Key Dates For Your Diary

Monday 17th - Friday 21st February - Half Term
 (School closed for all students) 

 Monday 24th - Friday 28th February - Equality Week Celebration 

Thursday 5th March - World Book Day - 'Share a Story' 

Thursday 5th March - Swimming cancelled for Nightingale class 

Monday 16th March - Friday 20th March - History Week
(More information to follow) 

Wednesday 18th March - Newton Class Trip to  Greenwich Planetarium and Observatory 
(More information to follow)

Monday 23rd March - Friday 27th March -
Bring a Parent to School Week - Maths Focus
(More information to follow)

Wednesday 25th March - Parks and De Coubertin Class Trip to  Greenwich Planetarium and Observatory
(More information to follow)

Thursday 26th March - INSET Day 
(School closed to all Students)

Monday 30th March - Child of the Term Assembly
(Invited Parents Only) 

Tuesday 31st March - Year 4 Spark Speeches at Salesforce Tower
(More information to follow)
 

Thursday 2nd April - 100% Attendance Assembly
(More information to follow)

Thursday 2nd April - Child of the Term Trip
(More information to follow)

Friday 3rd April - 100% Attendance Treat
(More information to follow)

Friday 3rd April - Last Day of Spring Term - 1pm finish

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 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

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. 

Mrs Drummond's Challenge

Well done to all the students who completed last weeks challenge.  This week is a bigger challenge for the half term!

School Security

To help ensure the security of our school site, the main primary gates will be closed and locked promptly at 3:30pm each day. Please make sure you have collected your scooter and made your way off site before this time. 

Primary Attendance Winners
24/01/2020 - 30/01/2020
 

Reception - De Coubertin - 95.8%

Year 1 - Kandinsky - 98.9% - Primary Winners

Year 2 - Monet - 97.7%

Year 3 -  Da Vinci - 98.1%

Year 4 - Seacole - 95.8%

Absences & Lates

If your child is too unwell to attend school or running late, please inform us as soon as possible by calling the school on 0208 262 2121 and pressing Option 1 before 8:30am or via email: attendance@school21.org.uk 
Please do not use the info@school21.org.uk email address.

Receiving Emails from School 

Those 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.

World Book Day 

https://www.worldbookday.com/2019/09/world-book-day-2020-launch/   

This year's theme is 'Share a story' so if you would like to dress up on Thursday 5th March, we are encouraging you to select your favourite character from a story and dress as them - bring the book along with you so you can 'share the story' of your character! 

Amazing Sensory Experience

Sensory Experience at the Southbank Centre until the end of February. A great half term activity!

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/138917-soundpit-201920 

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 much

All at School 21

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. 

Amazing Aliens!

This week in Reception we have been continuing our space project by learning more about the planet Saturn. We read a lot of stories about aliens and have responded by using different materials to make our own wonderful creatures. We then thought about what the aliens might say to each other and wrote speech bubbles.

Elsewhere in Reception, there has been some amazing writing this week and we can’t wait to see what you get up to over half term!

Nice Lice 

 This week in Year 1 we let some woodlice free in our classroom! We are studying different habitats as part of our unit on 'living things' and have devised an experiment to see if wood lice like dark, damp or light environments most. We will spend the week observing them before delivering our final results! 

What was Rationing?

This week in Year 2 we have started exploring what rationing was in World War 2 and how it affected different people. We explored how for some people rationing actually meant they got more food.  We're looking forward to cooking some rationing recipes after half term!

Investigation Time!

In Maths and Science this week in Year 4 we have been collaboratively planning and carrying out investigations!

Numbers day came first, we used the book 'The lions share' to see what would happen to a cake if it was passed around a group with everyone taking a half of what's left. It was so interesting to see how small the pieces became very quickly, one group found 1/16558 of the cake! 

In science, we designed our own tests to see how muscle strength may be affected by regular exercise - we collected and analysed our own data. Thank you for everyone's hard work and effort this half term, we hope everyone has a restful break.

Clara Community Certificate Winners

Well done to those students who went above and beyond in showing our value of community this week! 

Clara is very proud of Haleema, Luca, Kareeca, Ayman, Mikaeel, Ashpika, Eva, Salahdin, Michael, Yameen, Noor, Lacy, Avi, Jordan and Naomi. 

 Next week's value: Responsibility.  Can your child tell you how they can show this value and earn a certificate? 

The Lunch Menu After the Half Term is Week 1!