Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you have had a good week. I know many of you will be celebrating Eid this weekend and on Monday. May this Eid bring you endless joy, peace, and prosperity. Wishing you and your family a blessed Eid filled with love, laughter, and happiness from all of us at Betty Layward. 

I would like to thank you for your responses to the letter I sent this week about the cost of trips and how we cannot continue to cover the cost of these in the future. It was lovely to receive so many emails of support. I also appreciate those of you who have gone back and paid for past trips and have set up direct debits. Every contribution makes a difference. Thank you for all your support with this.

Cerise class performed a great assembly about rivers this week. It was informative and well performed  and the children did an amazing job. Well done Cerise class. You remembered all your words and sang beautifully. 

On Tuesday, Year 2 visited the Estorick Collection of Italian Art and were fortunate enough to have the entire gallery to themselves. They had time to explore the gallery and looked for curved and straight lines, warm and cool colours, and geometric and organic shapes in the artworks. Year 2 then had a chance to act as curators by grouping works of art and deciding how they would display them in an exhibition. 

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our first Betty Refillery shop. It was wonderful to see so many families championing our mission to reduce plastic usage. A big thanks to the Eco-Committee for their hard work. Betty's Refillery will open again on Thursday, May 8th, at 3:15 p.m. We look forward to seeing you there.

In OPAL this week we have enjoyed seeing our planting spring into life.  Our bulbs are beginning to grow.  The children have enjoyed watering the plants and seeing them grow.  We have also been enjoying the balance equipment, dress-up, obstacle course, stilts and balance boards.

Please can you ensure that the children are at school on time. We are having too many children being late to school. We are currently monitoring this and would like to see it improve. Thank you for your support with this. 

We are looking at what children can bring in for their birthday treat which I know they like sharing with children in their class. We are now asking that it is not cakes or homemade items as more and more products are saying they contain nuts or might contain nuts. We therefore cannot have these in school. We ask that you bring in individually wrapped items such as McVities Club biscuits, Tunnocks caramel wafers or McVities Gold. You must ensure that there are no nuts or a trace of nuts in the product as we will not be able to give those out. Please do not bring in sweets or chocolate bars. Thank you for your support with this.

One of our children,  Silas got involved in an initiative last weekend - tidying up and replanting the massive low traffic neighbourhood planters on Nevill Road. It was organised by Abi, who runs the Everyday Sunshine cafe on the corner of Nevill and Barbauld Road and the Rude graphic communications agency. Neighbours tidied up the planters and plants for the summer. It is going to become a regular activity. Well done Silas, it is so important to look after your local area and this is an example to us all. 
 

Please remember to book your parent and carer's meeting on Thursday. We look forward to seeing you there. School closes at 1pm. 

Have a lovely weekend,

Jessica

Headteacher 

Jessica Bailey

Headteacher 
The Betty Layward Primary School