Tuesday 29 May 2018

Reception Reading Morning



Reading Morning Reminder Friday 15th June


Reception are inviting parents to come and join us for our next reading morning which is taking place on Friday 15th June between 8.30am -8.55am. We are asking parents to come and join their child in their classes for up to 5 minutes reading a book to them or with them.
We very much look forward to seeing you soon.


Reception Team

Nursery summer term stay and play



Nursery stay and play


We are inviting parents to our last stay and play of the academic year. You are welcome to come and spend time in Nursery on Friday 15th June where the theme will be Father's day and we will have lots of activities for you to do with your child. The open day provides a great opportunity for you to come and share in your child's learning and to also see what they have been learning this term. 

You do not have to stay for the entire session, if you can only stay for an hour that is fine an any family member is welcome to attend but we are encouraging Dads, Uncles, and Granddads to come along. If you have younger children they are permitted to come in with you but please leave buggies outside. 

Please only attend the session in which your child is at Nursery:

AM - 9.15-11am

PM - 1.15-2.30 pm.

If your child attends our Nursery for 30 hours please note you can attend either the AM or PM session.


Please add the date to your diary so that you don't miss out on this very special opportunity to interact with your child whilst they play and learn. 

Reception Summer term stay and play



 Reception Stay and Play Friday 15th June


We are inviting parents to our last stay and play of the academic year. You are welcome to come and spend time in Reception this Friday 15th June where the theme will be Father's day and we will have lots of activities for you to do with your child. The open day provides a great opportunity for you to come and share in your child's learning and to also see what they have been learning this term.
                                        
Any family member is welcome to attend but we are encouraging Dads, Uncles, and Granddads to come along. Please bring younger children with you if you need to.

We will have an AM and a PM session, please only attend ONE:

AM - 9.15-11am

PM - 1.15-2.30pm.


We hope to welcome you all on 15th June.

Reception Team




Friday 25 May 2018

Indonesian Music Workshop

Over the last two weeks KS2 children had an opportunity to explore Indonesian music and culture. Thanks to Havering Music School and The Indonesian Embassy we were the first school in the United Kingdom that learned to play Indonesian Angklung.

The Angklung is a musical instrument made of a varying number of bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved to have a resonant pitch when struck and are tunes to octaves, similar to Western handbells. The base of the frame is held in one hand, whilst the other hand shakes the instrument. This cause a repeating note to sound.

The children enjoyed the music sessions immensely and were extremely happy being able to sing and play some popular Indonesian songs. Maddison in Year 4 said, '' I like playing this bamboo xylophone and I am very good at it''.






You can watch their short performances on Facebook.

E for Excellence Winners

These wonderful children have demonstrated excellence this week.
Barbados -Sophia
Wales -Reggie
Jamaica -Neve
Scotland -Marley
St Lucia -Keerat
Germany -Daumantas
New Zealand -Elise
Greece -Carrie
Australia -Alexander
Italy -Danni
Palau -Sarah
U.S.A -Rehaan
Madagascar -Millie-Rae
Canada -Rosie
Egypt -Egypt class for working so hard on their SATs papers
Mexico -Brayan
Kenya -Luke
Chile -Amelia
N. Ireland -Kai 
Brazil -Abdullah
Argentina -Grace





Star Writers


These children have used a range of powerful vocabulary and techniques to become a Star Writer; Lenny, Sumad, Lola, Riddhi, Muhammad-Ali, Alfie, Riley, Brooke, Shay, Ellie, Rebekah, Safiyya, Akacia, Amira, Paris, Hollie, Eshaan, Kyanna, Hafizah, Ina and Millie.
Look out for examples of their work on the blog!




Learning Challenge Awards


Amara, Amy-Leigh and Alynniea have been working hard at home and extending their knowledge through their learning challenge work.

Learning Power Awards


These are the awards we present to the pupils when they have demonstrated one of our four learning skills: Resilience, reciprocity, reflectiveness & resourcefulness.

Aminata, Scarlett, Zephan, Tomi, Cameron, Maddison and Lenny receive certificates for reciprocity and Hanzalah, Jamie and Briana for reflectiveness. Well done to Lilyana, Agata, Zachary and ALL of Madagascar class who receive certificates for resilience and Samuel, Jannat, Abigail, Pritika and Sofia who have shown they can be very resourceful in school.




Tracker Awards


Congratulations to the latest pupil who has achieved his Bronze awards: Michael

Silver Tracker certificates are awarded to Gabriela, Millie-Rae, Lexie and Gene. Well done to them!

Alexa, Ivan, Kai and Justice receive Gold Tracker certificates in recognition of the fantastic effort they have made in learning.

A massive well done to Jasmine who receives a Platinum Tracker Certificate for working so hard.

Anya is to be congratulated as she is the very first pupil to be awarded the trophy for completing her STAR Tracker-Well done Anya.

Reading Awards



Elena, Ines and Raul have achieved bronze reading awards for reading 25 books.

Silver Reader awards go to Andy, Michael and Aisha who have read 50 books. They each receive a silver certificate and a £5 book token for their efforts.

Dev, Tommy, Francesca, Grace and Tzoulia have read 75 books and they get a book of their choice for their fantastic effort.

Kajus has read 200 books and gets to choose a set of books in recognition of his fantastic effort.



Fact Hunter Award

In recognition of their insatiable appetite for knowledge and ability to sniff out amazing facts the following children have been awarded certificates; Kaylin and Amelia.

