School News
Today we welcomed Police Community Support Officer Craig Bracegirdle [our Community Governor] to Parayhouse, to meet the students and see the work we do.
School Council met today, minutes to follow.
A reminder that next Friday will be a mufti day in aid of UNICEF – Day for Change.  

An Acrostic Poem by Sara Mohammed (Red Group)

Nolly tolly nodded noisily
On your face
Smelly spongy squishy
Easy to wash

Hairy fluffy curly
Away from your eyes
In plaits
Rough until you wash it.

Welcome to:

Yaseen El Darat a new RBK&C student in Green Group. Yaseen is 8yrs old and comes from a primary school in Kensington.  Yaseen’s favourite film is Madagascar  and he will happily sing you ‘I like to move it, move it’ from the film.  Also his favourite book is the Gruffalo – Welcome Yaseen!

Frances Hennigan – Frances is here for work experience for the next 5 weeks. She joined Red Group this week but she will be working in all the groups during her stay.

Lotte Anderson from Denmark arrives on Wednesday.  Lotte is a final year student at University College Nordjylland in Skolevangen, Denmark, studying for a Bachelor in Social Education. She will be staying with us until the end of the Summer term, she will be working with all our groups during her stay with us.

FITNESS CUP WINNERS    Team Deepak

MERIT CUP       YELLOW GROUP                                 
 

ATTENDANCE AWARD     YELLOW  GROUP

Well done!

SWIMMING
Here is the swimming rota for this academic year:  [Please note that after half term we will be changing our swimming day, more information soon]

Purple Group – 11/1/12-8/2/12
Yellow Group – 22/2/12-28/3/12
Green Group – 25/4/12-18/7/12   
SCHOOL LUNCHES
We will be on Week 3 of the lunch menu next week.

Fundraising Committee
Staff are keen to form a fundraising committee to help raise funds.   Staff are compiling a ‘wish list’.  If you would like to join the committee we will be holding a meeting on TUESDAY 20TH March at 3.45pm.

 
Parents and friends are welcome to attend the Assembly which is held every Friday at 2.40pm.  Please be prompt.  The Drop-ins start at 2.15 and are run by Beverley Routley our Family Support Manager.
Thank you Purple Group for your Assembly today on ‘Body Poems’
Friday 3rd February – Blue Group
Friday 10th February – Red Group
Friday 24th February – Green Group
Friday 2nd March – Yellow Group
Friday 9th March – Purple Group
Friday 16th March – Blue Group
Friday 23rd March – Red Group
Friday 30th March – Geography Week Assembly – all welcome

DIARY DATES

JANUARY:
  Mon 30th  – 2pm – Year 11 Challenge presentation in School

FEBRUARY:
  Friday 3rd – UNICEF Day for Change
  Weds 8th – SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHER; 7pm Curriculum Mtg for Governors & Trustees
  Mon 14th – Friday 17th – HALF-TERM!!
  Tuesday 21st and 28th – Dance workshop
  Weds 22nd – SWIMMING STARTS FOR YELLOW
  Tues 28th – Swimming Gala @ Pools in the Park

MARCH:
  Tues 6th – 4-7pm Progress Meeting
  Tues 6th – Dance workshop
  Weds 7th – 4-7pm Progress Meeting
  Weds 14th – 6pm TRUSTEES MEETING
  Wed 21st – 7pm GOVERNORS MEETING
  Fri 23rd – SPORT RELIEF 2012; 3pm School Council’s Cake & Toy sale
  Mon 26th – GEOGRAPHY WEEK!!
  Mon 26th -Panathlon Event
  Fri 30th – Geog Week Assembly & school breaks for Easter.

 
Visits and  Visitors
Purple Group went to the Science Museum today to help their study of ‘Bodies’.

It was good to see our Chair of Governors, Randall Petersen, in school today – he visited all classes with Mrs WQ and enjoyed chatting to the students.  Randall Wilson, in Purple Group,  told him he would have to be called Randall 2 as he was Randall 1 !!!

TONSILLITIS
Just to remind all parents that we had a case of tonsillitis in school this week – please refer to our letter regarding symptoms and treatment.

FITNESS CUP WINNERS

for the first time, awarded to ALL

TEAMS FOR GOOD EFFORT

MERIT CUP      

GREEN GROUP                                 
                  

ATTENDANCE AWARD     

YELLOW GROUP
                                                                              

100% – Well done again!

Here is the swimming rota for this academic year:
Purple Group – 11/1/12-8/2/12
Yellow Group – 22/2/12-28/3/12
Green Group – 25/4/12-18/7/12   

SCHOOL LUNCHES
We will be on Week 2 of the NEW lunch menu next week.

 
ASSEMBLY 
Parents and friends are welcome to the Assembly which is held every Friday at 2.40pm.  Please be prompt for assembly.  The Drop-in’s start at 2.15 and are run by Beverley Routley our Family Support Manager.

