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Fantastic learning in Year 1

What a great end to the Autumn term in Year 1. The children have loved our project all about the polar regions and enjoyed learning all about the different animals they would find there. Over the last couple of weeks, the children have made some great clay tiles with different polar animals on.

Christmas is definitely being enjoyed within the year group with lots of artwork inspired by the season and the children are really excited about the holidays and the party tomorrow.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support with your children and their learning. May you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope you all enjoy the break with your families.

Year 1 Team

10th December Newsletter – Christmas update, staffing news and more!

A note from Mr Applegate

  • On Friday, we have our FOSM Christmas party – please give generously as it’s our only Christmas fundraiser. Thank you! Thanks to Dave Payne for his party creativity and video fun! Buckets for donations on the gates. Children can wear a Christmas jumper- homemade, decorated or purchased!
  • The Christmas spirit has truly set in at St Mark’s! The Years 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 children sang so well at our carol events this week – as did the adults! YR&6 has been rearranged for Weds 15th, 5-6pm.
  • The children are also busy recording a special Christmas surprise for you. They should be emailed out next week!
  • Ask your child about our Christmas Joke Advent calendar!
  • INSET day – Tuesday 4th Jan 2021! First day back is Weds 5th Jan.

Mrs Alsey’s Success

I am very proud to announce that Mrs Alsey, one of our Deputy Head Teachers, has successfully secured the headship at Tadley Community Primary School. She will be finishing at St Mark’s at Easter, taking up the helm in the Summer term.

Mrs Alsey has been at St Mark’s for 5 years, and we have worked together at another school for the previous 5 years. Throughout that time, she has proved to be an excellent leader, making a positive impact in all areas of school life. Her dedication to children with additional needs is outstanding, and along with the St Mark’s team, she has led huge improvements to our Bridge provision.

We are grateful to have Mrs Alsey’s sense of fun, attention to detail, and deep care for our children and staff, and she will leave a strong legacy at St Mark’s in so many areas. It is also worth stating that Mrs Alsey is affectionately known as our “Chief Medical Officer”, and deserves much appreciation for our Covid risk assessments and understanding of the ever-changing government guidance.

I know you will join me in sending her huge congratulations, and wishing her every success in her new role.

Christmas at St Mark’s!

Christmas Cards – If your child would like to send cards to other children in our school, please bring them in by Tues 14 Dec. Remember to put the recieving child’s name and class or year group on the envelope!

Christmas Lunch – Thursday 16th Dec (already ordered) Please send your child in wearing their school uniform.

Christmas FOSM Party – Friday 17th Dec- bring a donation for FOSM, enjoy a brilliant party!

Christmas Jumpers – Friday 17th Dec – whether homemade, decorated or purchased, wear them today!

Changes in PE days for Spring Term

After Christmas, every year group will be changing their PE days. Below are the new PE days for each year group.
 
  • Monday – Year 6
  • Tuesday – Year 1 and Year 5
  • Wednesday – Year 4
  • Thursday – Year R
  • Friday – Year 2 and Year 3
 These will start on the first week back, so Year 4 will need to be in PE kit on the first Wednesday back (5th January)
 

Immanuel / St Mark’s Kempshot Services

Sunday 12th December
10.30am – Nativity Service (St Mark’s, Kempshott)
6.00pm –  Carols by Candlelight. (Immanuel)

Christmas Eve. (24th December
3.00pm –  Crib Service (Immanuel)
11.30pm – Midnight Service (Immanuel)

Christmas Day
9.30 – Christmas morning service (St Marks (Kempshott))

Road Safety Update

Further to our message last week… if you’d like to petition the council for a zebra crossing here, please contact Cllr Stephen Reid here (he knows about this!).

Upcoming Dates for your diary

  • INSET Day – Tuesday 4th Jan. First day back Weds 5th Jan

Vacancies at St Mark’s

We are looking for 2 friendly, reliable and enthusiastic people to join our amazing cleaning team.

Hours of work are 3.30pm to 6.30pm Monday to Friday with an hourly rate of £9.25 per hour.

If you would like to apply for the position please email the school office for an application form at adminoffice@st-markscofe.hants.sch.uk

Breakfast Club Vacancy – New post 

We are looking for someone to provide high quality care and supervision for children at our Breakfast Club
Hours of work are 7.45am to 8.45am Monday to Friday with an hourly rate of £9.62.
 
