Latest Newsletter:
Good morning everyone. I hope you are enjoying the wonderful sunshine and are looking forward to the Easter break.
I’ve had some information through from the Basingstoke Family Support Service, so I wanted to share with you. There is a digital leaflet and a YouTube video to promote the service.
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free make contact with the school and I can try and help.
Take care,
Mrs Greer 🌞🙂
I think we’re all ready for a break! It’s been quite a term – and quite a busy 3 weeks back, but the children have been great as always.
We have a non-uniform day on March 31st, which is our last day of term too. Money raised goes to help FOSM, which helps our school. Thank you for your generosity and enjoy the Easter Egg hunt!
Remember if you have any symptoms that may be COVID related (temperature, new persistent cough, loss of or change to sense of taste or smell), then your child and siblings must stay at home and have a PCR test booked via a website or walk-in centre. It is not correct to use an LFD (Lateral flow) test if there are already symptoms. An LFD is to identify if someone has COVID when they are asymptomatic. A PCR test checks for COVID when there are symptoms.
Further, if a child at our school tests positive over the Easter break, please let us know via the COVID email address covid@stmarksce.org.uk . If a child tests positive, we may need to inform the other children in their class to self isolate – otherwise we are only spreading COVID around.
Thank you for your continuing support of our school – these are not easy times but our unity and togetherness is one of the key things to help us all get through this period.
I wish you and your family a wonderful Easter break.
We have a few staffing changes this Easter. Mrs Pendrill, who has been part of our lunchtime team and breakfast club team for over 6 years, will be retiring. We will miss her kindess, flexibility, dedication and just having her around our school. Mrs Pendrill is looking forward to taking holidays in the UK during term time, and spending more time with her family, We wish her all the best.
Many of you will remember Miss Campbell, who worked as an LSA and also on our pastoral support team before going on maternity leave last year. She has decided not to return to St Mark’s following the birth of her third child. Miss Campbell has a gift of helping children in their struggles as well as bringing smiles and laughter, We have missed her at St Mark’s. We wish her and her family all the best in the years to come.
Finally, Mrs Riakiotakis has been part of our admin team for a few years, and will be moving to another school in a different role. I’m sure you will have experienced her very helpful and kind nature when communicating with the office. We’ll miss having her as part of our team, and again wish her every success in her new role.
Have a wonderful weekend :) Mr Applegate
Click here to find out more, including upcoming information sessions.
We’ll be learning about autism next week – for a sneak peak, watch this video and find out more!
Can you help us? We have a small area that needs clearing of bushes and branches, so that we can install a new shed in the Year R area. It’s a good morning or afternoon work, and we’ll have a shredder available. It could be done over the Easter break. Just email us if you can help. Thank you.
Well done to:
Would you like to join our prayer points mailing list? In conjunction with Immanuel church, this is a new opportunity to receive by email a half-termly prayer point list for our school. Click here to find out more.
We’ve moved our absence request form online. This is for absence requests such as holidays, weddings, funeral, special events, and more. You don’t need to use this form for sickness or self-isolation (but please email/phone the office if they are unwell).
If you don’t receive the school newsletter and year group emails via email, you can sign up here!
Remember, if you change your contact details, please let the office know here.
Have a wonderful weekend :) Mr Applegate
FOSM PTA will be running an Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt over the Easter break! This will take place in the school catchment area between Friday 2nd April and Sunday 18th April, for you to complete at your own pace. All correct entries will be entered into a draw to win an Easter treat. To take part, just complete this form and send payment to school with your child by 3pm on Friday 26th March. Happy hunting!
Children who have made the most effort to learn their times tables on RockStars this week:
Well done to:
Years R, 1 and 2
Years 3,4,5 and 6
Apologies for this change, it is due to a shortage of chicken goujons for the whole school – they aren’t going to be included in the new menu after Easter, so HC3S haven’t supplied more to our kitchen. The new menu, which starts after Easter, will be emailed to you next week, along with special menus for those children with allergies.
Would you like to join our prayer points mailing list? In conjunction with Immanuel church, this is a new opportunity to receive by email a half-termly prayer point list for our school. Click here to find out more.
Do you have a laptop lying around, which we can use to support children at home? Doesn’t need to be new or quick. We blitz it, and install all the software necessary. That way a child who doesn’t have access to a laptop for home learning can really benefit. If you can help, please email the office.
We’ve moved our absence request form online. This is for absence requests such as holidays, weddings, funeral, special events, and more. You don’t need to use this form for sickness or self-isolation (but please email/phone the office if they are unwell).
If you don’t receive the school newsletter and year group emails via email, you can sign up here!
Remember, if you change your contact details, please let the office know here.
Have a wonderful weekend :) Mr Applegate
We know it’s been a long time since the whole school has been in together, so here are a few reminders that may help :-)
FOSM PTA will be running an Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt over the Easter break! This will take place in the school catchment area between Friday 2nd April and Sunday 18th April, for you to complete at your own pace. All correct entries will be entered into a draw to win an Easter treat. To take part, just complete this form and send payment to school with your child by 3pm on Friday 26th March. Happy hunting!
Early next week, we will be sending home a round sticker. Please draw a nose or write a joke on it, and wear it to school on Friday! We’ll also be holding a run red-nose day Kahoot in our worship on Friday. If you want to donate, please do so online here
Well done to:
Thanks to your help, we’ve raised £252.47 since November by using Amazon Smile when shopping! Thank you! To find out more about Amazon Smile, click here.
Would you like to join our prayer points mailing list? In conjunction with Immanuel church, this is a new opportunity to receive by email a half-termly prayer point list for our school. Click here to find out more.
Do you have a laptop lying around, which we can use to support children at home? Doesn’t need to be new or quick. We blitz it, and install all the software necessary. That way a child who doesn’t have access to a laptop for home learning can really benefit. If you can help, please email the office.
We’ve moved our absence request form online. This is for absence requests such as holidays, weddings, funeral, special events, and more. You don’t need to use this form for sickness or self-isolation (but please email/phone the office if they are unwell).
If you don’t receive the school newsletter and year group emails via email, you can sign up here!
Remember, if you change your contact details, please let the office know here.
It has been wonderful to welcome all of the children back to school this week. They have all settled back in really well and we are incredibly proud of them all.
This week, we will continue with our project ‘Me and You’ where we will be thinking about different viewpoints and different time periods. In English, this week we will be comparing viewpoints in our persuasive writing to The Enormous Crocodile. Next week, we will be exploring differing viewpoints by looking at the stories by Anthony Browne. In history, we have begun learning about the Queen of our time, Queen Elizabeth II, and we will later compare her lifetime with that of Queen Victoria.
Please see our Knowledge Organiser for more information about this term’s project:
Knowledge Organiser Me and You Spring 2
Reminders:
PE Day: Friday- Children are to come to school wearing their PE kit (weather appropriate please).
Library Books: Friday is library book change day.
Reading Books: Monday is reading book change day but please can children bring their reading folders to school each day.
Work for Self Isolation: If you are self isolating, then work will be posted in Year 2-2020 Classwork (rather than in individual classes).
Spellings: These will be posted on a Monday each week in Google Classroom on your child’s individual class page. These can also be accessed via Spelling Shed.
Maths homework: This will be set on a Friday every two weeks starting next Friday (19th March). This can be submitted on Google Classroom.
Numbots/ttRockstars: Please continue to use these each week to support quick mental recall of maths facts. Certificates are given out in Celebration Worship each week.
Thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at year2@stmarksce.org.uk
The Year 2 Team
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