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COURTLAND SCHOOL

Courtland Avenue, Mill Hill.  NW7 3BG

Telephone 020 8959 3274

e-mail: office @courtland.barnetmail.net

www.courtland.barnet.sch.uk

Newsletter

 

No. 38  21st July 2010

Contents:

 

1.        Congratulations and well done

2.       Good luck and farewell

3.       Year 6 leavers assembly

4.       Year 6 cake sale

5.       KS1 ‘toys/games day’

6.       KS2 ‘fun day’

7.       Year 6 watching a movie

8.       Welfare room – final reminder!!!

9.       PTA news

Dear Parents/Carers

 

I would like to say a fond farewell to Y6 children and parents. I wish you every success in your new schools.  I look forward to hearing about your progress!

 

Thank you to everyone who has supported the school throughout the year.  I really appreciate your help in classrooms as well as the way you work with the class teachers and support the events we run.

 

Reception - Year 5 will finish at 2.00pm on Friday 23rd July.  To year 6 parents: Mrs Tunkel will bring Year 6 across to you on the field at 1.30pm.  I hope you all have a great summer holiday and look forward to seeing you all in September.

 

Autumn Term: Wednesday 1st September is an INSET day, children return to school on Thursday 2nd September 2010.

 

Lisa Walker

 

Congratulations to the following children who were awarded team points in assembly:

  • Reception:  Rivi Dhanapala, Lilly Briffa, Jonathan Okinikan, Sacha Battley, Tulay Mehmet, Jesse Kettle, Ashwin Sathyan, Frankie Johnson, Hamish Mistry, Charlie Levy, Samara Miller, Andrea Theocharous, Isaac Daniel, Nayab Zarif, Muqadisa Mojadady, Anushka Patel, Ziyan Mitha, Naail Rahman, Kelechi Ebodili, Raghav Bhagi, Lili Rose Goldsobel, Royden Amoah.
  • Year 1:  Rishi Khimani, Dylan Michel, Melodie Brown, Melad Wais, Louis Cowen, Samina Aziz, Alex Strachan, James Paydon, Ollie Young, Shaul Khan, Folarin Fagbenro, Leah Taylor, Leo Drakulic, Paige Farge-Bennett, Luke Gogbashian.
  • Year 2:  Alvin Ifekandu, Mariana Gajic, Rayyan Monsur, Lotty Lewis, Cobi Aitman, Shiv Monji, Shaniya Mistry, Joanna Theocharous, Reuben Kershaw, Eloise Kershaw, Josiah Okinikan, Aum Monji, Arjun Gopalakrishnan, Orly Allen, Hina Ishida, Rohan Bagai, Ava Paydon, Ajeena Bhagi.

Well done to Taha Mirshahi who passed her Persian school exams with top grades – she now jumps a year ahead!

Congratulations to Cameron Dabbagh, Adnaan Jiwa, Adam Khan, Ben Nwaka and Ikhlas Qazi who all played for the under 11's Old Elizabethan Cricket Club - Colts (OECC) in div III of the league - they have won their division and may be promoted if they win the knockout!+

 

Good luck to all our lovely Year 6 who are leaving to go to their new Secondary Schools – we wish you success!  Please stay in touch and let us know how you are getting on!

Farewell to Miss Venostini who has been teaching in Reception – we hope you have enjoyed your 5 weeks with us!  Good luck in your future career in Canada!

 

 

Our theme for this half term is “Changes”

Our focus for this week is “Making responsible choices when facing new challenges.”

 

YEAR 6 LEAVERS ASSEMBLY

Year 6 parents are welcome to join Miss Walker for a coffee at 9.00am.  The assembly will commence at 9.15am.  Don’t forget your tissues – you may need them!

 

YEAR 6 CAKE SALE

Well done for raising an amazing £84.46!  This will be used for your end of year leaving party!

 

KS1 ‘TOYS/GAMES DAY’

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 can bring in a sensible (and unbreakable!) toy or game to play with on Thursday 22nd July.  Please ensure that it is in a bag labelled with their name.

 

KS2 ‘FUN DAY’

On Thursday 22nd July Years 3, 4, 5, & 6 will be having a ‘Fun Day’.  In the morning all the KS2 children will be playing rounders so every child will need their PE kit.  In addition, Year 3, 4 and 5 will also be taking part in an interclass quiz. 

