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UPDATES & REMINDERS: Updates and letters are sent via Parent Hub
School open to children from 8:30 (school day 8:40 - 3:10).
Follow Roding guidance at all times - Do not allow children to play in the playground or on equipment - Children/Adults must not ride bikes/scooters on the school site, including the playground and any pathways, before or after school
Remember we are expecting excellent attendance - 96% attendance and above is needed.
KidsOwn Afterschool club are based at Ashtons Playing Fields
Book your child a school meal using The Pantry's ordering service
Please read our newsletter for much more information
Roding’s Board of Governors
We have vacancies on our Board of Governors – one for a parent governor and a couple for co-opted governors. To be part of the Board provides an opportunity to learn about the ‘backroom’ running of the school as well as supporting and influencing this. It is a rewarding role, working towards a shared goal of providing a high-quality education for children in your community. It also provides an opportunity for personal development, building your skills and experience in areas such as project management, budgeting and working as part of a senior team. Please read our Chair of Governors report for last year and fill in the form if you are interested in joining our Board. https://www.rodingprimary.co.uk/redbridge/primary/roding/site/pages/allaboutus/governingbody Thank you.
The Pantry
If you are new to Roding, you can use the following QR code to set up your account.
If you have any issues please contact The Pantry Customer Service Squad on 0208813 7040
If your child has an allergy and requires a dietary-adjusted menu, please login to your account and set your child’s allergen information. A member of our Customer Service Team will reach out to discuss the next steps and refer you to our Nutritionistif required. It can take three weeks to get an allergen dietary adjusted menu finalised once we receive your medical documentation, so please don’t delay in setting your child’s allergens on their Pantry account. If you have any questions or queries, contact our Customer Service Team Monday to Friday 7.30am to 5pm on 020 8813 7040, or email office@thepantrycatering.co.uk
The Pantry directly, office@thepantrycatering.co.uk or telephone 020 8813 7040.
Free school meals: Parents who receive certain benefits are entitled to free school meals for their children. You can check eligibility and should register online. Click Here! We can help you with this, please contact Angie Cohen.
https://pps.lgfl.org.uk/
Additional funds for the school and families: The school can get extra funding called the Pupil Premium.
You need to register your eligibility online. Click Here!
Registering only takes a few minutes and could make a significant difference to the funds available to school as well as more opportunities for your child. If your child is in Y3-Y6, this will also entitle you to free school meals!
https://rodingprimary.co.uk/redbridge/primary/roding/site/pages/helpfulinformation/schoollunch
Google Classroom
For information, be aware that if you have a personal google account, you will need to add another user.
The username and password should be enough to do that. However, you can also log in using "fullusername@rodingprimary.co.uk" with the password that was supplied.
I have been advised that teachers will provide a code for a class/session if and when needed. At this point we just need parents to be able to access Google Classroom.
The login information for you to access Google Classroom has been sent via direct message.
KidsOwn Afterschool Club
Here is some more information about KidsOwn clubs for primary school age children;
KidsOwn is registered to look after children of Nursery age up until Year 6 age and we currently collect children from Churchfields and Oakdale Schools we will now be opening up at the Pavilion in Ashton Playing fields to support both Roding Primary and Ray Lodge Primary schools.
The children are collected from their classrooms and walk back to Ashton Playing Fields in their school groups. The children then have free play until 4.30 when they wash hands before eating a snack, together. The snacks will include filled pitta breads, wraps, pancakes, fruit, vegetable sticks as an example.
All nursery and reception children are allocated a key person who is responsible for providing feedback to parents and monitoring their children’s progress, ensuring that we support the children’s individual needs and requirements.
We provide a range of activities each evening and these include arts and crafts, sports, quiet activity and group activities every evening. There are also lots of free play activities for our children.
We are open until 6pm but of course you are welcome to collect at any time. Snacks served at around 4:30/4:45pm. We have a three-week rotational menu.
The cost per session is £12.50* for After School. We calculate our fees on the 39-week academic calendar and they are then divided by the 12 months of the year so that you can set up a direct debit to us for the same amount each month. There is also a deposit of £100.00 to pay. We have a minimum booking of 2 evenings each week.
For further information please contact info@kidsown.co.uk 020 8504 5757.
Kind regards
Tanya Gaylor
KidsOwn Ltd
Play Workers - Job opportunity
Due to expansion of the after school club at KidsOwn, we are currently recruiting for Play Workers to join our team as soon as possible. We are looking for hard-working, highly motivated individuals who are committed to working as part of a team responsible for the welfare of children aged between 5 and 11.
The position will be located at The Pavilion at Ashton Playing Fields. You will be expected to participate in the school run collecting from Roding Primary school. The hours are 3pm-6pm Monday to Friday (term-time only). There may also be an opportunity to work during the school holidays at the KidsOwn Holiday Club for the right person. A childcare qualification is not essential but a Level 3 NVQ would command a higher salary. KidsOwn actively encourages staff development and it may be that this position would suit someone embarking on a career in the childcare industry. Likewise, it would also suit someone who is looking for a career change or in search of extra hours in addition to an existing part-time position.
