Headteacher: Mr Oli de Botton
Head of Primary: Mrs Meg Drummond
Dates For Your Diary
Tuesday 5th March - World Book Day - Radical Role Models
(Please see Poster Below)
Wednesday 6th March - Year 2 Trip to Olympic Park Ponds
Tuesday 12th & Wednesday 13th March - Parent Meetings
Please use the following link to book a time slot:
https://thesource.school21.org.uk/Parents/Booking/Code?Length=7
Wednesday 13th March - Year 3 Trip to Stratford Picture House
Thursday 14th March - Parent Coffee Morning &
E - Safety Workshop (8:40am - 9:00am)
Monday 18th March - Friday 22nd March
Bring a Parent to School Week - Storytelling
(More information to Follow)
Monday 18th March - Newton Class to London City Airport
(More information to Follow) Tuesday 19th March - Parks Class to London City Airport
(More information to Follow) Thursday 21st March - De Coubertin Class to London City Airport
(More information to Follow)
Tuesday 19th March - Cheap + Healthy Meals Workshop - Come and Cook with your child (3:15pm - 4:30pm)
Monday 25th March - Year 4 Spark Speeches
(Please see Letter for Details) Tuesday 26th March - Cheap + Healthy Meals Workshop - Come and Cook with your child (3:15pm - 4:30pm)
Tuesday 26th, Wednesday 27th & Friday 29th March - Book Fair
Thursday 28th March - Inset Day
(Great Oracy Exhibition)
NOTICES:
Important Notices: From Monday 12th November, the Primary gates will not be opened until 2:55pm ready for a 3:00pm collection. This is due to the fact that many lessons are still taking place at this time and children may be working in the playground. Thank you for your co-operation and understanding.
Parents should not be waiting in the Front Office reception area after 4:30pm without a staff member. If you are waiting to collect from a club you must wait outside the building. Morning break snacks are to be fruit (fresh, dried etc) not biscuits or cereal bars. Please leave these items for lunch or after school clubs snacks. Reminder: Football shoes are not to be worn to school, they are dangerous as they do not allow the students to have a good grip when running on hard surfaces and could lead to an accident. Any student who wears them to school will not be allowed to participate in PE lessons or use the playground at break and lunch times.
Break Time Snacks: All children can bring a snack from home to have at break time. This snack MUST be fruit. If any child brings a snack that is not fruit, they will be asked to put it back in their bags to eat after school. Birthdays - If you wish to celebrate your child's birthday by sharing a cake with the class, can we
please ask that it is brought to the classroom the morning of the celebration and that it is already cut up and packaged. Our teachers do not have the time or equipment to be able to cut up sheet cakes and distribute to the children. We ask that you do not drop birthday cakes or party bags to the front office during the day as they are not always guaranteed to have the time to take them to the classroom, and this can lead to disappointment for your child. Lost Property - We currently have an abundance of lost property in the front office, including winter coats. Can all parents please come
and check if any of the items belong to your children. We will be donating all remaining goods to a local charity before half term due to space restrictions.
It is important that parents model good behaviour for children. Please do not swear or use insulting language in the playground. If a member of staff hears this you will be asked to leave the premises and may be banned.Please also remember that our staff are always working for the best interests of the children. If you would like to discuss
anything regarding your child please speak to the class teacher, Mrs Drummond or Miss Dilger. Please do not shout or be rude to a member of staff as this makes the situation very difficult.
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
Mrs Drummond's Challenge Remember to bring in your photos or email them by Monday - we will be celebrating all efforts then! This week's challenge is below - I hope to see as many of you as possible having a go!
Parent Meetings This term our parent meetings will be held on Tuesday 12th March and Wednesday 13th March, 3:30pm - 5:30pm. Please use the link below to sign up for a slot with your teacher. You will need your child's unique code (which you used last term) to be able to access the system to book a time. You will then receive an email
confirmation of your meeting time. If you cannot remember your child's code, please see your class teacher as they will have a copy of these.
