Ramadan celebrations

To celebrate the start of the Islamic celebration of Ramadan, we had a special guest, the Imam Sabir from the Whiteman Road Mosque, who spoke to us about Ramadan and why it is so important to Muslims. He also taught us about the 5 Pillars of Islam, with Ramadan being the fourth pillar. 

Later on we had a special Ramadan lunch, with samosas, chicken, rice and ice cream with chocolate sauce, yum!

Year 5 and 6 Planting and Growing Workshop

On Friday 12th May some of our Year 5 and 6 Eco-Club children took part in the second ‘Planting and Growing Workshop’ at the London Grown, Pasteur Gardens growing site. 

We enjoyed exploring the wooded area surrounding the site, continued to plant some of our seedlings and made our own scarecrows to keep the wildlife away.

We are delighted to be able to continue working under the expert direction and guidance of Simon and Dunya from Chicken Town who are providing this excellent programme of gardening opportunities for our children.

Win Tickets to the World Athletics Championships

As you might already know the World Athletics and World Para Athletics Championships are taking place at the London Stadium at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford this summer. 

We are extremely excited to let you know we have been able to get some tickets for this year’s World Para Athletics Championships.

The tickets are very limited so in order to allocate them to interested families as fairly as we can, we will be setting up a raffle application system. In order to take part in the raffle and to have a chance of winning tickets you will need to buy a raffle application for £2.

We have limited tickets available for two 7:00pm evening sessions.

Session 1: Monday 17th July

Session 2: Wednesday 19th July

You’ll be able to choose the session you’d prefer to attend and win up to a maximum of 4 tickets per family (at least 1 adult ticket) with one raffle application!!! Children will not be admitted into the stadium if they are not accompanied by an adult.

Letters with the £2 raffle application on the bottom will be given out by your child’s class teacher in the next few weeks.

If you have any questions or queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks

Adell Horbury  

Assistant Headteacher

 

E-safety message: Roblox

We are issuing a warning about the popular gaming app called Roblox. This follows a concern that some children at this school have been viewing inappropriate content online whilst at home.

Roblox is a game that allows users to create games and share them with their friends in a virtual massively multiplayer world. The game is aimed at children between 8 and 12 years old and is generally a safe place to play but what makes it potentially dangerous is the fact that it is very easy to connect with strangers, chat online through the app and share inappropriate content. Roblox have created a parents’ guide which explains how to change the security settings and block users corp.roblox.com/parents. Please make sure your children are using the game responsibly.

We live in an exciting age digital technology wise but must put the safety of our children first. E-safety and safe use of the internet is something that we place at the heart of our school curriculum. More information can be found by clicking on the e-safety page on our school website earlsmead.haringey.sch.uk/internet-safety.

As always we recommend you keep an open dialogue with your children about the websites and applications they use online, and if needs be ask them to no longer use it, explaining to them the potential dangers. If you have any concerns around other games and apps that your child uses at home please come in and talk to us about them.

Planting and Growing Workshop

On Friday 28th April some of our Year 5 children took part in a ‘Planting and Growing Workshop’ at the Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre. We planted a variety of seeds including sweetcorn, peas, squash and a variety of herbs. We are delighted that we will be continuing to work closely with Chicken Town who are providing a programme of gardening opportunities for our children over the coming weeks of the summer term.

Our Ofsted Inspection Results

Dear Parents and Carers,

After our very rigorous and much anticipated Ofsted inspection I am delighted to inform you that the school was judged as GOOD. We have now received the official report which you can read here. If you require a hard copy, please ask the office and they can print out a copy of the report.

The report acknowledges our strong drive to ensure that every child makes good progress and succeeds academically whilst also experiencing a wide range of enrichment activities that make such a strong contribution to their personal development.

We were very pleased that this was acknowledged as a strength as we believe that young children deserve and need to experience diverse learning opportunities that excite and motivate them. As a result we have always maintained a commitment to ensuring that we provide these within the curriculum and through extracurricular activities particularly in relation to sport and music.

Positive recognition was also given to our shared vision of creating a community of lifelong learners and the way in which staff are keen to improve their own effectiveness by sharing best practice in the school and collaborating with colleagues in other schools. As a result, the quality of teaching was seen to be improving and leading to even better outcomes for pupils.

The inspector recognised that the changes we have made to the teaching of reading, writing and maths are the right ones and are already resulting in improvements in all of these areas.

The report also praises the way in which we keep pupils safe and the strong culture of vigilance in the school, with every member of staff being well aware of potential risks and leaders being experienced and well trained to take appropriate actions when concerns arise.

It was great to see the strong emphasis we have placed on e-safety and social media being recognised as a strength and most importantly that it was clear to Ofsted that as a result, pupils understand how to stay safe.

Thank you to those parents and carers who were able to respond to Ofsted’s online survey despite the technical glitches they experienced and for the support you all continue to show the school.

Despite being very pleased with the inspection result, staff and Governors are not complacent and will continue to work hard and strive for excellence by working with you to ensure that the pupils of Earlsmead have the very best educational experience possible.

Yours sincerely,

Hina Shah

Headteacher.

Coffee Morning Thursday 27th April

English at Earlsmead

We believe that children should be seen and even more importantly heard! At Earlsmead, we aim to deliver an English curriculum that is motivating, innovative and accessible for all. Through good and outstanding teaching, we hope that children will develop a love of - and confidence for - all aspects of the English curriculum.

For a wealth of information on how we teach English at Earlsmead please see our special website.