Acting Headteacher: Mr Peter Hyman
Head of Primary: Mrs Meg Drummond
Parental SurveyWe would really appreciate your thoughts on how the school is doing. Please fill out this
survey to let us know.School 21
Key Dates For Your Diary
Monday 18th November - Maths Workshop for Year 1 - 4 Parents
(8:40am - 9:00am and 3:00pm - 3:30pm)
Monday 18th November - Reception Local Walk
(10:30am - 11:15am)
Tuesday 19th November - Phonics and Reading Workshop for Reception Parents (8:40am - 9:00am and 3:00pm - 3:30pm)
Wednesday 20th November - Year 3 Trip to Lee Valley
Thursday 21st November - Reception Open Evening
(3:30pm - 4:30pm) For 2020 -2021 Intake
Friday 22nd November - Year 2 to the Aquarium
Friday 29th November - Perfectionism Workshop
More information below (8:30am - 9:30am)
Monday 2nd December - Thursday 5th December:
Bring a Parent to School Week - Shared Reading/Reading
with your child (Please see letter sent for details)
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
(Please see letter sent for details)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)
(Please see letter sent for details)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
(8:40am - 9:00am)Friday 20th December - 100% attendance Treat/Trip Friday 20th December - Last Day of Term
School finishes at 1:00pm
Monday 23rd December - Friday 3rd January
Christmas Break (School Closed for All Students)
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 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=sharingAfter 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 FrameWe 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.
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
1/11/19 - 7/11/19 Reception - Newton - 98.5%Year 1 - Kandinsky - 98.5%Year 2 - Monet - 96.3%Year 3 - Shakespeare - 96.7%Year 4 - Seacole - 100% - Primary Winners
Mrs Drummond's Challenge Well done to all of you who did last week's challenge - you had to think deeply to solve that one! This week is a literacy based puzzle that will make you think deeply about some common sayings! Good luck!
Parent WorkshopPerfectionism and me - When good is never good enoughPerfectionism 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 supportDuration: 1 hour Date: Friday 29th November - 8:30am - 9:30amFacilitator: George Brown If you would like to take part please email your interest to Mrs Drummond at mdrummond@school21.org.uk
Tate Britain CelebritiesSchool 21 is famous! The current Year 4s are starring in the Year 3 Exhibition at the Tate Britain Museum by Steve McQueen. We are also on our very own billboard around London somewhere! If you spot us please let us know and send us a picture! The exhibition explores the pivotal moment in education that our
children have experienced in Year 3 and there are lots of activities going on at the exhibition if you would like to learn more!
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 muchAll at School 21
Primary Library VisitsTo help students remember to bring back their library books, I thought I would share with you, the days each class visit the school library.Monday:KandinskyEdisonTuesday:Shakespeare MonetWednesday:ColemanNightingaleThursday:SeacolePankhurstMandelaFriday:EinsteinDa
VinciObamaMrs Fisher
Librarian
Sun NewspaperThe Sun newspaper is offering primary schools the chance to claim a set of free Collins Big Cat books worth over £600 (106 books). To claim this offer, we need to collect 3,500 tokens printed in The Sun and The Sun on Sunday from Saturday, November 23rd - Saturday, January 18th 2020. Please help us claim this fantastic offer by collecting the tokens and placing them in a designated box at the front office.
Spare ClothesIf 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 InformationThe 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 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.
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!
Delicate Divas and Wicked Writing In Reception we have been learning about how different lights are used in celebrations. We have explored lanterns, fireworks, candles and fairy lights. This week Newton and De Coubertin have started making their very own Diva lamps out of clay. They have had a lot lot of fun discovering how to work with
and mould the clay. Parks class have been practising writing CVC words on light up whiteboards, thinking carefully about what sounds they can hear and forming the letters correctly. Super learning!
I Spy with My Little EyeFor the last two weeks Year 1 have been looking at describing and sorting 2D and 3D shapes. In order to secure our knowledge we played a game of I spy with our talk partners who had to guess which shape we were thinking of. We then looked at making patterns with the shapes
Community Clear - UpOn Wednesday Year 2 visited our local canal to improve our local community by picking up rubbish! We were inspired by Afroz Shah and his community in Mumbai who cleared up their local beach. This stops plastic entering our oceans and harming animals. We had a fantastic time improving our local area and looking after the
canals at the same time!
Neverland InnovationThis week in Year 3 we have been innovating our own imaginary islands to describe in our setting descriptions. We have used our geographical subject knowledge from PBL about volcanos, lagoons, coral reefs, shorelines and caves in order to create our magical worlds!
Feature FindersThis week in literacy Year 4 looked at non-chronological reports. We learnt about the different features and worked in pairs to spot them in a variety of reports. We also created our own feature dictionary of definitions for words like subtitle, cohesion and formal tone. So that we can refer back to it as we start to plan
and write our own non-chronological reports about habitats in the coming weeks.
Openness CertificatesWell done to those students who have gone above and beyond in showing our value of openness - focusing on reflecting on your learning, listening to feedback and redrafting to ensure you are growing! Otto Openness is very proud of you all! Zane, Vivaan, Livia, Melin, Adan, Zara, Anushreya, Kostya, Zayd, Jessiah, Meys, Shaniya,
Sofia, Wojtek and Evie.
Please note - The Lunch Menu has changed.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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