Revoe Reporter Issue 473

Revoe Reporter Issue: 473

Date: 17th MARCH

Dates for your diary 21st March—Y5 visit to the Mosque 24th March– Red Nose Day—noses on sale from Monday 20th March 30th March—Reception visit to the Grand Theatre.

30th March—RRT Eye Tests 31st March—Class and group photos. w/c 3rd April—Y3/Y4 Easter Performance.

6th April (rearranged date)—Nursery Stay and Play 6th April—RLH Eye Tests 6th April—Family Social 7th April—Half term, RLA closes at 3.15pm 18th April— RLA reopens at 8.45am

SATs and Year tests will take place between Monday, 8th May and Friday,19th May. Please ensure that no holidays are taken during this period. RLA will be closed from 26th May—12th June for half term. Thank you .

Fundraising Day

Thank you to everyone who supported our Fundraising Day in aid of the Brain Tumour Charity and the British Heart Foundation.

We raised over £570 which will be shared between the two charities.

Urgent Safety Message

Easter Hot Pot and Bingo night.

This event has always been great fun and a huge success.

We would also like families to take part in an egg decorating competition. The entries will be judged during the evening and there will be great family prizes to be won.

Assessments

Police Warning – The Police have sent us a warning to send out to all parents about a man posing as a health visitor to try to gain access into people’s houses. If you experience this, please do not let the person in and contact the police. All official professionals should have ID on them -so check before allowing them in.

For more details, follow this link. https://lancashire.police.uk/ news/2017/march/warning-toparents-after-man-claims-to-behealth-visitor/

On Thursday, 6th April we will be holding an

Thank you to all the children for trying their very best in their tests this week. We will share your child’s results with you and use the analysis to identify targets and strategies for you and your child to practice and master.

Year 1 You may have heard from your child that each class now has an Excellence Award for celebrating a child’s particular efforts and qualities. Each class is responsible for electing this child democratically and so far has proved a big success with the children!

On Thursday, Year 4 sneaked out of school in an English lesson and investigated some

Well done to everyone who

strange rumours that had been

entered the Young Seasiders competition. Their art work

flying about regarding flying

displayed at Blackpool Fylde

objects in the sky near Revoe

College.

Our prize winners, Alex, Jasmine,

park. They collected a wealth

Callum and Tallula went to a

of evidence which is displayed on the top corridor. Mr Harrison

presentation at Blackpool Tower Circus on Wednesday ,where they

has put the children into contact with some dragon experts who

each got a medal. Tallula and

will hopefully be able to help us... More news to follow next

Callum also won free passes to Jungle Jims!

week.

Smilies this week and last week—Thank you, children, for your amazing Attitude, Conduct and Effort. You’re ACE!

RRT

Marta Adam

2KG

Paris Charlene

4RW

Finley Jannat

RLH

Oliwia Emily

2KD

Cameron Demi-Leigh

4KW

Brandon Hannah

1VG/LD

Jastin Destiny

3SS

Sophia Emilie

5SH

Shannon Dylan

LM/KG

Callum Morgan

3EG

Morgan Bailey

5MR

Tee-Jay Shaun-Jack

Lauren Y6

Luke Nathan Ella Mariana

Have a fab weekend!

School Funding – You will have no doubt heard or seen in the media that schools are extremely concerned about direct cuts to school funding. Revoe Learning Academy is no exception and we are equally worried about the impact of the cuts. We will continue to lobby for improved funding and we will continue to bid for special funding such as building funds to try to maintain and develop our school and its resources. Please see the letter below which is being sent out by many schools and academies across England.

Dear Parent, Carer or Guardian, You may have seen a number of stories and worrying headlines in the news around school funding.

We felt it important that we let you know, as far as we are able to at this stage, how this will affect our Academy.

School and academy budgets across the country have been under pressure for some time. RLA is not alone. The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has shown that more than half of school leaders felt that their budget would be untenable by 2018/19. The National Audit Office estimate a £3 billion real terms cut across all schools and academies!

Recent headlines have been caused by a proposed new funding formula, designed to create a fairer allocation. However, with increasing costs placed onto all schools and academies, the new formula will not bring the benefits that we had hoped to see. The School Cuts website, analysing DfE data, projects that schools in our local authority will lose approximately £193,000 in total by 2019 (see schoolcuts.org.uk for more details) .

We will work really hard to ensure that cuts have the least impact on the children. However, rising costs and a frozen budget mean that tough decisions will have to be taken. We cannot guarantee that such cuts will not impact on teaching, despite doing our absolute upmost to prevent this.

Please be assured that we will take the utmost care with budgets, to ensure all the money we have is spent effectively on your children. We are also letting the local authority and government know just how serious the funding crisis has become.

We promise to let you know in plenty of time if our budget means that we’ll have to take a significant decision on staffing, our environment or on the activities and curriculum which RLA currently offers.

Yours sincerely, Please understand that this is not me simply whinging. I fully appreciate that these times of austerity are hitting everyone, but cuts to education are very likely to affect all of our children.

These cuts and the rises in costs to school are real and will have a dramatic impact on the education that schools and academies can offer. Where you can, try to encourage your MPs to challenge this very worrying situation.