Key Dates For Your Diary

Monday 10th February - Friday 14th February - Safer internet week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I1CGKuZZm8&feature=emb_logo&disable_polymer=true

Monday 10th February - Parent Workshop
How to keep your child safe online
(8:45am - 9:45am)

Date Change - Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th February -
Parent/Teacher Meetings
(3:30pm - 6:00pm)
https://thesource.school21.org.uk/Parents/Booking/Code?Length=7

Wednesday 12th February - Parent Information Session
Equality Week (3:15pm - 3:30pm)

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

Monday 24th - Friday 28th February - Equality Week Celebration (Please come to the workshop on 12.2.20 for more information, see posters in classroom windows)

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

Thursday 5th March - Swimming cancelled for Nightingale class

Thursday 12th March - Year 1 trip to Brick Lane
(More information to follow)

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

Wednesday 18th March - Friday 20th March - Book Fair
(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

Parent Meetings - Must be booked before 12:00pm on the day!

Please use this link -https://thesource.school21.org.uk/Parents/Booking/Code?Length=7 to book your parent meeting slot. You will need your child's unique 4 digit code which you used last term. If you need to get this again, please ask your class teacher. Remember to keep this safe as you will need it every term!

Bookings will close at 12pm on the day of the meetings so teachers can prepare books ready for the evening, so please make sure you book before this time.

Please use Ms Silver for Mandela and Ms Enabulele for Edison, even though currently they have their placement teachers.

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

This week you might need to do some trial error to solve the problem! Good luck!

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
17/01/2020 - 23/01/2020

Reception - De Coubertin - 95.8%

Year 1 - Mandela - 99.2% - Primary Winners

Year 2 - Coleman - 98.4%

Year 3 - Shakespeare - 99.2% - Primary Winners

Year 3 - Da Vinci - 99.2% - Primary Winners

Year 4 - Seacole - 97.5%

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!

Shining Star

We would like to congratulate Rohan on all his efforts to fundraise money for the National Literacy Trust - he was even featured in their newsletter (see below)! Currently he has raised £380. If you would like to read more about his mission or to donate to help Rohan smash his targets please visit his fundraising page here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/RohanPatel9

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.

Exploring Artefacts

As part of our learning on the Stone Age, year 1 have been exploring a range of artefacts. Our curiosity has been ignited by looking at these tools and pieces and wondering what they could've been used for. We inquired into how they might've been made and what materials they were made from. Naturally, all this excitement led to us having even more questions and ponderings about this fascinating time in history!

Fraction Fun in Year 2

This week Year 2 have been learning about fractions. They have been exploring halves and quarters, dividing even numbers equally. They found using cubes and counters helped them to reach the correct answers. Did you know that the line in a written fraction to divide the numerator with the denominator is called the vinculum?

Timelines and Tudors!

This week Year 3 we have been learning about an important tool for historians- we are learning how to use and read timelines! We looked all the way back to the dinosaurs which was was around 360,000,000 years ago! We then learned the difference between BC and AD and looked at when the Tudors were alive. We were fascinated about how old the world is and how much has happened!

Openness Certificate Winners

Well done to those students who went above and beyond in our value of openness - taking feedback + reflecting on your work to improve. You have made Otto very proud! Lizanne, Yasna, Shifah, Aryan, Elissa, Arion, Yameen, Zipi, Rayna, Melani, Jase, Cartier and Markas.

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