Newsletter Week 4: w/e 29th Sept 2023

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Newsletter

w/e 29th Sept 2023

Message from the Head

Attendance Stats

Kittiwakes	92%
Sandpipers	94%
Curlews	96%
Cormorants	94%
Puffins	98%
Herons	96%
Guillemots	97%

Dear Parents/Carers,

I want to start the newsletter by saying a huge thank you for all of our Harvest Festival donations. Our newly appointed school council members have been helping to organise all the donations ready to take to the Food Bank next week. Our assembly focus this week has been on how we can look after both our mental health and our physical health. We learned about the 5 ways to well-being, which are:

CONNECT: Talk and listen, Be present and feel connected

BE ACTIVE: Do what you can, Enjoy what you do, Move your mood

TAKE NOTICE: Remember the simple things that give you joy

KEEP LEARNING: Embrace new experiences, See opportunities, Surprise yourself

GIVE: Your time, Your words, Your presence

Our School Council will adopt these 5 ways to wellbeing to structure our meetings in school and see how we can use these to further build our Mabe community. We will keep you updated with our work and successes on these.

Also, this week we welcomed ‘Rock Steady’ to our school who ran workshops and introduced children to a range of electrical instruments – guitars, drums and keyboards. Some children had a go at playing these instruments in a ‘Rock Band’; it was a great experience all round. The children will have brought home letters about learning one of these instruments in school and forming ‘mini rock bands’ – we can’t wait to see how they develop.

Our PTA met for the first time of the academic year on Wednesday and we have planned many exciting events for the children to enjoy over this year, as well as raising funds for the school. Every penny that is raised by the Mabe PTA is used for resources which your children will benefit from. The PTA are planning a Halloween Ball Friday 20th Oct. Years 1, 2 and 3 will be 4:30-5:30pm and Years 4,5 and 6 will be 6:00pm-7:00pm. Fancy dress is encouraged although not mandatory. The PTA will be sending out more details next week but we wanted you to get the date in your diary!

It has been lovely to meet with many of you at our ‘Meet the Teacher’ sessions over the past week, and I hope that you found these useful in finding out more about what your child will be learning through this year. In the week beginning 16th October, we will be having our first parent meetings of the year – more information on how to book these will be shared with you in the next couple of weeks.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

Mrs Stevens

Ruth Adkins and James Worthington, who have been serving Governors at Mabe, for a number of years have stepped down from this role. Both Ruth and James have given time, commitment and dedication in these roles and have had significant impact in school monitoring and improvement. I want to say a huge thank you for all they have done at Mabe during their time as Governors – they will be greatly missed.

Our Governors meet termly, and come into school and monitor different aspects of the school-life in between these meetings. Due to James being a parent governor, we now have a vacancy on our Governing Board for a new parent governor. Information regarding this has been sent out; if you would like any further information about the role our Chair of Governors, Mark Lees, would be very happy to talk with you about this.

Governor Update and Thanks

Mrs Stevens

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Notices

PTA Halloween Ball

Friday 20th Oct.

More details coming soon!

Please could we request that at pick up times, you collect your youngest sibling first. We appreciate that you can’t be in two places at 3.15 but this will help ensure the littlest children don’t get upset waiting.

Thank you!

End of day pick-ups

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Starting School 2024

Do you have a child born between 1 sept 2019 and 31 Aug 2020?

If so you will need to apply for a reception place by

15th Jan 2024.

For more information visit www.cornwall.gov.uk/admissions

Family/Parenting Worker Drop In @ Mabe School

Do you need some support and advice to understand your child’s needs and behaviours?

Advice on positive parenting and how to keep your child safe?

Support with budgeting and debt advice?

To understand the importance of routines for your family?

We are running drop-in sessions with no appointment necessary.

Tuesday 10th October between 1.45m to 3:15pm

Please sign in at the school Reception and you will be shown through to the hall.

Curriculum News

In EYFS, we will be finding out about some of the things we can do to help us to grow healthy and strong.

In computing the children will be learning to develop their mouse skills and will use their mouse skills to draw and edit.

Curlews will be finishing their Place Value unit in Maths and starting their Addition and Subtraction learning.

Puffins will begin writing a persuasive advert on why Italy is a great place to visit, building their Geographical, reading and even computer skills into their writing.