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

• Planting Bluebells!

  Fri 29 Sep 2023 Mr Togher

  As you know, everyone at Belmont takes great pride in supporting the wider school community and this week we were delighted to be invited to support SKDC and the Friends of Queen Elizabeth Park in planting 1,000 English bluebells!

   

  Children from Sambar Class worked in small groups in the park and were very efficient with the planting, covering the area quickly due to their great team work. Everyone really enjoyed working together and being able to do something good for our local area.

   

  Our thanks go to Mrs Bowskill, the Friends of Queen Elizabeth Park and SKDC for arranging this event. 

  

• Star Achievers Of The Week

  Fri 29 Sep 2023 Mrs Shales

  Mr Allsopp was delighted to welcome everyone to our special assembly earlier today where our fantastic Stars were very proud to share their wonderful learning with us all. 

   

  This week, our fabulous Stars received certificates for:

  Fallow Class - his amazing words and description when writing.

  Elk Class - her scientific understanding of materials.

  Impala Class - his inquisitive mind and enthusiasm during our Stone Age learning.

  Barasingha Class - her fantastic Maths learning on place value!

  Sambar Class - his excellent understanding when multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000.

  Taruca Class - her wonderful art work.

   

  We love hearing about achievements out of school and today congratulated Bianca who has been awarded a medal for her hard work and fantastic listening skills by her Cheerleading club.

   

  The final announcement this morning was for Attendance, with the winners being a very excited Impala Class! 

   

  Well done everyone!

   

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  This term, we hope to invite the parents and carers of Star Achievers to join the celebration either by joining us in school or watching via Zoom. The password will be changed weekly.

  

• FOBS First Meeting & AGM

  Tue 26 Sep 2023 Mrs Shales

  The Friends of Belmont School (FOBS) will be holding their AGM and first meeting of the new school year on Tuesday, 17 October from 2:00 pm in the Studio.

   

  Parents, friends and families of the school community are very welcome attend. You will be able to learn about the FOBS and how you can get involved with this tremendous organisation.

   

  You can find out more about the FOBS on their pages of the website - please click HERE to go directly to them.

  

• A Great Time At Rand Farm!

  Mon 25 Sep 2023

  Children in Barasingha Class were very excited to go on their residential trip to Rand Farm this week! They loved being able to feed and look after the various animals on the farm.

   

  Whilst there, the children enjoyed a tractor and trailer ride and a lovely walk in Great West Wood.

   

  They all had a brilliant time and we would like to give huge thanks to Mrs Eggleston, Mrs Nix and Mrs Harrison  who accompanied the children and everyone at Rand Farm for making us feel so welcome.

   

  A selection of photos from the trip can be found on Barasingha's class page. Please click HERE to go directly to it.

  

• Star Achievers Of The Week

  Fri 22 Sep 2023 Mrs Shales

  Mr Allsopp was delighted to welcome everyone to our Star Achiever assembly this morning where we celebrated all the fabulous learning taking place in school. Our Stars did not include a pupil from Barasingha Class this week as they are currently having a terrific time on their residential trip to Rand Farm.

   

  This week, our wonderful Stars received certificates for:

  Fallow Class - his fantastic simile!

  Elk Class - her fantastic skills as a writer this week!

  Impala Class - her amazing poem that she wrote independently and read aloud beautifully too.

  Sambar Class - demonstrating excellent understanding of place value.

  Taruca Class - her wonderful work on blood.

   

  More times tables badges were also awarded this morning. Our congratulations go to Emily, Amelia and Kia for bronze; William for silver and Logan for platinum.

   

  The class winners for Attendance were Fallow Class with an outstanding 100%! 

   

  Well done everyone!

   

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  This term, we hope to invite the parents and carers of Star Achievers to join the celebration either by joining us in school or watching via Zoom. The password will be changed weekly.

  

• Star Achievers Of The Week

  Fri 15 Sep 2023 Mrs Shales

  For the first time in this academic year, we celebrated the wonderful learning of our Star Achievers this morning. Our children in Rainbow Class, who are settling into school brilliantly, didn't join us this week but will so after half term. Mr Allsopp spoke of his pride in seeing such a great start to the year by everyone and was delighted to welcome the parents and carers who joined us in school and also those who watched via Zoom.

   

  This week, our fantastic Achievers received certificates for:

  Fallow Class - her excellent Maths learning this week.

  Elk Class - his super understanding of place value in Maths.

  Impala Class - her amazing confidence and enthusiasm in our English lessons!

