Court Farm Primary School

Events Spring 2019

Class Assemblies

There will be two class assemblies this term and you are all most welcome to attend. They will take place on Wednesday at 9.00 in the school hall.

Wednesday 6th February - Year 4

Wednesday 20th March - Year 3

Trips and Experiences

Year 1 :  Victorian Day - Thursday 7th February

Year 2: Great Fire of London Day - Thursday 7th February

Year 3: Chinese New Year celebrations - Tuesday 5th February

Year 4: French Breakfast Experience - Tuesday 29th January

Year 5:  Mexican Day - Thursday 14th February

        Condover residential - 18th-20th March

Year 6: Volcano Day - Monday 4th February

Parents' Evening

Parent's evening  this term will be on Wednesday 27th March and an appointment system will be used. This will be a chance for you to discuss your child's progress and how you can support them at home. 

Medical Mavericks

On Thursday 17th January Years 1-6 will be attending a special science themed assembly run by  'Medical Mavericks.' Their funding comes from promoting careers in medicine at all levels from the NHS. 

Events Autumn 2018

Choir

The choir will be going to sing Christmas Carols at Ashleigh House on Thursday 13th December, Sycamore House on Friday 14th December and at One Stop Shopping Centre on Wednesday 19th December. It would be lovely to see some parents at One Stop; we are singing between 10.00-11.00.

Trips/Experiences

Year 1

Lego Discovery Centre- Tuesday 2nd October

Year 2

To be confirmed

Year 3 

Coventry Transport Museum - Wednesday 3rd October

Year 4

Tamworth Castle - Wednesday 14th November

Year 5

Thinktank - Thursday 6th December

Year 6

Condover Hall residential - 17th - 19th September

Thinktank - Monday 3rd  December

Secondary Transfer

On Wednesday 17th October we will be holding a drop in session for any parents in Year 6 who would like help or advice in filling in secondary transfer forms. Please come to the office and see Miss Kerman.

Reception Intake 2019

We will be holding two open sessions for you to come and have a look around the school and speak to staff if your child is due to start school in September 2018. They will be held on Monday 22nd  October 1.30 -3.00 and Thursday 25th October 9.30 -11.00.

Meet and Greet

Class teachers will be holding a short meeting in their classrooms after school for you to meet them and receive any information about the upcoming year.

Monday 17th September Y1

Tuesday 18th September Y3

Wednesday 19th September Y2

Monday 24th September Y4

Tuesday 25th September Y5

Thursday 27th September Y6

Roald Dahl Day

On Thursday 13th September the children will be exploring the life and books of Roald Dahl through a range of exciting activities.

Head Boy & Head Girl

During the first two weeks of September the children in Year 6 will be applying for the position of Head Boy and Head Girl. On Tuesday 25th September the final three boy and girl candidates will be making their speeches to the whole school hoping to get their votes later in the day.

Events Summer 2018

Sports Day

Due to the very warm weather we will now be holding Sports day over three mornings. Each event will begin at 9.30 and finish around 10.15 and all parents are welcome.

Thursday 12th July - Y4/5/6

Wednesday 18th July - Y1/2/3

Thursday 19th July - Nursery/Reception

Leavers' Assembly

Year 6 will be performing their Leavers' Assembly at 2.00 on Thursday 19th July. We hope that you can come and join us to celebrate their time at Court Farm.

Class assemblies

You are all welcome to attend our class assemblies this term. They will be held at 9.00 on Wednesday mornings.

Wednesday 23rd  May - Year 2

Wednesday 28th June - Year 1

Enabling Enterprise

We will be running enterprise activities again this year with each class  running their own project. Every class will be working on an enterprise scheme and running their own business. We are working with Enabling Enterprise and looking forward to seeing how business minded our pupils are. Year 4 will also be having an extra enterprise day run by Enabling Enterprise on Thursday 26th April called Moonbase.

Open Evening

We will be holding an end of year open evening on Thursday 5th July. This will be an opportuninty for you to come and look at your child's work for the year and meet their teacher for next year.

School closures

School is closed on Thursday 3rd May for local elections and Monday 7th May for Bank Holiday.

Events Spring 2018

Easter celebrations

On Thursday 29th March at 2.00 we will be holding our traditional Easter assembly. Children in EYFS and KS1 are asked to make an Easter bonnet and bring it in to school for the parade during the assembly. KS2 children are invited to make their egg art models. We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible.

Class Assemblies

This term there will be two class assemblies to share with our school community and you are all most welcome to attend. They will take place on Wednesday at 9.00 in the school hall.

Wednesday 7th February - Year 4

Wednesday 14th March - Year 3

Parents' Evening

Parent's evening  this term will be on Thursday 15th March and an appointment system will be used. This will be a chance for you to discuss your child's targets for this term and how you can support them at home. This will take place in the hall again.

Community Police Workshops

We are continuing to  work closely with our Community Police Support  Officers and they will be coming in on a number of occasions this term covering workshops on internet safety, stranger danger, road safety, anti-social behaviour and knife crime.

