February 23, 2024

23 February 2024 – Newsletter & Curriculum Information leaflets

A note from Mr Applegate

A reminder to book your parents’ evening slot – details have been emailed.

A huge well done to…

Our Year 4 pupils, who enjoyed a 3 day residential at Ufton Court. They were fab!
Our 70+ DanceLive team who performed at the Guildhall, Portsmouth. So talented, so proud.
Year 1 pupils for their very successul trip to Milestones.

Thank you FOSM and parents – we took delivery of new table tennis bats and table, and new chromebooks this week. Your hard work and donations make a real difference.

Look out for World Book Day (8th March) and also our School Council Sports Event on Friday 1st March.

Have a great weekend, Mr Applegate

What's your child learning next week?

What's your child learning for the next 5 weeks?

School Council Sports Event – Friday 1st March

On Friday 1st March the school council are running a fun sports session for each year group to raise some money to help improve playtimes. We are asking each child to pay 50p to take part in a range of sporting events. These will include running a golden mile, tennis fun, netball goals, javelin, long jump, tri golf, football. The children can wear pe kit for the day.

KS2 Choir parents

We urgently need your responses for the following two events please:

Basingstoke Music and Arts Festival (BMAF) – Saturday 9^th March 1:40pm at QMC.

1. Complete this form to let us know if your child is able to take part, or not.

2. We also need you to fill in this emergency contact details form if your child is taking part.

Basingstoke Primary Schools Music (BPSM) concert – Tuesday 18^thJune and Wednesday 19^th June 7pm at The Anvil.

1. Complete this form to let us know if your child is able to take part, or not.

Thank you, Mrs Baird and Mrs Chapman

Heads up! World Book Day – Friday 8th March

Dress up and book swap! Details here.

Book a farm slot

Click here

Car park reminder

Please don’t block disabled parking bays. Thanks!

Hatch Warren After School Club

FOSM Events Reminder

Walking 100km for St Mark's

Two parents of St Mark’s are walking 100km continuously across the Jurassic Coast, fundraising for the school.

Mike is a parent at the school, Aidan is Chair of Governors and a parent at the school. They are both a little addicted to walking!

Can you support their fundraising efforts for our school? Click here to find out more and donate!

Parenting course available

From FutureMind….. we have some really great topics coming up for the next few weeks – please be sure to book your free ticket today at www.linktr.ee/futureinmind

Thursday 22nd Feb – Hampshire CAMHS PACE event at QMC College Basingstoke – an all day event with professionals speaking about ADHD, ASC, Anxiety, OCD, Self-Harm and many more important topics – parent carers and professionals welcome

Book via https://hampshirecamhs.nhs.uk/events/ (This event is not run by FIM)

Tuesday 27 Feb – 12.00 Recorded Online Tics and Tourettes – with Hampshire CAMHS, a really interesting topic and how we can support young people to protect their mental wellbeing.

Tuesday 5 March – 19.30 Recorded Online Discussing Barriers to Attendance to Education for Neurodivergent Young People – with Autistic Realms and Grove Neurodivergent Education and Mentoring – for professionals and parent carers

Thursday 21 March – 10.15 Basingstoke – Managing Crisis, supporting a young person who may be self harming or having suicidal thoughts with Hampshire CAMHS

Please be sure to read all the full descriptions in the Ticket Tailor for more information available at www.linktr.ee/futureinmind

Tesco Funding - Vote for St Mark's

From Mid January to March, all of the Tescos in Basingstoke will have tokens available to ‘vote’ for a project – including our very own St Mark’s Farm and Forest School projects. This could be worth up to £10,000!

If you make a purchase in Tesco, don’t forget to vote for us by putting the token in the right box. And perhaps share this with your family and friends!

St Mark’s PhotoReel

Olivia’s Swimming Success!

Thank you for the colouring books!, St Mark’s!

