Newsletter Week 28: w/e 10th May 2024

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Newsletter

w/e 10th May 2024

Message from the Head

Attendance Stats

Kittiwakes	94%
Sandpipers	95%
Curlews	91%
Cormorants	93%
Puffins	94%
Herons	81%
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,

Next week, our Year 6 children will be completing their SATs tests which they have all been working incredibly hard for. To support them in feeling ready to show off all their hard work and knowledge, they will be able to attend school early on these days and have breakfast provided for them. A huge thanks to our PTA for agreeing to part-fund this offer for our children. It is such a great way to alleviate any last minute worries and the children enjoy this social time together. We are very proud of how our year 6 children have applied themselves to their learning over this year, but also how they have grown as individuals who can solve problems, be the kindest of friends, be relied upon, can make us laugh, are great sports people representing our school and the list goes on. Good Luck for next week year 6 – we know that you will all do your absolute best.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to meet with your child’s class teacher next week. If you still need to sign up, the sheets are available at the front of reception.

In the newsletter last week, I also shared the link for you to complete a parent’s survey. We would be grateful if you would take the time to complete this survey following your meeting with your child’s class teacher. If there are any points about any aspect of school-life here at Mabe that you would like to discuss in greater detail with myself, please do not hesitate to contact me or catch me when I am out and about in the mornings.

With my very best wishes,

Mrs Stevens

Notices

Porthpean Meeting for parents and children in Year 4 – Friday 10th May 3:20pm in the Puffins classroom.

Our residential trip to Porthpean is now fast approaching. To further discuss the plan for these 3 days and to answer any of your questions, we will be hosting a meeting on the above date and time. There will be medical declaration forms to complete during this time. If you are unable to make the meeting, we will share the information with you via DoJo and send home any forms requiring completing.

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

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.

Complete our parent survey here

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.

Well done Rory!

Rory in year 6 represented our school in a golf tournament this week. He came in the top third for Mabe and placed 16th overall. What a super effort and we are all so proud of this achievement Rory – well done.

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:

The school council met again this afternoon where we worked on our child’s version of our Anti-Bullying policy – I hope to be in a position to share this with you soon
Each class have voted on different designs they would like painted in our playgrounds to support with games and being active during break and lunchtimes. Our PTA are funding this work and I am looking forward to getting this underway.
In assemblies this week, we have been thinking about what it means to be British and how diverse our country is.