Middle School Newsletter

HAPPY HALF TERM MIDDLE SCHOOL! 

From the whole team at Middle School team we wish all our families and communities a relaxing, fun and safe half term. 

Dates For Your Diary 

Half term break - Monday 18th February - Friday 22rd February

Monday 25th February - 1st March: British Science Week

Monday 25th February - Friday 29th February: Book Fair

Wednesday 27th February: Above and Beyond Out and About trip for February 

Friday 1st March: Drugs awareness and safety workshop (Years 7 & 8)

Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th February & Friday 1st March: Hairspray Musical performances 18:00- 20:00

Thursday 7th March: World Book Day 

Friday 8th March: Y8 Lantern Project team & Y6 'Night Walk' fundraiser - Olympic Park 5:30pm

Tuesday 12th March & Wednesday 13th March: Parent's Evenings 15:30 - 17:30

W/B/ Monday 18th March: Middle School Bring a Parent to School week (TBC)

Friday 22nd March: Family Film Night - film TBC 17:30 - 19:30

Thursday 28th March: Great Oracy Exhibition (school closed)

Friday 29th March: Above and Beyond Out and About trip for March 

Friday 5th April: Last day of term - school finishes at 13:00

Attendance Winners - week beginning 04/02/19

Year 5 - Matterhorn 97.6% Joint winner

Year 6 - Kosciusko - 97.6% Joint winner

Year 7 - Himalayas 96.8%

Year 8 - Fuji 97.6% Joint winner

Half term check in

Our current overall highest attendance is Matterhorn! Keep it up for the next half term to win the free Zap Space session with your class. 

92.1 Machu Picchu
96.2 Snowdon
97.4 Matterhorn in the lead!

95.7 Everest
95.3 Kosciuszko
95.0 Kilimanjaro

95.6 Himalayas
94.2 Ben Nevis
93.7 Rockies

94.3 Fuji
94.0 Olympus
93.5 Mont Blanc
 

Spreading the Love 

While we had no official Valentine's Day activities, Nela made our day by asking 'Will you be my Valentine?' on a tiny slip of paper, then offering a free hug if you accepted. It brightened Ms Silvain's day as you can see! 

The Lantern Project

After half term we will be holding a Lantern Walk at the Olympic Park! This is the culminating event for the Year 6 & Year 8 project 'How can we bring light to those who need it most?' The students have selected a number of projects from www.lanternprojects.org to support as they seek out sponsorship for the walk. A letter with further information and how to support the event will come home when we get back from the half term. 

Family Maths Night!

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Family Maths night on Thursday last week. We had over 20 different families come along to compete for chocolates, board games and slime! Congratulations to Vlad and his family who took out first place and his very own Fortnite Monopoly game. We are keen to run another evening in the Summer term - watch this space for updates! 

Climate Change Activists

Lately there has been a lot of media attention on campaigns run by students encouraging strikes to protest climate change happening around Europe and the UK. #YouthStrike4Climate and #FridaysforFuture are examples of this movement. The students of Fuji class were moved by this mission and on Friday took to the streets of Stratford to share their message. We were very proud to support the Y8 students who felt very passionately about this cause.  

International Visitors

This week School 21 hosted a number of PGCE students and their professor who were visiting all the way from Japan! They were interested in learning about the different practices School 21 uses in our teaching and learning, especially Oracy and how we make our Middle School model work. IK, Iliana and Adil did a fantastic job of talking all about how we do things at School 21 - they were so eloquent and knowledgeable that there wasn't any need for the adults to speak! They should be very proud of how well they represent our school. 

Recognition last week 

Here are the 'Big Names' that filled our recognition board last 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!

We are running a very successful club every morning from 7:45 to 8:25  (last entry 8:10).

I would like to remind everyone of the Breakfast Club Code of Conduct so that parents can share this with their children.

• All pupils are expected to pack away resources and tidy the area.

• No pupils to leave the club area without the permission of an adult.

• Middle School pupils to stay in the club until 8:20. Pupils are not allowed into Middle School until this time.

• Pupils should help each other and be supportive of each other.

• Pupils will be warned about inappropriate behaviour twice then parents will be informed.

• If the behaviour continues pupils will not be able to attend for a week.

• If conduct does not improve they will not be allowed to attend the club for the rest of that half term.

• Extreme behaviour will result in a ban.

The club is for everyone to enjoy themselves in a friendly and safe environment. Thank you for your support.

Great Offer from CAMHS

CAMHS are offering parents a Open Door one off week 4th until 8th February (first time they have ever done this) where they can drop in for a 20 - 30 session regarding their child and will then follow up in needs be - please see link:

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/News/Newham-Child-and-Adolescent-Mental-Health-Services-Open-Their-Doors 

This is not intended for families who are already engaging with CAMHS. 

Tickets are now on sale to watch this year's production of Hairspray!

Please come and support the wonderful cast, production team and community choir! 

Purchase via Parentpay for the night you wish to attend.

Dates are:

Wednesday 27th February

Thursday 28th February

Friday 1st March

6:00pm - 8.15pm

£5 adults

£3 students

Students up to and including Y6 must be accompanied by an adult