Acting Headteacher: Mr Peter Hyman
Head of Primary: Mrs Meg Drummond
Dates For Your Diary
Tuesday 17th September - Individual and Sibling Photos
(Please wear Full School Uniform)Thursday 19th September - Class Photos
(Please wear Full School Uniform)Monday 23rd - Thursday 26th September - Hearing and Vision Tests for Year 1 StudentsMonday 23rd September - Meet the Teacher Meetings
2:30pm - 3:00pm (Enter through Primary Gate) Tuesday 24th September - Year 1 Phonics Parent Workshop
8:40am - 9:30amTuesday 24th September - Swimming Starts for Seacole and Obama Class Thursday 26th September - Swimming Starts for Nightingale Class Friday 27th September - MacMillan Coffee Morning
9:00am - 10:00amTuesday 1st October - Reception Phonic parent Workshop
8:40am - 9:30am Tuesday 8th October - Parent Reading Workshop for Year 1
8:45am - 9:30amThursday 10th October - World Mental Health Day - Dress in YellowFriday 11th October - INSET Day (School Closed to all Students)
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 09/09/2019 - 12/09/2019Reception - Parks - 95%Year 1 - Pankhurst - 99%Year 2 - Edison - 99.4% - Primary WinnersYear 3 - Shakespeare and Einstein - 99.0%Year 4 - Seacole - 95.5%
Book Worms! I am looking for your favourite book to read to add to a display in our primary hall. Email me (mdrummond@school21.org.uk) with your favourite book (or books!) to read and then check if they get featured in the display next week!
MacMillan Coffee Morning We are hosting our annual coffee morning for MacMillan cancer research on Friday 27th September from 9:00am - 10:00am. We are asking for donations of baked goods (nut free) to sell at the coffee morning to raise money and we would love to see as many parents as
possible to come along and share a cuppa and a slice of cake with us! All donations can be brought to the front office on the morning of the event - please label the cakes with any ingredients used so we can cater for dietary requirements.
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.
Welcome to Reception!What an exciting week it has been in Reception! We welcomed some of our brand new cohort into School 21 and have been making friends. It has been fun to explore the new environment and getting to know each other. We look forward to welcoming more children to our classes next week.
Jumping to 10!Wow! What a start to Year 1! The children have settled in amazingly well and we are really looking forward to an exciting, busy year ahead! This week the pupils have been recapping numbers to 10. We have looked at different ways we can represent the numbers using cubes and a ten frame. We even played a game to try and trick our
friends to see if they can match our representation.
Making the start of the year count!Year 2 got straight back into their learning this week. We’ve been exploring numbers to 100, representing them with physical cubes and drawn representations. They worked well with their partners and have started the year fantastically.
Magical Maths!Year 3 have enjoyed exploring their number sense this week, using a lot of manipulatives and pictures. We have been very impressed by their enthusiasm and hard work!
Superstar Storytellers Wow, what a great week we have had immersing ourselves in our first text! We have been exploring the text, 'The Boy in the Dress' by David Walliams. We heard the oral story from our teachers and then drew our very own story maps. We used our story maps to act
out the story with our partners. We worked collaboratively to decide on the best action to represent each part of the story. We started to retell the story in our groups. Our writing about the events in the story has been extraordinary. Ask us about our stories at home!
The Lunch Menu This Week is Week 2!
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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