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Jolly Jars
We would like to challenge the children to create Jolly Jars for our Christmas Fayre. We are changing the way that we run this stall and the jars will be used as part of a tombola type game.
The idea is to fill a clean glass jar with small treats or toys. The contents of the jars must be suitable for all pupils and all items should be new and nut-free. There is no need to decorate the jar if your child does not wish to.
Suggestions for jar contents:
*Christmas items
*Sweets (nut free)
*Stationary
*Party bag style items
*Bubbles
*Small toys
*Fidget toys
Can jars please be brought into school on the week beginning Monday 25th November.
Bingo Evening
As mentioned in our last newsletter, the PTFA will be holding a Family Bingo Night in school on Thursday 10th October 6pm-7.30pm.
Tickets cost £5 for adults and £2.50 for children. This includes pie and pea supper for adults and hot dogs / quorn dippers for children.
If you would like to come and join in the fun, please follow the link below to reserve your tickets or scan the QR code on the attached flyer. The link will close at noon on Monday 7th October, so please book early.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGBCXVS
Information regarding payment and tickets will follow shortly.
Our Harvest Festival
This Harvest Festival, we will be collecting tinned and packaged non-perishable food for the local community. This will be donated to our local foodbank, Hospitality and Hope in South Shields, which helps local people in crisis. If you can, please send any donations into school by Friday 11th October.
Please see below dates for our Harvest Festivals in school:
KS1- Thursday 3rd October - 10am
KS2 ‘X’ Classes- Friday 4th October - 10am
KS2 ‘Y’ Classes- Friday 4th October - 2:30pm
Reception - Tuesday 8th October - 10am
Parent Workshops
Over the new two weeks, each year group will be providing a workshop for parents. Staff will deliver a 30 minute session on a theme that will support you in helping your child.
YR-Phonics & Early Reading- Tuesday 8th October 3:45pm
Y1- Phonics & Y1 Phonics test- Wednesday 2nd October 3:45pm
Y2- Life in Year 2- Tuesday 1st October 3:45pm
Y3- Supporting your child in Y3- Monday 30th September 3:45pm
Y4- Y4 Timestables test- Monday 30th September 3:45pm
Y5- Y5 Terminology & expectations- Monday 30th September 3:45pm
Y6- Preparing for Y6 SATs- Monday 30th September 3:45pm
If you are not able to attend or have clashes with siblings then the session material will be added to the school website for you to view after the event.
Parents Tours
Last year, we offered parent tours which were very well attended. Parents don’t often get the opportunity to see the full school other than potentially on an open afternoon in your child’s class or the Social Display Area for a Class Worship. We would like to offer parents / carers the opportunity to have a guided tour of the whole school with myself, Mr Robb and the Head Pupils so that you can see the classroom your child is currently in, where they will go next and the outdoor provision. We will also be on hand to answer any questions that you might have regarding the school.
These will take place on the following dates:
Monday 14th October at 4pm
Tuesday 15th October at 5pm
Wednesday 16th October at 4:30pm
Tours will be for adults only and places can be booked by emailing me at gscott@cleadonacademy.co.uk.
Peace Doves 2024
Sports Day
Friday 5th July- EYFS (Nursery & Reception)- 9:30am
Monday 8th July- KS1 (Year 1 & 2) - 9:30am
Monday 8th July- KS2 (Year 3, 4, 5 & 6) - 1:15pm
OFSTED News
Click the picture below to read the newspaper atricle about our latest OFSTED.
Teddy Tombola
Just a gentle reminder that we plan to hold our Teddy/Soft Toy Tombola on Thursday 11th April during school time with teddies/soft toys being purchased for £1. We are now accepting donations of good/clean condition teddies/soft toys which can be handed into the school office. Please do not donate any teddies/soft toys with batteries in.
Egg Decorating
This week the children enjoyed decorating eggs for our Easter Egg Display. All of the staff were very impressed by the level of creativity that the children showed. Mrs Lambert had the very hard task of choosing one egg per year group to receive a little prize.
Mrs Flynn was very flattered to see herself in the eggs-hibition.
Easter Draw
Thank you to everyone who entered our Easter Draw. Our 8 lucky winners were able to choose their prize.
OPAL Request
5Y visit Thurston
Our children from class 5Y had an amazing time at Thurston. Click here to view their photos.
Bring a loved one to school
We will be holding a ‘Bring a loved one to school’ afternoon tea on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th February from 2:30pm – 3:30pm.
