Primary Newsletter

 Dates For Your Diary

Friday November 30th - Nurses in for flu vaccinations 

Friday 30th November - Festival of Light Reception, Year 1 & Year 2 -  (10:30am - 11:30am)  Year 3, Year 4 & Year 5 (4:00pm - 5:15pm)

Tuesday 4th December - 7th December - Book Fair

Monday 10th December - Parks & Newton Trip to St John's 

Tuesday 11th December - De Coubertin Trip to St John's 

Wednesday 12th December - Year 4 Walking Tour 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Thursday 13th December - Help the Refugee Fundraiser 
(3:30pm - 4:30pm)

Friday 14th December - Christmas Jumper Day 

Friday 14th December - School Xmas Dinner 

Friday 14th December - Child of the Term Assembly

Wednesday 19th December - Whole School Exhibition 
(4:30pm - 6:30pm)

Friday 21st December - Last day of Term 1:00pm Finish

If you would like your child to attend Magic Breakfast Club, please email Miss Dilger. 

cdilger@school21.org.uk 

Please indicate weather your child is in Primary, Middle or Secondary School. 

NOTICES:

Important Notice: 

From Monday 12th November, the Primary gates will not be opened until 2:55pm ready for a 3:00pm collection. This is due to the fact that many lessons are still taking place at this time and children may be working in the playground. Thank you for your co-operation and understanding.

Parents should not be waiting in the Front Office reception area after 4:30pm without a staff member. If you are waiting to collect from a club you must wait outside the building. 

Morning break snacks are to be fruit (fresh, dried etc) not biscuits or cereal bars. Please leave these items for lunch or after school clubs snacks. 

Primary Attendance Winner WC 12.11.18

Reception - De Coubertin - 95.38&

Year 1 - Pankhurst - 100% Joint Winners!!! 

Year 2 - Monet - 100% Joint Winners!!! 

Year 3 - Da Vinvi - 99.60%

Year 4 - Seacole - 97.92%

Maths 

This week in Reception we have been working hard in maths. We have started learning how to add together two parts to make a whole. We have also been trying to find a lot of different ways to represent numbers. Here you can see us finding representations of the numbers 0-6 to put in the right order. We needed to use our star words with our talk partners and speak in full sentences to show that we understood. Some of our star words this week were: part, whole, altogether and plus. 

Can I ask you a question?

Year 1 have been learning about endangered and extinct animals this week and about some of the causes of animal endangerment. We decided to conduct a survey of pupils and adults across school to find out which animals they would most like to save if they were in danger. Pandas came out on top with the most votes and mice and snakes were right at the bottom with the fewest. Hedgehogs were a surprise frontrunner!

Picasso Portraits

This term, Year 2 are creating portraits of people from the Stratford community. Each class has had the opportunity to use the secondary art studios to create Picasso inspired self-portraits. The children thought carefully about the shapes they would need to use to show their different facial features. They used oil pastels on black paper to create their Picasso inspired art work. This week Year 2 students have also had the pleasure of hearing real life stories of exciting adventures from members of the Stratford community. The children will be writing their own versions of the community’s stories for our final project. 

Year 3 Fossil Hunters

The children of year 3 have been hard at work over the last week. In their Friday science lesson they created their own fossils and revealed them after the weekend. The children really enjoyed seeing the patterns from the shells on their fossils. As the fundraiser for Help the Refugees approaches, the children have become experts on the matter, drafting informative leaflets in storytelling to share their knowledge with others. Finally, in Maths, they have been continuing to deepen their understanding of addition and subtraction by learning a variety of written and mental methods for solving equations. 

Stories of the Past

This week, we have been honing in on stories of individual experiences of people living near Stratford during World War 2. Teachers rotated around the classroom retelling war time stories which the students unpicked and then identified which particularly resonated with them. This is in preparation for the walking tour the students will begin to design next week. Alongside this, we have been working on telling scenes from Goodnight Mr Tom through speech, and discussing language rules which sit alongside this. In Maths we have developed our use of short multiplication methods in solving real world problems, next week we will begin to look at division in more depth. Thank you for supporting the students in recalling their times tables through times table rockstars or otherwise, speed and accuracy are both on the up.  

