Whole School

TAD day - Friday, 28th June – School is Closed for children

Weather – as the weather is warming up, please remember to apply sun cream in the morning to your child/children, send them to school with a sun hat and make sure that they bring in a water bottle every day.

 

School Meals Questionnaire - We would like the children’s feedback on the school meals that we provide.

• Year 1 to Year 6 - You will find on your child’s Google Classroom profile a questionnaire regarding school meals that will need to be completed by each child. Children will need to log in to their Google Classroom and complete the questionnaire. Please note that each child will have to complete their own questionnaire. This is a survey for the children and NOT for parents, so please encourage your child to respond themselves.
• Nursery and Reception - Please complete this questionnaire based on your child’s response. Please use the link provided to access the questionnaire: https://forms.gle/HRjP3kkQcUckBv9VA
• If anyone needs any help with this, please e-mail the school office and address your query to Ms Clavé.

Reception

Transition Meeting - Tuesday, 25th June at 9.05am – Main Hall

Year 1

Southend School Trip – Thursday, 27th June at 8.30am - 3.30pm

Y6 Show Tickets

Later this term, you will be invited to buy tickets for Honk! You will initially be invited to buy two tickets, to ensure that nobody misses out on seeing their child perform. After this, the rest of the tickets will go on sale, so that you can buy tickets for siblings, friends and other family members. Though we will not be able to guarantee that everyone will get the number of tickets that they desire, we are hopeful that there will be more than enough space for everyone. Last year’s performances were all very well attended and there were still seats available for each evening. 

 

SUMMER FAIR EVENT

This Saturday – At Coldfall Primary School

Please come and support us at our Summer Fair on Saturday, 22nd June 2024 from 1.00pm until 4.00pm, kindly organised by Friends of Coldfall. This year’s Summer Fair will also feature the launch of our Sensory Garden.

Tickets: Use the link to secure your tickets https://www.pta-events.co.uk/friendsofcoldfall/ .

Online tickets are £2 (adults) and £1 (children). Tickets can also be bought at the gate £3 (adults) and £2 (children).

What to expect at this year’s Summer Fair:

• Raffle Prizes – Please see attached poster to view the exciting prizes Friends of Coldfall have lined up for you.
• Wood Carving Workshop
• Sensory Garden Activity trail
• Inflatable Slide and a Bouncy Castle
• Book Swap
• Games Zone
• Market Stalls
• Come and have your nails done and/or get a fun temporary tattoo
• Food – BBQ, Burgers, Hot Dogs, Donuts, Ice Cream, Popcorn, Candy floss, Vegan and Vegetarian options also available
• Summer bar (with PIMM’S)
• Music throughout the day

We need your help for the Summer Fair!

We rely on your help to run some of the stalls, please volunteer to help on any stall that has gaps. Volunteer to help at www.pta-events.co.uk/friendsofcoldfall . Thank you!

Sensory Garden Grand Opening

After years of fundraising and months of digging, building, and planting, we are thrilled to announce that this year’s fair will coincide with the grand opening of the Sensory Garden. Wander around the garden and follow the free interactive Sensory Garden Trail to learn more about this exciting project.

Wood carving workshops

The entrance to the sensory garden is going to have a fabulous owl sculpture. The workshops will give your child a chance to make a wooden feather for the owl. These sessions are led by Yes Make who have created the sensory garden. The children will use a special type of saw and sander, then dip their feather in paint, ready to go on the owl sculpture when it's ready.

Workshops are £3 per child and run every 15 minutes throughout the fair. Please only book for children currently at Coldfall School/Nursery. Sessions can be booked online. (A parent must remain with children under 5 years).

Summer Fair – ‘Golden Threads’

One of our ‘Golden Threads’ at Coldfall is to teach our children to be environmentally aware and responsible. Before coming to the Summer fair please talk to your children about putting wrappers, containers etc in the bins.  Please model this yourself and don’t leave cans, cups etc on tables or walk past them when you go home. We have a beautiful space to enjoy. Let’s respect it and look after it.