Thank you Yellow Group for your ‘Rumble in the  Jungle’ Assembly today.
Friday 27th January –Purple Group
Friday 3rd February – Blue Group
Friday 10th February – Red Group
Friday 24th February – Green Group
Friday 2nd March – Yellow Group
Friday 9th March – Purple Group
Friday 16th March – Blue Group
Friday 23rd March – Red Group
Friday 30th March – Geography Week Assembly – all welcome

DIARY DATES

JANUARY:
  Mon 30th  – 2pm – Year 11 Challenge presentation in School

FEBRUARY:
  Friday 3rd – UNICEF Day for Change
  Weds 8th – SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHER; 7pm Curriculum Mtg for Governors & Trustees
  Mon 14th – Friday 17th – HALF-TERM!!
  Tuesday 21st and 28th – Dance workshop
  Weds 22nd – SWIMMING STARTS FOR YELLOW
  Tues 28th – Swimming Gala @ Pools in the Park

MARCH:
  Tues 6th – 4-7pm Progress Meeting
  Tues 6th – Dance workshop
  Weds 7th – 4-7pm Progress Meeting
  Weds 14th – 6pm TRUSTEES MEETING
  Wed 21st – 7pm GOVERNORS MEETING
  Fri 23rd – SPORT RELIEF 2012
  Mon 26th – GEOGRAPHY WEEK!!
  Mon 26th -Panathlon Event
  Fri 30th – Geog Week Assembly & school breaks for Easter.

(Claire was a speech and language therapist from April 04 to Dec 09)

I’m happily settled on Vancouver Island (on the extreme west coast of Canada), making the most of the beaches and forests and mountains and, in particular, Atticus (now four years old).

I’m slowly building up a bit of writing and editing work but miss Parayhouse and all the wonderful students and staff on an almost daily basis.

Looking forward to visiting again in the not-too-distant future…

Life is treating us well. Paul is still enjoying working with his Dad and I’m still loving being full-time mum, weekends seem to be filled with Atti’s social events plus renovating our (still very) dilapidated house. Other than that, not quite sure where the year has gone…

My mum fell just before Christmas (fortunately in the kitchen and not on the golf course or walking in some godforsaken woods somewhere). She had to have her hip pinned and plated but made it back home in time for the holidays. She’s doing brilliantly but that, plus Christmas itself, has made me rather homesick. Currently trying to figure out how to afford another trip to london…

Anyway, would love to hear your news…

Much love

Claire (and Paul and Atticus)

annparayhouse@btconnect.com

Welcome to a very skinny newsletter, the first of the New Year.

(Wish the staff could say the same after all your kind gifts of chocolates and biscuits-thank you!)

We’d like to wish you all a very happy 2012.

Here are some thoughts from Kerry-Louise in Red Group.

New Year’s Eve-the best year I’ve ever had!

Goodnight Mum! Goodnight family!

Goodnight best mates and friends!

That was the very best year I’ve had. I learned so much.

I learned how to keep friends when we fell out.

I learned how to tie my shoelaces.

I learned how to floss my teeth.

I learned to do joined-up writing at school.

I learned to take away-though I still hate it!

Now it’s all over and I am tired-and so is my toy dog, Ella.

So kiss me goodnight – the last of this year,

But tomorrow’s tomorrow – we start a New Year!

By Kerry-Louise Carroll

Red Group

OVERALL FITNESS CUP WINNERS FOR THE AUTUMN TERM WAS AWARDED TO TEAMCHARLOTTE

OVERALL ATTENDANCE AWARD FOR THE AUTUMN TERM WAS AWARDED TO YELLOW GROUP

THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS WERE AWARDED CERTIFICATES AND VOUCHERS FOR 100% ATTENDANCE IN THE AUTUMN TERM: – Kerry-Louise,Charlotte, Khalid, Jacob and Alban.

SWIMMING

Here is the swimming rota for this academic year:

Purple Group – 11/1/12-8/2/12

Yellow Group – 22/2/12-28/3/12

Green Group – 25/4/12-18/7/12

SCHOOL LUNCHES

We will be on Week 3 of the NEW lunch menu next week.

WANTED

Please can we have all your old Christmas cards for Art and Design Technology?  Thank you

Spare Pants

Ours DO walk!  Could you please make sure that if your child has an accident and is sent home in different pants, these are washed and returned. If anyone has any outgrown ones, we can put them to good use!

Thank you to all those who have kindly sent some in.

Parents and friends are welcome to the Assembly which is held every Friday at2.40pm.  Please be prompt for assembly.  The Drop-in’s start at 2.15 and are run by Beverley Routley our Family Support Manager.

Friday 13th January – Green Group

Friday 20th January – Yellow Group

Friday 27th January –Purple Group

Friday 3rd February – Blue Group

Friday 10th February – Red Group

Friday 24th February – Green Group

Friday 2nd March – Yellow Group

Friday 9th March – Purple Group

Friday 16th March – Blue Group

Friday 23rd March – Red Group

Friday 30th March – Geography Week Assembly – all welcome

DIARY DATES

[School dates for 2012 are attached]

JANUARY:

Weds 11th – SWIMMING STARTS FOR PURPLE

Mon 16th –Miss Davies returns!

