Please find below the new 3 week rota of the Taylor Shaw summer menu, which will commence after half term.

CJS Summer Term Menu 2021

CJS team

We are very excited to inform you that following the success of the recent Hoopstarz sessions, we have booked them to return to CJS.

Each class will get another 40 minute slot with the Kidz R Fit team.

The Hoopstarz activity is a cardio workout which is focused in children who prefer non-traditional sports. All children are going to take part with class so please can you check the time slots below to ensure your child comes to school in their PE kit on that day.

Monday 5th July:

Class 1- 09.00-09.40

Class 2- 09.40-10.20

Class 3-10.20-11.00

Class 4- 11.00-11.40

Thursday 8th July:

Class 5- 09.00-09.40

Class 6- 09.40-10.20

Class 7- 10.20-11.00

Class 8- 11.00-11.40

Dear families

Please take time to complete the school meals questionnaire below (created on behalf of the catering team).

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Uv_fRWSDc02_Oo-YvfENhzGYEp0zDERAnxWCoX5eIjVUQktMWVNWVDgzMlpJUU84N0RNSTFPWkFVRS4u

To gather all responses and submit to the catering team, please could this be done by Wednesday 12th May

Current menu can be found here https://www.consett-jun.durham.sch.uk/taylor-shaw-winter-menu-2019/ (the new menu available soon)

Thank you!
CJS team

Please follow this link to access the May 2021 newsletter.

School Newsletters

This newsletter contains a significant amount of information, especially future dates, below is a list of things we have covered. It is very important you read and make a note of dates that relate to your child.

Introduction
Attendance
School dinners
Morning break snacks
Covid- Risk assessment
April school fund
Year 6 assesment week
Covid-19 guidance
Cycles and scooters
Breakfast club start time
E-safety sessions
OurSchoolApp
Forest school – year 4
ICT suite refurbishment
Bags in school
Staffing
Dates for your diary

CJS

The whole school attendance for April was 95.39%. Our floor target for the whole school is above 96%, although this is only slightly below our target we are very concerned about some individual attendance of pupils in school. We appreciate this has been a year like no other, and it has been a very difficult one to focus on attendance. But now school has been open in full for a while we are noticing trends in some children’s absences. This could mean we are noticing that they are absent on certain days more regularly or they are absent frequently with the same reasons provided.

We will post attendance summaries and information home to parents where we have found there is cause for concern, following this, meeting will be set up to try and support families in improving their children’s attendance.

As children have missed so much time in school, we can only support them in ‘catching up’ if they attend full time. We have several interventions groups per class to support the children’s education.
Well done to Year 4 for the highest year group attendance for April – 96.74%, their treat is a giant cookie/muffin on Friday 7th May. Well done to class 4 (Miss Thompson and Mrs Taylor) for the highest-class attendance (96.92%) their treat is a non-uniform day on Friday 7th May.

CJS Team

On Tuesday 15th June, children in year 5 will be going on a school trip to Adventure Sunderland. To allow us to get the most out of the day we are asking that all children arrive at school no later than 8:15 and report straight to their class for registration (children at breakfast club must go to class at 8.15 a.m.). The bus will be leaving school at 8:30 a.m. prompt and will return between approximately 3:50 and 4.00 pm depending on traffic.

The day will be split in two with children spending half their time on the beach doing activities with their class teacher and the other half carrying out water-based activities with Adventure Sunderland. Depending on the weather, children will carry out either:

Kayaking (solo and tandem)
Paddle boarding (small and ‘group’ board available)
Canoes (2 person)
Bellboats (giant x12 person canoe)
Pier Jumping

As the children will be getting wet during their activities with Adventure Sunderland, it is essential that they bring with them a spare pair of trainers (that they don’t mind getting wet), their bathing suit and a towel.

CHILDREN WILL BE GIVEN CONSENT/MEDICAL FORMS ON FRIDAY 30TH APRIL – THESE MUST BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL BY FRIDAY 7TH MAY.

We will be out of school all day so please can children bring a packed lunch and an extra water bottle. Children can wear non-uniform for this trip but please be mindful of the weather on the day and provide your child with a cap and sun-cream if required.  As they are on the beach for half of the day we also recommend the children have an additional set of dry clothes.

Please complete this Microsoft form by Monday 14th June ONLY IF you need to order a school packed lunch for the day. Otherwise children will need a packed lunch.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Uv_fRWSDc02_Oo-YvfENhzGYEp0zDERAnxWCoX5eIjVURVAzS1ZZVVYyOERNVkJRNExFTFBIQUVTUC4u

The cost of the trip will be paid from the school budget, but we do request a contribution towards the cost of the transport. A payment item has been set up on ParentPay called ‘Year 5 Trip Contribution’.

CJS Team

I can confirm that the local authority is receiving a further grant to support vulnerable households with food and fuel from the DWP, this time called the ‘COVID Local Support Grant’. At this point, we have not had any confirmation of voucher support during the six weeks holiday from the DWP.

I am due to receive the £20 weekly voucher emails w/c 10th May. Once received in that week I distribute them to families using the same email addresses as the Easter holidays. Please let me know if your emails address has changed since then.

If your circumstances have changed and you now feel you are entitled to Free School Meals, please give me a ring.

Kind regards
Mrs Raine
School Operations Manager

One of the side effects of lockdown has been the increased use of technology. Most children have really benefited from this when in lockdown but unfortunately sometimes it can go wrong. The misuse of technology that some primary aged children have experienced includes, bullying, fraud and child abuse. We now need parents to take an active role in keeping their children safe in the online world, just as they would in real life!

The best way of protecting your children is to talk with them about how they use technology, find out about the apps, websites and games they use and make sure they can share any worries they have with you. Both the net-aware and internetmatters.org websites are full of helpful advice.

As a school we take online safety very seriously and children are taught about keeping safe throughout their time in school, so they develop the skills and resilience needed to keep themselves safe on line. We should remember that they are still children, they will make mistakes and they will need your support not only to stay safe but to grow and flourish both online and offline.

Below we have listed five useful websites to help support your child staying safe. Please take some time to talk to your children and find out more on the websites below. Parents and carers are also welcome to discuss issues and get support from the school – we will help.

http://www.internetmatters.org Really useful website covering parental controls, apps and all aspects of supporting parents with technology.

http://www.net-aware.org.uk Great website for parents, written by the NSPCC that explains about individual apps and the safety measures they have in place for children

https://www.childline.org.uk The website for children to get support themselves

https://www.ltai.info Support with radicalisation

https://www.getsafeonline.org More for parents – this site explains how to protect yourself against online fraud – which is an increasing problem.

CJS Tea,