Swimming success

At the weekend Olivia swam for her club Bluefins in a swimming gala. She swam in 5 races and achieved 3 golds, 1 silver and 1 gold.

Races

100m freestyle / 100m breaststroke / 50m freestyle

50m breaststroke / 100m butterfly/backstoke/breaststroke/front crawl medley

⭐ Star Learners ⭐

⭐ Star Readers ⭐

⭐ Quiet Classes ⭐

2CL & 5SP

⭐ Attendance Updates ⭐

Our target over the year is 97%. Last year’s attendance was 95.8% – above national levels, but we’d like it to be much higher.

Our current attendance percentage is 96.2%. Oh no :(

Weekly Attendance by Class

What's the impact on missing school?

Categories	Learning days lost
Acceptable sickness & unforeseen absences.	98% = 4 days
	97% = 6 days
	96% = 8 days
Attendance below 95% is of concern to the school & you will be contacted automatically.10 days unauthorised absences for holidays over the year mean you will only achieve 95% attendance. Sickness & medical appointments, although usually unavoidable & authorised, will add further to your child’s absence record.	95% = 10 days
	94% = 12 days
	93% = 14 days
	92% = 16 days
Poor attendance Attendance below 90% is a serious concern. Your child has now missed nearly 4 weeks’ education. You may be referred to the Early Help team at the local authority.	91% = 18 days
	90% = 20 days
	89% = 21 days
	88% = 23 days
	87% = 25 days
	86% = 27 days
Very poor attendance	85% = 29 days
	84% = 31 days
	82% = 35 days
	80% = 39 days

School Dates, Lunches, and Clubs

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Meals
PE Days
Status: running as usual

Spring 2
- Year R – Mondays (indoors) and Thursdays (indoors)
- Year 1 – Tuesdays (indoors) and Thursdays (indoors)
- Year 2 – Tuesday (outdoors) and Wednesday (indoors)
- Year 3 – Tuesdays (indoors) and Thursdays (outdoors)
- Year 4 – Mondays (outdoors) and Fridays (indoors)
- Year 5 – Tues/Weds or Thurs Forest school (outdoors) and Fridays (indoors)
- Year 6 – Wednesday (outdoors) and Friday (outdoors)
What to wear

Children should wear PE kit to school on the days they have PE. When children have gym, please can they bring or wear shorts underneath. PE kit guide:
- Navy or black shorts. Jogging bottoms for outside in cold weather (leggings are fine too).
- PE skirts with cycling-style shorts are acceptable.
- White t-shirt. Please also wear the school jumper to school on PE days. Football shirts are not acceptable as PE kit.
- Trainers for all children.

After School Clubs

Spring clubs will continue week commencing 19th Febuary 2024.

Day	Club	Collection Time	Collect From
Monday	Year 2 Choir	4.00pm	2B
	KS2 Choir	4.00pm	Small Hall
	KS2 Girls Football	4.10pm	3W
Tuesday	Tag Rugby	4.10pm	6B
	Art Club	4.10pm	4PR
Wednesday	Pom Pom Wool Club	4.10pm	2G
	Cookery Club	4.10pm	Food Tech Room
Thursday	Art & Craft Club	4.00pm	2CL
	Board Games Club	4.00pm	1BB
	Coding Club	4.10pm	Year 6

Music Info
Full School Calendar
Information - breakfast and afterschool clubs, uniform etc
- Breakfast Club – just show up – details here.
- SCL after-school club – click here for full details.
- Uniform – click here for details, including Skoolkit ordering
- School bags – can be ordered here
- Absence – Please report absences via phone or email here by 9am. If you need to request a future absence, please use this form.
- Are you eligible for Free School Meals and further funding for the school? Check online here.
Foodbank Support

In worship this week…

Music of the Week

Romeo and Juliet by Craig Armstrong

This piece is from the iconic balcony scene in the 1996 film of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. It was composed by the Scottish composer Craig Armstrong during the Modern era.