The first ever edition of The Earlsmead Star is now online! You can read the newspaper below.
Earlsmead School Sports Day
Come and join in celebrating all our sporting talent on Wednesday 10th June for our annual Sports Day!
KEY STAGE 2
Key Stage 2 children will be at Markfield Park participating in traditional sports day games, including; wheelbarrow, sack and relay races.
We’ll also be having a picnic in the park, followed by adult and teacher competitions.
Please bring children to school at the normal time (8:55) in their school PE kit, with a bottle of water.
KEY STAGE 1
Key Stage 1 will have opportunities to race too, whilst also traveling around a basic assault course using our fantastic climbing frames in both playgrounds.
Children must come to school at the normal time (8:55) and must wear their school PE kit.
Please also provide children with water for the day in order to keep them hydrated!
We look forward to having a really fun and exciting time!
If you’d like any more information please see Mr Hadley or ask the office for another letter.
Half term holiday
The school will be closed for the half term holiday from Monday 25th May until Friday 29th May 2015. The children will return to school at 8.55am on Monday 1st June 2015. Thank you for your continued support as we approach the last half term of the academic year.
Eastern European Easter
This year's Easter celebration was focused in how some of our pupils celebrate Easter in Eastern Europe. We were fortunate to have staff and parents who told us how in Poland, Romania and Hungary they decorate and dye eggs for the occasion. We had a special assembly where all our Eastern European children and parents took part in singing and bringing in traditional foods.
School reopens on Tuesday 14th April
We hope you had a safe and fantastic Easter holiday! There is a staff training day this coming Monday so school will reopen on Tuesday 14th April for all children. See you then.
2015 phonics screening test
This Powerpoint is for Year 1 (and 2) Parents/ Carers wishing to know more about the 2015 Phonics screening test. It includes links to old past papers and videos. It also gives suggestions on how you may best help and support your child with this test. The test is a short, statutory assessment to ensure that all children in Year 1 (and Year2) are making sufficient progression the phonic skills to read words and are on track to become fluent readers who can enjoy reading for pleasure and for learning.
Bikeability courses
Haringey council have organised bikeability courses for children in years 5 and above, during the Easter Holidays. The training is free.
30th March to 2nd April - FInsbury Park
7th April to 10th April - Lordship Recreation Ground
If you would like to book a place, please complete the online booking form here.
The council continue to offer free cycle training for adults, of any ability, from complete beginners to confident cyclists. To book a lesson complete the online booking form.
Fantastic Football Fortnight
Team Earlsmead has sadly come to the end of two fantastic weeks of Football writing! Our goal was to introduce our pupils and staff to a variety of genres, guests and authors linked to football and to get children motivated and inspired to write!
True to form, the children have reached that goal and have written a range of excellent pieces of writing including, debates, interviews, match summaries, trip recounts, football information books, narratives and poems. A selection of this good work, as well as photographs, will be published in our very own magazine!
We would like to thank all our guests who gave up a bit of time from their very busy schedules and came in to help us with this project. These include:
Michael Bennett (Professional Football Association: Head of Player Welfare)
Karen Hills (Manager of Tottenham Spurs Ladies Team)
Gareth Dace and his Team (Tottenham Spurs Foundation)
Ben Pearce (Journalist for Ham & High News)
Maytaal Angel (Reuters Journalist)
Soccerkids Coaches
All the Football Players who sent in their videos and interviews ( Darren White, Nagore, Chris Powell, David Hunt)
Mrs Anthea Rose (Literacy Governor)
Angie Chandler ( Printing our magazine)
Ferry Lane Debating group
Pupils from Ferry Lane School for liasing with us over the last 2 weeks
Tom Palmer (Football Author for sending in Autographs for Prizes)
Ms Gosling ( Assistant Head at Ferry Lane Primary)
Mrs George (For running the Book stall after school )
Mr Hadley (For putting together an Earlsmead Football Team)
All the children and staff who worked so hard on this project
All the children and adults who donated to Book Aid International on World Book Day- We raised £141.50 for them.
