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Breakfast Club and After School Care September 2021
Thu 17 Dec 2020Breakfast Club
Breakfast Club will open from 8.00am each school day in the canteen and is staffed by a team of classroom assistants. Cost of breakfast will be £1 per day and is payable by cash on a daily or weekly basis. Breakfast includes cereal, toast/pancake, fruit and juice. At 8.40am children will be escorted to their classrooms.
Two O'clock Club
The Two O'clock Club will run from 2pm until 3pm, Monday to Thursday. This club is based in the school assembly hall for P1 pupils and the Brooklands Youth Centre building, situated in our grounds, for P2 and P3 pupils. The club is supervised by our own staff and activities include dance, football, Fundamental Movement Skills and French.
Pupils who attend the Two O'clock Club and then wish to stay on for the After School Club will be escorted to the venue by staff.
Cost £2 per day payable in advance using the Eduspot app.
After School Club
This club will operate from 3pm until 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 2pm until 5.30pm on Friday on school days only and is for the children of working parents only. The club will be based in a newly refurbished and resourced facility in our nursery building and will be supervised by members of our own staff. The resource includes a completely enclosed outdoor play area. Activities on offer will include arts and crafts, games, outdoor play, supervised computers and pupils will also have access to a quiet area if they wish to complete their homework.
The ratio of staff to pupils will be 1:10 and up to 30 places will be available for children who attend Brooklands Primary School. Places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis and a waiting list will operate if over subscribed.
Cost
2pm - 3pm £3 (Fridays only)
3pm - 4pm £4 (Includes snack)
4pm - 5pm £3
5pm - 5.30pm £2
Payment and bookings to be made by Thursday of the previous week using the Eduspot app.
More detailed information and application forms will be available on request for parents of new and present pupils from Wednesday 28th April 2021 by emailing jarmstrong775@c2kni.net
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Last Day of Term Tomorrow!
Thu 17 Dec 2020Tomorrow, Friday 18th December 2020 sees the boys, girls and staff of Brooklands Primary and Nursery School finishing up for the Christmas break.
This will be a non-uniform day, with no cost to families, and school will finish for the Primary School children at 12 noon.
The children can bring in a treat for their own break tomorrow, as due to restrictions, treats can't be shared.
Our Christmas Assembly will be ready to be viewed from our website and YouTube Channel tomorrow, and we hope that it helps you to feel some Christmas cheer this year, at a time where it is needed more than ever.
May we wish all of your children and their families the happiest, safest and merriest of Christmases, and we look forward to welcoming the children back to Brooklands from Tuesday 5th January 2021.
With love and thanks for all of your support this year,
From the Staff of Brooklands Primary and Nursery School
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Barnardos Christmas Support
Tue 15 Dec 2020Dear Families,
This year has been financially challenging and worrying for so many, and we want to help in any way we can.
The support given to our Mission Christmas collection was incredible, and will be put to such invaluable use this year, yet, we are aware that many families may have been unable to register with Mission Christmas due to the demand upon the appeal this year especially.
With that in mind we want to let you know of additional support being made available by our friends at Barnardos, who have been in touch today. They are able to offer some support to families through gifts for children, as well as support towards the costs of food and utilities.
As such, if you need to access extra support this year, through gifts for children, or vital help with the cost of food or utilities, Barnardos have asked that we contact them by lunchtime tomorrow.
This does not give us much time to act, and Barnardos do not have the staff to handle inquiries from parents directly, which is why they have asked school to contact them directly.
If you find yourself in a situation this year, where this help would be invaluable to your family, please email either Mrs Smart or Mr Armstrong in complete confidence by 11am tomorrow, Wednesday 16th December, and we will pass your details on, confidentially, to our contact in Barnardos, so that additional support can be given at a time when it is needed most.
Please contact either of us confidentially, using one of the following email addresses:
fsmart676@c2kni.net
jarmstrong775@c2kni.net
All you would need to provide is your child or children's ages and gender.
If you would benefit from support for food or utilities, again, please let us know and this will be passed on in complete confidence too.
