Hamer Community Primary School

Hamer Community Primary School

Children’s walk to school

Thank you to the small group of parents and Governors who responded to Mrs Terry’s appeal to take part in an audit of the children’s walk to school. It was really good to see a small group step up and into action for all parents who raise issues about the busy roads and subway.

“Living Streets” organization led the project alongside Mrs Terry and they will produce a safety report that school can send on your behalf to the Local Authority in a bid to try to improve things in this respect. Thank you School Route Safety Team.

Driving to school

On a related note to the previous item, parents too can do a lot themselves in their daily driving behaviours to minimise risk for all on the journey to school. This in mind, please when people come in cars, please do not double park on Calder Street or try to turn around and go back out to the dual carriageway from Calder Street.

Please drive down the school one- way ramp/drive to avoid health and safety issues and road danger for children’s families. For the sake of waiting an extra minute or two to exit, you could save a child’s life.

Reception Library visit

A massive thank you to all parent helpers who accompanied our Reception children and teachers to the Library this week. Books and getting excited about them is as important in the family as it is here in school and parents’ enthusiasm and offer of time to make sure the visits went ahead is very much appreciated. The children behaved and engaged beautifully, as always. Thank you fabulous Hamer parents!!

M6 Theatre

As parents know, we share a site with M6 Theatre and from time to time, the children are invited up to be an audience and to give feedback on new community theatre productions that the M6 Team are working on. Today, our KS1 children did exactly that and we are very grateful to M6 for the opportunity to get involved this way.

LGBTQ History month

Next month is LGBTQ History month and work will be going on in school to address anti-bullying and social inclusion work for minorities in respect of this throughout the month. Mrs Elliott will be leading the planning and sessions for Key Stage Two children. In order to show parents and gain support for this important families and communities work, Mrs Elliott and Mr Buxton-Moore will host a workshop for parents of KS2 children here at Hamer on Friday 2 March at 3.20pm. Parents will need to sign in at the front desk as the session will take place in the Yr6 classroom.

Awards

Citizens of the week are Mr Barraclough’s class for an excellent assembly for showcasing all of their fantastic work.

Well done to Mr Lomax’s Class with best attendance for week ending 19 January.

Hamer ‘Stars of the Week’ for week ending Friday 26 January are:
Nursery am - Manahil
Nursery pm - Madina
Reception - Afizah & Calvin
Miss Burke - Hussain
Mrs Casey - Sehar
Miss Nicholson - Mahnoor
Miss Davison - Ismail
Mrs Booth - Carinna
Miss Begum - Ellie
Mr Barraclough - Mozin
Mr Lomax - Yaseen
Mrs Elliott – Zhara

Well done to all of our stars of the week and keep up the excellent work!