Newsletter Friday 14Th May 2021

Barton, Ravensworth, East Cowton

9 and Kirkby Fleetham CE Schools

Cornerstone Schools Newsletter Building Futures with Love Friday 14th May 2021

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have had a visit from our School Improvement Adviser this week who spent two days visiting classrooms, looking at pupil books, chatting with children and meeting with subject leaders. There are lots of things to celebrate, including how quickly the children have settled back into school, the amount of work already in their books, and the way staff across the schools are now working together as a single team to support and advise each other in their specialist subjects. Our next step is to develop our website and provide more opportunities for staff to get in to each other’s schools to observe good practice.

Four Corner Challenge! I thought I’d share an update on Mr Irons’ four corner challenge. The average steps scores for each school have been counted daily and all groups have passed a significant landmark!

• Ravensworth School have gone through Barton on the map and are approaching East Cowton. • Barton School have gone through East Cowton on their way to Kirkby Fleetham. • East Cowton School have just passed through Kirkby Fleetham. • Kirkby Fleetham have reached Richmond and closing in on the teachers’ group who are currently at Ravensworth.

A massive well done to all the children who are trying hard to increase their step count each day. Come on teachers – you’ve got some catching up to do!

Getting to know what your child is doing online PCSO Sharon Wilson from North Yorkshire police has asked us to share with parents NSPCC getting-to-know-what-your-child-is-doing-online/. We have already shared this link, but thought it worth sharing again. If you need any help with supporting your child to keep safe online, please do get in touch with your child’s class teacher and we will do our best to help.

The Big Ask Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza is conducting the biggest ever children’s consultation to find out what they think is important for the future. We will be taking part in the survey before half term as we think it’s great for our children to know that they have a voice in the big decisions that are made for them. Please see information attached with this newsletter.

Kind regards,

Mrs H Dudman

Barton, Ravensworth, East Cowton and Kirkby Fleetham CE Primary Schools are members of Dales Academies Trust, company number 08372064, registered office at: Blair Avenue, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton on Tees, TS17 5BL

Ravensworth CE School

Ravensworth - Children celebrating achievements this week Stars of the Week Writers of the Week Class 1: April & Jackson Rose & Harvey Carpenters Cup Chloe Class 2: Effie, Nathan & Kit Oliver & Chloe The Monkey William Class 3: Bobby & Alfie P Lucy, Alanna & William News From Class 1

As always, we have been very busy in Class 1 with some super learning taking place! The children are still super engrossed in our class text ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ and have produced some lovely writing to go alongside this. Most recently, we have written diary entries from the point of view of Mr Grinling and have written instructions for how to make disgusting sandwiches! We even got to make and try our own disgusting sandwiches with Miss Pole (although it turned out that some children liked their ‘disgusting’ sandwich and have even requested this at home ). We have continued to explore Grace Darling in our history sessions and have had lots of great discussions about why Grace Darling is a significant individual and what words we would use to describe her e.g., hero, brave, kind etc. In P.E., we have been working really hard with Mr Irons to learn all of the skills needed in a game of cricket… we can’t wait to put these into practice over the next few weeks! Forest Schools is still a massive hit with the children and we had a brilliant session today looking for bug friends and making different types of dens. Our next session will be with class 2 on Friday 28th May and we are already looking forward to this.

School admin information Thank you to everyone who donated bags for today’s Great North Air Ambulance Collection, we will let you know how much was raised as soon as we hear.

Mental health champions This week, the mental health champions led a collective worship all about mental health. They talked about what mental health is, why it is important and how we can support our mental health. They also talked about what we are doing in school to support mental health e.g., lunchtime clubs, climb the mountain, check in boxes and our new buddy bench (more to follow).

Ravensworth – Dates for your diary Tues 18th May On-line safety presentation in school for all pupils (am) Fri 21st May Forest School Class 2 (am) Fri 28th May Forest Schools Class 1 & 2 (am). School closes for half term no after school care available today Mon 7th June Teacher Training Day - school closed Tues 8th June School re-opens 8.30am

Governor Profile: This week’s governor is Alan Gledhill A semi-retired clergyman, married to Brenda and living in a cottage in Gilling West, with three grown-up children and eight grandchildren. One of his daughters has a degree in Archaeology, the other is a Junior School Headteacher. He has a son who is a Chartered Surveyor living in Richmond, Surrey. Having had a career in a Secondary school teaching Geography and also in middle management as Assistant Head and SENCO. His teaching posts were in inner- Leeds and Richmondshire. Ordained some 35 years ago and vicar of Parishes in North Yorkshire before semi-retirement Alan still assists in churches as and when required. Interests are in photography, especially enlarging and printing black and white photography. Alan is also restoring a 1949 Riley car which may, or not one day be completed!

