Primary Newsletter

Parent Support Needed! 

Two of our values are excellence and responsibility, which we ask the students to show every day they are at School 21. To help us with this, we need our parents to also be modelling excellence and responsibility when in the school. This includes not smoking near the entrance gates, not wearing pyjamas when dropping off or collecting your child and speaking politely to everyone. I appreciate your continued support to make School 21 the best it can be!

Mrs Drummond

 Key Dates For Your Diary


Tuesday 21st January - Reception Parent Workshop 
(8:40am - 9:30am) 

Thursday 23rd January - No Pens Day
(More Information to follow)

Wednesday 29th January - INSET Day 
(School Closed to All Students)

Tuesday 4th  February -  Parent Values Launch Event
(2 Sessions - 8:30am - 9:00am & 3:15pm - 3:45pm)

Friday 7th February - Year 1 Magic Lantern Cave Painting Workshops 
(More information to follow)

Friday 7th February - NSPCC Number Day
(More information to follow)

Monday 10th February - Friday 14th February - Safer internet week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I1CGKuZZm8&feature=emb_logo&disable_polymer=true​

Monday 10th February - Parent Workshop 
How to keep your child safe online
( 8:45am - 9:45am )

Date Change - Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th February -
Parent/Teacher Meetings
(3:30pm - 6:00pm)

Monday 17th - Friday 21st February - Half Term
 (School closed for all students) 

 Monday 24th - Friday 28th February - Equality week celebration (More information to follow) 

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 5:00pm 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

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. 

Mrs Drummond's Challenge

A huge well done to Leo, Jase and William for completing Mrs Drummond's challenge last week - it was one that needed some deep thinking to solve! 

Try this weeks! Drawing a picture might help you! 

Primary Attendance Winners
06/01/2020 - 09/01/2020

Reception - De Coubertin - 98.6%

Year 1 - Mandela - 97.4%

Year 2 - Edison - 99.3%

Year 3 - Da Vinci - 100% - Primary Winners

Year 4 - Seacole - 100% - Primary Winners

Absences & Lates

If your child is too unwell to attend school or running late, please inform us as soon as possible by calling the school on 0208 262 2121 and pressing Option 1 before 8:30am or via email: attendance@school21.org.uk 
Please do not use the info@school21.org.uk email address.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Thank you to those who have registered with the Easy Fundraising platform, the donations have already started to come in!

For those who haven’t, 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 haven’t registered yet and are happy to help (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, 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. 

Astronaut Training

This week in Reception, we learned about the Sun, Mercury, and Venus. Some students dressed up as astronauts and pretended to work on a rocket getting ready to go to outer space. All students used their phonic knowledge to write what they knew about the Sun. Students compared Earth and Mercury, and mapped out the informational story we have been learning this week. Since astronauts are experts at reading and writing, we are working hard to say a word, listen for the sounds we hear and have a go at writing them down-- just like real astronauts. 

Police Officers  in Year 1

This week Year 1 had a visit from a police officer. We spoke about what the police do and learnt the number we need to call if we feel unsafe. After that we turned into police ourselves wearing the uniform and solving a crime!   

Hip, Hip, Array!

Year 2 have been working diligently in their Maths lessons, creating arrays for a lot of different mathematical problems. We have spent time solving challenges with talk partners and using counters and beadstrings to practically complete given questions.  We then moved our learning onto skip counting and doubling.  Look at our photographs, what do you think the equations could be?

Types of Government

Year 3 this week have been discussing different types of government in our Project lessons. We have learned what an anarchy, a dictatorship, democracy and communism are. The children have really enjoyed acting out the different forms of government and showing off their knowledge!

Primary and Secondary Source Exploration 

This week in Year 4 we used oracy to explore different sources in order to develop our understanding of what Africa was like before the Transatlantic Slave Trade began and what the key factors were in the establishment of a systematic slave trade. 

We focused our learning on asking clarifying and probing questions to work as a group to dive deeper into what we could learn from sources, and had regular whole class discussions to share our thoughts, feelings, opinions, and questions.

Clara Community Certificate Winners

Well done to those students who have gone above and beyond in building circles in our school community this week! You have made Clara very proud. 

Arbora, Zaheer, Tahsin, Shana, Zakariya, Kiana, Emily, Tiana, Darrius, Yuxi, Kitmun, Violet, Luca and Philip.

The Lunch Menu Next Week is Week 3!