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Friday 14 February 2025 PTA Valentine's Silent Discos! Thank you to our amazing PTA who organised not one but three Valentine's Silent Discos for the children to enjoy yesterday. The children had great fun and we witnessed some seriously smooth moves out on the dancefloor (sadly, not from the teachers!) ??????????We really couldn't put these lovely events on for our children if it wasn't for all your hard work PTA and the teachers who gave their time after school to support. Thank you !??????
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Friday 14 February 2025 Star of the Week 14th February Well done to our Stars of the Week this week. It was a jam-packed assembly today with lots of awards and it was great to see so many parents and carers there. We enjoyed seeing certificates being given out for various subjects, for effort in lessons and for being excellent role models. It was a great way to end our first half of the Spring term?Have a restful and fun break everyone ??
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Friday 14 February 2025 Mount Nod's First Podcast! Some members of our School Council have recorded their very first podcast today, giving you all the latest news from Mount Nod! We hope to add more exciting news and even a jingle once we get into the swing of things! We are also hoping to add some exclusive interviews with visitors to our school and get some of our younger year groups to contribute. However, on their first attempt, I think you'll agree our podcast hosts were absolutely brilliant! Well done to Bella, Diya, Callan, Abiel and Vinnie for putting this together and for being so brave as our first podcast hosts. To listen to the short podcast, click on the image below.
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Friday 14 February 2025 Spanish Club Places We are pleased to let you know that the Spanish club is expanding. If your child would like to attend there are some spaces available. This includes Reception children if they would like to start learning another language.
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Thursday 13 February 2025 World Book Day 20 Day Challenge Dear Parents/Carers,Hopefully, this week you will have seen your child come home with a World Book day 20-day reading challenge card. The idea is that the children are challenged to read for at least 10 minutes everyday for 20 days. On World Book Day, Thursday March 6th, all children who manage to complete the challenge can enter their card into a prize draw. We will have a range of fantastic prizes that the children can have a chance of winning.As parents, all you need to do is hear your child read for at least 10minutes and sign the card each time. When completed, hand the card to the teachers BEFORE World Book Day.Reading is incredibly important for children and good readers benefit from understanding more about the other subjects in our curriculum. Research shows that not only can reading benefit a child’s education but it can also help social and cognitive development, their wellbeing and their mental health. What's there not to like?
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Thursday 13 February 2025 Volunteer Readers If you are a parent, family or friend of a child in Mount Nod Primary and have any spare time each week, would you be interested in hearing children read in school? We already have a small number of mums, dads and grandparents who come into school to hear readers, but we would love to welcome more into help. The volunteers always go out with a smile on their face as it is a treat to see the children get so much from reading and talking about their book.The amount of time is up to you. It could be just an hour a week or more if you can manage it.If you would like to take part, you would have to complete a DBS check which is a necessary for all adults working in a school. However, this process is not too difficult and doesn’t take too long to do.If anyone is interested, please contact Miss Smith or come into school to have a chat.Thank you for your support.
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Tuesday 11 February 2025 Safer Internet Day Today is Safer Internet Day, which is an international education and awareness-raising effort, that takes place in over 100 countries worldwide. This week at Mount Nod, we will be learning about how to use the internet safely, respectfully and responsibly. However, we recognise that children will be online far more at home than they are at school and that sometimes this time may be unsupervised. Therefore, we have a dedicated section on our school website to support internet safety at home. There is information about social media sites and online games that are popular amongst primary aged children. Click on our Key Information tab at the top of the our website homepage and then select E-Safety from the drop down menu. Alternatively, follow this link: https://www.mountnod.coventry.sch.uk/E-Safety/
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Friday 7 February 2025 Operation Snap! West Midlands Police Keeping our roads safe, especially around the school, is vital to ensure the safety of our pupils and their families.
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Friday 7 February 2025 NSPCC Number Day 2025 A huge thank you to everyone who donated to NSPCC Number Day today. The children looked incredible in their costumes, they enjoyed taking part in fun number activities and you helped to raise almost £170 to send to NSPCC ChildLine.
