School Closure—The Missing Lead !
As you can imagine the decision to close school is a very difficult one to make and I was faced with this on Tuesday morning. During the Easter holidays thieves targeted our school and stole lead from one of the valleys between the pitched roof. The contractors made a temporary repair with a total fix due during this week. Unfortunately during the rain on Monday night it became apparent that more lead had been stolen resulting in an enormous amount of damage. The rear of the building has been stripped of lead and each room at the back of school has been affected by water pouring in through the ceilings.
I am extremely grateful for your understanding during Tuesday morning and the offers of help were very much appreciated. I am determined that this attack will not disrupt school and therefore would ask for your continued support whilst the damage is repaired and we can return to normality without too much disruption. I feel that the response of parents really does show the community spirit within our school.
Repairs are now underway, lets just hope that the weather is on our side. Once again thank you.
Entrepreneurs and business heads of the Future !
Our Business Enterprise week for the pupils was very kindly sponsored by local estate agents, Tara & Co. Many parents came in during the week to share their jobs with the pupils.
The aim of the week was to educate our pupils about the range of careers that are available to them, but also to show them that what they learn in the classroom has relevance in the outside world. We want to raise the children’s aspirations and to help with this we have had visitors with a diversity of roles to find out about, including a pilot, chef, prison officer, police officer, vet, British Gas engineer, IT advisor at Lloyds TSB, MD of Millward Brown, business start up advisor, video game designer and Guide Dogs for the Blind.
The week opened with what Marleigh, Year 6, said was “an amazing assembly where Mr Henderson played Lord Sugar from the Apprentice, interviewing Mrs McAteer as a bad candidate for a job and Mr Parker as a perfect candidate.”
Through our sponsorship from Tara & Co we were also able to fund trips for each class to visit local business including Asda, The Apollo Cinema, Warwick University and Ryton Organic Gardens.
Throughout the week each class has also set up their own little business enterprise where products were available to purchase during our open afternoon on Thursday 29th March.
The school would like to say a huge thank you to all of the parents, local business and in particular Tara & Co for their involvement in this very successful week, without their help it would not have been possible.
Central Warwickshire Indoor Athletics Tournament
Jude Year 6
On Thursday 08th March 2012, the elite finalist athletes from Clapham Terrace Primary School, aka Year 5 and 6, went to Campion School to compete in the area finals of the Central Warwickshire Athletics Tournament. We knew that it was going to be tough as soon as we arrived, when one other team's warm-ups included full on press ups.
We took our places at a bench and did some humerous warm-ups like "No 5, staying alive ! Uh,uh,uh uh.." First came the girls javelin, with Amy, Ellie and Rachel. Hot on it's heals, the boys triple jump, with me, Cian and Leon (who had to replace Calum). We competed quite well in that event, despite a soft javelin hitting me on the head !
In the boys javelin, Ajay got a 16, Masssimo a 12 and Ibrahim 20 + ! The girls triple and long jump went very well, the chest push for both was good, despite everyone excelling themselves, the competition was tough, so after all field events we only had a score of 40 points, compared to Park Hills score of 128.
All was not lost, for we still had the track events to go and Milverton were only 16 points away. The action restarted with the obstacle relay, starting with the girls heat. The relay consists of hurdles, speed bounce, hi steps, roll and sprint. Ibrahim sprinted as fast as lightning in the 1+1, well done to Rachel in the 2+2. Marleigh and Niamh tackled the 6 by 6 relay as did Cian and Aaron, and the girls came second on the 4 x 1 relay.
Despite all our efforts, we still came sixth with 68 points. We felt down that we had lost, but at least we got there. Thank you to Nicky Wood, Mrs Ashwin and Mr Parker and of course, our supporters, the parents.