In the afternoon Year 6 will be having their end of year party at Hollywood Bowl and Pizza Hut.  Year 6 children can wear their own clothes to school on Thursday. 

 

YEAR 6 WATCHING A MOVIE

Year 6 will be watching a PG rated film on Friday.  We will assume parental permission unless informed otherwise.

 

WELFARE ROOM – FINAL REMINDER!!!!

v      Donations: If anyone has any PE kits, eg white shorts, black tracksuit pants, Courtland red t-shirts, which their children might have outgrown and would be happy to donate to the school’s Welfare Room, we would very much appreciate it. 

 

v      Returns:  Also, if your child has borrowed a PE kit or part of a kit could you please make sure it is returned by Thursday at the latest. 

 

v      Lost Property:  Please take a moment to look through lost property before the end of term as the boxes are overflowing!  All items not collected/claimed at the end of term will be donated to charity.

 

PTA NEWS

Courtland World Cup Competition

Thanks to those who entered the Courtland World Cup Competition, £152 was raised.

These are the winners, all prized were donated.

Ø       Artists and Writers:

Winner: Shaniya Yr 2 (Prize £20 worth of goodies)

Runners-up: Damini Yr 4, Holly Yr 4

Ø       Quizmaster:

Yasmin Vijayan (Prize £20 + £50 Powerleague voucher)

Ø       Groupmaster:

Manoj Mistry (Prize £20 + £50 Powerleague voucher)

Ø       Resultsmaster:

K Jeypal (Prize £50)

Ø       Finalsmaster:

Alex Sofroniou Yr 6 (Prize £50)

Winners will be contacted and get prizes before the end of this week

 

Look out for the PTA update and financial summary that is going out with the newsletter today!

 

 

 

 
Courtland School Parent Teacher Association

 

Registered Charity No: 275280

 

 

 

 

PTA News – July 2010

 

Dear Parents

 

On the back of this sheet you will find a summary of the PTA activities this year and we are sure you’ll agree it’s been a very successful year.  We have welcomed a number of new people onto the committee, which has injected new life and enthusiasm.

 

We have tried a few new things this time: – the Pyjama party (a mountain of popcorn!) and having the fair in the playground with the Mill Hill County Jazz band and a BBQ….  All to great success.

 

We have found that having specific PTA members to organise specific events takes the pressure off the whole group at once, and means some people can get on with organising the fairs or the discos, while others are organising the Indulgence Evening or the Bingo evening.

 

We would very much like to have a volunteer to organise an end of year Family BBQ next year – possibly a lunchtime “Festival” on the field. Could this be you?

 

As always we have some parents leaving this year -  Mo Jiwa, Vaishali Mistry and Sarah Sofroniou (although Sarah is still a governor so she can’t escape that easily).  They have all been fantastic and we will miss them very much (only Mo knows how to pack away everything in the shed after a fair!)

 

Most of all we thank all those parents who have helped in so many different ways.  None of us like going round the playground begging for help and we really appreciate the friendly faces who say yes!

 

We wish Year 6 all the best for next year, and hope everyone has a great Summer.

 

See you in September

 

Your PTA Committee

 


PTA SUMMARY 2009 - 2010

 

 

 

Income

Expenses

Profit

 

 

 

 

AUTUMN TERM

 

 

 

Halloween Disco

£464

£107

£357

Christmas Cards

£99

£55

£44

Mufti Day

£352

0

£352

Gourmet Society

£125

£75

£50

Christmas Fair

£9941

£856

*£9,085

 

 

 

 

SPRING TERM

 

 

 

Pyjama Party

£542

£40

£484

Bingo Night

£1080

£284

£796

Sponsored Skipathon

£932

0

£932

Easter Egg Hunt

£169

£48

£121

 

 

 

 

SUMMER TERM

 

 

 

Indulgence Evening

£740

£19

£720

Summer Disco

£551

£175

£376

Summer Fair

£5938

£1675

£4,263

 

 

 

 

TOTAL PROFIT

 

 

£17,580

 

* including £3500 from Matched Funding

 

 

What we have bought:-

 

Infants Christmas Party

£133

New Shed
(The old one has been replaced by the extension)

£700

French Skipping Day

£315

Year 6 Art project & leaving gifts

£1028

Adventure Trail on the front lawn

£9,000

Laptops and other bits and pieces

£4,090

TOTAL SPEND

£15,266