Thursday 1st February 2018

NEXT WEEK:

Monday

Start of Friendship & E-Safety Week

Gymnastics

KS1 Chelsea Football

Stop Motion Animation Club

Tuesday

Years 5 and 6 Harry Potter Trip

Year 2 Class Assembly (3pm)

Guitar Lessons

KS2 Chelsea Football

Club

Wednesday

Gymnastics

Multi Sports (girls)

Coding Club

Thursday

Violin Lessons

Multi Sports (Yrs 3-5)

Friday

Gymnastics

Dear parent/carer,

Another jam packed week full of challenging learning and activities to keep our students busy! The children had lots of fun this week celebrating our first ever Poetry Week. Some of the activities planned included watching video clips of famous poets/authors sharing their favourite poems, a poetry writing competition and pupil performances of their own poems including music and sound effects.

Internet Safety

As a part of today’s Internet Safety Day, all pupils (Years 1 to 6) attended an E-Safety workshop led by Mary Rebelo (computing consultant). She will also be leading a workshop for all parents/carers this afternoon. We will be serving tea and coffee in the school hall from 2.45pm (her talk will start at 3pm). Each class will be doing some follow up work next week as a part of our planned E-Safety Week.

Friendship and E-Safety Week

Throughout next week we will be celebrating our Friendship Week in school. We have planned lots of cross-curricular work for the children to enjoy including art work and assemblies. On Monday, each child will pick a ‘secret friend’ who they need to make an extra special effort to be kind to all week. The identity of these ‘Secret Friends’ will be announced next Friday! We will also be holding our E-Safety Week at the same time with a focus on being kind and friendly online.

Teachers Hearing Pupils Read

All teachers aim to hear all of their pupils read at least every three weeks. When staff listen to readers, they do not write a comment in their Reading Record Book (as they keep a separate, agreed, record of reading progress).

Netball

On Monday 29^th January, the netball team played a match against St Bernadette’s. It was their best score all year despite the amount of girls who dropped out. They had a great time and are proud to be on the St Mary’s netball team. The team was integrated by Y5 (Hallie, Valentina, Abigail, Viola and Amelia) and Y6 (Orlaith.)

Year 2 Class Assembly

Year 2’s class assembly will take place next Tuesday 6^th February - at 3pm. All parents, carers and family members are most welcome to attend. The main entrance to school will be opened by a member of staff shortly before 3pm, so that all visitors can make their way to the school hall.

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Years 5 and 6 Trip

Next Tuesday (6^th Feb), Years 5 and 6 will visit the Harry Potter - Warner Brothers Studio in Leavesden. All pupils attending require a packed lunch in a disposable carrier bag (labelled with their name).

Half Term Holiday

Reminder: We break up for the February holiday on Friday 9^th February (usual time). Pupils are due back to school on Monday 19^th February. All early morning support groups (Yr6 Kent, Early Bird, 1:1 support) will resume on this day.

Request for Early Years

Could Early Years parents and carers donate any envelopes and writing paper to use in class. Thank you

Fundraising for the School

We are arranging a clothing collection to raise funds for the school for after half term. At the moment we have very little storage space and would ask that if you have any unwanted clothing you could store them for us. The clothes collection bags will be sent out week beginning 5^th February and we ask if these can be brought into school on Monday 19^th February as these will be collected first thing on Tuesday. We thank you in anticipation of receiving lots of bags of unwanted clothing, linens, shoes, bags and belts to raise money.

Upcoming Events

Date	Event
Mon 5^th Feb	Start of Friendship and E-Safety Week
Tue 6^th Feb	Year 2 Class Assembly (3pm)
Tue 6^th Feb	Years 5 and 6 Trip - Harry Potter Warner Bros. Studio Tour
Mon 12^th – Fri 16^th Feb	HALF TERM BREAK
Tue 20^th Feb	Year 3&4 Brentford Football
Tue 27^th Feb	Y1 & Y6 Stations of the Cross (Church)
Tue 27^th Feb	Year 3&4 Brentford Football
Mon 5^th Mar	Start of Test Week
Tue 6^th Mar	Year 3&4 Brentford Football
Tue 6^th Mar	Y2 & Y5 Stations of the Cross (Church)
Tue 6^th Mar	Year 3&4 Brentford Football
Thu 8^th Mar	Y6 Junior Citizens (Brunel University)
Mon 12^th Mar	Start of Book Week
Mon 12^th Mar	Prospective Parents Tour (1:30 pm)
Tue 13^th Mar	Year 3&4 Brentford Football
Tue 13^th Mar	Beditme stories (5:00 -5:45pm)
Thu 15^th Mar	Y3/Y4 LYG Tag Rugby
Fri 16^th Mar	Parents invited to read in classes 9:00- 10:00 am