Cippenham Infant SchoolBelieve and Achieve Together

Cippenham Infant School is fortunate to have dedicated, highly professional staff who work hard to ensure that children receive an outstanding education and outstanding personal care.

We also have a strong and supportive governing body who are keen to help the school go from strength to strength.  An active Parents’ Group ensures that funds are raised to support the school with purchasing equipment to enable the children to make the most of their learning.

It is a pleasure to work at Cippenham Infant School due to the warm and caring ethos we work hard to create. We welcome parents to assist with listening to children read and generally helping out in class.

Cippenham Infant School prides itself as a centre of excellence in teaching and learning. We provide opportunities for students as well as new and existing staff in the area, to visit and learn from our practice. We offer the pupils the very best through opportunities which enrich their lives and enhance their learning potential.

Our belief is that we only get one chance with the children we teach and it is paramount that we do all we can to meet the range of diverse needs with which we are presented. No matter the educational or physical ability we aim to reach every child in our care.

We work closely with parents and believe strongly that we are a partnership in supporting children’s learning and development; this forms the basis of our school motto: ‘Believe and Achieve Together’. Each term we hold ‘Families in…’ sessions whereby parents and grandparents can work alongside their own child/ren in class; we hope that this will help parents to support their child/ren at home.

I look forward to welcoming you to our wonderful school should you choose to visit. Meanwhile enjoy the website…

             Mrs R. Cross

            Headteacher

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27^th January 2012                                 

Dear Families

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Academy Status

The consultation period has now closed and we are pleased to announce that we have now received our Academy Orders from the Department for Education; this means that we have met the criteria for converting to academy status and we can continue to pursue this to its conclusion. Updates and related paperwork are on the school website.

Maths Afternoon and Families in Maths

It was wonderful to see so many families at the maths afternoon on Tuesday; one of our best turn outs! I took lots of photos which are now up on the school website – please do have a look and see if you can spot yourself.

A big thank you must go to all the teachers who spent ages getting materials and resources together.

We look forward to welcoming lots and lots of you to our Families in Maths sessions next Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Bikes and Scooters

Please remember your child can ride their bike or scooter to school and leave it safely in the racks outside my office windows or bikes round the corner by the pagoda outside Turtles Class.

Bikes and scooters should be named but are completely safe during the school day. I am sure that we can trust parents and children not to take someone else’s bike or scooter at the end of the day but should you wish to lock them, just in case, then you are more than welcome. It is a shame that after years of being asked to provide storage, we have and yet only one or two families are taking advantage of this. Perhaps when the road works are finished, it will be easier for the children to cycle and scooter to school. 

Nuts

Please remember that nuts of any description should not be in your child’s lunchbox. Someone was found with a small pile of pistachio shells last week which he had taken onto the playground. We do have some children with nut allergies so it is important to us to help keep them safe at school.

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 13^th January 2012                          

Dear Families

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Hello. Welcome back to school. I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas holiday. The staff and I would like to wish you all a happy 2012.

A BIG thank you from the staff goes out to all parents and children for the Christmas presents received at the end of term; these were much appreciated.

Academy Status

All families received a letter towards the end of last term notifying you of our intent to convert to academy status. We are doing this alongside Cippenham Primary School and The Westgate School to form what will be known as The Cippenham Schools Trust to secure the future of education in Cippenham for Cippenham children. It is our aim to work together to build a sense of community and ensure that all children living locally have the right to attend a local school.

As parents and children you will not notice any difference in the day to day organisation of the school, everything will remain just as it is including our name. The key difference will be that we will no longer be under the direction of the local authority and as such we receive our funding directly from the Department for Education. If you have anything you would like to ask or any worries please attend the consultation meeting on Wednesday 18^th January at 6pm in the school hall. Further details about the academy conversion have been published on the school website.

Back to Work Taster Session

This takes place at the school on Friday 27^th January – posters around school. This is run by an external provider and is ideal for anyone wishing to return to work now or in the future. Please sign up in the office – lots of places still available.

