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Welcome back to school and the beginning of Year 6!

What a successful start to the year so far! It has been wonderful to see the children settle into their new classes so quickly and adapt to the new rules and routines of St Mark’s life.

The children have literally got their teeth stuck into our first topic, Rumble in the Jungle, starting with an Amazon Rainforest inspired Bush Tucker Trial! Please don’t worry if your children have come home saying they’ve eaten bizarre sounding foods – we promise they were all edible! Some of the jungle delicacies on offer included Parrot Intenstines (strawberry laces), Frogs’ Eyes (peeled grapes and raisins) and Sloth Droppings (prunes and chocolate covered raisins)!

Parrot Intestines
Monkey Vomit
Frogs’ Eyes
Sloth Droppings

With these delicious dishes in mind, along with a few from their own imaginations, the children be creating their own descriptive Amazon restaurant menus. We can’t wait to see if you’re tempted after reading them.

Look out for our Year 6 Knowledge Organiser and Curriculum Information leaflet coming out this week. We are looking forward to a wonderful year with our superstar Year 6 children!

Many thanks,

Mrs Silvester, Mrs Chapman and Miss Barnett

Symptoms and self-isolation – important updated guidance

Please ensure that you read the following NHS online guidance about:

Self-isolation impacts the child and households members (including parents/carers and siblings), so please read it carefully! Remember, if a child or adult has a new continuous cough, a high temperature, or loss of taste or smell, then the child/adult as well as their household must self-isolate immediately. Self-isolation lasts at least 10 days for the person with symptoms. For those in the household (including siblings) without symptoms, they must self-isolate for 14 days; if during those 14 days they develop symptoms, they must self-isolate for at least 10 days from that point. The links above clarify how these timings change if a positive or negative test result is received.

Please do not send a child in if they are showing symptoms. If they are showing symptoms, keep them and the household at home, self-isolate, and try to get a test. Keep the school updated via email/phone!

This diagram from the BBC News is helpful too:

Graphic showing how a family should self-isolate in the same house

 

First day success! Hand sanitiser anyone?

It was a brilliant first day! One of the many highlights was seeing the children simply enjoying playing together outside in their classes. Just lovely. Thank you for all that you’ve done so that today ran smoothly. As parents and carers, you were great in wearing masks, following the one-way system and traffic flow, and observing the 2m rule. Let’s keep it up – especially at the doors of the classroom.

We are finding that we spend a lot of time hand washing, and go through a LOT of paper towels- these are surprisingly expensive, and we’ve already run out of room in our main bins.

There is no pressure to do so, but if you would like to send in your child with a small bottle of hand sanitiser, that would really help us. Please put their name on it. We are getting larger bottles of sanitisers too – it should speed things up. If you would rather your child doesn’t use hand sanitiser, please do let the teacher know. We’ll do a mix of hand washing and hand sanitiser anyway.

Thank you for your support! The St Mark’s team.

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