Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Red Nose Day 2021

  Mon 22 Mar 2021

  Some of our Red Nose Superheroes

   

  

• Waste Week starts Monday 8 March

  Thu 04 Mar 2021

  Next week, our school is joining hundreds of other schools and taking part in Waste Week to investigate the BIG problem of food waste! 

   

  Did you know that the amount of edible food wasted in the UK could fill eight Wembley Stadiums? Or that we throw away 20 million slices of bread EVERY day in the UK, which creates greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to over 140,000 cars every year? 

   

  During Waste Week, we will be learning about the impact of food waste – and doing something to tackle it. This is where you come in! As well as the activities in class, we’re running the Great Busta Bake competition and inviting children to create a dish from leftovers or ingredients that might otherwise be thrown away (such as over-ripe bananas, bread crusts etc.). Recipe suggestions can be found on your class blog page or you may have your own ideas. 

   

  There are prizes for individual winners – they could make it into the Great Busta Bake Cookbook! and the school with the highest percentage of students taking part could win an exciting assembly featuring the Wastebuster characters, so please get involved: 

  • It can be their own creation or an existing recipe 

  • They need to email an image of their dish and recipe to contact_us@jointhepod.org. 

  • Entries will be judged on edibility, eco-impact, practicality and presentation 

  • The deadline is midnight on Friday 26 March 2021 

   

  Read the full competition guidelines at 

  https://jointhepod.org/teachers/other/great-busta-bake-competition-guidelines

• Big Garden Birdwatch

  Thu 28 Jan 2021
  The RSPB annual Big Garden Birdwatch starts tomorrow (Friday 29 January) and finishes on Sunday 31 January.  All you need to do is spend an hour counting the birds you see in your garden or from your window, then tell the RSPB what you saw. It really is that simple!   Full details can be found on the RSPB website - www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/.  To help you identify the birds, on the next page is an identification chart.

• Virtual Library

  Thu 21 Jan 2021

  As you all know reading is one of the most important areas of learning for you at primary school. 

   

  It is not just about your school reading book but also those non-fiction areas you are interested in maybe dinosaurs, the Romans or space.  You may love reading comics or even your parent’s newspaper.

   

  All reading is important so to help you further those skills you will be able to access books online via a virtual library. The library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks.  https://library.thenational.academy

• School Timings for January 2021

  Wed 16 Dec 2020

  Until guidance from the Department of Education is updated we will continue our staggered start and finish times for all year groups.

• Christmas Day at Cawston Grange Primary School - Wednesday 16 December

  Thu 03 Dec 2020

  Children and staff may wear Christmas jumpers

   

  Online pantomime ‘Santa Saves Christmas’

   

  Christmas lunch hats preparation

   

  Christmas lunch

         EYFS and Year 6 in the hall

         Years 1 – 5 Christmas deli-packs in class

   

  Party/DVD afternoon and Christmas celebrations

   

• Warwickshire Local Welfare Scheme (WLWS)

  Thu 26 Nov 2020

  The WLWS helps vulnerable families at times of unavoidable crisis by providing basic and essential help. It is recognised that within the Scheme that some families who are eligible for free school meals, have difficulty covering the period when children are at home in the school holidays. The Scheme will benefit those children eligible for benefit free school meals as well as their younger non-school age siblings aged 2 or above.

  The only eligibility criterion for this offer is that parents are registered for free school meals (not to be confused with Universal Infant Free School Meals).

  Families wanting to apply for support through the Scheme should call 0800 4081 448 or 01926 359 182.

• Zoom Family/Teacher Consultations

  Wed 21 Oct 2020
   

  This year our Family/Teacher consultations will be taking place via Zoom (this is the same system we used for lessons during lockdown in April 2020), on the following days.

   

  Date	Class/Teacher	Time
  Monday 9 November	Year 6 – Jaguars/|Mrs Ridgley	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Monday 9 November	Year 2 – Zebras/Mrs Brookes	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Tuesday 10 November	Year 5 Lemurs/Miss Elward	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Tuesday 10 November	Year 2 – Hedgehogs/Miss Pathak	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Tuesday 10 November	Reception – Penguins/Miss Highfield	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Wednesday 11 November	Year 5 – Turtles/Mr Keith	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Wednesday 11 November	Year 4 – Brown Bears/Mrs Dix & Mrs Pullen	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Wednesday 11 November	Reception – Dolphins/Miss Williams	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Thursday 12 November	Year 3 – Tigers/Miss Bradley & Mrs Wesson	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Thursday 12 November	Year 1 – Red Pandas/Miss Bush	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Friday 13 November	Year 4 – Snow Leopards/Mr Turk	9.30am – 6.00pm
  Friday 13 November	Year 3 – Ocelots/Miss Kandola	9.00am – 6.00pm
  Friday 13 November	Year 1 – Butterflies/Miss Prewett	9.00am – 6.00pm

   

  To make your appointment you can access our online booking system at

  www.cawstongrangeprimaryschool.parentseveningsystem.co.uk/default.  A link to the online booking system can also be found on the ‘Useful Links’ page on our website. 

   

  Bookings opened on Monday 19 October and close Sunday 8 November.

   

  When you have booked your appointment, you will receive your meeting ID and password (via your registered e-mail address) on the morning of your appointment.  Please ensure your child’s name is your profile name.  This can be found under My Account, Profile once you have logged into your Zoom account.

• Braiswick Photographic

  Thu 08 Oct 2020

  The photographer will be visiting the school to take individual and family photographs on Wednesday 14 October.

• Music Lessons start Monday 5 October

  Thu 01 Oct 2020

  Monday - Violin, Woodwind, Guitar & Ukulele

  Tuesday - Drums

  Thursday - Keyboard