The event will be free of charge. You will be able to enjoy a special cake / biscuit and coffee / tea with your child to celebrate Valentines Day and the theme of love.
Due to space limitations, we will only be able to accommodate one adult per child in school on one of the dates.
Please choose a date that suits your diary and book using the Survey Monkey link below:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VT3LJZP
The link will be close on Monday 4th February at 12pm so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Raffle Winners
OPAL
We are hoping to start on our OPAL Journey after the Christmas break. We are pleased to announce that our wonderful PTFA has bought some essential equipment for us. Scooterboards and helmets for the wheeled area, clamps and clips for den building, wellies for the digging area, brushes and rollers for the creative space and storage boxes to keep everything nice and neat.
Angela's Ark
As a link to our science topic Year 2 children were very excited to receive a visit from Angela's Ark.
Christmas Market
Our first Christmas Market was on Sunday 3rd December. Despite the wintery weather we had a lovely day. A big thank you to the sellers and volunteers who made the day a success.!
Also a big "Well done" to two of our year 5 pupils who made and sold jewellery for charity. They raised a fantastic £112 which will be donated to McMillan and Shelter.
Snowy Fun
So what do you do when you come to school on a snowy day? You go out and have as much fun as you can. Slipping, sliding and hot chocolate what more can you ask for? Even the teachers had a little fun.
Junior Leadership Team Meeting
Today, the Junior Leadership Team took the time to complete a questionnaire sent to schools from the Children's Commissioner. If you would like to complete this with your child then please use the link below:
Christmas Raffle
Our Christmas Raffle will be drawn on 18th December. Tonight the children will bring home an envelope containing 5 strips of raffle tickets (1 envelope per family). Tickets cost £1 per strip.
If you wish to purchase the tickets, please retain one section of the strip and return the other half to school in the envelope with your payment. Please write your child’s full name and class along the back of the strip returned to school. We will be unable to allocate prizes to tickets which have no name marked on them.
Tickets must be returned to school by 17th December. If you would like to involve the whole family and require some extra tickets, please contact the School Office.
If anyone has any donations for the raffle, we should be grateful if they could be sent into school as soon as possible.
On Thursday 23rd November at 2pm we will be holding our Christmas Coffee Afternoon. Can we please appeal for the following items
*Tombola/raffle prizes such as bottles, confectionary, gift sets,
toiletries, chocolate, sweets, gift vouchers etc.
*Children's tombola/raffle prizes (new items only) toys, craft sets,
games, puzzles, activity/stationery sets, etc
*Any bottled items for our bottle tombola.
*Boxes of Christmas crackers (child friendly) for Golden Cracker
game.
*Any spare tinsel.
Mystery Boxes
This year we would like to challenge the children to create Mystery Boxes for our Christmas Fair. Each child will bring home a box on Friday to fill with mystery treats. This is always a very popular stall so we would like to have a large variety of boxes so that no child is disappointed.
We have shared examples of Mystery Boxes with the children in school. Examples of treats could be bouncy balls, small colouring pencils, craft items, stationery sets, small toys, sweets, bubbles, fidget toys etc. Please make sure that all items are new and all sweets are nut free.
Please make sure that your box is suitable for all children (unisex) and is suitable for their age group. Please note that the boxes will be sold for between £1 and £2.Can we ask that boxes are returned to school the week before the Christmas Fair which is on 26th November. We will send out a reminder closer to the date.
Your continued support is always appreciated.
OPAL
This year we are embarking on a very exciting journey with OPAL. This stands for Outdoor Play and Learning. To learn more about this scheme and to read our wish list for donations please click the link below.
PTFA Family Quiz
Our first PTFA Family Quiz went down very well on Wednesday evening, with families competing to be the first ever recipients of the 'Champions Trophy!' Well done to team 'De Onoro' who totally smashed it!
A huge thank you to everyone who helped out from setting up, serving snacks, making boat loads of delicious mushy peas,(Mr. Scott loved the green stuff so much he took enough home to feed a small army!) to marking sheets, tidying up to the families who competed, you all contributed to making the evening a success. !
Easy Fundraising
Cleadon Academy PTFA has signed up to easyfundraising, the UK’s biggest charity shopping site. Easyfundraising partners with over 7,000 brands who will donate part of what our supporters spend to the PTFA. This does not cost shoppers any extra as the cost is covered by the brand.
For more information and to support our PTFA, please follow the link below.