The only criteria we have for these positions are that our play workers must be passionate about our children and their work, be willing to go the extra mile and take the initiative and genuinely enjoy participating in activities that help to develop, support and entertain our children – duties can range from homework support to setting up active sports, craft, cooking, singing, dancing and whatever else you can bring to the KidsOwn team.
We would welcome applicants to send their CV to info@kidsown.co.uk in the first instance
Coats and Jumpers
Now that the weather is starting to get a little bit colder, we would just like to remind everyone to make sure all children wrap up warmly and wear a coat to school.
We also want to remind everyone to take their coat or jumper home again too.
We have a large number of coats (without names) waiting to be collected from lost property.
Please be aware, we do all we can to ensure personal belongings are kept safe and as part of that ask that you add your child's name clearly within all clothing/belongings.
When we are unable to find items reported as lost, this causes distress.
Parents & children are welcome to come and check lost property whenever items are lost.
We strongly advise against anyone bringing valuable items to school; children bring such items in at their own risk.
Thank you for supporting us with this.
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Google Classroom
For information, be aware that if you have a personal google account, you will need to add another user.
The username and password should be enough to do that. However, you can also log in using "fullusername@rodingprimary.co.uk" with the password that was supplied.
I have been advised that teachers will provide a code for a class/session if and when needed. At this point we just need parents to be able to access Google Classroom.
The login information for you to access Google Classroom has been sent via direct message.
Autumn term 2021
Google Classroom
For information, be aware that if you have a personal google account, you will need to add another user.
The username and password should be enough to do that. However, you can also log in using "fullusername@rodingprimary.co.uk" with the password that was supplied.
I have been advised that teachers will provide a code for a class/session if and when needed. At this point we just need parents to be able to access Google Classroom.
The login information for you to access Google Classroom has been sent via direct message.
Education catch-up for your child
The Department for Education (DfE) is supporting catch-up programmes for all children and young people in England. Get in touch with your school or local authority to find out what’s available in your area.
https://educationcatchup.campaign.gov.uk/
Summer term 2021
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Summer term 2020
Roding Primary Virtual Sports Day Class Winners 2020!
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Attached is the information and results regarding our Virtual Sports Day. Well done to all those who took part in Roding Primary’s very first (and hopefully last!) ‘Socially distanced’ Virtual Sports Day. It was fantastic to see so many children get involved and take on the activities and challenges to try to be the best in their class! You have all proved that being apart from each other cannot stop our competitive Roding spirit. There was an excellent turn out across the majority of the year groups and it was great to see some family members’ lace up their trainers and get involved too! Thank you so much for all the videos, scorecards and photos; we have really enjoyed seeing them! We had over 100 in total sent in from across the school, which is outstanding! I hope that you had plenty of fun recording your efforts both in school and at home.
Please find below the results table and do have a look at the video below to see some of the amazing efforts of the children. I would like to apologise now if you handed something in and are not in the video, as unfortunately we could not include the whole school - we have taken a snapshot from all year groups. I would like to give a special mention to Mr Parry (Teacher of the Deaf and our IT lead) for putting the video together for us. Enjoy and well done to the Roding Community once again!
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Yours in Sport, Mr Ashbrook.
Year 6 Dance video
How Do I…make a payment using the app?
- Open ParentMail
- Open the menu by pressing on the icon with the three horizontal lines on the top left of your screen
- Select Payments
- Under “To Pay”, this will show the items that are due for payment e.g. if there is a trip coming up. If the payment item you are looking for is some time away or always available to buy, select “Shop” on the bottom of your screen.
- Once you find the item you’re looking for, select it and then complete the details requested (i.e. who you’re buying for, the quantity, which option, if applicable)
- You can then either “Add to Basket”, which will add this and then allow you to carry on making payments for other items or for other children, or “Pay Now” which take you straight to the Basket
- Once you’re finished, go to your Basket, which is along the bottom of the screen if you haven’t selected “Pay Now” in step 6. You may then be asked to give consent (if necessary) and then select Checkout
- You then have 3 payment options; PayPal, Card and PayCash (which allows you to generate a barcode to pay for these items in a PayPoint shop). Choose which one you’d like to do and enter the relevant details and press “Pay Now”
- You’re all set! You can view what you’ve paid for by going to History on the bottom right of your screen to check it has all gone through successfully and to see past payments!
https://www.parentmail.co.uk/help/parenthelp/payments/online-payments/
Useful information and website links:
With the current situation a lot is being spoke about your physical health for obvious reasons, however I thought I would share some links that may be helpful for your mental wellbeing just in case it's helpful for you or someone you know.
