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Flu Vaccination Award

Fri 17 Mar 2023

Please see the message from the Flu Vaccination Team:

Congratulations! You have achieved a GOLD award.

As we are moving forward following the Covid19 pandemic, this year we have reintroduced our tier system of awards.

This is presented in recognition of your exceptional achievement. By participating in the flu vaccination programme 2022/2023 you have protected your children’s health and wellbeing. The GOLD award was reached as 73.65% consent forms were returned.

On behalf of the RDaSH Vaccination and Immunisation Team, I would like to thank you for the assistance and support you gave us.

Big Talk Education- Parent Presentation link included

Wed 08 Mar 2023

To keep children as safe as possible Relationship Education is now statutory in all Primary Schools, we are engaging the support of the specialist organisation BigTalk Education, who are a Social Enterprise recognised by national lead bodies and Government.

They work with 3yr olds upwards and have been involved in delivering age-appropriate education of this type for over 20 years.

Below is some information on the Growing Up Safe programme that will be delivered to the Children.

Age 3 (Nursery). A fun learning environment where the children are taught: the differences between boys and girls, naming body parts, correct scientific words, private areas of the body, good touches and bad touches.
Ages 4 to 8 (Reception School Years 1, 2 & 3) Re-enforces and checks what was covered in Nursery. Using specially designed child friendly resources at the end of this session they will be able to identify happy situations within relationships, and those which may be risky (e.g., other children or adults taking improper photographs of them, inappropriate touches, exposure to unsuitable media etc.) Plus, whom they can talk to if they are worried.
Ages 8 to 9 (School Year 4) We cover different kinds of families, similarities and differences between boys and girls, the emotional and physical changes of growing up (puberty) how babies are made, then develop in the womb etc. (reproduction). Also discussed is, how to look after our bodies and be safe and healthy.
Ages 9 to 11 (School Years 5 & 6) Reproduction and puberty are re-capped, the children are given the opportunity to ask questions. As well as additional clarification on puberty, they will often want more details on how babies develop and are born. It is important that they know there is someone in school as well as at home if they want help, advice or more information etc. (Information at this stage is vital to protect them as they move onto Secondary School and to provide an alternative to Google etc.

All the resources BigTalk Education use are age appropriate and help keep children protected from unwanted touches, abuse, and exposure to unsuitable images etc.

Further information on the above can be found on: www.bigtalkeducation.co.uk/parents

The new video Parent presentations https://www.bigtalkeducation.co.uk/year-by-year/ are on our website. The password to access the presentations is: Happy&Safe

In addition, “Bodies, Babies and Bellybuttons” is the BigTalk book which accompanies the Growing Up Safe programme. This is a great resource for parents and can be ordered online from www.bigtalkeducation.co.uk on our Resources page.

Should you require any further information BigTalk Education can be contacted on admin@bigtalkeducation.co.uk

If you have any queries regarding the above information and would like to discuss this with someone from school, please do not hesitate to contact me via email on admin.berkeleyprimary@northlincs.gov.uk

Best wishes

Faye Marshall

PSHE Leader

Comic Relief 2023

Mon 06 Mar 2023

This year our school will be supporting Comic Relief on:

Monday 13^th March for Nursery children.

Friday 17^th March for children in Reception to Year 6.

We are inviting children to dress in anything red/ non-uniform on this day.

A suggested donation of £1.00 would be gratefully received

World Book Day Thursday 2nd March

Thu 09 Feb 2023

World Book Day takes place on Thursday 2^nd March, and we would like to invite you to join us in helping your child to make the most of this special occasion. World Book Day celebrates the joy and value of books and reading.

For Reception to Y6, this will take place on Thursday 2^nd March and we are inviting the children to come to school dressed up as any character from their favourite book. Please don’t feel the need to go out and buy an outfit for this – if you have a look on the World Book Day website, there are lots of ideas for creative costumes that make use of what you may already have at home.

Nursery will celebrate World Book Day on Monday 27^th February.

Nurseries, schools and libraries across the UK celebrate World Book Day with a huge range of events and activities. Your child will also receive a £1 book token – sponsored by National Book Tokens. You can join us in building your child’s enthusiasm for books well beyond World Book Day by reading together regularly and joining your local library if you are not yet members. For more information about World Book Day and ideas on sharing books at home, visit worldbookday.com. Children are never too young to start their journey with books, and the benefits of reading are enormous - so we hope, like us, you will use World Book Day to celebrate it with your child.