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/cleadon-academy
Year 6 Visit the Firestation
Year 6 recently visited South Sheilds Fire Station to take part in a RAP event (Reducing Risks at Play). The event teaches the children about the major risks for this age group in a safe environment where they took part in various workshops related to this. All of the staff delivering the workshops commented on the children's enthusiasm and excellent behaviour. Well done Year 6!
Commando Joes
In their Commando Joes session this week, 2X worked on their communication skills as they were tasked with guiding each other through an obstacle course whilst blindfolded. The children then worked brilliantly as a team to create a chain and reach the other side without breaking apart, giving instructions and motivating each other along the way.
New school dinner menu for Autumn 2023
Past Events / Information
Uniform Collection
Thanks you to everyone who donated their uniforms to the Key to Life Food Bank.
House Treat 2023
Congratulations to the members of Angel of the North, they were the house treat winners! As a reward for their hard work they spent a lovely morning in the park!
Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits
The ancient city of Old Baghdad is in chaos. Whilst the bustling bazaar is overrun with ruthless robbers, up in the palace Sultan Pepper's precious princess and Royal Ruby have vanished! To make matters worse, it seems the poor Sultan cannot trust his own Vizier, Mustapha Widdle, nor his mischievous monkey Booboo. So when Ali Baba discovers the hidden Cave Of Wonders, secret hideout of Balthazar Bongo and his bumbling bandits, it's down to him to save the day.
Summer Challenge!
The School Council would like to set everyone a summer challenge (staff and children). Over the summer, our school Facebook page and website is usually a little quieter than normal. The School Council know that you will all be doing wonderful things over the Summer and would like to see what everyone is up to. Please send in a photograph of a special day / holiday / event / trip / family time or just something cool so that we can showcase these over the Summer. It would be really helpful to get some each week rather than 100’s in the last week. Please send photographs to Mr Scott on gscott@cleadonacademy.co.uk.
Summer Social
Our Summer Social will take place on Friday 14th July, 2.30-4.00pm. Despite the rain, last year’s event was a huge success and we think that our 2023 Summer Social can be even better, but we need your help.
Can we please ask for donations of:
• Tombola items – eg. sweets, toiletries, gift items, bottles
• New pocket money toys (for children’s tombola) eg stationery sets, yo-yos, fidget toys, skipping ropes, small craft kits, activity books, pound shop toys etc.
• Mini Haribo and lollies
• Packets of sweets
• Cakes (on the day of the event)
So, if you would like help by donating, volunteering (even for a short time) or just coming along to enjoy the afternoon, we would be most grateful for your support.
We look forward to seeing you on the day.
Reminder of School P.E Kit
The school PE Kit list is:
White t-shirt (no crop tops)
Navy or black shorts of a suitable length (no hot pants)
Navy or black tracksuit bottoms/navy or black sports leggings
Navy, grey or black tracksuit top/purple school hoodies
Suitable footwear
Key Stage 1 Young Leaders- Week 2
Easy Fundraising
Cleadon Academy PTFA has signed up to easyfundraising, the UK’s biggest charity shopping site. Easyfundraising partners with over 7,000 brands who will donate part of what our supporters spend to the PTFA. This does not cost shoppers any extra as the cost is covered by the brand.
For more information and to support our PTFA, please follow the link below.
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/cleadon-academy
Fundraise and Recycle
Our Recycling Bank has been so popular that we have had to add a second one! We have had lots of people asking what kinds of items are suitable for recycling.
Walk to School 2023
"Thank you to everyone who has taken part in this year's Walk To School Week! We have had some lovely photos shared by you and we hope you have enjoyed noticing the wildlife on your way to school each morning. "
Recycle and Fundraise
Good news everyone, we were the WINNER of the Easter clothes appeal campaign! And you know what that means, don’t you? We have won an incredible prize, a free visit from the Ice Cream van and a free ice cream for every child! We are incredibly proud of the amount of clothes that have been recycled and of the funds raised so far. It’s been a fantastic community effort.
Careers Fair
We are hoping to organise a ‘Careers Fair’ for our Year 6 children as a means of broadening their knowledge of the various professions available to them as they continue on their educational journey. We believe that the event would also provide an incentive to the children to achieve their educational goals. Last year’s event was very successful with excellent feedback gained from all attendees.
We are looking for a range of professions to participate in this event. The Careers Fair would involve talking to small groups of children about your profession and the various roles that you undertake. We are hoping to create a ‘Market Place’ with stalls for the children to visit, speak to adults, take part in activities and hopefully view artefacts linked to your profession. The children would also ask questions about your professional role.
The Fair will take place on the morning of Wednesday 28th June.
