Whole School

SEND Support Meetings

If your child is on the SEND register, you should have received an email today with the details of how and when to book a SEND meeting. If you have not received it, please email the office. If your child is not on the SEND register, you will receive information about booking Parents Evening in February.

Uniform

We have noticed a number of children wearing jumpers that do not in any way meet our expectations or guidelines around school uniform. Often these are logoed sports tops that. Children who are not wearing appropriate tops will be asked to replace it with a clean, second-hand item from our unclaimed lost property.

Please note, children should be wearing blue jumpers/Coldfall logo jumpers every day including PE days.

Halliwick Rec Official Opening Ceremony

The ceremony takes place on Sunday 8 February, 2.00–3.30pm, and will be attended by the Mayor of Barnet, local councillors, and families from across the area. Kompan, who designed and built the playground, will be there with a raffle and free children’s goodie bags. Please go along if you would like to.

Royal Academy young artists competition

We encourage our budding Coldfall artists aged 4 and above to submit an artwork to the Young Artists Summer show. Parents can submit their child's artworks online here: https://youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/

Submissions are accepted until 5pm on 4th March 2026. Good luck!

Watches at School

We would like to clarify our rules around watches at Coldfall Primary School. Children are welcome to wear watches as long as they are not connected to phones and cannot send or receive messages, make calls, take photos, or play games.

Fitbits are allowed, provided they follow the same rules.

As a school, we always recommend analogue watches, as these help children learn to tell the time—an important life skill that supports their learning in class.

Thank you for helping us keep our classrooms safe, focused, and distraction-free.

Sport

After our success in becoming the first Haringey schools Games champions last academic yea, as well as our continued sporting achievements, we are putting together a week to celebrate sport. During the week we will aim to accumulate 10,000 hours of participation opportunities for children, staff and parents. The aims for the week, to be held in the Summer term, are:

-To celebrate our achievement in being the Haringey Champions

- To spark the children’s interest in sports they haven’t previously considered

- For the school community to come together, and have fun being active

- To promote regular physical activity as a vital part of wellbeing

This is where we need your help. If you have any hidden sport skills, links to clubs or know anyone that would like to help with demonstrations, taster sessions, assemblies or if you have some ideas then please send an email to me. We are looking to give our children the widest variety and range we can from pickleball to wrestling or skateboarding to mountaineering.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Mr Browning

M.browning@coldfall.haringey.sch.uk

Smartphone Free School

Coldfall is a proud and strong supporter of the Smartphone Free childhood movement. Over 170 parents have signed the pact not to give their children a smartphone. Please find out more and sign the pact here:

https://www.smartphonefreechildhood.org/parent-pact

Parent Workshops: Online safety for parents

A practical 1-hour session to help parents of school-age children understand how online radicalisation happens and how to keep young people safe. Key topics include how extremist content and harmful narratives spread online; warning signs and early indicators of risk; practical strategies for setting boundaries and parental controls; and having open conversations about online harms.

Dates, times and event registration pages

o Tuesday 10 February 2026, 9:00am - Lea Valley Primary School

o Tuesday 10 February 2026, 6:00pm - Virtual

o Friday 13 February 2026, 2:00pm - Muswell Hill Primary School

Dates to be aware of:

Valentines Disco Friday 13th February – Dress up and a £1 donation to EducAid.

World Book Day Friday 6th March

Parents Evenings 11th and 12th March.

Book Looks – all at 3pm in your child’s classroom:

Please arrive no earlier than 2.55pm for these.

Year 1 – 5th February

Year 3 – Monday 9th February

Year 4 – Tuesday 10th February

Year 5 – Wednesday 11th February

Year 6 – Thursday 12th February

Reception - Friday 6th March

Wellies and Coats

Children will be playing outside in all weathers. Please ensure they have wellies and warm waterproof coats to wear. They also need a spare pair of trousers/joggers in case their legs get wet. Please also ensure their name is on all these items. We recommend Stikins labels https://www.stikins.co.uk/order/ who kindly offer schools a small commission. If you choose Stikins for labels please use our fundraising code 4762.

Breakfast Club

We strongly recommend that you walk your children to the door of breakfast club in the mornings rather than leaving them at the school gates. (This includes older children) The site is not supervised early in the morning.

Bringing in items late to school

If there is an item that you or your child has forgotten (such as water bottles, clothing, bags, books, musical instruments, lunch or snacks, etc.) can these please be brought to the office NO LATER than 9.30am. Taking items to classrooms during school hours disturbs teaching and learning, as well as the office.

Year Three

Please ensure your child has their recorder with them on a Friday for their music lesson with Miss Vetch. It is fine for recorders to be left in school, in your child’s tray.

Year 5

As part of our Year 5 DT project - designing and making hats, we invite parents with sewing experience to some in and assist with the making on Wednesday 4th February 9:30 - 11:30 (Swift and Robin) or Wednesday 11th February 9:30 - 11:30 (Swan). Please contact your child's class teacher if you can assist.

Year 6

On Tuesday 24th March, Year 6 will be participating in the annual Samba competition in the main hall at 3pm. We would love for you to attend. Pupils are encouraged to wear bright colours and accessories for the competition.