With sincere thanks and on behalf of Barnardos,
Mr J. Armstrong and Mrs F. Smart
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Christmas jumpers everywhere!
Mon 14 Dec 2020Thanks and well done to everyone from Nursery to P7 who supported our Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 11th December!
All donations will go to our friends in the Asra Hawariat school in Ethiopia, affectionately known as 'Asfaw' to us here, whom we have been supporting for over 30 years.
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Build-a-Bear competition - we have a winner!
Fri 11 Dec 2020Thank you to everyone who entered our Christmas Build-a-Bear competition! Our random number generator selected a lucky winner from P2 and she was all smiles this afternoon as she took home her lovely prize - well done!
Altogether we raised over £180 for school funds which will be spent on supporting our fabulous Brooklands pupils.
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Our online 'Christmas Cracker' is here!
Fri 11 Dec 2020Friday 11th December is Christmas Jumper Day
AND...
...our virtual festive celebration from the P1, P2 and P3 classes goes 'live' on our You Tube channel 'Brooklands Primary TV' as well!
It's a Christmas extravaganza of a
school day like no other!
Click here to see our 'Christmas Cracker'!
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Our beautiful Christmas Build-a-Bear needs a new home!
Thu 03 Dec 2020Help us to raise much-needed funds for our school by entering our Christmas competition!
To win this gorgeous Build-a-Bear, simply head over to our Eduspot school money app, select our "Christmas Build-a-Bear competition" and donate £1 before 2pm on Thursday 10th December. One prize winner will be drawn from all the entries received by this date and the winner will be taking their new friend home on Friday 11th December! Good luck!
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Post-primary admissions update for P7 parents
Wed 02 Dec 2020Post primary admissions applications will be processed online for academic year 21/22.
The online Portal will open for applications on 1 March 2021 to 16 March.Further information on the process will be available on the EA website from 2 February. EA will continue to provide updates via their social media channels.
Parents will be provided with information from EA through primary schools.
For help and advice, parents/ guardians can contact our Admissions Helpdesk via email: postprimaryadmissions@eani.org.uk
For those children who have a Statement of Special Educational Needs, parents will be contacted in the usual way by Special Education during the Special Needs Transfer Review process.
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Christmas Jumper and Movie Day!!!
Wed 02 Dec 2020We can't wait to celebrate Christmas Jumper and Movie Day on Friday 11th December!!!
Wear a jumper you already have, or get creative and 'BLING' your own!!!
£1 donations would be welcomed, if possible, which will be raised for charity. A box will be at each classroom to drop donations into.
HUGE THANKS and HAVE FUN!!!!
Love from The Pupil Council
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Mission Christmas Appeal
Wed 02 Dec 2020Dear Parents and Guardians,
We write to you regarding our hope for all children this Christmas, as we think about the many families for whom Covid-19 Restrictions and the ongoing closure of businesses, brings with it uncertainty, worry and unforeseen financial hardship this year.
Many people have lost their jobs, or are unable to work because the sector in which they work has had to remain closed for long periods of time.
It can be very difficult to manage through these times of uncertainty, even more so as we come up to Christmas, and we want to help where we can.
Each year in Brooklands, we are always so grateful for the thought that goes into gifts for staff within school, it really is so kind of our families to do so, and we thank you so much for those thoughts and appreciation shown.
This year however, we would like children to benefit from this kindness instead, where you feel able.
As such, we would like to support the local Cool FM appeal called 'Mission Christmas', where an extra gift can be bought and donated for children of all ages, from babies to teens, and distributed to families who need it most, in time for Christmas.
We would like to support this appeal, as a staff and school community, to help ensure the families who need help most this year, can get it.
If you feel able to give an extra gift this year, there will be a box within our porch at the front door, into which these new, unwrapped gifts can be safely dropped off.
Brooklands Primary School will then deliver these gifts to an official collection point by the 11th December 2020.
We would encourage all of our families who may find themselves struggling this year, in ways you could never have foreseen, to register with Mission Christmas.
This campaign is there to support local families, and help spread love and joy this year, a year in which it is so needed, and so important.
Sincerest thanks this Christmas,
From all of the Staff of Brooklands Primary School