  Barasingha Class - his fantastic learning in English!

  Sambar Class - her brilliant effort in writing.

  Taruca Class - his wonderful work in English.

   

  In addition, Arabella has been working very hard to learn her times tables and was today awarded her silver badge.

   

  A super start to the term, well done everyone!

   

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  This term, we hope to invite the parents and carers of Star Achievers to join the celebration either by joining us in school or watching via Zoom. The password will be changed weekly.

  

• It's Gold Again For Belmont!

  Thu 14 Sep 2023 Mr Togher

  We are delighted to announce that Belmont has achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2022/23 academic year!
   
  The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
   
  Our sporting achievements during the year included:

  • 70% of KS2 attended a sports club.
  • 102 children across the whole school attended a sports club.
  • 62 children represented the school.
  • Hosting our very own Belmont girls and mixed football tournaments.
  • Successes at School Games events including 1st in individual boys cross country (3rd overall), 1st New Age Kurling, 5th Girls and mixed football, 1st Tri-Golf, 4th Rounders, 2nd Tag Rugby, 2nd Hockey and 3rd in Netball.
  • Playground leaders.
  • Young Ambassadors organised events, supported in PE lessons and lead assemblies.
  • Intra-school competitions.
  • International dance and circus days.
  • The Togher trials and Fitness Friday for our well-being weeks.

   
  With a total of 62 young people competing in local inter-school competitions during the year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.

  
  As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded.
   
  We would like to give a special thanks to Inspire+ and our SGO Terry Plumb.

  

• Picture News

  Tue 12 Sep 2023

  At Belmont, we understand the importance of giving our children opportunity to learn about our world, develop independence, resilience, respect and unlock their own drive and passion for learning. Picture News is a fantastic weekly resource used in school which enables children to read about current events, participate in debates and share their views and opinions. Every week, we choose a current news story where we look at an image related to the story and consider thought-provoking questions in assembly and in the classroom to help us learn from the world around us.

   

  Children are given a 'Take Home' page about the week's topic so that you can talk about the assembly at home. A copy can be found on the Picture News section of the website. To find out more about Picture News, go to their website by clicking HERE (https://www.picture-news.co.uk/).

  

• Welcome To A New School Year At Belmont!

  Wed 06 Sep 2023 Mrs Shales

  May we give a warm welcome back to everyone and to all of the new members of Team Belmont who have joined our school today. We are looking forward to another exciting year ahead!

   

  We regularly send information home via ParentMail and you can find more about Belmont here on the school website. Information includes:

  • Parent section: general school information including start/finish times; uniform; how to apply for free school meals and details of the FOBS Team who support the school so wonderfully.
  • News and Events section: you can find not only reports of our latest news but also a link to our Calendar. You can also see and download our latest newsletters and other letters that are sent home.
  • Key Information section: includes information about our school curriculum; attendance and safeguarding.
  • Children's section: links to each class including their 'See Our Learning' pages and a contact form for each teacher; school clubs and links to the Galleries where you will find some wonderful art and photos from our special events.

   

  We are also proud to share our news and achievements on our school Twitter (now X) accounts. You can find our Belmont Twitter (X) feed by clicking HERE, but you can also access the class accounts by going to the Class pages on this site.

   

  If you have any questions regarding your child, please contact the School Office or your child's class teacher, by telephone or email.

  

• Subscribe To The School Calendar

  Mon 04 Sep 2023 Mrs Shales

  With the new term soon to begin, I am pleased to let you know that you can subscribe to events from the school calendar so that they download into your own personal calendar on your mobile phone, tablet or computer. It's a great way to keep track of all the events happening in school.

   

  All you need to do is visit the Calendar on our website and click the link called ‘Link the calendar events to your personal calendar’. You can then choose from three options: to add to your default calendar (for example, on an iPhone it will go to the iPhone calendar); to add it to your Google calendar; or input it to your calendar programme of choice.

   

  Please note that although the calendar updates instantly, it may take up to 24 hours for new events to show in your personal calendar depending on which type of calendar you are using.

   

  Things to know:

  1. If the school edits the calendar, the updates will appear automatically in your calendar (the time that this takes to happen will depend on your calendar programme).
  2. You cannot edit the events in the school calendar.
  3. All events will pull through in one colour only, not the colours set by the school.
  4. You can name the calendar and choose how often to receive updates.
  5. You can unsubscribe via your own calendar at any time.

   

  We hope you will find this feature useful. If you have any comments or concerns please contact the school office.

   

  Thank you.