If you would be interested in participating in the Careers Fair, then please complete the Survey Monkey link below:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/S8H7GNQ
Class Worship
Parents and carers are invited to join us for their child's Class Worship and a list of dates and times for the Summer Term are attached.
Key Stage 2 Worship begins at 9.05am and Key Stage 1 Worship begins at 10.45 am. We hope you are able to join us.
Thursday 27/04/2023 5X 9.05am
Thursday 27/04/2023 2X 10.45am
Thursday 04/05/2023 5Y 9.05am
Thursday 04/05/2023 2Y 10.45am
Thursday 18/05/2023 4X 9.05am
Thursday 18/05/2023 1X 10.45am
Thursday 25/05/2023 4Y 9.05am
Thursday 25/05/2023 1Y 10.45am
Thursday 15/06/2023 3X 9.05am
Thursday 15/06/2023 RX 10.45am
Thursday 22/06/2023 3Y 9.05am
Thursday 22/06/2023 RY 10.45am
Our Easter Eggshibition
This week everyone at school has had lots of fun decorating eggs. We have had some amazing designs and a variety of egg puns which have kept the teachers laughing all day. Mrs Lambert had the difficult task of choosing winners from each year group.
Easter Raffle
Congratulations to our Easter Raffle winners. They were very happy with their bunnies! Thank you to everyone who took part, we raised £300 for school funds.
Easter Eco-Bank Appeal
We all enjoy a good Spring clean. Do you know that you can also raise funds for school at the same time? We are taking part in the Fundraise and Recycle Easter Clothes Appeal. Its really easy, just fill the bag with unwanted clothing and bring it back to school after the holidays.
Our Ducks
This year we successfully hatched 4 adorable ducklings. The children loved watching them emerge from their eggs and grow into fluffy ducklings. They had quite an audience for their first swim!
Music is in the Air
We have had a very musical few weeks in school with Years 2 and 5 taking part in the Music Festival and Year 3 joining other North East Schools for the Spring Sing.
WDS Day
Yesterday, Tuesday 21st March 2023 was World Down Syndrome Day and to join in with this global awareness day, we asked the children to come in wearing brightly coloured socks or tights they certainly did that!
School Council go to London
On Friday 17th March the members of our School Council travelled to London to visit the Houses of Parliament. Click the photo below to view our adventures.
PTFA Bingo Night
On 2nd March we held our PTFA Bingo Night for parents and children. Mrs West and Mrs Pearson were amazing as our bingo callers and everyone had a fantastic evening. We raised nearly £800 to contribute towards our Daily Mile Track. Huge thanks to all the families that attended and all the people who gave up their time to make this such a successful event.
Year 4 Dance
Year 4 Singing
Our Year 4 children have amazed us with their talent and enthusiasm during their Friday singing sessions.
Our Recommended Reads
We are very excited to launch our new book review page! Children can add a review to the page about any book they have read. This will also give children a chance to browse the reviews and discover new books they would like to read. We can't wait to find out what our children enjoy reading for pleasure! Click the book below to leave your review.
Year 4 had a wonderful time at their Christmas party this week.
Year 4 Maya
In history Year 4 have been learning about Maya. They used the skills they learned in design and technology to create these amazing temple models.
Breakfast with Santa
Over the past two days, we have held Breakfast with Santa which was very well attended. It was a joy to attend seeing the children’s faces light up when Santa walked into the dining room. The children were superbly behaved on both days enjoying their breakfast and Christmas activities waiting to meet Santa.
The Dentists Visit Reception
Reception had two important visitors in school this week. Nurses came to teach us how to wash our hands properly to keep away nasty germs. They passed a ball around the class that was covered in glitter, this showed the children how easily germs can spread and how important it was to wash our hands. They also read a story about a dinosaur who didn't look after his teeth. They showed us how to clean our teeth and more importantly told us not to rinse once we had cleaned them. All the children received their own toothbrushes and toothpaste.
Air Ambulance
Today, we had two special visitors in school from The Great North Ambulance. Amanda and Miles lead Worship sharing the importance of their job and how we could help them. We look forward to fundraising for them in the future.
That History Bloke
Year 3 had a brilliant with 'That History Bloke. ' We dressed up as Egyptians, worshiped Faro, embalmed a mummy, mummified ourselves and learnt how to play an ancient Egyptian game! It was an amazing experience for the children and staff.
What a Wonderful World
The children in EYFS have been learning to sign a new song.
Year 5 Computing
Year 5 have been learning how to programme in their Computing lesson. They have successfully connected a microcontroller to an LED and controlled it via the Crumble App!