Anxiety UK - advice and helpline
www.anxietyuk.org.uk/blog/health-and-other-forms-of-anxiety-and-coronavirus
Mind - Coronavirus and your wellbeing
Mental Health Foundation - Looking after your mental health during coronavirus outbreak
www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/looking-after-your-mental-health-during-coronavirus-outbreak
OCD Action - skype/phone support groups
www.ocdaction.org.uk/support-groups/online2
Place2Be Talking to children about coronavirus
www.place2be.org.uk/about-us/news-and-blogs/2020/march/coronavirus-information-for-children
RCOG - Advice for pregnant women
Hello people,
I have put these lists of recommended reading books online:
Mid Term plans:
Parent Panel
Parent Panel meet regularly. Please click on the link below to read the minutes:
https://getseteatfresh.co.uk/kitforschools
Need help?
https://www.beyondourselves.life/zambia-2/https://www.beyondourselves.life/zambia-2/
Samaritans responds to the Health Secretary's calls on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show for social media platforms to make their channels a safer place for people who may be struggling. Click here
Who can I talk to?
We have a Roding Safety Team in school or you can call ChildLine
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GET IN TOUCH?
When you call 0800 1111 you’ll come through to a switchboard. This is where someone friendly will ask if you want to speak to a counsellor. If you log in for a 1-2-1 counsellor chat online, you might wait a little while before being connected with a counsellor. You can also send an email from your locker.
Contact Childline with SignVideo
You can contact a counsellor through a qualified BSL interpreter anytime from Monday – Friday, 8am-8pm. Saturdays, 8am-1pm:
open SignVideo and click "allow webcam"
· when you're connected, an interpreter will appear on your screen
· you can chat to the interpreter in BSL and they'll translate your conversation to the counsellor.
· https://www.childline.org.uk/get-support/contacting-childline/
Not sure how you're feeling? Try this mood assessment quiz.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mood-self-assessment/
This quiz uses questions that GPs often use to assess whether someone is anxious or depressed. It also includes links to useful information and advice on mental wellbeing.
Improving home learning at Roding
Thank you to ALL for the responses to our homework survey. It was fabulous to get such a positive response. Responses will be shared on our website:
https://rodingprimary.co.uk/redbridge/primary/roding/site/pages/familyinformation/learning/homework
Or through the following path:
Home → School Life → Learning → Homework
Clubs:
visit camps.premier-education.com
or call 01953 499040
Coronavirus update:
We are continuing to keep you updated on the government’s response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
The advice has been updated around Coronavirus in that anyone showing symptoms of a cough or cold that has returned from any part of Italy in the past 14 days should self-isolate.
Check the poster on hand washing techniques to stop germs spreading
For those parents and carers with specific concerns, the DfE have launched a new helpline to answer questions about COVID-19 related to education. Staff, parents and young people can contact the helpline as follows: Phone: 0800 046 8687 Email: DfE.coronavirushelpline@education.gov.uk Opening hours: 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday)
Where to find the latest information
Updates on COVID-19:
Guidance for educational settings:
Travel advice for those travelling and living overseas:
Educational resources:
Latest Department for Education information:
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Children are More Than A Score
We have been showing the following clip to our Year 6 children this week, we thought you may like to watch too.
Primary school is a time for self-discovery, building confidence and nourishing potential. But primary school children in England are being let down by a system that cares more about measurement than their education.
Our system is obsessed with league tables, turning children into data points and denying them a broad, stimulating education at key stages in their development. It puts an unnecessary burden on children, parents and teachers alike.
In SATs results week, some famous faces were recruited to send an inspiring message to year 6 pupils, their parents and their teachers.
We hope you enjoy the film and will share it too.
You can find the video on YouTube
(we have added the link to the website too. Video Click here
Their website click here
Nominate a school to win
Roding Primary School Redbridge, needs you! Help us win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for the school library - and get £100 for yourself! Enter the competition online, it only takes a minute: http://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools
Just remember we are not the only Roding Primary School, please make it clear which one you support! Thank you!
The more nominations we get the better our chances are!
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Musical Instrument Tuition – A skill for life
We would like to invite children to take up learning a musical instrument. We still have guitar and drumming lessons available. Please ask our reception staff for a form, complete and return to the school as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Autumn term 2018
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Are you considering organising a private tutor of tuition service for your child?
http://www.redbridgelscb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/LSCB-Private-Tutor-and-Tuition-Centre-Leaflet-2017.pdf
Give your views
Parent View gives you the chance to tell Ofsted what you think about your child’s school, from the quality of teaching to your children's enjoyment, dealing with poor behaviour and care for the pupils. The survey can be completed at any time; you don’t have to wait until the school is being inspected.
Information you provide will be used when making decisions about which schools to inspect and when. We would value anyone’s contribution to this. If you have already registered with Parent View, please log in to complete the questionnaire.
Email addresses are used to help prevent site misuse. Only Ofsted will have access to this information.
Positive feedback is really valuable.
https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/login?destination=give-your-views
Spring term 2018
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