Are you interested in becoming a Junior Librarian?

CALLING ALL CHILDREN!

Are you interested in becoming a Junior Librarian?

We are looking for children who are organised and who love to read.

A Junior Librarian will have to show dedication and understanding that a Library is a creative learning environment that helps children develop a love of reading and deepens people’s understanding of the real and imaginary world!

A Junior librarian must also support Mr Hadley in keeping our fantastic library neat, tidy and up-to-date.

You must be able to:
- Sort and order books
- Dedicate (spend) Thursday Lunchtimes
 to sorting, ordering and tidying the library
- Recommend books to others and to Mr Hadley
- Use the computer to check out children’s books (there will be training on this)

In classes there will be a voting session. Ask your teacher for more information.

Positions available - School Meals Supervisory Assistants

We are looking to appoint three Lunchtime Supervisors. We have a wonderful community spirit that celebrates our diverse population and are looking to appoint committed, passionate and outstanding individuals who will be role models for our children.

For more information please see the documents below.

Job Advert

Person Specification

Job Description

Application Form

Completed applications should be returned to the school’s address or emailed to office@earlsmead.co.uk by 5.00pm 7th November 2016.

£200 raised for our Community Coffee Morning

Dear Parents/Carers and Earlsmead Community,

We are delighted to let you know that following our ‘Earlsmead Parent and Community Coffee Morning’ and ‘After School Cake Sale’ we were able to raise a total of £200!

An enormous ‘THANK YOU’ to all parents and carers who attended the coffee morning. Delicious cakes made and donated by parents and staff were enjoyed during the morning and after school.

Some Year 6 children had the tough job of judging the cake donations to choose a ‘Star Baker’. A delicious chocolate cake was chosen to be our winner, it was baked by Mrs Aynur Cimen, mum of Lydia in Year 2.

We were delighted to raise £200 for this extremely worthy cause to support the ongoing and valuable work of Macmillan.

Big Pink Earlsmead Day - Friday 21st October

The children and staff will be raising awareness and fundraising for ‘Cancer Research’ during the month of October.

Many of us have been affected by cancer in our personal lives and are keen to support cancer charities.

On Friday 21st October Earlsmead School will turn pink for the day!

Children and staff will be encouraged to wear pink in support of Breast Cancer Care and Cancer Research’s Stand Up To Cancer campaign. We also ask that those children and staff who wish to wear pink donate £1. All donations will then be split between Breast Cancer Care and Stand Up To Cancer. As always, we really appreciate your support! 

The Great Weight Debate is coming to Haringey

The Great Weight Debate hits the road this October with a road show travelling across London. A tour bus will visit Haringey and 3 other London boroughs to raise awareness on the issue of childhood obesity. The road show aims to galvanise wider social action and start local conversations with residents in their community. Residents will learn about healthy eating choices and be able to get involved in fun, physical activities encouraging them to live an active lifestyle. There will also be a call to get everyone to make pledges in support of tackling obesity.

You can join the Great Weight Debate on Sunday 23rd October from 11am - 4pm at Tottenham Green Market.

Important information - please read

As new technologies continue to become integral to all our lives, both within school and outside of it, the importance of understanding how to stay safe online increases.

We have created a set of strong e-safety policies which demonstrate good and safe internet practice for staff and pupils, and link to our existing policies around behaviour, anti-bullying and safeguarding.

The Acceptable Use Agreements are a group of documents that establish expected behaviour for young people, parents, carers and staff when accessing the internet and using technology in and around school.

Your children will be receiving a copy of an Acceptable Use Agreement outlining our expectations for their internet use -please take the time to read it with them and talk to them about it.

Acceptable Use Agreement EYFS and Key Stage 1

Acceptable Use Agreement Key Stage 2

We have also published an Acceptable Use Policy for parents and carers along with supporting documents about the use of social networking and online media and the use of digital images and video. Please make sure you have read and understood the policies below and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Acceptable Use Agreement Parents and Carers

The use of social networking and online media

The use of digital images and video

You can read all out safeguarding policies on the Safeguarding section of this website and for more information on staying safe online take a look at our Internet Safety page.

'Beginnings' Puppet Perfromance

On Thursday 22nd September HelenandJohn an award winning comic theatre show visited Year 2 and performed their show "Beginnings".  The show follows a beleaguered creator as he struggles with his latest creation. It was noisy, punchy and deliciously disgusting theatre.  The main character - a hilarious hairy and wrinkly puppet - re-enacted creation myths involving ridiculous antics. It was performed with few words but accompanied by a loud drum kit and was manipulated by an internationally acclaimed award-winning puppeteer.  The children greatly enjoyed the whole performance and loved chatting to the puppet at the end of the show.

Roald Dahl's 100th birthday

At Earlsmead we love to read and today is the 100th birthday of one of our favourite authors - Roald Dahl. Dahl wrote many fantastic books including The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and Matilda. 

Learn more about his birthday celebrations and what you can do to get involved here.

Which is your favourite Roald Dahl book? Do you have a favourite character? Let us know in the comments below.

Moving to the London Sea Life Aquarium

Our much loved school fish have finally found a new home!

Over the holiday our school hall is going to be refurbished. Due to the building work and upheaval in the hall we needed to move the fish tank. When thinking about moving the fish tank we thought about other possible options for our fish. Although their tank is quite large, it isn’t large enough. We tried desperately to find someone who wanted to take care of our fish with a tank big enough. When our search was unsuccessful we decided to contact London Sea Life Aquarium for advice. They were keen to re-home both our fish with them at their aquarium!

Last week both fish were collected safely by staff from London Sea Life Aquarium. The fish will live in a quarantine tank for 6 weeks before being introduced into the HUGE display tanks at the aquarium.

They have promised to keep us updated with the progress of both fish. They have named the biggest fish ‘Sheldon’ after our own Sheldon in Year 4 Red. Sheldon was very fond of our fish and would visit it daily in its tank in the hall.

Our Golden Writers

Our Golden Writers for 2016 were rewarded with a special visit from author Tom Banks who is best known for his pirate adventure story, The Great Galloon. He awarded them with certificates in a special good work assembly. They then took part in a writers' workshop during which they were taught how to create interesting characters and how to develop action in story writing. Well done to all our Golden writers. Keep up all the good work next yea