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Wednesday 5 February 2025 Understanding Children's Behaviour For parents of children aged between 1-10 years old, these parenting workshops will help you to further understand your child's behaviour and learn strategies to manage this. Please see the details attached.
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Wednesday 5 February 2025 Internet Safety Workshops West Midlands Police will be delivering FREE Internet Safety Workshops for parents and carers on Thursday 13th February. Please see the attached information to find out more.
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Friday 31 January 2025 Talking for Teens - Mosaic Family Hub Support The latest research shows that adolescence can beginaround 10 years and may continue up to 25 years! So, if youthink your 10-year-old already acts like a teenager that’sprobably because the changes in the brain that take placeduring adolescence may have already started!'Learn how to navigate this tricky time with the support of the Mosaic Family Hub, who are offering 4 sessions, starting on the 27th February, called Talking Teens. For more information read the information attached.
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Friday 24 January 2025 Time For You Counselling Sessions Please see the information about the free drop in 'Time for You' counselling sessions available to young people in the city.
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Friday 17 January 2025 Rotary Club Young Musician Competition We are incredibly proud of Tommy and Daisy, who performed brilliantly at the annual Rotary Club Young Musician Competition. They were the only primary aged children there and did themselves and Mount Nod proud!
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Friday 17 January 2025 Star of the Week Well done to our amazing Stars of the Week. There were lots of whole class awards today, which shows just how many stars we have to choose from each week and how hard it is to choose just one or two! We also had some pen license certificates awarded, as well as caught being good prizes. It was a great first Star of the Week assembly for 2025 and we look forward to celebrating more stars this term. Thank you as always to family and friends who were able to help us celebrate today. Have a lovely weekend.
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Friday 10 January 2025 Home School Communication A polite notice to parents and carers...Please note that teachers and teaching assistants are not expected to respond to Class Dojo messages and emails that are sent late at night or over the weekend. Staff will respond to messages as quickly as possible between the hours of 8am and 5pm during their working week. Thank you for your understanding.
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Friday 10 January 2025 Attendance Awards Today we had a special assembly to award exceptional attendance in the Autumn Term. Almost 60 pupils achieved 100% attendance which is quite remarkable considering all the colds, flu and bugs that were circulating last term!
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Friday 20 December 2024 Goodbye Mrs Guest Today wasn't just a fun day to celebrate Christmas with our pupils at the end of term, it was also a very special day to celebrate the wonderful Mrs Guest, who is leaving us after 20 years of supporting the children, families and staff at Mount Nod. Mrs Guest has been a familiar face at the school gates each day, welcoming the children in to school and has been a huge part of life at Mount Nod. She has nurtured and supported countless children on their journey through our school and our pupils gave her a lovely send off today in our assembly for her. We will all miss her very much and am sure that you join us in wishing her the very best of luck in this next chapter of her life. Bon voyage and good luck Mrs Guest, from us all at Mount Nod.
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Friday 20 December 2024 Carols on the Green We would like to say a huge thank you to family, friends and local residents who supported our Reception and Year 6 children at the Mount Nod 'Carols on the Green' carol concert yesterday evening in aid of Archie's Smile. It was a wonderful evening . The children started on Tudor Avenue and made their way down to the One Stop on Alderminster Road singing songs, dancing and smiling all the way! Aman from the One Stop kindly gave a drink to every child and the One Stop and the Round Table generously donated £200! Added to the collection from family and local residents, the children managed to raise a whopping £338.36 which will go directly to the Archie's Smile charity. Again, we cannot express our thanks enough to you all for making this event such a magical community experience and for really getting everyone into the Christmas spirit!
