1. Emma LEAVERS 2017 Good luck! Springfield School Newsletter
September 2017
Head Teacher’s News
Welcome back to the start of the new school year!
It was great to see the pupils last week and we look forward to meeting a few more new pupils over the next month. I hope you all had a good summer and are ready for the Autumn which seems to have arrived. It was good to see a good number of families at the Friends of Springfield School Summer Party. We ended up being lucky with the weather and look forward to this becoming an annual event for families to meet each other.
To avoid confusion, the Bronze Barrow site is the primary site shared with Madley Brook mainstream primary school and is referred to as ‘BB’. When we talk about the Wood Green site, this is our secondary site on the same site as Wood Green mainstream secondary school and is referred to as ‘WG’.
LEAVERS 2017
Good luck!
At the end of last year we said goodbye to 7 pupils, Charlie Collins, Tillie Stokes, Gabby Bennett, Emily Davis, Sasha Stewart, Tom Mytton and Jack Curry. We wish them and their families all the best for the future. We said goodbye for a short time to TA Julie Radford who will be back in October. We also said ‘Goodbye and Good Luck!’ to Helen Maycock who will be enjoying some term time holidays.
Cath Fairfield is helping out with some temporary teaching and we are pleased that TA Felicity Shepherd decided not to leave after all!
We are welcoming 13 new pupils and their families this year and look forward to getting to know them. We welcome Mason Griffiths, Isaac Alexandre, Harry Owen, Mair Lewis, Frankie Ramsay and Lily-Mai Box to Nursery/Reception; James Sclamb in Key Stage 1; Honour Morrison, Oliver Blois, Kai Hej-Dehaghani and Bailey Drury in Key Stage 2 and finally Emily Vickers and Ella-May Mitchell in Key Stage 3.
We have welcomed Nicola Evans as our new Key Stage 2 teacher. Unfortunately the new Key Stage 3 teacher was unable to join us. We are currently advertising for several full-time and part-time teacher posts, details are on our website. Thanks to everyone who is helping to support this class as well as other classes whilst we recruit both permanent and temporary teachers. Unfortunately one of our Key Stage 4 teachers, Angus Marsden will be leaving us for a teaching post nearer to his home.
Finally, congratulations to teacher Claire Colmer on the birth of her daughter “Molly” in the holidays.
Emma

2. Transport Line Managers Springfield School Newsletter Page 2
For those pupils who have transport provided by the Local Authority [LA], we appreciate how frustrating it can be to resolve some queries as the transport department is particularly busy at the start of the year. Carol Willoughby one of our Senior TAs liaises with parents regarding transport however parents also need to contact the LA.
Transport
If you have a concern about transport that affects whether your child travels on transport that day, then please phone the WG site office [706662] and leave an urgent message for Carol.
If there is a concern that you want support with then please can you the details to our WG office on and Denise [Admin] will liaise with Carol and one of them will speak to you. We have found it better to have information in writing so then sometimes Carol can get an answer before she calls you back.
Can we also encourage you to any queries / concerns / complaints to the transport department and copy the school in to the message. We have found it is good to have an trail so that we can be clear on concerns raised and how they are resolved. The is:
On a positive note, the drivers and escorts on the transport are very good with our pupils and want everything to run smoothly. I have already had some good comments about how the transport crew have been.
Line Managers
Phase of education Line Managers Teachers
Nursery and Reception Emma Lawley Val Atherton, Carol Shryane, Sue Calcutt
Key Stage 1 classes Topaze Skerrett Nicola Dullaghan, Berit Holsen-Dodds,
Sam Orpwood and Emily Maycock
Key Stage 2 class Emma Lawley Jade Hewlett
Key Stage 2 classes Jade Hewlett Louise Jones and Nicola Evans
Key Stage 3 classes Becs Bradley Kate Bristow, Tim Walker, Cath Fairfield
Key Stage 4 class Emma Lawley Becs Bradley and Angus Marsden
Key Stage 4 class Becs Bradley Zoe Dobson

3. Dates for your diary Springfield School Newsletter Page 3
Wednesday 20th September| Parents meet class teams
3.15 – 4.30pm Wood Green and 3.30 – 4.45pm Bronze Barrow
This is an opportunity for parents to come in and meet their child’s class team. It is always good to put faces to names and you can also meet other parents.
Thursday 28th September | Bronze Barrow Primary Harvest Festival at 2.00pm
Friday 29th September | MacMillan Coffee morning at WG
Friday 6th October | INSET Training Day. School CLOSED to all pupils.
Friday 20th October | School finishes for October Half Term Break
Monday 30th October | Start of 2nd half of Autumn Term
Week beginning 27th Nov | Year 11 Annual Review meetings
Tuesday 12th December | Parents’ Evening [not Year 11s]
Tuesday 19th December | Finish for Christmas WG 1.00pm and BB 1.15pm
20th Dec – 3rd Jan 2018 | Christmas Break.
Thurs 4th & Fri 5th Jan 2018 | INSET Training Days. School CLOSED to all pupils.
Monday 8th January 2018 | Spring Term starts.
There is an events calendar and full term dates on our new website. Visit