English Language Classes

Fri 03 Feb 2023

For those parents who are speakers of other languages, we have been sent information about classes to learn the English language.

Please see the attached leaflet for more information.

Parent's Evening

Wed 25 Jan 2023

Parent and Teacher Consultations have been organised for Nursery, Reception and Year 1 to Year 6 on Monday 6^th February and Wednesday 8^th February (3.30 – 6.30pm), apart from a few changes to the following classes:

Nursery will be on Wednesday 8^th February only (2.30-6.30pm). Please note, the booking system will show 5-minute slots for appointments due to both Mrs Bennett and Mrs Waters covering these appointments.
3 Holly’s Parent evening will be postponed until Mrs Nunes returns. We will let you know as soon as we can arrange this.

We will be using the online booking system again for booking appointments. You will shortly receive an email inviting you to book an appointment with your child’s class teacher. Once you have received the email, please select the date and time you wish to book for. Only available time slots will be displayed. Once you have selected your time and confirmed your booking, you will receive an on-screen reminder of the booking followed by an email confirmation.

Please note, the system will only send an email to the person who is listed on our records as contact number one. Parents who have more than one child at our school, will receive a separate email for each child. If you have not received an email by Friday 27^th January, please contact the school office by phone (01724 867065) or email (admin.berkeleyprimary@northlincs.gov.uk) to ensure we have your current email address. The online booking system will close on Friday 3^rd February at 3.00pm.

Parent’s Evening is an opportunity for you to have a look at your child’s work and speak to your child’s class teacher about progress and targets. I will also be available during the evening if you would like to speak to me. We expect 100% attendance and need to see all parents. There will be no after school clubs on Monday 6th and Wednesday 8^th February.

Meetings will be held in classrooms, there will be a waiting area in each school hall and you will be able to look at your child’s work. Please could all visitors use the main entrance for the infants and juniors and come to the appropriate building for each appointment. Nursery and Reception meetings will be held in the infant building.

We look forward to seeing you here at the school, having an opportunity to share some of the lovely work the children have been doing and discuss their progress and attitude to learning.

Best wishes

Mrs Anna Cvijetic

Headteacher

Parent Gross & Fine Motor Workshop

Fri 13 Jan 2023

Gross & Fine Motor Workshop

Dear Parents and Carers,

You are invited to our parent workshop to develop your knowledge of Gross & Fine Motor skills. Please see below the details of the events taking place:

Nursery, Reception and KS1 Parents:

Monday 23^rd January 2023 at 9am in the Infant Hall

KS2 Parents:

Monday 6^th February 2023 at 9am in the Junior Hall

The session will provide you with information about how children develop their gross and fine motor skills, why these skills are essential to your children’s ability to write legibly and also provide you with some strategies and activities to try at home.

If this event sounds of interest to you please come to the relevant entrance on the day of the event.

We look forward to welcoming you soon.

Best Wishes

Miss Jenna King

Deputy SENDCO

After School Clubs Spring Term 2023

Tue 10 Jan 2023

We have been organising our extra curricular activities for this term. We are offering a variety of enrichment activities for the children, trying to cater for a range of interests and age groups. I am sure that you will join me in thanking our great team for giving up their own time to volunteer to run these clubs for our children. The list of clubs available this term are on the reverse of this letter.

If your child would like to join a club then please log on to your ParentPay account where the clubs available for this term will be listed for you to select. To make this process fair you MUST ONLY select ONE club for your child. If you select more than one your child will be cancelled from all clubs selected.

Booking opens from Wednesday 11^th January at 4.00pm where you will then be able to view and book your child onto a club. As there are limited places at each club, places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If a club is full then the ParentPay system will not let you book onto a club. If you have yet to use ParentPay and need your login details, then please call in at the school office.

All clubs will start from Monday 23^rd January apart from the Y1/2 Indoor Football Club, which will start from Tuesday 31^st January. All clubs will run until Friday 24^th March. There will be no after school clubs on 6^th & 8^th February due to Parents Evening.

