Newsletter Week 33: w/e 21st June 2024

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Newsletter

w/e 21st June 2024

Message from the Head

Attendance Stats

Kittiwakes	95%
Sandpipers	94%
Curlews	95%
Cormorants	94%
Puffins	95%
Herons	94%
Guillemots	95%

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,

What a fantastic week it has been here at Mabe – the sun shone for sports day and the children were great ambassadors for our school putting their best efforts into every sporting event. Thank you to everyone who came along to support and gave our children an audience to show their skills off to. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! A huge thank you to Mrs Haycock for all her organisation of the event so that it would run smoothly.

Last weekend, our year 6’s enjoyed their residential experience at Barton Hall, Torquay. We had changeable weather throughout the weekend, but the children really took on every challenge whether sunshine or rain! They abseiled, went on a giant swing, built and tested out their own raft, took on the zip wire and tried their hand at fencing and archery. It was a fabulous weekend and it was a privilege to attend this with them.

Finally, I am pleased to be able to provide you with the information for your child’s class teacher next year. We bid a fond farewell to Miss Chapman who is leaving us at the end of this year to take up a teaching position in another local Kernow Learning school; we wish her every success in her new teaching role.

Please the find the class and teacher information in the table below:

Class (Year Group)

Kittiwakes (Reception and Nursery)

Sandpipers (Year 1)

Curlews (Year 2)

Cormorants (Year 3)

Puffins (Year 4)

Herons (Year 5)

Guillemots (Year 6)

The first class transition session will take place on Friday 28th in the afternoon. In this first session, the children will meet with their new teacher and spend some time in their new classroom base. There will be other times throughout the next month for further transition so that children feel well settled before the summer holiday break.

Best Wishes,

Class Teacher

Mrs Champion

Mrs Gough

Mrs Pearce/Mrs Robinson

Mrs Haycock/Mrs Kent

Mr Ford

Mr Webster

Mr Cruse

Mrs Stevens

Notices

Thank you to the support of our PTA at our sports day event selling refreshments. During this day, they raised £163.00. This year the PTA has supported the purchase of the year 6 leavers hoodies, their SATs breakfast and will be supporting to fund the cost of an upcoming year 6 trip. We are also in the process of organising for our playgrounds to be painted with sport lines and games – it is hoped this project will be completed over the summer holidays.

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:

Our children showed great teamwork and determination during sports day this week – we were very proud of each and every one of them
Our choir represented Mabe school at the Big Sing this week and performed on stage at the Hall for Cornwall.
Year 6 residential was such a brilliant experience and the children really threw

themselves into every challenge, despite a lack of sleep!

Illustration of School Children Singing in a Choir

Curriculum News

In PE we will be having fun developing our ball skills.

In DT, we will be tasting and comparing different salads in preparation for making our own.

In Art and Design, we will use our knowledge of primary and secondary colours to paint in the style of John Dyer.

Next week, Puffins will be starting work on writing a newspaper article, applying their historical knowledge to their English.

In music, Heron’s will be become virtuosos in the songs for the school production.

We will continue to learn all about the Space Race! At the end of the week, the children will be taking part in their transition day at Penryn College.