Middle School Newsletter

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Key Dates

Tuesday 26th November: Year 6 Visit to the British Museum
Thursday 28th November:  Student Safety Workshop for Parents
5:15pm - 6:00pm (See below for details)
Friday 29th November:  November Above and Beyond Hot Chocolate Trip
Monday 2nd December:  Year 8 Anti-Knife Crime workshop (P2P Education - Newham funded, throughout the day one coaching group at a time) 
Tuesday 3rd December:  Year 6 Residential Parents' Information Meetings  
(2 Sessions - 8:45am - 9:30am and 5:00pm - 5:45pm)
Thursday 5th December:  Year 8 Peasants' Revolt Project Group trip to Tower of London 12:00pm - 4:30pm (Selected students)
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Friday 6th December: Reception - Year 2 Festival of Light Concert
10:30am - 11:30am
Friday 6th December:  Year 3 - 5 Festival of Light Concert
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Thursday 12th December:  Year 6 - 8 Festival of Light Concert
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Friday 13th December:  Christmas Jumper Day & Christmas Dinner 
Tuesday 17th December:  Reception - Year 6 Flu Vaccine
(More Information below)
Wednesday 18th December:  Exhibition of Beautiful Work
4:30pm - 6:30pm (School finishes at 1:00pm)
Thursday 19th December:  Attendance Award Trip - Winning coaching group for Autumn visiting Zap Space / Attendance Award Trip - Individuals with 100% Punctuality and Attendance (More Information to Follow)
Thursday 19th December:  Year 9 - 13 Festival of Light Concert
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Friday 20th December:  Just One Tree Free Dress Day - £1.00 Donation
Friday 20th December:  School finishes at 1:00pm
Monday 23rd December - Monday 6th January: Christmas Holidays 
Monday 6th January:  School closed for INSET Day
Tuesday 7th January:  School resumes for students

Middle School Attendance Winners

5 Matterhorn 98.1%

6 Kilimanjaro 99.1% OVERALL WINNERS

7 Ben Nevis 98.5% 

8 Olympus 96.3%

There are 3 more weeks before a winning coaching group is announced for the term to go on the Zap Space trip! The winner has changed each week over the last 3 weeks - keep it up everyone!

Year 7 iPads Update

Please click this link for the letter sent out regarding 1:1 devices. The portal is currently open for orders and key dates for the iPad roll out are as follows: 

Portal open from - Monday 18th November 2019

Portal closes - Tuesday 3rd December 2019 - No orders can be accepted after this date!

Device collection dates - 09/01/19 & 10/01/19 (3:15pm - 4:00pm and 5:15pm - 6:00pm) 

If you missed our parents' information session last term, the slides presented are available by clicking here. This will give you information about Acceptable Use, how we ensure students' safety online and how the iPads are used to enrich the curriculum. Information on the pricing and how to order is available here. 

If you have any questions, please contact your child's coach or Ms Kyrk. 

Please see Middle School After School Clubs Timetable below:

Electrifying Science

This week in science Year 6 explored static electricity. As part of their lessons, they got to see a demonstration of how a Van de Graaf Generator works and the effect this has when the electrons created get moving! Ms Kyrk and Ms Leggett had a turn at being mad professors! 

Future Sports Stars

A huge well done goes out to Kwabene and Cindy for being invited back to the Street 2 Stadium programme. This initiative aims to talent select young people who show particular promise, then train them to potentially compete in future athletic events, including the Olympics and Paralympics. After their initial try out sessions, both students have been invited back to participate which is a huge accomplishment. We look forward to seeing what happens next for them!

More Green Star Winners... plus our first Red Stars!

Congratulations to this weeks' additions to the Green Star winners list: 

Year 5: Bryn, Emelia-Rae, Hanna, Jenny, Makai, Michelle, Taheem
Year 6: Amina, Ayesha, Iqra, Kayja, Khadija, Sara, Zofia
Year 7: Alishamay, Darius, Milo, Nela, Reem, Xiayan, Zoha, Zuhayr
Year 8: Ariyan, Erich, Grace, Isaac, Nima, Rafee, Vlad, Yasmin

Congratulations too to Zayn in Year 8 who is the third person to reach their Red Star milestone!

Student Safety Workshop

A letter was sent home last week with details of a Student Safety workshop that Mr Coogan (Head of Standards 4-18) and Ms Kyrk will be collaboratively running. This workshop aims to inform parents of the strategies the school has put in place to support student safety and will share information about the partnerships and opportunities School 21 offers our students and the wider community on this issue. We also welcome feedback and suggestions from our families. The workshop will run on Thursday 28th November from 5:15pm - 6:00pm. If you would like to attend this session, please RSVP by clicking on this link. 

Millionaire Readers

Congratulations to Zain and Akshaya in Year 6 for becoming our newest Millionaire Readers and earning their bronze badge! They join Rafee in Year 8. Who will be next? Keep using Accelerated Reader to record your word numbers. If you are unsure of how to access this, please speak to your coach / class teacher or see Ms Druce! 

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

Flu Vaccine Information

The 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 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.

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.

School Lunches

A reminder that Year 5 and 6 students continue to receive free school lunches as part of the Mayor of Newham's initiative, however, when students start Year 7 they must pay for their school lunches through your Parent Pay account. A letter was sent again last week regarding this, including how to sign up through the Newham website if you feel you are eligible for Free School Meals. 

The letter is available again by clicking here. 

All families can sign up for Free School Meals (if eligible) at any time; it is advisable that current Year 6 parents look into doing so this year to avoid delays when their child starts Year 7. 

If your account runs out of funds, students are to visit Ms Nandra in E1 at lunch time - she will support students to get their lunch that day, and will contact parents to remind them to top up the account. Please note, we are unable to keep providing lunch for your child if the balance is still negative. 

If you have any questions or require any support to sign up for Free School Meals, please contact Ms Nandra through the front reception or via email at rnandra@school21.org.uk. 

Update your Child's Walking Home Alone Permission

All Year 5 and 6 students whose parents give permission for them to travel home alone must complete the online permission form sent home earlier this week. The link for doing so is available again here. 

Please note that students will not be permitted to walk home unless this permission has been received. If you have any problems completing the form, please contact the front reception for support. Please also remember that if someone who is not the regular adult collects your child, they must give the password for collection. Thank you for your support in this matter. 

Middle School Homework

This year all of our 12 coaching groups / classrooms have their own Google Classroom set up. All home learning tasks will be set through these online portals. Parents are warmly invited to sign up as guardians on these classrooms; this will give you the opportunity to see all the tasks set for your child so you can keep up to date and support them at home. If you would like to be added to your child's classroom, please follow this link to add your details. 

Recognition Board

Our recognition board experienced some technical difficulties midweek, however all the names were packed onto the other days! Another big week with almost 700 names added. Can you spot yours below? 

Please note the Lunch Menu has changed

The Lunch Menu for This Week is Week 2!