to use app.

Dates for the diary!

Before the summer we advertised on the newsletter that we would be having a ‘meet the Teacher event at the start of term. After some consideration I have decided to change the format and style this year and to have a ‘meet the parent’ session instead.

On Tuesday 18^th September we will be inviting parents to sign up for a 5 minute time slot to tell us anything you want us to know about your child. We will be offering you the chance to complete this on paper as an alternative too. More details to follow.

Costume alert! To help launch our Carlton Skill set super heroes we will be having a Super hero dressing up day on Friday 21^st September. Children will be encouraged to wear a superhero costume – this can be as simple or creative as you like. We suggest that children could come as either a famous superhero, one of 8 Carlton Skill set superheroes (or versions of our superheroes) or superhero of their own creation!

We have once again booked the Whole School Pantomime trip to Doncaster Cast Theatre – this year we are seeing Robin Hood on Wednesday 19^th December.  This will be the third year in a row we have attended a have had a whole school festive panto trip and I’m sure this years will be another super day for the children. We will be sending you a letter about this trip and payment details next week. 

Further diary dates to follow next week. 

Special mentions

I just wanted to remind everyone about arrangements for Special mentions and Celebration assemblies. We hold our special mention assemblies every fortnight on a Friday afternoon, from 2.30pm to 3.30pm. Invitations will be sent out for all children who are due to receive a special mention. If you can’t make that date and can come a fortnight later then let us know and we will ‘roll it over’! You could always see if another family member can come along if you would prefer. Our first Special mention assembly is next Friday (15^th September).

Other important information:

• PLEASE ensure all children have their names in all of their school uniform.

• A reminder that Tuesday 18^th September is Meet the Teacher event in school - Arrival at 5.15 for a 5.30 start, 6.00pm finish.  Like last year, we have planned this event as an informal and positive way to start the school year. Parents are invited to join their child’s class teacher for a short talk and presentation. We aim to outline key information about the school year and explain other important routines and systems etc.  Similar information will be shared by all teachers so if you have more than one child and only one parent can attend, then you won’t be missing out. We hope you can join us.

• Clubs will start late in the term and you will informed about these in due course. However we have our externally run clubs starting sooner – Doncaster Rovers will be on Tuesday after school (starting Tuesday 18^th September for Y3-Y6/KS2). We are also hosting Magical Maths this term for the first time. It is not too late to sign up. For further information please contact us or see the banner outside the KS1 playground should you wish to sign up.

• Mrs Gay will be running her Forest School sessions with children each afternoon across the whole year. Children who are participating for the 6-8 week programme will receive a letter for you to give consent.

Class names:

A reminder that this year our classes have names. They are as follows:

I will be sharing more important information over the next few weeks. Thanks for your positivity and enthusiastic start to the new term.

A great start to the year - Here’s to great term and year ahead!

Regards and best wishes

Jon Watson

Head teacher

With World Cup fever and beautiful sunshine there is certainly a really strong summer feel to life in school. It’s hard for me to comprehend just how fast this term has passed and that we are already into July, facing only two more school weeks before the summer break.

Staffing update:

I informed you last week Miss Stafford will be leaving Carlton in Snaith CPS at the end of this term.  I am delighted to say we have had a large and strong field of applicants for the role and I will be interviewing and appointing next week. I will of course keep you posted.

Mrs Hissett has begun her maternity leave this week, in preparation for her new arrival. On behalf of the whole team I would like to wish her all the best for the next few weeks (and beyond) we will keep you updated when we have the exciting news!

Carlton Fete:

It was great to hear from the children what a great event last weekend’s Carlton fete was. I’ve seen photos and have had feedback that Lexie L (Y6) did a super job as fete queen. Congratulations to Elisabeth N for her cake baking skills. More info to follow in our final celebration newsletter at the end of term.

Updates:

Highlights include:

·         In school rehearsals have been well underway for the Y5 and Y6 summer show

·         Year 6 pupils enjoyed 2 days’ transition at the Snaith school – next week those moving to Holy Family will have their transition day.

Next week:

·         Monday : Pluto (reception) class trip

·         Wednesday and Thursday – school performance – Wednesday 2pm and 5pm, Thursday 5.30pm

·         Move up morning 1 - Friday am in school

·         Collaboration Corner official opening – Friday pm – in school event

·         Summer Fayre – Sunday 15^th from 12.00pm-3.00pm

Clubs:

·         We welcomed the Magical maths company into assembly this week. We are offering children the option to sign up for this club (N.B, this club has a cost) for the next school year.

·         Please note (other than Doncaster Rovers on Tuesdays) there are no more school clubs this term.

I’m looking forward to a successful week next week (and hopefully a successful weekend for a certain football team too!).

Kind regards

Jon Watson

Welcome to another of our weekly bulletin newsletters. What a glorious week we have had - I can’t believe last year sports day was cancelled on more than one occasion for rain, then this year was a totally different picture.

Firstly I wanted to say how pleased I was to hear all about Sports day. I was terribly disappointed (and a little grumpy) about missing the event this year. Unfortunately I had an important conference I needed to attend, as I was sharing the work we have done as a school with colleagues from North Yorkshire and further afield, under the ‘Achievement Unlocked’ project. However, I am really pleased that sports day was such a good afternoon. A huge thank you to everyone who attended and supported Sports day this week. A big thank you to Mrs Longfield and the whole staff team for their efforts in ensuring the event was so successful. Well done to all of the children for their sporting efforts and attitudes. More to follow in our next Celebration newsletter.

We held another super learning assembly this week. I was so impressed by Jupiter class (Mr Brook’s fabulous Year 3 and 4 pupils), who shared their knowledge and enthusiasm for the Romans with the whole school and family members. They shared their historical knowledge and Design and Technology skills, and so much more in their informative and enjoyable assembly. Well done Jupiter class team! Thank you to all of the family members who were able to attend this lovely event – the feedback was super!

Elsewhere in school, on Wednesday Venus class had a brilliant stay and read session this week in the community hub with some of the older members of our community. What a brilliant atmosphere! Mercury class are in full flow with regards to their rehearsals for the end of year production. Mrs Smith and I, along with lots of the staff team also really enjoyed meeting the parents of our new September intake of Reception children this week. The children have begun their visits to school and we are excited to be having them join us permanently soon!