Teaching Assistant May 2012

Contact:
Christ Church C of E VC Junior School, Pendennis Road, Downend, South Glos. BS165JJ

Telephone: 01454 866516  
Fax: 01454 866518

NEW e-mail:    christchurchjuniordownend.school@southglos.gov.uk

website: www.christ-down-jun.s-gloucs.sch.uk 

Headteacher: Alex Wilkinson: M.Ed 

Sources of information about the school. Here
1. New Parents for Sept 2011 NEW
2. What do parents think of the school?
3.OfSTED:  Jan 2009
4. Church Inspection Report 2009 :   
5. SATS & targets 2008-11    
 

Christ Church@ Downend
Next School Service:
Yr 6 leavers
July 17 11.00 am 2012
 11.00pm 
All Friends and Family welcome

Our Vision
A thinking and caring  community of learners 

Values: Through our Church foundations in the past and our partnership in the present, the school promotes Christian values and encourages an understanding of the meaning and significance of faith .

Learning:  Meeting new challenges through a culture of high expectations, support and recognition of personal achievement. Everyone; children, parents and staff, as a learner!

Caring: The Christian message of care: for self, family, people near and for and all of creation; is the core value underpinning the work of the school.

Thinking: Making learning an active challenge, encouraging reflection on
personal choices and their consequences for self and others.

Community:  Christ Church Junior School is a community where all are equally valued and where we actively work with parents, the Church, the Infant school and other local providers to enhance our shared life together. 

 Last Newsletter Online     No 20

An application form and person specifications for the current Teaching Assistant vacancy is available above.

                                     A New Year!

What better way to start the new year than everybody sharing a thought-provoking, funny, surprising and hugely entertaining theatre experience. As I am sure your children have told you, Cinderella at the Tobacco Factory was all of these! A really big Thank You to the Friends of the Schools for enabling this to happen.

Term 3 is always a relatively quiet term, a very important couple of months to really focus on core learning so please keep going with the support from home for reading and homework tasks.

One thing we are planning is a ‘No pens day’ in school on Jan 24. This is based on a national initiative to focus both teachers and pupils on the importance of verbal  communication and teaching, practicing and learning the skills of speaking and listening. More details to follow.

Dates for your Diary
May 14 SATS week Yr 6
May 17  7.00 pm  Yr5 Play performance
May 19 Saturday School Fair 
May 25 Coronation @Pucklechurch
June 1Friday. 12.00 Jubilee picnic and end of Term 5
June 11 Start of term 6
June 28 Reports sent to parents
July 2  2.00-5.00 Yr 3&4Parents+ child review years’ work!      (Change of day!)
July 3 2.00-5.00 Yr 5& 6 Parents+ child review years’ work!       (Change of day!)
July 5 Yr 6 day at Mangotsfield & Downend. CCJ  new classes for Sept 2012
July 16: Chernobyl Children visit
July 17: Yr 6 Leavers Service (11.00 am) and Community Party
July 19: Last day of Term 6

INSET DAYS 2012
   June 29 

  Dates for 2012-13

Letters and other useful docs

Request for absence (holiday) form

 Breakfast and Afterschool Club Starts

 At the request of Christ church Infants and Junior Schools, Oldbury Court Out Of Schools Club has agreed to start running a breakfast and afterschool club from within the Elliot Buildings at the Christ Church Infants school. This service is only available to the parents and pupils of Christ Church Infant and Junior schools and will start at the end of the October Half Term.

Timings
Breakfast Club starts at 08:00 to 09:15.
Afterschool Club 3:15 pm  to 5:45 pm  

Costs
Deposit    £10.00
Registration £70.00 per year and may be paid in instalments (easy payment schemes to meet individuals needs are available on request)

Breakfast Club £5.50 includes breakfast per day
Afterschool Club £ 8.00 per day

School INSET days: breakfast club and afterschool club as normal however should the infants school require the use of the building the children will be taken to the OCOSC main site.

School Holidays: there will be no services run from the Elliot Building however parents may register and use the Holiday club service between 08:00 and 6 pm  run out of the OCOSC main site at a cost of £14.50 per day.

Further details may be obtained either by calling:

Sheila on 07747 650 611
or email enquire-localchildcare@hotmail.co.uk