Brampton Bulletin

B r a m p t o n P r i m a r y S c h o o l S t r i v i n g t o R e a c h t h e B e s t Week ending: 25.11.11 Autumn Term: Issue 11

Inside this weeks issue: Year 2 s Visit Forthcoming Dates Restorative Justices Voluntary Contributions Week 3 Menu FOB/School News Gold Book Entries Weekly Attendance And finallyNov 30th

A MA Z I O N I A N R A I N F O R E S T V IS I T
On Monday 21st November Year 2 travelled to the Amazonian Rainforest, in Brentford, to find out all about the animals that live there. We were lucky enough to have a hands-on experience and held a variety of tropical animals including a python, hissing cockroaches, stick insects and a pair of water dragons, one of which was called Jemima! During our talk we learnt all about camouflage and how it protects some of the animals from predators. We learnt about the importance of rainforest conservation and why trees are important to us. In addition we got to stroke a Dwarf Caiman although we werent allowed to hold him just in case he was in a bad mood!! We got to experience the heat and humidity of a tropical rainforest as we wandered under the canopy looking at the different animals. We witnessed the boa constrictors eyeing up their rat lunch and fed the Koi Carp, observing how they ate and breathed. There was an African Spurred Tortoise called Becks who was allowed to wander around the zoo. He was 6 years old and joined the zoo in 2001. Everyone had an amazing time and learnt lots about the animals of the rainforest, we even learnt what tree poo is!
Brampton Primary is a restorative school where the initial response to conflict is to find a solution where things are put right, the victims needs are met whilst also meeting the needs of the wrong doer and meet all the schools responsibilities.

Forthcoming Dates: Thursday 24th November Year 5 to Science Museum Friday 25th November Mayor Opening Infants Monday 28th November Peter Pan to whole school Thursday 1st December Last date for Christmas Dinner orders Friday 9th December CRIBs Christmas Play Tuesday 13th December Infant concert Wednesday 14th December Infant Concert Thursday 15th December Christmas dinner Friday 16th December Candlelight Carols

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R E STO R AT I V E J U S T I C E S T R AI NI N G
Last week Miss Lambert and Mrs Hood attended a Restorative Justice conference training course in order to further improve our practice throughout school and at lunchtimes. This means we use the following model when dealing with children and any behaviour difficulties.

When things go wrong at playtimes and lunchtimes we follow the model below, using the questions underneath. Many thanks to Lynne Russell for the use of her materials here. We found the conference really useful to help us consider how well Restorative Justice is going at Brampton and what we need to do to do it even better. It was really helpful to hear from other schools who are using the same approach and to offer a little advice to those new to this approach.

We know that this approach will improve relationships and help overcome difficulties for children, staff and parents. We hope to have Lynne back in the new year to share her work with our parents. You might want to try the ideas at home too! Voluntary Contributions. When school trips are arranged staff do look to get the best fare for transport costs. Unfortunately fuel costs now do make coach travel more expensive. The staff then combine this with any entrance fees or costs for teaching activities and divide the total by the number in the class. There is no profit being made. Whilst we try to give parents as much warning as possible of forthcoming events if there is any short fall towards the total, then the school has to pay the difference. We do understand that times are hard and for that reason we always offer for parents to spread the cost over a number of weeks. Unfortunately we also have a tight budget and can not afford to run too many trips at a loss and therefore do ask parents to speak to staff if there are any difficulties.

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SCHOOL M EALS W E E K B E G I N N I N G - 2 8 T H N OV E M B E R 2 0 1 1
Monday Meat
Spaghetti Bolognaise

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday
Cottage Pie

Friday
Breaded Fish with Chips

Sausage Pin Roast Chicken Wheel with Jacket Thigh with StuffPotatoes & Home- ing & Roast made Ketchup Spicy Beans with Jacket Wedges Vegetable Slice with Roast Potatoes

Fish or alternative Vegetarian

Tomato, Chilli Tuna & Salsa Spaghetti

Vegetable Cottage Pie Oven Baked Fish with New Potatoes

Red Onion Frittata Cheesy Stuffed Jacket Iced Bun with Fruit Wedges

Sweet Potato Stir Macaroni Cheese served with Crusty Bread Steamed Jam Sponge with Custard Chocolate Shortbread & Frozen Yoghurt Ginger Sponge with Orange Cream

