Crestwood Park Primary School

How wonderful it has been to welcome all the children back to school this week after the summer break. It’s not always easy to get back into the routines of school, but they have all managed marvellously. Children I have spoken to around school have been excited to talk to me about their summer, but even more excited to tell me about their new classroom and teachers!

This term we have already said goodbye to Miss Johnson, whose baby is due very soon! Mrs Jeavons will also start her maternity leave in the coming weeks. Exciting times!

We have welcomed Mrs Sarah Barratt as a teacher. She will be teaching across the school and regularly in years 4 and 1. Mrs Charlotte Round, who many of you will already know, has also become a fully-fledged member of our teaching team for this year. She will be teaching in Reception whilst Ms Bullas continues her maternity leave.

Our first newsletter of the term does, as always, contain lots of important and useful information, so … enjoy reading on!

Sending Birthday wishes to Lily, Iscar, Lola, Kayden, Sophie, Kyle and Aubrey who have celebrated their birthday this week or will be over the weekend.

Reception Zakariya, Bodhi, Skyla, Serena, Ellie, Carter, Mabel, Noah, Phoebe, Aubrey, Elsie-May, Isabella, Teejay, Harper, Elsie, Eric, Jaxon, Maisie L, Lottie, Kristof, Abrish, Madeline, Lola, Zoe, Harrison, Emily, Minnie-Jo, Hallie, Maisie W

Year One Jamie, Alfie A-H, Yen, William, Daisy, Kasper, Joey, Leo, Mikel, Eshaal, Maya, Boris, Alfie H, Mia, Ivie, Charlie, Archey, Theodor, Kaloyan, Eleanor, Jack, Eden-Rae, Ivar-Jack, Nancy-Mae, Ivie-Leigh, Lotte, Oakley, Saharsh, Sohansh

Year Two Ella, Aaron, Alexander, Jak, William, Stanley, Jack, Adah, Evelyn, Alexander, Bailey, Jacob, Ezmae, Archie, Ella, Tyler, Oscar, Jackson, Rudy, Sophie, Alisha, Elsie, Henry, Harry, Beatrice, Paisley, Kayden, Riley

Year Three Brianna, Theo, Harlen, Zachary, Oliver, Emma, Eva, Archie, Billie, Arthur, Melissa, Joey, Conor, Riley, Amelia, Thomas, Oliver, Lainey, Cody, Darcie, William, Mia-Louise, Kara, Jaylen, Harmonee, Jessica, Kayden, Violet-Rose, Ronnie, Sienna-Rose

Year Four Betsy, Mason, Eve, Lotty, Grace, Zach, Ava, Mason, Fearne, Mya, Nathan, Heidi, Mihail, Delilah, Tanatswa, Nahla, Ashley, Joshua, Hassan, Cailen, Evan, Chloe, Emilie, Benjamin, Millie, Joshua, Frankie

Year Five Isacc, Dollie-Lou, Jayden, Lucas, Xavier, Oceanna, Jenson, Elsie, Declan, Baani, Benjamin, Faith, Isla, Rosie, Evie – May, Haidar-Ali, Ashleigh, Leila-Rae, Mercy, Lilly Mai, Evelyn-Mae, Caelan, Nathaniel, Amber, Renesmai

Year Six Lily, Molly, Esmè, Rhys, Daisy, Kaiden, Harry, Lillie, George, Annalise, Amber, Harvey, Daniel, Kyle, Rosie, Danielle, Faye, Logan, Amelia, Isabella, Thomas, Eden, Samuel, Darius, Ameliya, Leah

Welcome Meetings for parents will take place after school next week.

The welcome presentations will last around 20/30mins and will give you an insight on what your children will be taught this year and give you the opportunity to ask any questions should you wish. 

If you are attending, please enter the school via your child classroom door. Whilst the meeting is going ahead your children will be looked after in the school hall to allow you to speak freely and listen to all of the information presented. You will then leave the classroom via the school hall to collect your child once the meeting has finished. 

Welcome meeting timetable:

Year 1 - Tuesday

Year 2 - Tuesday

Year 3 - Wednesday

Year 4 - Wednesday

Year 5 - Thursday

Year 6 - Thursday

Starting Tuesday 17th September - KS2 Invaision Games

Starting Thursday 19th September - KS1 Fundamental Games & Running Club

More information to follow next week

Swimming lessons will continue this year for KS2.

Year 6 children will take part in swimming lessons every Tuesday morning starting from 10th September up until October Half Term.

Letter have been sent home today with more information - any questions please speak to your child's class teacher or Mr Barnett.

Well done to all the children who managed to get to the library during the holidays, choose a book and send me a photo.

All children who took part, are coming home with a book voucher today to spend in Waterstones.

Well done to Hallie, Daisy, Mia, William, Layna, Adah, Arthur, Rose, Eve, Zach, Isacc and Darius.

Parentkind – the charity that supports school PTAs - have teamed up with Asda, who is making millions of pounds available to donate to primary schools across the UK through their ‘Cashpot for Schools’ initiative –  all you have to do is, opt in through the Asda Rewards app, choose our primary school and shop and scan in store or shop online at Asda.com, between 2^nd September and 30^th November 2024

Asda will donate 0.5% of the value of your shop to our Primary school. Also, every time somebody opts in, Asda will give an additional £1 to the school Cashpot. Plus, it doesn’t stop there – Asda are also giving £50 to every school to get them started.

The supermarket has joined forces with Joe Wicks to support the initiative – look out for the TV advert, radio ads and social media coverage

It was with sadness this week that we received the news that a former Headteacher of Crestwood Park- Mr Pete Best- had passed away. We have passed on our sincere condolences on behalf of Crestwood Park Primary to his family.

Pete was able to return for our 50^th Birthday celebrations earlier in the year, which we were all delighted about. So many families and staff  have such fond memories  of when he was Headteacher. He is certainly a key figure in the school's history. Everyone I ever speak to about 'Mr Best', praise him for his kindness. He will certainly be remembered as a caring and lovely gentleman, who absolutely adored the children and their families.

He was so pleased that he was well enough to visit the school again as we turned 50 and commented that the school still continued to feel like a family. 

Finally...

Well, you reached the end of our first newsletter of the year- thank you for reading this far!

Thank you too for ensuring that your children returned to school looking so smart and following our uniform policy. Ask your children if they have been awarded a SMART point this week… ten points will result in them receiving a SMART badge at the end of this half term!

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is the responsibility of everyone in our school and at all times we consider what is in our children's best interests. We work to ensure our children are safe and cared for and by doing this we are protecting their health and development and preventing them from harm.  If we are worried, we will raise concerns, share information and take prompt action with the aim of ensuring families receive the right help at the right time.