Isham CE Primary School Weekly Newsletter - Friday 13th January 2023

Nurturing the infinite worth of every person through love, respect, perseverance, honesty and forgiveness

Message from the Head...

The first full week back and the children have continued to be focused in their learning and all of the teachers are so proud of them! The children are an absolute joy to teach and it's lovely when visiting the classes to see their love of learning and school life. My favourite parts of the day continue to be collective worship and having the opportunity to talk as one big Isham Family!

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Pupil Achievement - Teacher Awards

EYFS/Reception - Chloe - for working so hard at reading this week

Year 1 - Elizaveta - for a wonderfully positive attitude to learning

Year 2 - Harriett-Rose - for hard work in history this week

Year 3 - Florence - for showing all our school values in everything she does

Year 4 - Mustafa - for showing great effort in all lessons this week

Year 5 - Alyssia- for her great effort and perseverance in Maths this week. Alyssia has shown a great understanding with her fractions work this week and has persevered when it has been tricky!

Year 6 - Robbie- for his super effort and engagement in all subjects this week and trying hard to contribute and share ideas.

Bikeability - w/c Monday 16th January for Years 5 & 6

Bikeability for Year 5 & 6 will be running from Monday 16th - Thursday 19th January. For those that are taking part, please ensure that they have a helmet and a roadworthy bike, (please refer to the checklist below). Please can the children taking part in the course wear comfortable, warm clothing, (not school uniform).

We suggest joggers/leggings, t-shirt and warm jumper/hoody and a warm coat. If the weather is likely to be wet, please send in a change of clothes in case they get wet. Sensible shoes/trainers and no skirts to be worn.

Bikes can either be brought in each day or stored overnight outside, if you wish to padlock the bike each night then we can do so against the car park fence - however please be aware that any damage/theft will not be covered by the school and all bikes are left at owner's risk.

Nail Varnish

As part of our school uniform policy, children should not be coming to school wearing nail varnish.

Coats

Now the weather is becoming much colder and wetter, please remember to send your child in with a coat every day, thank you.

School PE Kit

Please go to our school website for the school PE kit expectations: https://www.ishamprimary.org.uk/policies-documents/

The PE kit for both girls and boys is a black sports t-shirt, black shorts or skorts, bottle green hoody, trainers and black tracksuit bottoms.

Trainers

Trainers are to be worn for PE and brought in for non-PE days so they can safely complete the daily mile. Children should not be coming to school in trainers and wearing them for the school day.

Reporting your child's absence

Please do not email your child's teacher to report an absence. All absences need to be phoned to the school office which is open from 8.30am. We are looking into updating our system with a voicemail system if you ring in earlier! We'll keep you posted when we get this system in place.

Doctor's/Dentist Appointments

We are now required to see evidence of all medical appointments, this can be a text message, email or letter.

Lateness

If you are late dropping your child off to school, please make sure they are safely handed over onto the school premises - please do not leave them to walk down the road and through the gate unattended.

National Online Safety release a weekly guide, #Wake up Wednesday and aim to cover all major social media platforms, apps and issues that children encounter online. This aims to help empower parents with the knowledge to protect their children from the dangers of the internet.

Technology changes at such a rapid pace that it can be hard to keep up with the latest trends. The resources below are an invaluable way of making sure you know as much as your children. You are the first line of defence in keeping your children safe online – our aim is to encourage and support you to become involved in this process so that they are receiving the best protection they can – you can’t eliminate the dangers but you can reduce them!

Please click on the button below:

A Message from FOIS

Useful Links for FOIS fundraising extras:

Amazon Smile – on app on website go to settings and follow the instructions to sign up to smile and register with Friends of Isham school then every time you make an amazon purchase they contribute to our charity. Click link for details https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=17337655031&ref=smi_em_disb_mhtp&ref_=pe_4117511_723030001&pldnSite=1

Easy fundraising – sign up via their website www.easyfundraising.org.uk and search/register to support Isham CEVA School – Kettering or follow the link: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ishamprimary/?utm_campaign=raise-more&utm_medium=clipboard&utm_content=rm-cpl

Stikins Labels - Name Labels For School Clothes. Stick On Name Labels: Stikins. When ordering name labels please use the School Fundraising number 10571 (Isham C of E Primary School) https://www.stikins.co.uk/

Stamptastic – Name stamps for labelling. All purchase give donation to FOIS if you need to enter the PTA code (usually for deluxe packages) it us NN141HD https://bit.ly/STAMPNN141HD

Follow us on Facebook or email us on Fois@ishamprimary.org.uk

Please 'like' our Facebook page as this will keep you up to date on all events: https://www.facebook.com/FOIS-Friends-of-Isham-School-176690376296486/

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Reflection Time...

This week we have continued exploring our school value of perseverance through stories from the Bible. We looked at Nehemiah 1-7, and how the people of Israel had lived through some difficult times and this story was about a chance to return home. We learnt that it can be hard to finish a task that takes a long time, especially when others tease us but Nehemiah kept persevering and encouraged the people to keep going! We also had a fabulous visit from Rev.Denise who explored how Jesus was tested in Matthew 4:1 - 11. The key message from this story is that there are always reasons to give up on the goals we set ourselves and there can be reasons to be tempted not to stay on task. This happened to Jesus too but he knew that God wanted him to rescue the world from all that was bad, but he was tempted to use God's power to do things for himself instead. We also had a visit from Leah in the Lighthouse Trust who continued discussing and reflecting with the children what perseverance means and looks like to us.

Heavenly Father, we thank You that You are our God and Father. You alone are worthy of all our honour and praise. We give thanks for the wonderful gift of perseverance. We thank You for having selected us. You have set our feet upon the Rock of our Salvation, who is Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Collective Worship Songs

This term, during musical collective worship with Mr Hole, we have started to look at 'assembly bangers' songs to further widen the children's song knowledge base and have an opportunity to praise God and reflect through music. "I will sing with joy because of you. I will sing praise to you, Almighty God." (Psalms 9)

Songs of the week: Lord of the Dance and Give Me Oil In My Lamp

Dates for your diary

Please look at the calendar on our website to see further ahead: https://www.ishamprimary.org.uk/diary/grid/2021/11/

• w/c Monday 16th January - Bikeability for Year 5 & 6
• Friday 10th February - Last Day of Term
• Monday 20th February - School re-opens to pupils