Acting Headteacher: Mr Peter Hyman
Head of Primary: Mrs Meg Drummond
Key Dates For Your Diary
Tuesday 1st October - Reception Phonics Parent Workshop
(8:40am - 9:30am) Tuesday 1st October: ALL CLUB PAYMENTS DUE TODAY – NO LATE PAYMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTEDTuesday 1st October - Year 2 Trip to West Ham ParkMonday 7th October - Clubs Start Tuesday 8th October - Parent Reading Workshop for Year 1
(8:45am - 9:30am)Thursday 10th October - World Mental Health Day - Dress in YellowFriday 11th October - INSET Day
(School Closed to all Students)Tuesday 15th October - Reception Parent Workshop
(8:40am - 9:30am)Monday 4th November - Reception Parents Workshop (Maths)
(8:40am - 9:00am and 3:00pm - 3:30pm)Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th November -
Year 3 Bikeability Course (limited spaces) Monday 11th November - Year 2 SATs Information Sessions
(8:40am - 9:00am and 3:00pm - 3:30pm)Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th November -
Parent Teacher Meetings (3:30pm - 6:00pm)Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th November -
Year 3 Bikeability course (limited spaces)
NOTICES:
Important Notices: Due to the confidential nature of information shared in the front office we ask that parents wait outside if you are collecting from clubs. Parents should not be waiting in the Front Office reception area after 4:30pm without a staff member.
Break:
- All Snacks are to be Fruit only. All other items will be sent home.
Birthdays:
- Only Nut Free Treats
- All Cakes Pre-Cut and packaged
- Dropped at Classrooms before School
Late CollectionsDue to the increased amount of late collections after school, and the negative impact this is having on our students and staff, we will be introducing a late fee that will be applied to your Parent Pay account from Monday 19th September. Please see this letter for further details. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m71kAo5MJ9qZb-FEEYXaQ6gvQMOufH3z/view?usp=sharing
ReminderPlease do not allow your child to bring toys or games to school, as this can lead to items being lost or damaged and students getting upset.
Primary Attendance Winners
Mrs Drummond's Challenge Here is this week's challenge! You will need to use your knowledge of adding and multiplying to help you! Challenge yourself to solve both. Remember to bring them to me Monday morning at the Primary gate.
First Aid UpdateAll First Aid Incidents will be reported online using Medical Tracker. Parents will be notified by email automatically when a First Aid Incident occurs. Please ensure that the School has your correct contact details.If your child comes home wearing a white wrist band this means they have had first aid related to a head bump. You would have been emailed with the information, but this will be a visual reminder for you to check your email. If the incident needed your immediate attention you would have had a call. The wrist band and email process will only be used for non-emergent incidents.
What Makes a Good Lion?This week in Reception, we have begun telling our focus story for this project: How to be a Lion by Ed Vere. The story tells the tale of a gentle lion called Leonard who would rather play with his duck friend than be fierce like other lions. We have been retelling the story using small world toys, drawing and collaging
lions (and ducks!) and thinking about the events of the story.This week we have also been learning the sounds ‘m’, ‘a’, ‘s’, ‘d’ and looking closely at 2D shapes in the environment.
Guess who?This week in Year 1 we have been learning about what makes a good question. To test out how effective our questions were, we played a game of guess who. We were all given a picture of somebody else in the class and our talk partner had to use fantastic questions to find out who we head.
Odd or Even?This week Year 2 have been exploring 2-digit numbers in lots of different ways. We have been working with our talk partners to represent 2-digit numbers using different Maths equipment and to explain the value of each digit. Today we explored odd and even numbers and had to remember to focus on the ones column, not the tens column!
We are really looking forward to adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers next week!
Cultural Sharing Day for Year 3!Last week we enjoyed our amazing cultural sharing day where we were introduced to all the different cultures that are represented in Year 3! We brought in traditional food, wore traditional clothing and heard stories about how people travel all over the world. We even got to listen to some traditional music and
have a dance! We are all so proud of where we come from and how each of us is so unique!
