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School 21            

 Key Dates For Your Diary

CLUBS CANCELLED TUESDAY 12TH AND WEDNESDAY 13TH NOVEMBER DUE
TO PARENT MEETINGS

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)
Please book your time slot using the link below:
 https://thesource.school21.org.uk/Parents/Booking/Code?Length=7 

Tuesday 12th November - Odd Socks Day (Anti bullying week) 

Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th November -
Year 3 Bikeability course (limited spaces) 

Thursday 14th November - Year 1 trip to Crossrail Gardens
(9:00am - 2:30pm)

Friday 15th November - Year 4 Graduation Information Sessions
(8:40am - 9:00am and 3:00pm - 3:30pm)

Monday 18th November - Maths Workshop for Year 1 - 4 Parents
(8:40am - 9:00am and 3:00pm - 3:30pm)

Tuesday 19th November - Phonics and Reading Workshop for Reception Parents (8:40am - 9:00am and 3:00pm - 3:30pm)

Thursday 21st November - Reception Open Evening 
(3:30pm - 4:30pm) For 2020 -2021 Intake

Friday 22nd November -  Year 2 to the Aquarium  

Monday 2nd December - Thursday 5th December:
Bring a Parent to School Week - Shared Reading/Reading with your child (Letters with dates for each class and year group will be sent closer to the date)

Wednesday 4th December - Friday 6th December: 
Book Fair (3:20pm - 4:00pm)

Friday 6th December - Festival of Light Concerts
Reception - Year 2 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Year 3 - Year 5 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Monday 9th - Friday 13th December - Geography Week 

Monday 9th December - Year 1 to Stratford Picture House
to see the Grinch (9:15am)

Tuesday 10th December - Geography Week - Parents Geography Games Event (3:15pm - 4:15pm)

  Tuesday 10th December -  Year 4 Times Table Screening Information Session for Parents
(8:40am - 9:15am and 3:00pm - 3:30pm)

Wednesday 11th December - Reception Trip to St Johns Church, Stratford (Throughout the day)

Thursday 12th December - Geography Week - Cultural Cafe 
(Food, Costume, Music - 3:15pm - 4:15pm)

Friday 13th December - Xmas Jumper Day £1 Donation

  Friday 13th December -  Xmas Lunch 

Monday 16th December - Child of the Term Assembly
(2:00pm - 2:45pm)

Tuesday 17th December - Child of the Term Trip

Tuesday 12th December - Flu Vaccines 
(Letters to have been given out)

Wednesday 18th December - Whole School Exhibition
(4:30pm - 6:30pm)

Thursday 19th December - Attendance Celebration Assembly
 Whole School (8:40am - 9:00am)

Friday 20th December - 100% attendance Treat/Trip

  Friday 20th December -   Last Day of Term
School finishes at 1:00pm

Monday 6th January - INSET DAY 
(School closed to all students)

Tuesday 7th January - First Day of Spring Term
 

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 Collections

Due 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

After School Clubs 

Due to costs of running some after school clubs, we might need to decrease the number of externally run clubs. To try to avoid as much disappointment as possible and to maintain our wide range of clubs, we would like to ask for parents to volunteer to run after school clubs for next term (after the Christmas break). You would need to commit to 75mins (3:00pm - 4:15pm) one afternoon a week over an 8 week block. If you are able to support us with offering after school clubs, please email your interest to primaryclubs@school21.org.uk  
with a brief overview of the club you would like to run. Please also let us know if you have a DBS or if the school would need to obtain one for you. 

Climbing Frame

We are very lucky to have a new climbing frame in our playground and we are really enjoying playing on it at lunchtime. However, there are a lot of children playing on it before and after school - many not being supervised by their parents which could lead to an accident happening. We would like to discourage you from using the climbing frame before and after school, but if your child is on the climbing frame they MUST be supervised by you as there will not be staff in the playground at these times. 

Please click on the following link below to watch the anti bullying video:

https://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/anti-bullying-week/school-tools/primary-school-pack   

Parent Meetings 

Our Parent Meetings will be taking place on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th November. Please use this link to book your slot with your teacher  https://thesource.school21.org.uk/Parents/Booking/Code?Length=7 

You will need your child's date of birth and unique four digit code (which we have used in the past two years). If you do not have your child's unique code, please ask your class teacher. 

Reminder

Please 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
18/10/19 - 31/10/19 

Reception - De Coubertin - 97.5%

Year 1 - Pankhurst - 97%

Year 2 - Monet - 97.9%

Year 3 - Shakespeare - 99.2% - Primary Winners

Year 4 - Seacole - 98.3%

Mrs Drummond's Challenge 

Thank you to everyone who attempted last week's challenge - it was definitely a tricky one! Below you can see an example of a solution. This week's challenge will require you to put those problem solving skills to the test!

Autumn Art 

Thank you to Leo who created this beautiful Autumnal inspired artwork for me - it definitely brightened up my cold Monday morning on the gate! 

Parent Workshop

Perfectionism and me - When good is never good enough

Perfectionism is a personality trait that drives an individual regardless of their age, who strives for excessively high expectations and goals set by themselves, or significant others within their personal, professional or social environments.

With unrealistic, flawless goals in mind, this can cause the individual to be overly self-critical of their own thoughts and actions that leads towards a relentless, unforgiving cycle of self-condemnation and self-blame.