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Bear
To celebrate the Queen's Jubilee the PTFA have sourced some Platinum Jubilee Bears that will be available to order at a cost of £7.50 each. The bear will be around 16cm in size and will come with a T-Shirt containing a commemorative logo and the Academy logo. If you would like to place an order, then please click on the bear below.
Year 2 First Aid
After learning about Florence Nightingale and her revolutionary new medical techniques, the Year 2 children got the opportunity to put their own skills into action. At the First Aid Workshop, the children enjoyed applying bandages to patients, discovered how blood pumps around the heart and learned the necessary steps to follow in an emergency. All pupils participated in the Workshop with enthusiasm, commitment and care, gaining valuable first aid skills to help them cope in an emergency.
Easter Raffle
A huge "Thank You" to everyone who took part in out Easter Raffle! Together you raised over £400!
Easter Raffle
Tickets for our Easter Raffle are now on sale at breaktimes at a cost of £1.
Great British School Spring Clean
The Eco Army have recently signed up to take part in 'The Great British Spring Clean' and pledged to collect as much litter as possible from our school grounds. They were so shocked to see how much litter was around when they looked closely! There's still time to take part and join the campaign to keep Britain tidy. A small amount of your time can have a huge impact on our planet!
Click the image below to see how busy our Eco Army have been.
Cross Country
On Friday afternoon, 24 children across Key Stage 2 attended the cross country competition at Temple Park. All children ran exceptionally well and it was a great team effort! Cleadon Academy were the overall winners! We are so proud of them!
Our Chicks
We are very pleased to say that all 7 of our eggs hatched.
Science Week 2022
This week in school we will be taking part in British Science week. Click the link below to see what we have been up to.
Our School Lottery
Did you know that we are running a School Lottery? You can join in from as little as £1 per week, and for every ticket you play, 76% goes to our school and prizes It’s not just open to parents, anyone over the age of 16 can join in. We would appreciate it if you would share this with your family and friends Each week someone in our school will win a prize, there is an opportunity to win £25,000 and there are regular extra monthly prize draws.
The tickets are paid for by Direct Debt so there is no need to worry about sending money into school. It really couldn’t be any easier. If you would like to join us in raising funds for school please click the link below and search for Cleadon.
Your School Lottery - Support a school & maybe even win big! - Your School Lottery
MP Visit
The School Council children had a special visitor on Friday 11th March. Kate Osborn MP came to visit our school to speak with the School Council about her life as a serving MP. The children learned all about what inspired Kate to follow her chosen career path and how she supports other MP's and her local community. The children were very excited to meet her and asked lots of interesting questions.
World Book Day 2022
We were very excited to celebrate World Book Day as a whole school this year. Each Key Stage chose a text to base their activities on and the children moved from classroom to classroom to complete each challenge. Over the last few years we have missed our parade of book characters so everyone was really happy to be able to meet in the Social Display area and show off our costumes..
Can you guess the names of the book characters from their photographs?
Eco Army Newsletter
Miss Fenwick, Miss Wales and the eco army have being busy this term and would like to share their first newsletter with you all.
Cleadon Owls
Cleadon Owls are now able to take bookings for the February half term holiday – Monday 21st to Friday 25th February and our in service day Monday 28th February.
Sessions are:
Full Day: 7:45am – 5:30pm - £30.00 (including lunch)
Half Day (AM): 7:45am – 12:30pm - £15.00 (not including lunch)
Half Day (PM): 12:30pm – 5:30pm - £15.00 (not including lunch)
If you wish to make a booking, please follow the link below:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/KD9ZXSX
Please note, spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The holiday club booking link will close on Thursday 10th February and any session requests beyond this date should be emailed to Miss McGeary at owls@cleadonacademy.co.uk
Our School Pets
We were introduced to our new school pets in Worship this morning. Tim and Jerry were adopted last week from a local pet shop. They are looking forward to meeting the children and having lots of cuddles, vegetable treats and attention.
Healthy Schools Award
Today, Mrs Pearson and the Year 5 school councillors attended a virtual award ceremony where we were presented with our plaque and certificate for achieving the Healthy Schools Award. This is testament to the hard work of staff and pupils in re-achieving the award.
The panel were very impressed with:
- how well-being is at the heart of the school
- the school's outstanding Rainbow Flag work
- the promotion of active travel through the walking bus
- staff modelling healthy behaviour to all stakeholders
- how health education has parity with academic subjects across the school
