Newsletter Week 31: w/e 7th June 2024

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Newsletter

w/e 7th June 2024

Message from the Head

Attendance Stats

Kittiwakes	99%
Sandpipers	97%
Curlews	94%
Cormorants	94%
Puffins	87%
Herons	96%
Guillemots	96%

Thank you for your support in ensuring your child has good attendance. Please be reminded that the government expects all children not to miss school due to family holidays. Any child who takes 6 days or more of unauthorised absence will need to be referred to the Local Authority.

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you all had a lovely half term break; it has been super seeing all the children back in school this week ready for learning. Every class has started their new topic of learning for this half term and the details of what will be covered in each subject has been shared with you before half term.

As we enter the last half term of this academic year, there is much to look forward to. We have our Sports day coming up in the next couple of weeks and our Summer Fayre which is taking place on Friday 5th July. Thank you for the tombola donations that have been sent in so far. Details for each tombola and the window for donations is included in this newsletter. Your support in making these donations will help to make our summer fayre successful. If you have something to donate, but have missed the window don’t worry, we would still love to receive this.

Towards the end of this term, we will be able to share with you the details for your child’s next class. We have already planned in some transition times for the children to spend time with their new class teacher and teaching assistant in their next classroom to ensure that the children transition into their next class smoothly.

Mrs Stevens

Notices

Sports Day

We are planning for our Sports Day to be held on Tuesday 18th June.

EYFS and KS1 will take part in the morning with a start time of 9:15am. The PTA are providing refreshments and lollies and there will be some time after the sporting events where you can have some time together as a family enjoying the refreshments on offer.

KS2 Sports will then be held in the afternoon starting at 1:45pm. Again, after which, there will be opportunity for you to enjoy the refreshments on offer from our PTA together before the children come back into school to get ready for the end of the day.

(The back up day in the event of poor weather conditions is Wednesday 26th June).

Summer Fayre Update.

To help our summer fayre be successful, we are requesting the following items to be donated for a variety of tombola stalls. Please see dates for each donation window:

Teddy Bear Tombola – Tuesday 7th May to 17th May – Donations of Teddy Bears and soft toys
Child’s Tombola prizes - 20th May to 7th June – Donations of something your child would like to win
Adult’s Tombola prizes - 10th June to 21st June – Donations of something you would like to win!
Cake Stall – Donations to be received on the day only – 5th July

Uniform Expectations

We fully understand that children have grown out of shoes, uniform and PE kits over the course of this year, and know that this may not be the time to be replacing just before the summer break. However, when purchasing uniform for September, please make sure that this is inline with our uniform policy set out on our website. If you need any help with providing the correct school uniform for September, please come and speak with us.

Personal Development News

At Mabe our personal development programme is threaded throughout our curriculum. Our vision for Personal Development is in line with the CCEA’s definition:

'Encouraging each child to become personally, emotionally, socially and physically effective, to lead , safe and fulfilled lives; To become confident, independent and responsible citizens, making informed and responsible choices and decisions throughout their lives’

This week as part of our Personal Development programme:

Year 5 were bakers this week and they all made pasties as part of their learning in Design Technology
In assembly time this week, children have been exploring the theme of empathy towards others and how we show compassion

Curriculum News

Next week we will be enjoying the storybook ‘Room on the Broom’ as a basis for our transport- themed Drawing Club activities.

In English, we will be starting to look at the skills involved in writing a recipe.

In Science, we will be comparing a rainforest habitat with an ocean habitat, considering which plants and animals live in each.

Next week, Puffins will be visiting the National Maritime Museum to extend their history learning on Vikings.

In Herons class, we will start our athletics block in PE when asking what fundamental skills are needed to develop athleticism.

As part of the Kernow Learning £20 Challenge, Year 6 will be selling ice creams to the rest of School to raise money for Children’s Hospice Southwest. We will also be going on a residential to PGL Barton Hall!