This informal workshop will help you to:

• Explore and understand the deeper impact of perfectionism

• Understand different causes and continued domino effect playing

   out in your life

• Recognise negative impact on own and child learning and development

• Understand negative side effects on overall physical and mental well-being

• Begin letting go of historical life blocks and persistent cycles

• Develop coping strategies

• Start the process of building areas of support

Duration: 1 hour 

Date: Friday 29th November

Facilitator: George Brown 

If you would like to take part please email your interest to Mrs Drummond at mdrummond@school21.org.uk 

Bikeability Course 

This week some of our Year 3 students took part in the Level 1 Bikeability course which helped to develop their skills at controlling their bikes. As you can see there were very wide smiles from all who took part - they had a great day and hopefully feel more confident riding their bikes! Our second group will take place next week on the 13th and 14th November. These sessions are now full, so we cannot accept any more permission letters. 

New Staff 

I am very pleased to introduce two new members of School 21. We have had Ms Oshin and Ms Kosierkiewicz join our Reception team as support staff across the phase, please do say hello if you see them! 

Ammarah's Achievement

At a recent competition with Future Stars Gymnastics, Ammarah's skills truly shone through - and we are very proud of her! Ammarah placed 2nd on bars, beam and floor, and 3rd on vault. Overall Ammarah placed first! Well done Ammarah!

Dear Parents/Carers,

School 21 have recently registered with the Easy Fundraising platform. This platform allows us to turn everyday online shopping into donations for the school which can then be spent on equipment and facilities.

If you’d like to help make this happen (at no cost to you!), we ask that you do two things:

1. Sign up to Easy Fundraising and register School 21 as your cause of choice here: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/invite/GO6EW2/. (We get a £5 donation for every person that signs up via that link!).

2. Install the donation reminder on your computer: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/donation-reminder/. This is a totally unobtrusive button that sits on your internet bar, and pops up with a subtle reminder every time you shop with a retailer that donates to us.

Finally, if you're happy to, please share with any family and friends.

Thanks so much

All at School 21

Spare Clothes

If your child has borrowed any clothes from our spare clothes box please bring them back as soon as possible as we have very little left. (eg if they have wet themselves)

If you have any trousers, skirts or tights that you could donate that would be wonderful. 

Also if you would like to donate new children’s underwear that would be amazing. 

Flu Vaccine Information

The flu vaccine is available to be had at School on Tuesday 17th December in the afternoon for students in Reception to Year 6.  Consent forms will be coming home.  Can you please sign and send back to school indicating whether you would like your child to have the vaccine or not.  

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me via email at jpancho@school21.org.uk, alternatively you can phone helpline numbers on the leaflet that will be coming home with the consent form.

Thank you for your cooperation.

First Aid 

First Aid Update

All 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.

Community Choir is Back! 

We welcome all parents, students, teachers and friends of our School21 community to join us on Friday 18th October from
4:15pm - 5:15pm in the Main Hall.

This is a brilliant way to meet new parents, sing together and build connections with all the members of our school community in an informal setting. Parents/Carers must attend with their children.

Please arrive via reception by 4:15pm. We look forward to seeing you! 

Fantastic Fireworks in Reception

Our Project this half term is about light and dark. This week we have been experimenting with different ways to create fireworks, to celebrate Diwali and Bonfire Night. In Newton class, the children were exploring using their fingers to create colourful fireworks over a city skyline. In Parks class, they were having a go at using bright colours to create dramatic, dark night fireworks. In De Coubertin class, the children were practising using paint brushes to create shiny, glittery fireworks!

Becoming Professional Storytellers! 

After mapping out our new story, 'Where the Forest Meets the Sea' in Year 1 last week, this week we had to use our knowledge of the story to retell it to our friends. We used actions and phrases to help us remember the key events of the story. 

Rot or Not?

This week Year 2 have been exploring what rotting and decomposition is and what does and doesn't decompose.  We looked at pictures of the process of the decomposition of an apple, and talked through what it showed.  We tried to use a lot of technical and scientific language in our descriptions of the process.  We're going to set up experiments to investigate what material do and don't decompose. 

Not so Lost Boys and Girls!

This week in Year 3 we have been exploring the characters of our new grounding text, Peter Pan by JM Barrie! We have become fully immersed in the setting descriptions of Neverland and have even started using map skills to find our way around the imaginary island! Captain Hook, we’re coming after you!

Geographic Genius

This week in Year 4 we have been using maps from a range of sources to look more at the geographical features of our 3 focus locations: the Great Barrier Reef, the Congo Rainforest, and the Arctic Circle. In storytelling we have been building up to our 1st big write of this half term - writing a setting description for the rainforest utilising a lot of beautiful imagery, relative clauses, and superlatives. 

Responsibility Certificates

This week in assembly we recognised those students who had gone above and beyond in showing our value of responsibility, making Radu Responsibility super proud! Well done to Kiefer, Elemag, Ahmad, Ayla, Christian, Yaqoub, Liam, Brooklyn, Shayyan, Samara, Luca, Jack, Blake, Penelope and Joshua.

Please note - The Lunch Menu has changed.

The Lunch Menu Next Week is Week 3!

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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