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
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 Friday 20th December - Non School Uniform Day
Just One Tree - (More information below)
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
Monday 13th & Tuesday 14th January - Police Workshops
(More Information to follow)
Wednesday 15th January - Year Trip to the Museum of London Docklands (More Information to follow)
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)
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 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=sharingClimbing 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
06/12/19 - 12/12/19 Reception - Parks - 94.60%Year 1 - Kadinsky - 96.5%Year 2 - Coleman - 96.40%Year 3 - Da Vinci - 100% - Joint Primary WinnersYear 4 - Obama - 100% - Joint Primary Winners
Child of the TermWell done to our Autumn 'Child of the Term' winners! You have truly embodied our values this term and have become shining role models for others! Congratulations to Jasmine, Jessie, Kairon, Zara, Minami, Zara, Emily, Ahmad, Amelia, Amir, William, Uma, Sumayah, Michael and Javan.
100% Attendance Well done to all the students who had 100% attendance this term! I hope to see many more of us being celebrated next term!
First Aid NoticeDear Parent's/Carers,There is an outbreak of
Hand Foot & Mouth in the Borough please read the NHS guidelines linked below on what to do and how to deal with it.
Missing Scooter This scooter was left in the bike racks at the front of the school. If you have mistakenly taken, please can you return to the front office of the school.
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 muchAll at School 21
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.
Reception Newsletter In the build up to the exhibition, the Reception children have been working really hard to finish their final product: lanterns designed with something that makes us happy. We reused milk bottles to create sustainable lanterns to light up our Reception corridor. Their final designs, lanterns and diva lamps were
displayed at exhibition and some of the children loved coming to see their final products. We are really proud of all the children’s hard work over the Autumn term and wish everyone a wonderful Christmas break!
How Year 1 Stole Christmas! This week, we were lucky enough to be invited to the Stratford Picture House to see The Grinch. We have spent this half term learning about similarities and differences and how our thoughts and beliefs may be different to those of our peers. It was really sad when The Grinch felt nobody understood him, but we
were ecstatic to see that he did not spend Christmas alone. We felt really lucky to have the whole cinema screen to ourselves and the snack was really great too!
Product Plarn Products!This week Year 2 have been busy turning their plarn into products to sell at exhibition. Who knew we could make so much out of rubbish! Make sure you come to exhibition next Wednesday to see what they have made to learn from them how to make plarn yourself.
Island Innovators!Our product for exhibition is well underway and our second drafts of our illustrative maps have turned out brilliantly! We have included our knowledge about geographical features, different types of islands, coordinates, compass skills and navigation in order to create brilliant board games for our authentic audience to play.
Our next step is to finalise our third drafts and also create our own rules in order to teach the games to people at exhibition! Come and find out about our Peter Pan themed board games next week at our board game tornament!
Well what a first term we have had! It seems a long time ago that we were storymapping 'the boy in the dress' for the first time and creating our discussion guidelines. This week we have focussed on finishing our amazing documentary voiceovers ready for exhibition on Wednesday. We have practiced and critiqued our voiceovers, focussing on making our voices as dramatic and impactful as possible. We can't wait to show you the final pieces!Thank you so much for all your hard work and efforts this half term, and we all hope you have a brilliant, restful festive period ready for more in the New Year!
Clara Community Certificate winnersWell done to all the students who have gone above and beyond in showing community in their classroom, the playground and the wider school! Clara community is very proud Daiane, Iqra, Trinity, Luoning, Zayn, Muhammad, Adam, Samira, Kai, Shruti, Emma and
Kadijatou!
Please note the Lunch Menu has changed.The Lunch Menu After the Break 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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