Gooch Judo will continue their sessions on a Wednesday in the Junior Hall. There is a £3 charge for this per week, £21.00 for the full term. Payment for the full term must be made via ParentPay at the point of booking. Please note, once payment is made, this is non-refundable so should your child be absent from school or no longer wants to go to the club, we are unable to refund this back.

Dance Showcase- This club is for invitees only and will be in preparation for a dance event at The Baths Hall, places will be allocated after an audition.

Once a child has signed up for a session, we do ask that children stay committed to their activity for a term and attend each week. If for any reason they are not able to attend, please can you ensure that the activity leader is made aware.

As always, Infant children will need to be collected at the end of their after school activity. We recommend that Junior children are also picked up from their activity, but this is parental choice. Please indicate whether your Junior child will be collected or allowed to walk home on the ParentPay system when booking onto a club. Please ensure you are punctual when collecting your child at the end of the club. Should you be late on more than one occasion then your child will unfortunately not be able to attend the club.

Best wishes

Anna Cvijetic

Headteacher

CLUB	YEAR	DAY AND TIME	WHO
Y1/2 Indoor Football	Y1/2	Tuesday 3.15-4.15pm	Mr Jones
Origami	Y1/2/3	Tuesday 3.15-4.15pm	Mrs R Jones
Computing	Y2	Tuesday 3.15-4.15pm	Mr Dalgleish
Gross & Fine Motor Skill Development	Y1/2/3/4/5/6	Tuesday 3.15-4.15pm	Miss King
Y3/4 Girls Football	Y3/4	Tuesday 3.15-4.15pm	Mr Goodall
Indoor Hockey	Y1/2	Wednesday 3.15-4.15pm	Mr Jones
Judo	Y1/2/3/4/5/6	Wednesday 3.15-4.30pm	Gooch Judo
Dodgeball	Y1/2	Thursday 3.15-4.15pm	Mr Jones
Wellbeing	Y1/2/3/4/5/6	Thursday 3.15-4.15pm	Miss Marshall
*Dance Showcase	Y4/5/6	Thursday 3.15-4.15pm	Mrs C Jones
Comic Book	Y5/6	Thursday 12.00-12.30pm	Mrs Marsh

Merry Christmas to all

Fri 16 Dec 2022 Anna Cvijetic

Dear Berkeley Parents and Carers,

Well - in a flash, another term is over! Many thanks for all your support for our school - the children have had an amazing term working very hard. This term has felt much more 'back to normal' after Covid.

It has been particularly wonderful being able to properly celebrate Christmas in school. All 5 concerts were just wonderful, well done to all the children who took part - they are always the highlight of our Christmas.

We would like to wish you all a restful holiday period with the chance to restore batteries and spend time doing the things you enjoy and seeing the people you love.

With all best wishes for a very happy Christmas and New Year.

Anna Cvijetic and Wendy Howlett xxx

Spring term Inspire afternoons

Fri 16 Dec 2022 Anna Cvijetic

Dear Year 1 to 6 Parents and Carers,

We are delighted with the feedback from our Inspire afternoons. The feedback shows that you have enjoyed them and feel like you know more about how we teach and our curriculum - brilliant!

We have planned the dates for the Spring term, see the attachment and below for the dates for your children's classes. The sessions will take place in the infant school hall (Y1,2 and 5) and junior school hall (Y3,4 and 6).

If you are not available to join your child, a grandparent, aunt, close family friend, etc, could attend. It would be great if every child had an adult with them. To enable us to ensure children are safeguarded, all children will be closely supervised by the staff and the adults will only be allowed in the hall and to use the toilets. If you are not available to join your child, a grandparent, aunt, close family friend, etc, could attend. It would be great if every child had an adult with them. To enable us to ensure children are safeguarded, all children will be closely supervised by the staff and the adults will only be allowed in the hall and to use the toilets.

The afternoons will begin at 1.40pm, finishing about 3.00pm to give enough time for the teacher to take the children back to class and round off the day for 3.15pm (children cannot be taken home early at 3.00pm). It is essential the adults arrive by 1.40pm otherwise it will be very disruptive to the lesson.

When it is your child’s Inspire Afternoon please go to the main entrance of the infants (Y1,2,5) or juniors (Y3,4,6).

We hope you can join us.

Best wishes

Anna Cvijetic

Headteacher

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