Please email adminoffice@st-markscofe.hants.sch.uk for further information and application form.
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Star Learners

Star Learner Awards:

  • Year R: Georgia, Andrew, Amy
  • Year 1:  Max H, Alvaro, Marco
  • Year 2:  Jamie, Maya, Callan
  • Year 3:  Liam, Chloe, Jasper
  • Year 4: Gabriella, Myla, Elouise
  • Year 5: Charlie R, Emilia, Eva
  • Year 6:  Igor, Travis, Gemma

Rock Stars 

Best effort of the week:
  • Year 3: Freddie, Ewan, Tomasz, Benjamin
  • Year 4:  Chloe Me, Jack Daw, Elizabeth, George H
  • Year 5: Sophie G, Irebami, Zach, Ava
  • Year 6:  Joseph H, Issac B, Harry, Igor

Most active class players:

4PG & 4H with 67% of the class playing!

Numbots best effort:
  • Year1: Zachary A, Amaira, Ayaan
  • Year 2:  Lucia, Mimi, Connie

Star Reader Awards:

  • Year 1: William, Theo, Thomas
  • Year 2:  Jacob, Robyn, Camila
  • Year 3: Jack W, Jack K, Thea
  • Year 4: Charlie B, Jas, Harry C
  • Year 5:  Marcus, Amelia S, Dylan
  • Year 6:  Freya, Erica, Nyle

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.

Regular Notices

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A Quick Reminder for Year 2!

Tomorrow, Friday 10th December, Year 2 are recording our Christmas Play 'Hey Ewe'. We have said to the children that they may come in wearing their costumes, but if their costume is thin or could get dirty, they may wear clothes underneath to keep them warm such as leggings and a long T-shirt. They may also bring their costume in a bag to change into if you would prefer. We will be having lunch times and playtimes as normal. 

We are looking forward to sharing our play with you. The children have been having lots of fun and have been working so hard. We are very proud of them all. 
The Year 2 Team

Sensational Science in Year 4!

This term, Year 4 have enjoyed doing investigations during our Science Days. In Autumn 1, we became human biologists and learnt about the digestion system. The children created a model of a stomach using tights as the intestines, a sandwich bag for the stomach and funnel for the oesophagus. They had great fun seeing how the stomach breaks down the food so we can get energy. I’m sure you can imagine their reactions when the intestines created waste! 

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After learning about the digestive system, we moved onto learning about the function of our teeth and how liquids have different effects on them. The children made predictions and tested marble chips (to represent the teeth) by placing them into a variety of liquids to see what happened.

 

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This term, we have learnt all about the states of matter and investigated how liquids behave differently – this is called viscosity. 

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We also had lots of fun learning about how solids change to liquids by melting. The children worked sensibly with the candles, after a safety briefing of course, to test 5 different solids and discover their melting points. 


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In our final lesson, we applied all this knowledge to see how the water cycle works. We even create our own water cycle experiment using a candle to represent the sun, water and a mirror to collect the condensation. 


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We are so impressed by the knowledge the children have learnt during our science days and they have enjoyed all the investigations we have done.

Christmas carols around the tree- final information

Where do I go?!

  • We will be on the Key Stage 2 playground.
  • Years R, 1, 2 and 3 please enter the school via the KS1 gate.
  • Years 4, 5, and 6, please enter via KS2 gate.
  • If you have children performing in both year groups, you can choose.
YearR and 6 map
Year R & 6
Year1 and 5 map
Year 1 & 5
Year 2 3 and 4 map
Year 2, 3, 4
mask required
  • Please see the maps to show you where to go and where to stand. Children will stay with you.
  • The event starts at 5pm on each evening. Please arrive in good time.
  • We will let you know by 4pm of any changes (if poor weather, we will postpone).
  • If you have any Covid sypmtoms or should be isolating, please stay at home.
  • You must wear a mask throughout
  • Please consider doing an LFD test beforehand.
  • Enter the school via the side gates as usual.
  • Words are available below, and we will have paper copies available.
  • Children do not need to wear school uniform; please dress them in something warm.
  • Your children will need to be with you throughout the event (they are your responsibility!), apart from the time when they are performing their chosen song.
  • Year R & 6 – Weds 15th Dec, 5-6pm (new date!)
  • Year 1 & 5 – Weds 8th Dec, 5-6pm
  • Year 2, 3 & 4 – Thurs 9th, 5-6pm
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