Parent and Child Cooking SessionCome and make some healthy meals with your kids.We will be learning about making healthy meals and getting the kids involved too. You will prepare a meal that can be taken home. There will be 2 sessions:Tuesday 19th March 3:15pm - 4:30pmTuesday 26th March 3:15pm - 4:30pmTHERE IS A MAXIMUM OF 10 FAMILIES FOR EACH WORKSHOP. Spaces will be allocated on a first come basis.If you
are interested in taking part please email Miss DilgerStating your name and your child’s name and which session you would like to come to. You will be emailed back
if you have a place. This will not be a drop in session.
Parent Workshop and Coffee Morning Tuesday 14th March - 8:40am Run by Miss Dilger in the Primary HallThe Aims of the session are:•Know which apps may be high risk to your child and which ones have age restrictions.•Discuss how you can restrict the amount of time your child spends playing games online.•How to help avoid certain risks for children when using the internet.
Back With a Bang, Vroom and Woosh!This week Reception have been amazing at settling back into the routine and structure of school again after the holiday - we're so impressed with how mature and independent they are becoming. In Maths we have been learning how to share different quantities of objects into equal and unequal groups and are starting to explore counting in groups of 2 and 10 to find the total.Our project this half term 'What makes the best vehicle?' focuses on a lot of different methods of transport. So far we have been learning about all the different ways we could return from our journey to Antarctica. The children have been
using their knowledge to explain which vehicles would be suitable and unsuitable. We've also had the opportunity to role-play some familiar transport and in Parks class children have had a great time pretending to go on the underground - there have been some very unforgiving ticket inspectors!We have also really enjoyed the warmer weather and had lots of opportunities to talk about the changing of the seasons.
Place Value PartnersIn Year One this week in Maths we explored different ways to represent place value in two-digit numbers. For one activity we worked in pairs and chose a number that we represented in different ways using a range of resources. We could choose from place value charts, bead strings, part part whole models and ten frames. As a
challenge we could write the tens and ones that made up two-digit numbers as part of an equation.
Poetry PerformancesThis week in Year 2 we have been learning about the Ice Age. We have imagined we are a pebble trapped in a glacier, listening to the sounds around us and feeling lonely in our icy prison. We created powerful phrases about the pebble's experiences and about the glacier. We then arranged these into a poem in our group and
performed it.
Camera, Lights, Action!
This week Year 3 have started creating their stop motion animations about Ancient Egypt. We're getting ready to show them at Stratford Picturehouse in 2 weeks time.
Telling the Time
Year 4 have moved on to a new topic in Maths and have made a fantastic start! We have been using our oracy skills to tackle some tricky concepts including digital, analogue and 12 and 24 hour time.
We are running a very successful club every morning from 7:45 to 8:25 (last entry 8:10). I would like to remind everyone of the Breakfast Club Code of Conduct so that parents can share this with their children. All pupils are expected to pack away resources and tidy the area. No pupils to leave the club area without the permission of an adult. Middle School pupils to stay in the club until 8:20. Pupils are not allowed into Middle School until this time. Pupils should help each other and be supportive of each other. Pupils will be warned about inappropriate behaviour twice then parents will be informed. If the behaviour continues pupils will not be able to attend for a week.If conduct does not improve they will not be allowed to attend the club for the rest of that half term. Extreme behaviour will result in a ban.
The club is for everyone to enjoy themselves in a friendly and safe environment. Thank you for your support.
Book People Book BusA book bus will be visiting School21 on Friday, 15th March. Primary students and parents will be able to visit the bus after school (until 4.30) and will have the opportunity to buy books. This is a great opportunity to raise funds for our school library.Look out for leaflets coming home soon. Mrs FisherLibrarian
Recieving Emails from School Those with Yahoo email accounts need to add: 3164001@capita-intouch.co.uk as a safe contact so that they can receive emails from the school.
Overdue Library BooksPlease return your overdue library books! We currently have over 500 books overdue. This means that students are unable to borrow popular books. Students are allowed to borrow up to three books for a loan period of one month and can be renewed after this period should the need arise. Any books that are lost or damaged must be replaced. Mrs Fisher
Librarian
Next Week's Lunch Menu is Week 2!
World Book Day - Tuesday 5th March - Radical Role ModelsWe cannot wait to celebrate World Book Day! Children can come to school dressed as a book character based on the theme, 'Radical Role Models'. They can dress as any character that has inspired them or been a role model. Children can also bring a copy of the book into school if they
wish to share the story with the rest of the class.
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