Information

You Tube

There have been some incidents at school this week involving children using racist, homophobic and aggressive language. When looking into these incidents, all the children involved have shared that this language is something they have watched on You Tube. Please see below a couple of links, which give some guidance on how to keep children safe when watching You Tube. Some of the things that children have reported watching are racist jokes, homophobic jokes and slap battles.

We would encourage you to watch You Tube with your child as inappropriate and offensive content can often follow a video which may have been age appropriate.

There is also a You Tube Kids channel which has some restriction on content. Children watching this content and sharing it with others at school is causing real distress to some of our pupils and we would urge you to consider the impact of what your child is watching.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this any further. Thank you.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/parents-ultimate-guide-to-youtube-kids

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/online-safety-blog/how-to-keep-your-child-safe-on-youtube/

 

Ongoing Information

Outstanding debt

We would like to ask parents to please clear any outstanding debt that they have on Arbor as we will be moving to a new system called Arbor. In order for the move to go smoothly all debt needs to be cleared from everyone’s Arbor account. If there are any issues, please contact the school office as soon as possible.

Please watch out for an e-mail from school where you will receive information on how to register to the new Payment System. The new system will have an app that everyone will need to download. Thank you.

Leavers (Nursery to Year 5): If you are planning to leave Coldfall Primary school at the end of the school year please e-mail the school office and let us know your child’s new school name and address as well as your new address, if applicable. Thank you to those parents who have already contacted the school office.

Whole School

You are invited to attend our school sports days on the following dates:

DATE	TIME + YEAR GROUP
Monday 10th June	9.15 Nursery 11am Reception
Tuesday 11th June	9.15am YR 1 and YR 2
Wednesday 12th June	9.15am YR 3 and YR 5
Thursday 13th June	9.15am YR 4 and YR 6

These dates may be subject to change if the weather is too wet to use the field. Hopefully it will remain warm and dry throughout the week.

Nursery-Year 5 - We would like to ask parents to please email the school office if you are planning to leave Coldfall at the end of this academic year. Please include your new address and your child’s new school as we will need to send their records to their new school.

Whole School

Any items such as lunchboxes, water bottles or musical instruments that are left at home must be dropped off by 9.30am at the latest. Please do not drop off any forgotten items after this time as it is incredibly disruptive for the office.

Please share this message with anyone who collects your child: Children are not allowed to stay and play in the school playground after pick up from Nursery, School, Activity Clubs or Night Owls. Please exit the school site as soon as your child has been collected.

Activity Club pick-up is at 4.40pm. The gate is opened daily at 4.35pm to allow you time to walk to the pick-up point. Please do not come to collect your child before this time unless this is arranged in advance.

Year 2

Year 2 have an exciting week ahead! On Monday they will be visited by Highgate Honey, and on Tuesday they are heading to Kew Gardens. Please ensure they have their packed lunch and are dressed appropriately for the weather on Tuesday.

Year 4
Peacock Class will be heading to Phasels Wood on Thursday 23^rd May. We hope the children will have a wonderful time!

Year 6

The children in Y6 have auditions on Tuesday for the Y6 production. They will come home with a script for part of a scene to practise over the weekend. The children will have time to rehearse in groups on Monday.

Some children are choosing to have a singing audition. The words and backing track for the audition song have been uploaded to Google Classroom.

Whole School

• We are excited to announce the launch of our new website on Tuesday 7^th May! Please look out for a the link which will be sent to you on Tuesday.
• Community Litter Pick - We are joining forces with other local primary schools to clean up our beautiful ancient woodland, Coldfall Woods, that we all love so much.  Please join us if you can!  Children need to accompanied by an adult. We will have litter pickers for the first 30 groups who arrive.

Date:     Wednesday 15th May
Time:    3.45 – 4.30
Place:    Meet in the woods by the gate that goes directly into the woods from the nature trail (go down the path closest to school that leads from Everington Road into the woods, and you’ll see a blue fence on the left – we’ll meet there).

Bring:    A bag for your rubbish, gardening gloves if you have them.