Parents' Reading Workshops

We will be holding parent reading workshops in the hall this term to enable you to further support your child with reading at home. Your child's class teacher will run the session and  as part of the workshop you will be able to complete an activity with your child in school. All workshops will run from 9.00 -10.30 in the school hall.

Tuesday 15th January Year 1

Thursday 17th January  Year 2

Tuesday 22nd January Year 3

Thursday 24th January Year 4

Tuesday 29th January Year 5

Thursday 31st January Year 6

Health Week

The week beginning the 28th January is health week in school and the Life caravan will be visiting us on the Thursday and Friday of that week.

Sport

Competitions this term:

Monday 14th January Y5/6 Basketball

Monday 28th January Y1 Multiskills

Monday 11th March Y1/2 Athletics

Monday 25th March Y3/4 Athletics

Monday 8th April Y5/6 Tri-golf

Anti-bullying Production

On Monday 28th January the whole school will watch an anti-bullying production in the hall.

Christmas Events

Wednesday 12th December          Peter Pan Panto

Thursday 13th December        Christmas Dinner

Tuesday 18th December          Y4/5/6 Carol Concert 2.00

Wednesday 19th December   Y1/2/3 play 2.00

Thursday 20th  December       EYFS nativity 2.00

Parent Workshops

We will be holding Christmas Parent workshops in order for you to do some Christmas activities with your children and to raise money for school fund. We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible.

Y3/4 Monday 3rd December 1.30

Y5/6 Tuesday 4th December 1.30

Y1/2 Wednesday 5th December 1.30 

EYFS Thursday 6th December 1.30

Spelling Bee

Your child will be coming home with their spelling list over half term for our Spelling Bee competition. Please help them to learn their spellings. Round 1 will take place on Thursday 8th November, Round 2 on Thursday 15th November and the finals on Thursday 22nd November.

Parents' Evening

Our first Parent's evening for this year will be on Wednesday 24th October and an appointment system will be used like last year. This will be a chance for you to discuss your child's targets for this term and how you can support them at home. 

Class Assemblies

This term there will be two class assemblies to share with our school community and you are all most welcome to attend. They will take place on Wednesday at 9.00 in the school hall.

Wednesday 17th October - Year 6

Wednesday 21st November - Year 5

Multi-Faith Week

During the week beginning the 22nd October each class will be studying a different faith during our multi-faith week. The children will be learning about the celebrations, sacred texts, places of worship and symbols and artefacts associated with their faith. They will also visit a place of worship:

Monday Y5 to Central Birmingham Synagogue

Tuesday Y1 to St Margaret's Church

Wednesday Y6 to Islamic Experience Exhibition

Thursday Year 3 to Shri Venkateswara Temple

                    Year 2 to Ramgarhia Sikh Temple

Friday Y4 to Wat Mahathat

Author Visit

 On Thursday 4th October Peter Bunzl the author of 'Cogheart' will be visiting school to speak to the children about writing and being an author and filmmaker.

Reception Graduation

As our Reception class come to  the end of this year we they will be having a graduation for them on Monday 16th July at 2.00 in the hall. You are all invited to attend.

Awards Evening

This year we will be holding our Year 6 Awards Evening on Wednesday 18th July at 6.00. This is an opportunity for us to celebrate the successes of the children in Year 6 during their time at Court Farm School. The evening will begin with the awards and then the children will stay for a disco. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Sport

Competitions this term:

Thursday 26th April KS1 Y5/6 Rugby 

Monday 14th May Y5/6 tri-golf 

Thursday 17th May Y2 5-a-side football

Thursday 7th June Y5/6 rounders

Monday 11th June Commonwealth Games @ Erdington Academy

Thursday 28th June Y5 Cricket @Walmley Cricket Club

Bikeability

On Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd July there will be a bikeability course in school for a group of children from Y3/4/5

Class Photos

End of year class photos and Year 6 leavers photos will be taken on Tuesday 19th June.

Author visits

We have two author visits booked for this term to inspire our children to read and write. On Wednesday 18th April James Bishop will be visiting us - he won a writing competition on the tv show Lorraine and his book, Iguana Boy has just been released. On Monday 30th April, Eamonn Reilly will be in school to talk about his life as a writer. Both authors will be selling and signing copies of their books.

Sport

Competitions this term:

Monday 5th March KS1 Indoor athletics at St Edmund Campion

Monday 19th March Y3/4 Indoor athletics at St Edmund Campion

During  the week beginning the 19th March we will be holding a number of activities for Sport Relief.

World Book Day

We will be celebrating World Book day on Thursday 1st March and we are asking children to come to school dressed as a book character. During the day children will move to different teachers within their phase group to do book activities.

Health Week

The week beginning the 29th January is health week in school and the Life caravan will be visiting us on the Thursday and Friday of that week.

Anti-bullying Production

On Friday 26th January the whole school will watch an anti-bullying production in the hall.