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 Key Dates For Your Diary

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)

Tuesday 12th December - Flu Vaccines 
(Letters to have been given out)

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

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 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

After 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 Frame

We 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. 

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. 

Primary Attendance Winners
8/11/19 - 14/11/19 

Reception - Parks -  96.3%

Year 1 - Pankhurst - 97.3%

Year 2 - Edison - 99.20% - Primary Winners

Year 3 - Einstein - 97.2%

Year 4 - Nightingale - 99.20% - Primary Winners

Mrs Drummond's Challenge 

Well done to those of you who tried to solve last week's challenge - it was one you had to think deeply about! Try this week's - it's another rebus puzzle but I have added some clues to help you! 

Parent Workshop

Perfectionism and me - When good is never good enough

Perfectionism 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 support

Duration: 1 hour 

Date: Friday 29th November - 8:30am - 9:30am

Facilitator: George Brown 

If you would like to take part please email your interest to Mrs Drummond at mdrummond@school21.org.uk 

Tate Britain Celebrities

School 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!

Prematurity Awareness month

November is Prematurity Awareness Month.  Each year, more than 15 million babies are born prematurely, with one million of them dying and many thousands surviving to face a lifetime of disability, simply because they didn't have enough time to grow. One of our parents who have been through this shares her story with us all in hopes to help and support others, as well as raise awareness. Please click on the following link to view the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50aftCP09-I&feature=youtu.be  

First Aid Notice

If you son/daughter needs to take medication at school it has to be brought to school by an adult and a form needs to be signed.  Please do not send medication in with your son/daughter as this is going against our school policy and the medication may not be administered.  Your help and cooperation is greatly appreciated.

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 much

All at School 21

Primary Library Visits

To 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:

Kandinsky

Edison

Tuesday:

Shakespeare 

Monet

Wednesday:

Coleman

Nightingale

Thursday:

Seacole

Pankhurst

Mandela

Friday:

Einstein

Da Vinci

Obama

Mrs Fisher
Librarian

Sun Newspaper

The 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 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. 

Flu Vaccine Information (Reception - Year 6)

Can all vaccine forms be returned by Monday 25th November 2019 as they will be collected by the vaccine nurses.  The vaccines will be happening on Tuesday 17th December 2019.  Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.  

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 

Local walk to see the lights of Stratford 

This week in Reception we went on our very first outing! We went on a local walk to see what lights we could find that help us around school and Stratford. We found street lights, lanterns, shop lights, traffic lights and lights on vehicles. The children were really excited to go on their first trip and their behaviour was exemplary. A massive thank you to all the parents who also volunteered their time to make the walk possible.

Cha-Cha sliding into Maths

This week in Year 1 we have been looking at direction and position. We used the Cha-Cha slide as a warm up and then used our knowledge of direction to programme the BeeBots on the iPad. 

Making Plarn

This week Year 2 learnt how to make plarn (plastic yarn).  They cut up plastic bags and tied them together to make long strings.  As our project continues we're going to use our plarn to make all sorts of different things!

Exploring Explanation Texts

This week in Year 3 we have begun a new writing unit. Over the next few weeks we will be learning how to write explanation texts for Non-Fiction writing about “How are Islands are Formed?”. We will be looking at the language features included in explanation texts such as causal conjunctions, paragraphs, technical vocabulary and impersonal tone!

There's something fishy going on!

This week Year 4 have been focusing on The Great Barrier Reef in our project. As well as learning key information about this ecosystem we have focused on the key threats. We have used talk roles to explore arguments relating to coral bleaching and global warming. We looked at the process of why and how our reefs are dying and discussed what impact this may have on our wider planet. This information has also helped some of us in our non-chronological report writing. 

Excellence Certificate

Well done to those students who were celebrated this week for going above and beyond in living our value of excellence! You have made Ebo Excellence very proud of you! Well done to Wilson, Keya, Ezekiel, Nikola, Amelia, Danish, Ayman, Hector, Marcel, Oliver, Rahiq, Sumayah, William, Javan and Natsu.

Please note the Lunch Menu has changed.

The Lunch Menu Next Week is Week 2!

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