Monday 28th April 2013

Welcome back, everyone. I hope you have all had a lovely, restful holiday.  I am looking forward to seeing all the children refreshed and ready to begin a new term. It is going to be a very busy one with lots of fantastic learning experiences to look forward to.

    Year 6 and Year 2  SATs

As you will be aware, the Year 6 and Year 2 SATs tests will take place in the next few weeks. In order to support our children in preparing for these tests, we ask that all parents and carers ensure that the children are working on the activities that their teachers have sent home recently.  We thank you for your support in this matter and are sure that these activities will help your child to achieve what they are truly capable of.

Thank you to all the Year 6 parents and carers for sending their children to the extra tuition lessons during the holidays.  This proved to be a very successful few days and I know that the children, along with myself, thoroughly enjoyed the lessons.  Once again thank you for your continued support.

This week at Copthorne

Reception Trip to Pets At HomeThis week our Reception classes have an exciting treat to look forward to. The children will be visiting ‘Pets at Home’ on Forster Square Retail Park in Bradford.  The trip is part of their topic for this half term: “Pets and Parks”.  I am sure the children will have a fantastic time there and I look forward to hearing all about it from them. 1 R’s visit will take place on Tuesday 29th April and on Wednesday 30th April it will be the turn of 2R. Have a wonderful time everyone.

 Exceed Football Tournament

Our Year 5 and 6 football team will travel to Grange Technology College with Mr A Khan on Wednesday 30th April to compete against other schools in the Exceed partnership.  We wish them the very best of luck and as always, we are very proud of them for getting to this very exciting stage of the competition. I am sure that our children will be excellent ambassadors for Copthorne.

Interfaith Explorers           

We are delighted to be hosting a presentation by Interfaith Explorers this Wednesday, 30th April. The presentation will take place from 3.15 to 4.15 and staff representatives from up to 20 local schools will be attending.

Interfaith Explorers is a free online primary educational learning resource supported by UNESCO and designed to add value to RE and PSHE lessons by helping pupils respect religious and cultural diversity.  It can be used as part of planned National Curriculum work, or in response to a particular social or cultural issue that emerges in the public realm. At Copthorne we know that one of our most important roles as educators is to develop our children’s social, moral, cultural and spiritual understanding and, therefore, we are looking forward to hearing about how Interfaith Explorers will support the work that we are doing.

Forest Schools

On Friday 2nd May, 4 Poplar will continue with their Forest School activities at St Ives in Bingley.  Now that the weather is getting a little warmer the children will be able to experience different activities compared to those that are carried out in the Winter. I’m sure that the group will, as usual, have an amazing time learning about the outdoor environment and how we should care for it. 

I hope you all have a lovely week.

Mrs Shepherd