Newsletter Week 21: w/e 1st March 2024

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Newsletter

w/e 1st March 2024

Message from the Head

We are so delighted to announce the safe arrival of Mrs Rayments beautiful baby girl!

Bryony Eleanor was born on Thursday 29th February weighing 7lb 8oz, a special leap year baby!

Sending lots of love and congratulations from everyone at Mabe School Community.

Dear Parents and Carers,

This week we welcomed our Chair of Governors, Mark Lees, into school where we focused on the teaching of Reading and Writing across each class. Mark was impressed with the standards of writing being achieved by our children, and how the same high standards for writing are in place across all curricular subjects. We have worked hard on developing our writing curriculum over this year to ensure that it links to wider curriculum topics, and we are really pleased to see our efforts in this area paying off with the children’s progress in writing now becoming evident. On Wednesday, our teachers met with other year group teachers from our Kernow Learning local Cluster (Mabe, St Francis, Falmouth Primary and King Charles) to look at standards of writing across our four schools – this helps to ensure that our assessments of writing are accurate and we are able to learn from each other and share best practice. Making the most of these partnerships within our Trust help to further develop and shape our curriculum offer.

Next week, as part of our World Book day celebrations we are going to have a specific focus on poetry and poets, and each class is going to learn a poem which they will then ‘perform’ to another class. Poetry is such a great way of developing vocabulary and the next step in our reading curriculum here is to map out a poetry spine to widen our children’s knowledge of this genre. It would be fabulous if you could support this at home with your children by reading a poem together once a week.

Following on from sharing your child’s annual report with you last week, if there is any area of your child’s learning that you would like to support with at home, please do get in contact with us at school and we will be able to signpost you to valuable home, school learning opportunities to reinforce learning at home. As I’ve shared before, one of the most valuable things you can do at home is read, read and read together.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Stevens

Attendance Stats

Kittiwakes	98%
Sandpipers	94%
Curlews	100%
Cormorants	93%
Puffins	96%
Herons	95%
Guillemots	91%

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.

Notices

World Book Day – Thursday 7th March

We will be celebrating this day at Mabe in a range of ways, and tried to keep it simple for you too!

Book Swap – We are asking children to bring in any unwanted books from home from Monday 4th March for a book swap which will take place during the dayl on Thursday.

Dressing Up as a word – This worked really well last year and the children (and staff!) had lots of fun trying to guess each other’s words. The children will discuss some ideas in class and we will share some ideas via DoJo too.

Comic Relief – Friday 15th March

We are asking children to wear their school uniform on this day which can be accesorised with something red for a small donation.

PTA bunny drive – Wednesday 27th March

Our wonderful PTA have organised for a bunny drive to support in raising funds for the school. Posters with details for the event with all the details will be displayed in classrooms, and shared via DoJo so look out for this. We would love to see many of you there.

Family Café – Tuesday 12th March

Come along and meet with the Autism Team and other parents at our Family Café. This will take place at Mabe primary school on Tuesday 12th March from 9:00am – 10:30am.

This is a chance for parents to discuss strategies with Emily Miles, who is an Autism Champion.

(No diagnosis is needed for you to attend)

Infinity sign. Rainbow gradient shape. Autism and neurodiversity symbol.

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 visited Argal reservoir for inspiration for their writing
In assemblies, we have been exploring different aspects of wildlife in recognition of World Wildlife Day on 3rd March
All classes are working on developing use of Oracy in their lessons and we have been asked to share our excellent practice in this area with other schools in our Trust.

Owl watercolor animal wildlife adorable animal

Curriculum News

As part of our topic learning, we will be talking about our favourite fruits and vegetables, and maybe tasting a few!

In Computing this week the children will be collecting and recording data.

In our Fitness lesson, we will be developing our co-ordination skills when skipping. This week we used a long rope, but next week, we will use individual ropes.