Quick Links for Each School

BARTON KIRKBY FLEETHAM School Lunch Menu: School Lunch information School Admin email: [email protected]

School Holidays/Term Dates: Term Dates 2020-2021 School Lunch Menu: School Lunch Information Term-Dates-2021-2022 School Holidays/Term Dates: Term Dates 2020-2021 The Friends of Barton School easy fundraising at no Term Dates 2021-2022 cost to you: Easy Fundraising https://smile.amazon.co.uk Wraparound care: Breakfast and Afterschool Club

Wraparound care: Breakfast and Afterschool Club Friends of the School Facebook link: Friends

Parentpay: https://www.parentpay.com/ ParentPay: ParentPay login

Cool Milk: https://www.coolmilk.com/ Uniform: Uniform order form

Newsletter: 4 school newsletters link Newsletter: 4 School newsletters link

Covid 19 Risk Assessments: click here Covid 19 Risk Assessments: click here

EAST COWTON RAVENSWORTH Admin email address: [email protected] School Lunch Menu: School Lunch Information

School Lunch Menu: School Lunch Information School Holidays/Term Dates:Term Dates 2020-2021 Term-Dates-2021-2022. School Holidays/Term Dates: Term Dates 2020-2021 Term Dates 2021-2022 Wraparound care: Afterschool Club

Friends of the school link: Friends Ravensworth School Friends quick fundraising:- smile.amazon.co.uk Wraparound care: Afterschool Club www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/rsfarichmond/ ParentPay: ParentPay Login Please ensure that your ParentPay accounts are in Uniform: school/uniform/ credit each week – Thankyou Parent pay: click Uniform Order: Uniform order form. Newsletter: 4 school newsletters link Newsletter: 4 school newsletters link Covid 19 Risk Assessments: click here Covid 19 Risk Assessments: click here

Useful Contacts and Links for Parents

SENCO: If your child is struggling and you would like some advice, please contact their class teacher in the first instance, or you can contact Miss Crisp our SENCO on [email protected]

Keeping Children Safe Online Whilst children are spending so much time online, we need to make sure we keep them as safe as possible. If you would like some advice on this, please see guidance for parents below: https://www.net-aware.org.uk/networks/?page=7 https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/ https://www.net-aware.org.uk/news/getting-to-know-what-your-child-is-doing-online/ https://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents http://www.net-aware.org.uk/send-online-safety-hub/

Free School meals If your circumstances have changed and you think you may be eligible for free school meals, please contact the school office or follow this link: Apply for Free School Meals

Links to Free online books: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/download-e-books-e-magazines-and-digital-audiobooks

Turn on the subtitles: Help your child to learn to read whilst they watch television https://turnonthesubtitles.org/

Sports links: North Yorkshire Club Finder A great way for schools to 'signpost' their pupils (parents/guardians) to their local clubs. The link can be found here - North Yorkshire Sport - Activity Finder

Junior Parkrun Northallerton Leisure Centre fields, at present for 4-10 year olds. It is a free weekly 2km event and to take part a child needs to be registered with parkrun. They also need volunteers to run this event safely, it is only an hour at most and is great fun to see the kids involved in running. For more information, please check out their website https://www.parkrun.org.uk/northallerton-juniors

Cricket for all Happening at a local club near you! Find your local cricket club at: https://www.ecb.co.uk/play/dynamoscricket”

Facebook pages Please help us to promote our schools by liking and sharing out Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/Barton-CE-Primary-School-107161734680028 https://www.facebook.com/East-Cowton-CE-School-101930341769707 https://www.facebook.com/Kirkby-Fleetham-CE-School-102216125067240 https://www.facebook.com/Ravensworth-CE-Primary-school-100240412148195