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Friday 6 December 2024 Christmas Jumper Day! We will be celebrating Christmas Jumper day, next week, on the 12th December. If you would like to join in, come along in your favourite Christmas jumper next Thursday. We are requesting a donation of £1 and all money raised will go to the Save the Children charity.Many thanks for your support.Miss Smith
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Friday 6 December 2024 Christmas Raffle We will be having a Christmas raffle in school with the chance of winning some great prizes. Included are these fantastic ‘Elf on a Shelf’ donated by Roxanne Naisbett from Sustainable Building Services. Tickets will go on sale next week at 20p a ticket. All money raised will go to school funds to buy new book titles for story time for all year groups. The raffle draw will take place on the last day of school (20th December).Good luck,Miss Smith
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Thursday 5 December 2024 Pantomime Comes to Mount Nod! Pantomime in schoolIt is lovely and Christmassy in school at the moment with all the decorations up around the classrooms . Next week we will really be in the Christmas spirit when we have the pantomime in school “Oh no we haven’t”"OH YES WE HAVE!"The actors will be coming in on Tuesday morning to do two performances. The first to Nursery, reception and KS1 and then another to KS2. We are asking for a voluntary contribution of £3. The office have set it up on School Gateway for you to make a cashless payment. If this causes any problem, please pop into the school office for assistance.We are sure the children will have lots of fun watching and joining in with this year’s production.Thank you for your support with this.Miss Smith
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Wednesday 20 November 2024 School Photographs Good afternoon. Please see the following reminder about school photographs on Friday. A School Comms email has been sent to all parents where you will find the link, or you can use the one below. Many thanks.Dear Parent/Carer,IMPORTANT – REGISTER TO VIEW SCHOOL PHOTOSExciting news! Carmel Jane Photography will be visiting our School on the 22nd November, to take Individual & Sibling photos.All parents are requested to pre-register for instant access to your child’s photographs once they are ready, pre-registration is required for every photo shoot.Register in 3 easy steps in less than a minute:Head to www.carmeljaneshop.co.ukEnter your unique code JRXYDRA2TXInclude your child’s full school register name.Don't miss out - pre-register today!Kind regards,Natalie EvasonCarmel Jane Photography
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Thursday 14 November 2024 Children in Need A reminder that it’s Children in Need day tomorrow and children have voted to come into school dressed in pyjamas.In addition to the £1 donation and loose change being collected on the gates, we will be raffling a lovely Pudsey Bear Glass Light Catcher ornament made by Emma Lynch. Raffle tickets cost £1 and all proceeds will go to Children in Need. Children can buy the raffle tickets in school tomorrow.To find out more about this incredible and essential charity please click on this link https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/
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Sunday 10 November 2024 Remembrance Day Remembrance Day (also called Armistice Day or Poppy Day) is a memorial day held in Commonwealth countries, such as the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Remembrance Day is all about commemorating those who have died serving their country in the armed forces. It also honours and supports veterans of combat.
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Thursday 7 November 2024 Remembrance Day Remembrance Day will be marked at Mount Nod Primary School with a special assembly and a one minute silence on Monday 11th November. We will remember the Armed Forces, and their families, from Britain and the Commonwealth, the vital role played by the emergency services and those who have lost their lives as a result of conflict. In school, we teach that Remembrance does not glorify war but that the red poppy, is a sign of both Remembrance and hope for a peaceful future. Tomorrow, there will be snaps bands and other items on sale in school for a contribution of £1 which will be sent directly to the Royal British Legion. To find out more about the work that they do for war veterans please click the link below. Thank you for your support.
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Wednesday 6 November 2024 Mount Nod PTA - AGM Please see the attached information from our fabulous PTA who welcome you to attend their annual general meeting on November 13th.
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Thursday 31 October 2024 Happy Diwali! We wish all of our families at Mount Nod a very happy Diwali and wish you health and happiness for the year ahead!
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Thursday 31 October 2024 Happy Halloween! Halloween, also known as All Halloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a festival celebrated all over the world on October 31st every year. It is mainly celebrated in the western world and has its origins in Celtic traditions. If you'd like an overview on Halloween's history, and a quickfire answer to 'what is Halloween' take a look at the video by clicking the link below:
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Tuesday 22 October 2024 Children and Young People Mental Health Services Directory Please see the attached flyer for more information on how you can find services in Coventry to support your child's mental health.