CHASE BRIDGE

NEWSLETTER

29th March 2018

‘Spring has Sprung…..’

Updates, Notices and ... News in Brief

‘… the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is?’ goes the song. Well, the chicks have hatched and now left the building for a better

place … but, as always, the children have loved watching them hatch and looked after them really well. And, of course, the children are

now thinking about eggs of the chocolate variety as we head towards the spring holiday break. We have had lots of spring and Easter

events this week – the Nursery held a wonderful Easter show; the infants created and wore some beautiful Easter bonnets and the jun-

iors decorated egg-cellent (sorry, it’s compulsory to use a pun like this at Easter) eggs around the theme of the winter Olympics.

Meanwhile our sports successes continue with fantastic performances from our gymnasts, netball and rugby players.

The spring has flown by and now we look forward to the excitement of the summer term – summaries of the curriculum are available

on our website as always - click here to find out more. It just remains for me to say, have a wonderful holiday and I look forward to

seeing the children back at school for the start of the new term on Tuesday 17th April at the normal time.

Congratulations to

Charlotte, Jack and

Veronica who helped

at the recent Lord

Mayor’s Easter Egg

hunt at York House.

Congratulations to

the following children

that took part in the

recent Key Steps

Gymnastics competition. They all did very well and we are

very proud of them. Thank you to Annika Pellowe and Jenny

Jenner for preparing the children for this event. Well done to

Oscar, Fabio, Charlie, Laila-Rose, Eva, Charlotte,

Stanley, Johnny, Joe, Zara, Raveena, Jessica, Aurelia,

Caitlin, Olivia, Elise, James and Rohit.

Rugby—A

tremendous effort

by the tag rugby

team to make it

to the quarter

finals this week.

We played in-

credibly well and

despite winning 4-

3 at half time, we

unfortunately

ended up losing 6-

4. Well done to

Johnny, Evie, Jack, Jess J, Ethan, Oliver, Alexis, Jess B,

Noah and Daniel. Thanks also to Johnny's Dad, Liam, for

refereeing.

Netball—The Netball session

came to a close on Monday

night at the Richmond Borough

Finals. Chase Bridge fought

with every bit of strength, skill

and determination they had to

become bronze medallists.

They are now ranked third

amongst Richmond Primary

Schools. A huge congratula-

tions to Ethan, Jack, Oliver,

Ivona, Jess, Evie and Ella-

May for their outstanding per-

formances.

Excel at learning Express your talents Care for others

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Times, dates and places Monday 16th April

INSET DAY

Tuesday 17th April

Children return to school

4M swimming

Thursday 19th April

Little Chasers

Friday 20th April

FoCB Bingo evening 7.00—10.30pm

Monday 23rd April

Nursery Forest School AM & PM

4.15pm Tag Rugby League Finals at

NPL

Tuesday 24th April

4M swimming—LAST SESSION

Wednesday 25th April

Year 4 trip to see ‘Awful Aunty’

4.15pm Football League Finals at Hampton

Sports Club

Thursday 26th April

Nursery AM & PM to Hounslow Urban

Farm

9.00am Year 5 Family Reading

Little Chasers

Friday 27th April

9.00am Cricket assembly

FoCB Year 5 & 6 Quiz evening—tbc

Monday 30th April

Nursery Forest School AM & PM

Tuesday 1st May

9.00am Year 2 Family Reading

4S swimming

Wednesday 2nd May

Year 4 Viking workshop

Thursday 3rd May

Class Reps meeting 9.15am

9.00am Year 4 Family Reading

Little Chasers

Friday 4th May

9.00am Reception Family Reading

EYFS Bedtime Story session 4.30pm

Excel at learning Express your talents Care for others

Kneller Road, Twickenham TW2 7DE T:020 8892 1242 info@chasebridge.richmond.sch.uk www.chasebridge.richmond.sch.uk

John Justice, who has been a governor of Chase Bridge for the past twelve years, and in more recent years, chair of the governing body

seeing us through some significant changes including the school’s expansion, has decided to step down as a governor. The governing

body met recently and wish to thank John for his expertise to support the school.

Due to the effects of the Government’s new National Funding Formula, although balances are diminishing year on year, the governing

body was pleased to be able to set a balanced draft budget plan for the next three years.

The governing body welcomed Mrs Gauvain, the school’s Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator, who gave an interesting presenta-

tion on special educational needs – what they are, how they are identified, changes being made in the way that the school supports

children with special educational needs and the impact of the school’s provision.

This led on to a presentation by Mr King on ideas being considered for the school’s provision to be even more inclusive and holis-

tic. The school has been growing over the past few years. It has now reached full capacity and governors and staff have already begun

to take a closer look at how staff can be deployed to better support children with special educational needs and improve provision

before and after school and at break times. At the same time the school will continue to endeavour to meet target outcomes for all

children – ‘excel at learning, express your talents, care for others’.

Minutes of meetings can be viewed on the school website once a draft has been agreed by the headteacher and chair of governors.

Governing Body News

Reception Balance Bikes

Book Fair Thank you to all parents who purchased books at the book fair last week. We raised a total amount of £2,279.00 of which 60% will

be available for us to purchase new fiction and non-fiction books for our library. A special thank you to Mrs Golding who organised the

book fair and Mrs Crawley and Mrs Moore who also ran the very active till!