Thur 19th – Panathlon Event

Fri. 20th – Chair of Governors visits

Weds 25th – Trustees Meeting

FEBRUARY:Weds 1st – Lotte Andersen, Intern fromDenmark, here until 20th July

Weds 8th – SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHER

Mon 13th – Friday 17th – HALF-TERM!!

Weds 22nd – SWIMMING STARTS FOR YELLOW

Tues 28th – Pools in the Park Swimming Gala

MARCH:

Tues 6th – Progress meetings4-7pm

Wed 7th Mar– Progress meetings4-7pm

Wed 14th – Trustees Meeting

Fri 23rd – SPORT RELIEF 2012

Mon 26th – GEOGRAPHY WEEK!!

Fri 30th – Geog Week Assembly & school breaks for Easter.

We’d love to hear from you!

Any letters will be published here on the Parayhouse website.

So go on – become part of Parayhouse history!

email address:

parayhouse@btconnect.com

snail mail:

Parayhouse School
New King’s Annex
New King’s Road
Fulham
London, SW6 4LY.

Thanks!

At the end of the Autumn Term, in early December, we had our Investor in People Award 3 year Review which saw the assessor interviewing 13 staff, a parent Governor and the Chair of Trustees, over two days in school. For the last 6 years we have held the standard IiP Award but the structure has altered and organisations can now apply for the standard award, or Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards. We chose to apply for the Bronze Award and are delighted to say we achieved this with some indicators to spare!! To put this in context for you, the London & South East area has 22,432 organisations who have the IiP award, of which only 801 [3.57%] have Bronze – so we are very proud indeed of our school and we will be aiming for Silver in 3 years’ time!!

Parayhouse School Investors in People Review 2011

On Thursday 6^th October, Red group performed Macbeth in front of family, staff, friends at the Riverside Studios as part of the Shakespeare for schools festival.  We arrived mid afternoon and after watching our friends at Hampton school, we went straight into a full technical and dress rehearsal. This required all of the students to be standing in full costume while lights etc were sorted for nearly 2 hours!

The performance itself was outstanding! Our school received rapturous applause, the loudest of any performance that evening.  All of their hard work and hours of rehearsing paid off.  The executive director said it was one of the best abridged versions of Macbeth she had seen!

Mr Mirza, Miss Wallace, myself and all staff at PH are so very proud of the students.  What an amazing achievement performing independently on a professional stage!

Here are some of our thoughts about our production:

Charlotte: I loved running around being a witch on stage and watching Hampton school.

Deepak: I loved being the King and when Macbeth died.   I also really liked the bow at the end.

Judith:  It was really exciting and good.  My favourite part was being an evil witch, I was a bit nervous though.

Kerry louise:  It was amazing! I liked seeing the teachers and my family so proud of us.

Alex: I loved the battle scream and getting lots of claps at the end.

Nasra:  I liked when Deepak killed Banquo and screaming ‘Macbeth, Macduff’.  It was amazing!

Miss Wallace:  My favourite part was leading my crew into the wings and saluting them as soldiers as they went on stage.  I saw Dylan standing as Macbeth across the stage- I saluted him, he saluted back!  I got goosebumps with pride and excitement.

Mr Mirza:  I loved seeing everyone perform on their own looking so magnificent and professional. I’m so proud of them all!

Miss McMahon:  I loved seeing us come together like a professional troupe of actors. Watching them all walk on stage gave me goose bumps! To see people standing on their feet applauding at the end made me so proud to be their teacher.  ALL HAIL RED GROUP!!

Hello All

I like the idea of the “Where are they now’ section on the website and would like to send you a little piece although I was only there for a short amount of time.

I am living and working in a school i theIshaYogaCenterin Tamil Nadu,South India. The Center is surrounded my mountains if we’re lucky we get to see wild elephants, snakes and all kinds of creatures.

My day is spent teaching English as a second language and coaching football + swimming.As a ‘house parent’ I am looking after 23 boys aged 13-17 who living in a one house with me. It is a residential school with a great holistic approach – we don’t like to call it residential school rather ‘IshaHomeSchool’. (check it out if you’re interested www.ishahomeschool.org )

I haven’t married any Indian village girl yet .We are quite in the countryside – beautiful nature – the only disadvantage is that it is an hours drive to the city to watch a decent football game.

It is slightly different to London here as you can imagine but I love it.

Hope that is enough information.

Please send my regards to everyone that still remembers me.

See you next time I’m in town.

Kai

Hello Everyone,

I am still working with Poppy at Travancore School. I am currently the team leader at our adolescent campus which works
with students who are in their recovery of a diagnosed mental illness. On the side burner, I have set up my own business (InclusionMatters)
which is a consultancy for mental health in schools and in the work place. We run workshops in schools to help them have a
better understanding of how to address mental health in themselves and in their students. It has been a busy year!

The family are well and growing up way to quickly with Isobel turning 4 this week and Leopold now 2. I just bought them a big
trampoline with a net around it so Kate and I can chuck them in, do the zip up, and have glass of wine! Everyone’s a winner!

Love to you all!

Rich