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July 23, 2021

23rd July Newsletter -End of Year Message

Summary

Important – read here for details about September Arrangements
Remember, INSET days are 2nd, 3rd September. First day back is 6th Sept!
See Mr Applegate’s final video of the year – and find out our grand FOSM Total!!!!
Have a great summer!

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.

We need your help! FOSM can’t run without parent support and effort. Please consider how you can help! We’re a friendly group of people wanting to give that bit extra to St Mark’s. Contact us below:

General email – fosm@stmarksce.org.uk

Cherie Parker – Chair – chair.fosm@stmarksce.org.uk

Mandy Mullen – Treasurer – treasurer.fosm@stmarksce.org.uk

Emma Bryant – Secretary – secretary.fosm@stmarksce.org.uk

Regular Notices

Covid Reminders

Use the email covid@stmarksce.org.uk if you have questions or need to report symptoms or a positive case.
Please keep us updated – for example, of test results.
Read this letter from Public Health England about symptoms and testing.
NHS Symptoms Check
If a child or parent is at home because of symptoms, please keep the siblings off too. IE the whole household needs to isolate, and the person with symptoms needs to get a test.
We are moving online with homework, spellings and Google Classrooms. If you need help with technology, please do let us know by emailing the office.
If a child is off school but able to work, then Google Classroom work is available – and it should be completed. Teachers spend a lot of time making sure this work is available so no-one misses out!

July 22, 2021

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!

July 19, 2021

St Mark’s Virtual Art Gallery 2021

Click here to enjoy the work of our children in our annual art gallery – this year online, of course!

July 18, 2021

Year 3 – Final week

Welcome to the final week of Year 3. The children have been thoroughly enjoying our history project, where they have been learning about the events of the Titanic. They have looked into the Titanic’s journey, the possible reasons the Titanic sank and at the different classes of passengers on board and the facilities provided.

Our big question for this project is: Is segregation ever a good thing?

In order to answer this question we will be having an experience day, where the children will take on the roles of first, second and third class passengers. This experience day will take place on Tuesday. Please look carefully at the list below to help prepare the children for this experience:

Year 3 children can come to school in non-uniform if they would like. Girls can wear dresses and boys smart t-shirt or shirt with shorts or trousers. NO sports-wear please. We want them to imagine they are boarding the Titanic. You do not need to buy any special clothes! Just what you already have in wardrobes.
On arrival Tuesday morning the children will randomly choose a ticket to come aboard. These may be first, second or third class – we will be ensuring the children enjoy the class they are given but obviously there will be differences between the activities for the day in order for the children to experience our ‘big question’.
Throughout the morning we will take part in some activities but the three classes will have different resources to complete the task.
Please reassure any children who may be a little concerned that we will not be acting out the night of April 15^th 1912. This is more about understanding the classes aboard and thinking about segregation.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at year3@stmarksce.org.uk

Year 3 Team

July 16, 2021

16th July Newsletter – September, Reminder of Last Week Events, and more

Summary

Important – read here for details about September Arrangements
“Meet the teacher” Google Meets – Timetable is here
Reports come home via email on Monday. Please check spam folder.
Children find out their new class teacher and classmates on Monday morning.
Year 6 – see email about events this week
Parent Governor Ballot – last day to vote is Wednesday – details were emailed last week.
Class Parties – Thursday 22nd July – Details below
Remember, INSET days are 2nd, 3rd September. First day back is 6th Sept!

Covid Updates

We’ve had 3 bubbles close last week (4G, 1P, 5T).
Self-isolation guidance doesn’t change until 16th August, despite relaxations in restrictions this week.
If a child is self-isolating, they can’t leave the house! Unless it’s an emergency!

Thursday 22nd July “Party Day”

Thursday 22nd July is Party Day! Your child can come to school in their party clothes :-) Don’t forget, we’re doing a class party FOSM fundraiser, and Dave from FOSM has produced another amazing video for the children. Any donations appreciated!

Parking around the school

We have been contacted by another local resident who has had a parent park on their property.

Could we please ask you do not park on resident’s driveways, or anywhere that is causing an obstruction. Thank you

Star Learners

Well done to:

YR: Gracie H, Alfie A, Logan
Y1: Armaan, Daisy (1C), Olivia L
Y2: Isobel, Chloe, Edward
Y3: Freddie, Naia, Lucas
Y4: Dylan R, Imogen, Sean
Y5: Ryan, Zach H, Libby
Y6: Oliver N, Emma, leland

Rock Stars best effort:

Year 2: Jacob L, Sophia L, Lottie R, Mia P, Nathan C

Year 3: Elizabeth B, Chloe M, Jack D, Jeffrey C, Harry B

Year 4: Anaya O, Aarav M, Irebami A, Liam M, George S, Marissa S

Year 5: David R, Jessica R, Ryan R, Oscar R

Year 6: Nevaya B, Zesiro A

Numbots best effort:

Year 1: Maksim, Charlie M, Olivia H

Year 2: Mia P, Freyja, Keya

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.

Brighton Hill Open Evening

Change to School Menu – Monday 19th July

Please note, as previously advised, there will be a change to the menu options offered to the children on Monday 19th July. They will be able to choose from:

RED Barbecue chicken with rice

GREEN Gnocchi with a tomato, basil and spinach sauce

WHITE Jacket potato with baked beans

We will be on menu WEEK ONE next week.

The options for children who have a special menu due to allergies will remain unchanged – please check their menu.