Headteacher: Mr Oli de Botton Middle School NewsletterTo our Middle School Community,We hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend and welcome our community back for another great week. With this very short half term flying by, we are already half way through the half term and almost into our single-digit countdown of weeks left until the end of the year! Please read through the notices and stories to hear all about what Middle School got up to last week and what exciting things are coming up. Dates For Your Diary Return Date for Academic Year 2019/2020 - Monday 9th September Wednesday 8th May: Selected Y7 & Y8 Students to Monday 13th - Thursday 16th May: Year 6 SATs Exams Friday 17th May: Year 6 Celebration in the Park day! Friday 17th May: Year 8 Salesforce Project group Thursday 23rd May: Year 8 Salesforce Project group Friday 24th May: Above and Beyond Out and About for May Monday 27th - Friday 31st May: Half Term Break Tuesday 4th June: Year 7 History of Surgery Project Group trip to The London Dungeons (TBC - more information to follow) Thursday 13th June: Y6 Chessington visit (TBC - more information to follow) Monday 1st July: Middle School Sports Day (West Ham Park) Thursday 4th July: The Band Project Performance Evening Friday 5th July: Summer Fair (Primary + 5/6) Monday 8th July - Friday 12th July: Y6 Residential Trip - In2Action Gloucester Thursday 18th July: Summer Exhibition of Beautiful Work (4:30pm - 6:30pm) Friday 19th July: Last day of the Year - School Closing at 1:00pm Term Dates for 2019/2020Attendance Winners - Week Beginning 29/05/2019 Year 5 Matterhorn - 97.3% OVERALL MIDDLE SCHOOL WINNERYear 6 Kosciuszko 97.1% Year 7 Himalayas 96.6% Year 8 Fuji 95.7% Year 5 Bounce into ZapSpace Last week Matterhorn class visited ZapSpace after winning the overall attendance award for Spring Term! Ms Hartzell and the Y5s had a great time bouncing around all of the obstacles. The race is back on for winning highest attendance for the summer term. So far, both winners have been Year 5 classes... can any other year group steal the crown? Badges for the individual attendance winners are on order but we are still waiting for these to arrive. They will be handed out as soon as they do to those students who had perfect attendance and punctuality (to school in the mornings and all lessons throughout the day) for last term. Year 5 Illustrators This week year five have been learning how to draw horses in preparation for writing their illustrated books of The Highwayman. They used shapes to get the correct proportions and then filled in the details following a step by step guide, and they're looking pretty good so far! Celebrating our Community Over the last holiday, some Middle School representatives took part in the Hope Football Camp which was held at School 21. Congratulations to all of our students who took part - everyone received a certificate, Jerry in Y5 received a medal for 'best attitude', Luke in Y6 won a trophy for 'Players' Player of the Tournament' and Zain in Y5 won a trophy for 'Coach's Player of the Tournament. Well done for representing Middle School so well everyone! If you have an achievement outside of school that you would like celebrated in our newsletter, please email a short blurb with a picture or two to Ms Kyrk via akyrk@school21.org.uk. Year 6 Residential Payment Reminder Please remember that the deadline for final payment of the Year 6 residential is due by this Friday, 10th May. Payments can be made via ParentPay. Please contact your child's teacher or Ms Kyrk if there are any problems or concerns with making the payment by this date. A letter with full information on the residential, including timings and what to pack, will be sent home this week. To see more information about the residential venue, please visit www.in2action.co.uk and visit the Whitemead Forest Park option on the map in the 'Where we do it' section. Curriculum Overview Letters - Summer Term 2019Above and Beyond! Last week the April winners of the Above and Beyond Out and About hot chocolate treat finally got to visit Cafe XIX! Congratulations to Jasmine, Sara, Ayesha, Dara, Zara, Abdi, Daria, Blerona, Yahya, Sumana, Rajib and Simran for being selected. May's winners will be going on their treat this week. Watch this space... A Big Thank YouI would like to say a massive thank you to all the parents for their donations of cakes and treats! There wasn't a single soggy bottom in sight and I hope everyone enjoyed our variety of cakes and treats.A special thank you to the parents of Primary and Middle school for helping out with the bake sale, even in the rain we had a smile on our faces.We made £174.45p, and this is all down to us as a community working together to support one another.Thank you so much once again.Recognition last week Our recognition boards with filled with names again this week. Congratulations and thank you to all who demonstrated working in the zone, choosing kind and stepping up - you make our Middle School community #middlestrong! The Lunch Menu has changed - please see the changes above.The Lunch Menu this week is Week 3!Receiving Emails from SchoolThose 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. |