• We are excited to Welcome Cressida Cowell, author of the How to Train Your Dragon series, on Wednesday 8^th May. She will deliver a talk to our Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 children and signed copies of her books are available for pre-order here: https://www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/collections/cressida-cowell-author-visit-at-coldfall-primary-school-8th-may-2024
• Curry orders for Gameshow Quiz Night must be placed by the end of today at www.pta-events.co.uk/friendsofcoldfall

Year 1

Year 1 will have a visit from Hornsey Fire Brigade on Thursday.

Year 4

We are really looking forward to the upcoming trips to Phasels Wood. Please see the attached kit list and ensure your child has everything they need for the trip. If you do not have a sleeping bag, one can be borrowed from school. Please email the school office if you would like to borrow a sleeping bag.

Year 5

Swan and Swift Class will be heading to Pizza Express this week on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Robin will be going in June.

Whole School

Our school nurse invites all parents and carers to a coffee morning on Friday 26th April at 9.30am in the training room. She will do a short presentation about minor childhood illnesses and healthy lifestyles and take questions.

Year 6

Next week we are continuing to work on our art skills to build a whole class collage of our class bird in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
As we are doing observational drawings, it would be very helpful if each child could bring in an extra piece or pieces of fruit or vegetables to sketch (as most art lessons occur after morning break). We also need fruit and vegetable packaging- for example netting, paper bags or plastic packaging to add to the collage. We will need this from Monday 22nd, so please bring it in as soon as you can.
The usual homework books will also restart this week and these have been set as usual on Google Classroom.

Whole School

• The last day of term is Thursday 28th March. Pick up will be at 1.20pm for Reception classes and 1.30pm for the rest of the school. Please be advised that there are no after school clubs on this date and you have not been charged.
• On Thursday 28th we will have a school-wide Toy Day where children will be allowed to bring in a game e.g. Snakes and Ladders or Pick up Sticks to play with their class. Children must not bring in any electronics or consoles on this day.
• In order to ensure the cloakrooms, pegs and troughs are cleared ready for cleaning during the holiday, we will ask children to take everything home with them on Wednesday 26th March.
• The first day back after the Easter break is 15th April.
• There will be a TAD day on 2nd May.
• When dropping off and collecting children from Breakfast Club, After School Club or Nursery please exit the school site straight away. Please do not stay and allow children to play in the school playground, this is not allowed for safeguarding reasons.
• Please inform Roopa in the office of any changes you want to request for Breakfast Club or Night Owls before the end of term.
• Activity club booking will go live at 8pm on Monday 25th March. We recommend downloading and logging into the SchoolMoney app ahead of time as this will make booking easier for you on the day.

Cooking club booking will also go live at 8pm on Monday 25th March. However, this cannot be booked Via SchoolMoney. Instead, please follow these links:

Rookie Cooks Tuesdays Summer Term

Rookie Cooks Wednesdays Summer Term

Reception

We are delighted to invite parents and carers to be a mystery reader for their child’s class next term. The mystery reader keeps their identity a secret from their child and we have a big reveal when they arrive to read to the class at story time. As a mystery reader, you bring a book from home to read to the class.
The dates available for next term are:
16th, 23rd, 30th April
7th, 14th, 21st May
4th, 11th, 18th, 25th June
2nd, 9th July
Please arrive at 2.55pm on the date you are assigned.
Please email you child’s teacher, via office@coldfall.haringey.sch.uk, if you would like to take part. Please do not email the teacher directly.

Year 5

Year 5 are visiting London Zoo on Monday 25th March. Children should arrive at 8.30am with a packed lunch, which must not contain nuts or nut products, in a rucksack, comfortable shoes and a raincoat as it is likely to rain.

If your child has a Zoo membership, please ensure they bring proof of this with them on the day.

Year 6

• Monday 25th March

For the school trip, children need a backpack, a packed lunch and a coat- the weather forecast is for rain. Children should be in school uniform. Please could parent helpers sign in at the office and come to the classrooms by 9.15am at the latest. Thank you.

• Tuesday 26th March

The children need a 9v battery and some form of box to house the electrical circuit of their steady hand game.

• Wednesday 27th March

The children can dress up as someone from the WW2 period if they choose, or they can stay in school uniform.

For the make do and mend section of the day: please could the children bring in a worn-out item of clothing that they could mend. This could be something as small as a glove or a sock.