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Howes Primary School Newsletter: 20th March 2015
Scrumdiddlyumptious!
Thank you!
Next week we are all looking forward to the
Year 3 and 4 performances.
The dress rehearsal will take place on Monday
23rd March at 9:30am and the performances
will be on Wednesday 25th March at 2pm and
again at 6pm.
Thank you to everyone who helped to raise
lots of money to support the work of Comic
relief.
Howes Primary school raised £288.47!
£200 was made by selling red noses.
£38.36 was made from the book sale.
£50.11 came from generous donations.
If you have not yet returned your slip to
request tickets please do so as soon as
possible thank you.
Illness
We have lots of germs in school currently and
many children and staff have been absent due to
illness.
Howes House
Points
The current running totals are:
The Knights of Inspiration (Green): 376 points
The Knights of Courage (Red): 378 points
The Knights of Respect (Blue): 278 points
Please could we remind all families that children
should not return to school until 48 hours after their
last bout of sickness and diahorrea. Thank you.
The Knights of Equality (Yellow): 337 points
Well done to the Knights of Inspiration who were our
winning team last week!
Easter Egg Competition Reminder
This year the deadline for the Friends of Howes Easter
Egg competition for decorating an egg is the morning of
31st March as this is when they will be judged.
Easter Holiday Activities
Coventry Family Information
Service has collected information
on activities and events
happening in and around
Coventry over the Easter
holidays for children
and young people.
Visit the What’s On page on the
Family Information Directory
website
at http://coventry.fsd.org.uk/ new additions added daily.
Morning of Music
On Wednesday Year 1 participated
in the Morning of Music. Children
from different schools around
Coventry met at Stivichall Primary
School to sing songs based on a
healthy eating theme. Children
played musical instruments and
performed a party piece.
“The lollipop song was really good.”
(Logan and Jessica)
“It was super fun.” (Travis)
“I got to see some of my friends
from other schools.” (Josh)
Clubs
Clubs will continue
until the end of
term. A letter will be
coming out next
week about club
options for next
term. Most clubs
will start in the first
week of the
Summer Term.
The Best of Intentions
Here are the people who have been noticed having the good intentions this week.
Priyanka (Y3) for being a good friend.
Travis and Pankti (Y1) for playing with other children.
Khalisah (Y5) for always being a nice friend.
Sanjna (Y3) for playing with everyone.
Charlotte (Y1) for always playing with people.
Queeva, Lexi and Libby (Y3) for being great friends and being nice.
Jake (Y2) because he is a good friend.
Katie (Y1) for always having a big smile on her face.
Rhiane (Y3) for being a great friend and for always giving 100%.
Inaaya and Jessica (Y4) for being good friends.
Ruqayyah (Y3) and Zeinab (Y4) for holding the door for others.
Alex (Y4) for being a great friend.
Narayan (Y4) for kindly holding the door.
The girls in Year 6 for being kind.
All the girls in Year 3 for being kind.
Mrs Bannister for being kind.
Miss Marshall and Miss McKinlay for being nice to everyone in Year 5.
All of the teachers for working hard and being helpful.
All of the Friends of Howes for their hard work.
The whole school for being good.
Miss Szyndler for being a good fife teacher and for being awarded the European Pedagogical ICT Licence (EPICT) for
all of her work at school with ICT!
Attendance and Lateness
Please can we remind all families that the bell rings at 8:55am.
Absence phone line: please telephone the school office on 02476411711 as soon as possible. Thank you.
Class
Attendance
Lateness
HIU
76%
0
Nursery
83.8%
2
Reception
90.7%
4
Year 1
98.6%
6
Year 2
97.8%
6
Year 3
95.5%
8
Year 4
97.3%
7
Year 5
96.3%
5
Year 6
93.4%
6
Overall
94.1%
43
Please continue to work with us in ensuring that your child arrives at school on time and attends every day.
Dates for your Diary
Monday 23rd March: Year 3 & 4 dress rehearsal 9:30am
Tuesday 24th March: Class photographs
Wednesday 25th March: HIU Writing Inspire Workshop (Please note the change of date)
Wednesday 25th March: Coffee Morning 9-10am
Wednesday 25th March: Year 3 & 4 Performances 2pm and 6pm
Friday 27th March: Creative Flair dance assembly 9am
Friday 27th March: Year 3 to Morning of Music
Tuesday 31st March: Guitar and choir assembly 9am
Tuesday 31st March: Dance Club assembly 2.45pm
Thursday 2nd April: TeacherTraining Day-School closed to children
Friday 3rd April-Sunday 19th April: Easter Holiday
Monday 20th April- Start of term
Monday 4th May: Bank Holiday-School closed to children
Monday 11th – Thursday 14th May: Year 6 assessment week
Monday 18th- Friday 22nd May: B.E.S.T project visitors in school
Friday 22nd May: TeacherTraining Day-School closed to children
Monday 25th May- Friday 29th May: Half term holiday