As Hard-Working as Honey BeesThis week Year 4 explored how to include imagery in their writing through similes and metaphors. As a class, we discussed the personalities and actions of different characters and used our imaginations to create a variety of different similes and metaphors that could represent them
powerfully to the reader.
Mrs Drummond's Challenge Well done to everyone who has solved my first two challenges! We celebrated their grit in assembly on Monday - well done to: Xavier, Marius, Leo, William, Rayna, Salma, Marco, Hannah and Emily!
Headteachers Award (photos with blue certificate)Each week one student from every year group will be recognised for going above and beyond in living our values of openness, humanity, community, excellence and responsibility. Well done to: Kiana, Daiane, Natanya, Marko and Maranatha!
The Lunch Menu Next Week is Week 1!
School Attendance - EVERY DAY MATTERS!The school target for attendance is 97% or better. As a guide the Education Welfare Service advises that if a parent would go to work with the same condition then the student should be in school. We ask that students returning to school following sickness observe good hygiene rules as an adult
would in the workplace.We are keen to support all our students to achieve their best and this must include ensuring that they attend school as often as possible. We will do the following to support students’ attendance:• Write to you if attendance falls below 95% or is we are concerned about a pattern of
absences.• Invite you into school to discuss any concerns/worries with the Attendance Officer, your child’s Coach/ Class Teacher, Key Stage Leader/Head of Year, or Head or Deputy Head of School if attendance continues to fall.• Where sickness absence occurs on 3 consecutive days or 3 different occasions
within a half term, the school will seek medical evidence, such as a letter from GP, an NHS appointment letter, a prescription from GP, prescribed medication labels etc, so that we are able to support your child in school. Additional days of absences may no longer be authorised.• Refer the student to our Education Welfare Officer if attendance falls to 90%.• Please contact the Attendance Officer or Head of School if you feel your child is well enough to be in school, but not well enough to go to all their lessons. We may be able to make special arrangements• If you believe your child is well enough to be in school, but is refusing, it is essential that you talk to the Attendance Officer, or the Safeguarding Leads. We can offer a variety of options to support you in getting your child back to school.• If required, prescribed medicines can be brought to school – including those needing refrigeration, and stored in the Medical Room. A form should accompany any medication, stating that the school has permission to administer it, along with the times that this should happen. This should also be signed off at the front office.What you can do to support your
child:• Never grant days off for birthdays, shopping trips or any other reason other than illness.• Lessons begin at 8.30am prompt. We ask that all students arrive at 8.25am to avoid them starting their first lesson late. Students who are ‘dropped off’ at 8.30am on a daily basis will be
late to their lessons and therefore late for the start of the day.• Please leave a message on each day of absence by 8.30am at the latest - please email attendance@school21.org.uk leaving the name of your child, their Coach or Class Teacher and the reason for absence. It is for school to decide if an absence is authorised or unauthorised. Stating ‘Unwell’ or
‘Poorly’ gives insufficient information for us to make that decision, and the absence could be unauthorised.• Please phone or email daily unless you have made alternative arrangements with school. We do not know if you have sent your child to school and need to know this in order to keep them safe. If we do not hear from you we will endeavour to contact you, but we must have at least two up-to-date emergency contact numbers on record to be able to do this.• Last/First Day of Term, Non-Uniform Days or ‘Off-Timetable’ days are full curriculum days with content that is required by the national curriculum. It is unacceptable, and against the law, to keep students off on such days for any reason other than illness that renders a student too ill to attend. Any absence on days such as these could be unauthorised unless medical evidence is received, or prior agreement has been reached with school.• We have adopted a pragmatic approach towards the authorisation of Leave of Absence for Exceptional Circumstances where other schools have imposed blanket bans. Each Head of School considers every case personally and may ask for additional information. Taking leave of Absence in Term Time without authorisation is against the law, and phoning-in daily stating a student is unwell causes a breakdown in trust between home and school.• We approve up to two days of religious observance over the course of the academic year that fall during term
time.We understand that the majority of parents and carers support us fully in terms of ensuring their children attend school regularly and that you may have received this message on more than one occasion. However, we share this letter with all as it is important that we all understand the responsibilities school has to uphold to avoid any misunderstanding.Attendance Team
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