Spelling Bee Winners 

This week the primary participated in a spelling bee organised by some of our year 10 students as part of their Real World Learning project. The winners from each year group were: Hannah, Uma, Amna and Taheem. Well done to everyone who took part - you all worked extremely hard to learn the spelling words and spoke very confidently in front of your peers! 

Community Fundraiser

We are children from Year 3 at School 21 who want to make a difference. We will be learning about how to help refugees in our project at school and organizing our own fundraiser at our school to donate to Help the Refugees UK.   

Year 3 will be organizing a community fundraiser for the charity Help Refugees UK on Thursday 13th December.

This will be held in the Primary Hall at 3:30pm - 4:30pm.

Come and help the children raise money and awareness to support refugees who are living in harsh conditions this winter!

Learn about what life is like for a refugee from the Year 3 children!

Games, Activities and Fun!

https://donate.helprefugees.org/supporters/how-can-we-help-people-who-are-far-from-home/150/    

Oracy Teach Meet

This Years Oracy Teach Meet is happening on Wednesday 5th December at School 21 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm Light refreshments will be provided.

This event would suit anyone interested to find out more about how oracy skills are implemented across the curriculum or what is happening in the classrooms of school 21. Unfortunately this event is not suitable for children and we will not be able to accommodate buggies. 

If you would like to come and hear how teachers across the school are using oracy to craft rich and innovative classroom practice empowering students to find their voice, please register for a ticket on the eventbrite page here:  bit.ly/2PLOpGN  

Missing Scooter

Light blue micro scooter with pink details has gone missing, if found please contact the School Office.

Special Offer at ZapSpace 

The manager of Zapspace, our local trampolining venue has kindly offered all School 21 students access to sessions for £5.00. Bring your child along to any freestyle bounce sessions during the school term for just £5.00.

Please collect a registration form and return to ZAPspace, you will be sent a membership card for you to have access to this deal. For those of you who haven't been along, it's 50 yards from Discover Centre on Stratford High Street, behind the school on the corner opposite Stratford High Street rail. 

Overdue Library Books

Please return your overdue library books! We currently have over 500 books overdue. This means that students are unable to borrow popular books. 

Students are allowed to borrow up to three books for a loan period of one month and can be renewed after this period should the need arise. Any books that are lost or damaged must be replaced. 

Mrs Fisher
Librarian

Phonics - Letter Sound Pronunciation 

We have recently created some helpful resources for you to use at home, to help you and your child with phonics.  Set 1, set 2 and set 3 sounds have been filmed, showing you how to pronounce the different letter sounds correctly, including digraphs (two letters one sound) and trigraphs (three letters one sound).  You can find the videos on the School 21 website, on the primary curriculum page.  We hope that you find this useful.

Next Weeks Lunch Menu is Week 3!

Dear Parent/Carer,

FREE ‘Magic Breakfast’ for ALL Children!

We have been given a grant to support us with our new Breakfast provision which will start on Monday 26th November 2018. This grant runs for 18 months but we hope to continue after that time.

Our Breakfast Club will be open from 7:45am every day. No children from 8:10am will be able to go through the School Reception Office. All children must enter via the School Reception Office to be registered. The children can tuck in to a healthy breakfast, enjoy a variety of fun activities including arts and crafts, books and reading, sports and exercise, and then go on to their classroom, ready to learn by 8:30am.

There is no cost for this fantastic morning session, we only ask for your kind volunteer donation. There will be a donation box in the School Reception Office every morning. To make it easier for us, please register your child by emailing Miss Dilger but you can just turn up on the day!

But that’s not all, every morning, we will have bagel station open. One outside the Primary entrance at 8:15am and one outside the Secondary entrance from 7:45am where pupils can take a fresh plain bagel. This will be available to all children in the school free of charge.

Our bagels are specifically made to be “child friendly” and are low in sugar and low in salt.

Research has shown that children who have a healthy breakfast achieve more at school – make sure your child doesn’t miss out!

We look forward to seeing you at breakfast!

Miss Charlie DIlger
Primary Deputy Head