Desserts

Fruit Flapjack

A choice of salads, seasonal vegetables, fresh bread, fresh fruit platter, fruit yoghurt, milk and drinking water are also available daily. Peanut Allergies Please can we remind everyone that we are a Peanut Free school in our cooked meals and we ask parents not to put any nuts or items containing nuts in their childs packed lunches. Thank you Football Update The girls football team have played another 3 games in their league. They won their first match against Danson 9-0, then lost against Bexley Academy 2-0 but were then fired up to beat Gravel Hill 12-0!! The goal scorers were Francesca Capelli, Patsy Callaghan, Aaliyeah Weise Forbes and Ellie Brown. Well done to the team and Mr Capelli and Mrs Ward for their time. There is a B team tournament in December 13th for Year 5s and under. School News Children in Need We are delighted to announce that we raised over 430 last week with our cake sale. Many thanks to Miss Wilson and School Council for all their efforts to make the event such a success. FOB News - FOB held their first Christmas Shopping Night on Wednesday 16th November. There were lots of fantastic stalls selling some lovely Christmas gifts. Thank you to everyone who came and along and supported this event although the turn out wasn't great everyone who came along enjoyed themselves. A big thank you to Mrs Buckner and all the FOB helpers, who gave up a lot of time putting on the event.

BRAMPTON GOLD BOOK Striving to Reach the Best Every week we print the names of those children who have achieved in either their work, conduct or behaviour around school and have been entered in the Gold Book. They have been mentioned in Mondays celebratory assembly. After 3 mentions children receive a bronze certificate, 6 mentions for a silver, 9 mentions for a gold, 12 mentions for a Super Gold and 15 mentions for a Platinum certificate, 18 for Diamond, 21+ for a Head teachers Award and 24 for a Special Head teacher Award and Badge.
RB Louis Wait RB Hlolly Smith RB Imogen Hill RB Libby Ellis RJ Archie Donovan RJ Katie Marley RJ Joshua Miah RJ Finlay OShaughnessy RJ Grace Scovell RJ Bailey Smith RJ Rahaan Verdee RJ Luna Simpson RJ George Payne RJ Aoife Kavanagh RJ Keira Harris RJ Hayden Dalby 1B Sam Brown 1B Luke Chamberlain 1B Jessica Foley 1B Emel Huseyin 1B Abigail Jennings 1W Sahil Chowdhury (Bronze) 1W Louise Jardine (Bronze) 1W Amrit Minhas (Bronze) 1W Flynn Cox 2B Saif Nabi 2B Freya McKenzie 2PW Rhea Baruah 2PW Josie Brooks 2PW Abigail Mentz 2PW Oliver Box 3WLuke Hone 3W Zac Clarke 3WHarry Callaghan 3W-Cathleen Fehim 4HTaylan Ali Osman 4H Victor Obinya (Gold) 4HKyle Williams (Gold) 5BAlfie Russell 5B Rajveer Shergill 5B Finlay Knowles 5B Jack Bruce 5B Ellie sugden 5C Amber Thind 5C Holly Adams 5C Taysan Ali Osman 5C Niamh Hill 5C Rebecca Nicklin (Diamond) 5C Angie Nandra (Diamond) 5C Jamie Puttick (Platinum) 5C Victoria Obinya 5C Faye Johnson (Head Teacher) Unfortunately there is not enough space to mention the childrens achievements here but if you are interested to see your childs mention please pop in and ask to see it.

Weekly Attendance

Week ending 18.11.11 RB: RJ: 1B: 1W: 2B: 2PW: 3W: 3WH: 4C: 4H: 5B: 5C: 6S: 6M: 98% 92% 93% 97.3% 96.3% 98.6% 99.3% 94% 97.7% 95.5% 96.3% 93.6% 93.7% 98.3%

Well done to 3W again & the other classes above 96.1%

Our School Total was 96.% Raffle Prize Winners The winners in this weeks draw for tea with Miss Fisher was Megan Smith in 6S. The Infant winner had already been drawn out, so 2 Infant tickets will be pulled next week. Well done to Megan for showing the appropriate behaviour.

HOUSE POINTS Week ending 24.9.10

1st Yellow = 84 2nd Green= 80 3rdRed = 76 4thBlue= 73

Congratulations to Yellow House members!

And finally.......Dont forget School closed on November 30th Remember if you like what were doing tell us and others! If you dont, please help us improve! School Office; 020 8303 2873 Fax; 020 8298 0286 Email; admin@brampton.bexley.sch.uk

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