Monday 8th October 2012

What a lovely weekend it has been with sunshine and, miraculously, no rain - it's hard to believe that it's actually October! I hope that everyone has enjoyed the lovely weather and that all of us are ready for another busy and exciting week at Copthorne.

This week's events:
Cook and Eat
On Monday 8th October (today!), from 9 to 11am, Exceed will be holding a Cook and Eat event for parents, carers and members of the community. Those attending will be shown how to cook a number of dishes and will then sample them. The event will be held in our new multi-purpose room. I shall be nipping upstairs to see how everyone is getting on and, maybe if I'm lucky, I'll be able to sample some of the results!

Year 1 to Eureka
Both Year 1 classes will be visiting the Eureka, Children's Museum in Halifax this week.
The visit will support the work that the children are doing as part of their creative curriculum theme on 'Brilliant Bodies'. 1 Oak's visit will take place on Tuesday 9th and 1 Ash on Thursday 11th.
I am sure they will have a wonderful time and I look forward to hearing all about it on their return.I know that they will be wonderful ambassadors for Copthorne through their attitudes and behaviour.

Bun Friday
On Friday (12th October), children in Year 3 will be selling buns for 50p to help raise money towards their trip to Nell Bank later this term If your child would like to buy a bun on Friday they need to bring 50p to school.

Building Learning Power Heroes and Heroines Day
On Friday 12th everyone in school - including the staff- is invited to come dressed as their favourite hero or heroine.  This can be anyone at all who your child sees as their hero or heroine. It could be someone from history, public life, someone famous, a TV, film or a book character or has made up themselves as long as their chosen or created character represents a positive role model for your child.This is part of our work on BLP (Building Learning Power) which is a very effective strategy to help develop children's independent learning skills. It should be a wonderful day for all of us and I know that it will have a very positive impact on our children's leaning. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR PARENTS TO BUY OUTFITS FOR THEIR CHILDREN FOR THIS EVENT - something that the children can put together at home with your help is usually much better and families tend to have a great deal of fun making the outfits together.

Date for your diary
We break up slightly earlier than usual for October half term this year so as to allow everyone to enjoy Eid. School will finish for the half term holidays on Wednesday October 24th at 3pm and will reopen on Monday 5th November.

Have a great week everyone!