Roadworks

Dennis Way will be closed to all through traffic from Monday 16^th January. Staff from this school and the nursery will have access to the school car park and have been provided with ID for this purpose. All parents who drive should park in Elmshott Lane, St Andrews

Way or neighboring roads then walk the remainder of the way to school. Better still, where you are able – walk all the way as this will prevent congestion and angst!

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We are hosting a Return to Work session on Friday 27th January.

There are 14 places remaining so if you would benefit from a place on this session please look at the information following the link below and notify the school office if you would like a place.

Thank you

Return to work

16^th December 2011                  

Dear Parents, Carers and Children

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Christmas Performances

WOW!!! Where to start? Weren’t they brilliant? I am always amazed by how wonderfully the performances are on the day. After weeks of blood, sweat and tears everything slides together seamlessly and we are treated to pure magic and can escape into another happy world for a while. A huge well done again to every single child and to all the staff who made this year’s performances so wonderful.

DVDs

We were delighted with the uptake of Christmas production DVDs and have had a busy time packaging all these behind the scenes – a bit like Santa’s workshop!

I am delighted to announce the winners of the design the front cover competition who were all presented with a framed picture of their design and a DVD.

Ladybirds – Grace

Turtles – Holly

Owls – Maya

A big thank you to Mr Alfred and Miss Alfred for all their work with the filming, copying and organizing of these.

Pantomime

Today, as a special treat the children were enthralled by the East Berkshire College drama students’ rendition of The Wizard of Oz. Once more the students didn’t let us down and had worked hard to entertain the children. They really are very talented and I am sure one day they will perform in theatres and on TV.

Parties

…and yesterday it was party day…..!!!

By gosh the children really do whoop it up and don’t they eat???? Put a jam sandwich, cheese and onion crisps and a party ring biscuit in front of them and they are the happiest they’ve been all year! Seriously though, we all had great fun showing off our finest party clothes, eating, dancing and playing games; then the delight of Father Christmas coming to visit with a present for everyone!

Very many thanks to the Parents’ Group for helping Father Christmas to choose the presents and helping his elves to get them all wrapped in time for the party.

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2^nd December 2011                   

Dear Parents, Carers and Children

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Christmas Fair

Wow, wow, and wow again. Thank you a million times over for helping to make this year’s Christmas Fair the best and busiest ever – what a rush!

We are planning to purchase a large fridge for the children’s fruit, which will keep it fresh and much nicer to eat, and lots of new items – craft tables, painting easels etc for the Foundation Stage.

An enormous thank you goes to Dionne and the new Parents’ Group without whom this would never have happened. It’s most definitely the biggest group of parents we’ve ever had and wonderful to work with such committed people.

Bling your Bike / Scooter Day

WOW! Never has bike and scooter riding been as impressive as it was this morning! It was hard to believe my eyes when I saw the feast before me…then Mrs. Holding told me we had to judge them all! It was good to have Clare, from Bike It, here too so we could all look and choose together and what a tough choice it was. Everyone who entered will receive a small gift and the winners received some cycling goodies.

Winners

FS: Nora in Dragonflies

Y1: Victoria in Turtles

Y2: Steven in Penguins

Overall: Elliot in Kingfishers

Burnham Grammar School – Fundraising Challenge

A group of youngsters at Burnham Grammar are raising money for The Wings of Hope charity which has projects in Malawi and India. They are holding a Winter Wonderland Christmas Fair which will include, lots of exciting activities and stalls. The event is ticketed due to health and safety though tickets are FREE parents will need to email the organisers at this address spreadalilmagic@hotmail.com to get them. The day runs from 1pm to 4pm. Santa will be there from 1pm and children can give them their list, receive a pre-Christmas present and have their photo taken with him.’ 

The school’s address is Burnham Grammar School, Hogfair Lane, SL1 7HG. www.thewingsofhope.org 

Site Assistant

Mr. Deville has started temporary work as a site assistant to carry out ‘winter work’ in the school as well as being a friendly face as you enter the school in the morning. Mr. Deville will keep an eye on the traffic situation as the road works develop and will help ensure that you and your children get into school safely. Please make him feel very welcome.

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