Keep up the good work!
Best Regards,
Miss Roberts and Ms Trew
(Literacy Subject Leaders)
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Rainbow laces campaign
During our fantastic football fortnight the staff at Earlsmead decided to wear rainbow laces. This was a show of support for the campaign to kick homophobia out of football.
For more information, and to watch a video of Arsenal players Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain star in the campaign video, take a look at the Stonewall website.
Half Term Holiday
The school will be closed for the half term holiday from Monday 16th February until Friday 20th February.
The children will return to school at 8.55am on Monday 23rd February 2015.
Safer Internet Day 2015
Safer Internet Day 2015 is being celebrated globally today, Tuesday 10th February, with the slogan 'Let's create a better internet together'. There will be e-safety lessons taking part throughout the school, promoting safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology.
For more information please see the Safer Internet Day website and our Internet Safety page.
Turkish Caricaturist Visits Earlsmead
We were lucky enough to have a visit from famous Turkish caricaturist, Kamil Yavuz, last Tuesday. He did a workshop with both Year 5 classes on drawing cartoons and caricatures. It was a great session and the children really enjoyed it.
Harris Academy Tottenham – admissions arrangements 2016/17
Harris Academy Tottenham are consulting on a change to their admissions arrangements to
take effect from September 2016. They say: ‘Our published admission number for Year 7 for
2015 was restricted to 90 because our buildings will only allow a limited number of students
to be accommodated in 2015/16 while remodelling takes place. However in 2016 the
remodelling should be complete and we will be able to admit a full year group of 180.
Therefore we intend to publish an admission number of 180 for September 2016.
We are undertaking this consultation in the period until 27 February 2015 so that the
Governing Body can make final decisions in March 2015 in the light of the comments they
receive.’
The full proposed admissions arrangements and details of the consultation are on the
Academy’s website at www.harristottenham.org.uk. If you have any
Views, please go on to this website and leave comments or a letter addressed to the
school at Technopark, Ashley Road, Tottenham Hale N17 9LN.
Welcome back
We hope you had a safe and happy holiday and have enjoyed your first week back at school. There is a lot to look forward to in 2015 at Earlsmead, have a look at our latest newsletter for information about what is happening in the Spring Term.
The Hour of Code 8th - 12th December
This week, students and teachers at Earlsmead will join millions of people all around the world taking part in an Hour of Code. The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics.
You can take part in the event at home by using the fantastic choice of tutorials available at code.org.
A visit from The Vale School
As part of Anti-Bullying Week we were really lucky to have Zach Opere, Jhonattan Goncalves, Joshua Malcolm and Neesha Quarry from The Vale School come to visit us.
The Vale is a special school that supports children with disabilities and other learning difficulties. The students came and gave a talk to our Year 5 and 6 pupils, explaining about their disabilities or learning difficulties. We learnt a lot from them and it was great reminder to know that, instead of staring or whispering when you see them, they would much prefer it if you asked them about their differences.
They are also immensely talented and inspiring. Check out their video below. We are looking forward to seeing them again as they wanted to try our delicious lunches and we have been invited to visit their school.
Anti-Bullying Week 2014
Every year the Anti-Bullying Alliance coordinate national Anti-Bullying Week; a week where children and young people, schools, parents and carers come together with one aim: to stop bullying for all.
This year we are calling on the school community to take action to stop the bullying of ALL children and young people – including disabled children and those with special educational needs – children who are significantly more likely to experience bullying in schools and the wider community.
For more information see the Anti-Bullying alliance website www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk
Victory in the table tennis tournament
Four children from Year 6 competed against other primary schools in Haringey in the under 11 boys table tennis competition. The games were tough but the boys did us proud and took home the winning trophy! Congratulations to Dylan, Yilmaz, Zackquarn and Andy.
Remembrance Week
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. We have been having a week of remembrance at Earlsmead with many lessons and assemblies based on WWI. Year 2 visited the Bruce Castle museum to learn about Remembrance Day and all children made a poppy to take back to school.
