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23rd July Newsletter -End of Year Message

Summary

Parent Governor Update

  • Thank you to everyone who voted for our parent governor vacancy.
  • It was a close vote, but well done to James Magner who recieved the most votes.
  • A huge thank you to everyone who put themselves forward. We really apprecaite it.

Covid Updates

  • If your child tests positive (LFD or PCR) before Monday 26th July, please let us know at the covid email address. We will need to identify close contacts at school. If your child tests positive from Monday 26th July, call 119.
  • Self-isolation guidance doesn’t change until 16th August, despite recent relaxations.
  • See the end of this post for details about isolation rules from 16th August for children and adults.

Message from Mr Applegate

 

Lunchtime Vacancy

Are you interested in joining our lunchtime team? The hours are 11:45am to 1:30pm, 5 days per week, term time only. Salary is £3609, working out to be £9.25/hour. 

If you are interested, please complete this application form and email it to the school office! Thank you. Closing date is 16th August

Star Learners

Well done to:

  • YR: Ayaan, Mathea, Thomas
  • Y1: Ava, Riaz
  • Y2: Ben, Emily, Matilda
  • Y3: Theo A, 
  • Y4: Megan, Dylan R, Sam L

Rock Stars best effort:

 
Year 2: Summer W, Hannah T, Benjamin T, Grace S, Isla S, Poppy H
Year 3: Jeffrey C, Charlotte W, Ella B, Harry B, Elizabeth B
Year 4: Anaya O, Irebami A, Iremide A, Sam L, Noah W
Year 5: Joseph W, Jessica R
Year 6: Matilda H, Katie D, Oliver P, Daniel H
 
Most played this academic year:
 
Year 2: Freyja O
Year 3: Elizabeth B
Year 4: Irebami A
Year 5: Brody P
Year 6: Ollie R
 
Fastest in the School:
Bela F from Year 6 and Brody P from Year 5 – joint first place with an astounding average speed of 0.58 seconds per question!

Numbots best effort:

 
Year 2: Elijah B, Ewan B, Freyja O
Year 1: Lola H, Ben G, Maksim

Lollipop crossing lower Woodbury Road

Advance notice that there will not be anyone available at this crossing at the beginning of the new school year.

Graham, the Lollipop man, will be back on 13th September 2021.

Skoolkit Uniform

School Nursing – Newsletter

Brighton Hill Open Evening

Summer Holiday Childcare

 

FOSM – Support Our School!

About FOSM

The ‘Friends of St Mark’s’ (FOSM) was formed early in the life of the school. All parents are automatically members and our committee organises social events for children and adults and fund-raising events such as Key Stage discos, Easter Egg Hunts and Summer Fun days.

Over the last few years the ‘Friends’ have donated money that has contributed towards extra resources to benefit the children at St. Mark’s which has included playground equipment, books for the school library, and general school funds. We are now a registered charity, too. Charity number: 1188879

Join our Facebook group here.

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Year 5 – End of Year Update

What a fantastic final project for Year 5! We have most certainly gone out with an explosion of colour and music this week. It’s really challenging to summarise all the incredible work that the children have done this half term but here is a little snippet of the work completed. 

Science was particularly exciting this half term as the children learned all about life cycles. To support this learning, each class has caterpillars in their classrooms and it was so wonderful to watch their journeys to becoming butterflies. It was such a treat to release them all too!

 

The children began by learning about the Windrush Ship and used a range of sources to learn about this defining moment in history before exploring how the Caribbean has heavily influenced our culture today. The children began by looking at how our music has been influenced by the Caribbean and wrote these amazing raps to represent their learning. 

 

The children also then spent time learning about many of our sporting heroes of past and present who have heritage linked to the Windrush generation and also learned about carnival, particularly the Notting Hill Carnival. The children designed a variety of new sporting equipment pieces with their new knowledge and also wrote some amazing newspaper reports about the celebrations. 

 

Within their DT lessons, the children were really inspired by some of the underwater sculptures found in the Caribbean – representing unity. They then made their own clay models which we put together in a circle to show our unity as class. 

 

In English, the children have wrote the most spectacular biographies about an inspirational woman from the Windrush generation – Mary Seacole. This was the children’s first non-fiction unit using ‘The Write Stuff’ approach to lessons and we were so proud of what they achieved. 

   

 

We then finished off this week with the most amazing carnival! The children paraded around the school with the beautiful flags and masks they had made to draw all their learning together. What an amazing end to Year 5! We are so proud of everything the children have achieved this year!

 

 

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