Newsletter Week 25: w/e 19th April 2024

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Newsletter

w/e 19th April 2024

Message from the Head

Attendance Stats

Kittiwakes	99%
Sandpipers	94%
Curlews	94%
Cormorants	91%
Puffins	92%
Herons	93%
Guillemots	100%

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,

Welcome back to the summer term. I hope you all had a good Easter holiday despite the weather! The forecast for this weekend is looking promising though, so hopefully we will enjoy some good weather over the summer term and beyond!

On this newsletter are some key dates for your diaries, but I just wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some key ones to you in this part of the newsletter:

Wednesday 24th April – PTA meeting at the school – 6pm start – all welcome

Week beginning Monday 13th May – Parents Evenings

Tuesday 18th June – Sports Days – EYFS and KS1 in the morning and KS2 in the afternoon

Wednesday 26th June – Back up Sports day (if needed)

Friday 5th June – Summer Fayre

Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers’ Service – 2:00pm (Families of Year 6 children invited only)

We hope to see many of you at the events above. More details will follow closer to the time, but I wanted you to have the dates right at the start of this term.

Some of our children in year 6 have been enjoying sporting success. Before the Easter break, I shared with you that Sam and William had qualified for the finals of the Cross-Country event. They both competed fiercely during inclement weather conditions and absolutely did themselves and us proud. In addition, this week, Rory from year 6 represented Mabe school in a golf tournament – he was the only primary aged child competing and finished in the top half of the table. A huge congratulations to these children. We love hearing about their success, so if your child is participating in any out of school clubs please do let us know so we can celebrate this with them.

I am looking forward to the term ahead – there is, as always, a lot to fit in as we aim to provide our children with the very best we can at Mabe. If you ever have any question, concern, comment or suggestion, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Best wishes

Mrs Stevens

Notices

PTA date

Our next meeting date is next week – Wednesday 24th April at 6:00pm. This meeting will be primarily focused on plans for the summer fayre. Everyone is welcome to attend and I look forward to seeing you there.

Community Car Park Closed

I have been made aware that due to a community event, the car park will be busy on Friday 26th April at the pick up time. You may need to park further away from the school on this day.

Family Worker Drop In – Friday 26th April

This is an opportunity to come into school and meet with a family support worker to ask questions, seek advice and find out about resources that are available to you for a range of parenting and children needs.

Sports Day

We are hoping that our Sports Day will be held on Tuesday 18th June. EYFS and KS1 will take part in the morning, and KS2 in the afternoon.

The back up day is Wednesday 26th June.

Forest School Vandalised

We are very proud of our Forest School Area and have timetabled each class to have time in this area. However, over the Easter holidays these area has been accessed and vandalised which is such a shame. Our caretaker and Mrs Haycock have worked hard to tidy and make the area safe again, so that it can be used. Our school site is not to be accessed during weekends or the holidays so if you are aware of children being on site, please do let us know at school to help us try and stop this happening again in the future.

Please be reminded that no dogs, even puppies, are allowed on the school site.

Also, the school is a smoke and vape free zone. Thank you for your support with this.

Parents Evening

We aim to keep you as informed as we can about your child’s learning, progress and attainment. To follow up from our Spring Term reports, we are going to offer Parents Evening during the week beginning Monday 13th May. We will let you know when the sign up sheets will be placed in the office for you to book in.

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 have started their Forest School learning for this half term
Every class has started their new unit of learning – for more detail on this please refer to the half termly planners or look on our school website

Teachers are busy planning enrichment activities for the summer term and letters

around these will be coming home with the children over the next couple of weeks.

Curriculum News

Following our Minibeasts theme, we will be looking at different sorts of Minibeasts and thinking about where we might find them.

In Science we will be looking at the weather that occurs in each season.

We will be identifying a variety of animals found around our school environment in our Science lesson.

Next week, Puffins will be heading to Castle Beach and Princess Pavilion Gardens to explore what flora and fauna can be found in a range of different habitats and consider why.