WOW Award


I have made my teacher happy
Summer in Jamaica -For moving on to word books in her reading.
David and Max in Barbados -For moving up a book band
James and Sumad in Barbados -For moving up a RWI group
Daniel , Haydar , Ines in St. Lucia -For moving up a book band
Rianne, Elise, Tommy, Michael and Nicole in New Zealand -For moving up a book band
Harry, Rezna, Ali, Sophie and Wadi in Australia-For moving up a book band
Ava, Ruby, Sabina, Jovan, Indiana, Layla-Mai, Olivia-Rose, Daniel and Yanis in Palau -For moving up a book band
Alicia, Ellie-Mae, Felicity, Gabriela and Jackson in madagascar -For moving up a book band
Brea and Alicia in Madagascar-For completing their homework to a high standard
Melisa and Franky in Egypt -For moving up a book band
Fawaz, Melisa and Lucas in Egypt -For fabulous Bingo homework
Sulejman and Edward in Kenya -For moving up a book band
Milana, Bella, Lexi-Rose, Famata, Nicole, Jolin, Ivan and Julia in Kenya -For fabulous Bingo homework
Jannat in Wales -For wonderful poetry homework
Aminata in Wales -For her presentation on why we should boycott plastic
Amelia and Jessie-Leigh in Wales -For brilliant maths homework
Rebekah in Wales -For her brilliant first week at mead






Attendance


Well done to Canada class who once again had the highest attendance in Y5&6 and overall at 100%, so earn themselves another cupcake party . Germany had the highest attendance in LKS2 at 99.3% and Palau had the highest attendance in KS1 at 95.3%. Well done to them!. The overall attendance was disappointing at only 94.1% which is below our target- hopefully we can improve on this next half term.

Havering Catering Services


Week beginning Monday 4th June is week 1 on the Havering catering services menu. All meals are served with unlimited salad and vegetables and cost £2.20.

Important dates the rest of this term


Monday 28th May-Friday 1st June-Half term holiday-School closed

Wednesday 13th-Friday 15th June-Year 5 Residential trip to Mersea

Please note the additional teacher training day at Mead is Friday 22nd June-School closed

Friday 29th June-Inset day/Staff training-School closed

Saturday 30th June -LFPA Summer Fete

Monday 16th July -Parents meetings

Friday 20th July -Last day of school before summer holiday

Sports days
Monday 2nd July 9:30-12:00 -YRS 5/6

1:30-2:45 -YR 1

Tuesday 3rd July 9:30-12:00 - YRS 3/4

1:30-2:45 -YR 2

Thursday 5th July 1:30-2:45 -Reception

Diary Dates


Monday 4th June- Pupils are expected back in school-Doors open at 8:30 (Breakfast club at 7:45).

Wednesday 6th June- Some of our year 3 pupils will be attending a Forest Schools session in school

Friday 8th June -Some of our KS2 pupils will be attending the Havering Music Festival rehearsal at Broadford during the morning while some year 5 pupils will spend the day cycling with Phil.

Don’t Forget About Veggie Run ...


What is the aim?

The app aims to create healthy competition amongst primary and Junior school children, where they learn to dodge unhealthy foods and get rewarded by collecting fruit and vegetables.
Why get the App?
The main advantage for pupils downloading and playing this app, is that pupils can win your school sports prizes!! These prizes are worth up to £200! Each school will receive a unique reference code that they share with pupils, who use this when they login to the game.

Where do I get the App?
Download and share the link here -https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veggierun/id1339059186?mt=8

Mead school code - 7709

Why do we need to promote Healthy Lunches?
Recent evidence suggests that only 1% of packed lunches are healthy!
We hope from children playing the game they are able to identify the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods.

Summer Sun


It is wonderful that we are experiencing this lovely weather, let’s hope that it continues during and after the half term break. I would like to ask all parents to ensure that children have sun protection applied before they arrive at school. . It is also recommended that children wear caps/hats into school to wear during outdoor times. We will ensure that pupils have access to plenty of water throughout the day to keep them fully hydrated.

SQuid


Unfortunately some parents/carers have run up considerable debts on their SQuid accounts. This is unacceptable as, ultimately the school has to bear the cost for unpaid dinners. We are now imposing a £10 limit per child-this means when the amount owed exceeds £10 parents/carers will be expected to send their child/children into school with a packed lunch until the debt is cleared (the child will NOT be offered a school dinner).

Weekly Newsletter- 25th May 2018





Dear Parents,

Where did that half term go? I can’t believe we are already half way through the summer term with only 7 school weeks before the summer holidays.

A lot has been accomplished this half term: Our year 6 and year 2 children have completed their SATs tests, we were the first school in the country to host the Indonesian Music School and our curriculum has been enhanced by some very interesting visitors to school and experiences off site.

SQuid
Unfortunately some parents/carers have run up considerable debts on their SQuid accounts. This is unacceptable as, ultimately the school has to bear the cost for unpaid dinners. We are now imposing a £10 limit per child-this means when the amount owed exceeds £10 parents/carers will be expected to send their child/children into school with a packed lunch until the debt is cleared (the child will NOT be offered a school dinner).

Summer Sun
It is wonderful that we are experiencing this lovely weather, let’s hope that it continues during and after the half term break. I would like to ask all parents to ensure that children have sun protection applied before they arrive at school. . It is also recommended that children wear caps/hats into school to wear during outdoor times. We will ensure that pupils have access to plenty of water throughout the day to keep them fully hydrated.


Don’t Forget About Veggie Run ...
What is the aim?

The app aims to create healthy competition amongst primary and Junior school children, where they learn to dodge unhealthy foods and get rewarded by collecting fruit and vegetables.
Why get the App?
The main advantage for pupils downloading and playing this app, is that pupils can win your school sports prizes!! These prizes are worth up to £200! Each school will receive a unique reference code that they share with pupils, who use this when they login to the game.

Where do I get the App?
Download and share the link here -https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veggierun/id1339059186?mt=8

Mead school code - 7709

Why do we need to promote Healthy Lunches?
Recent evidence suggests that only 1% of packed lunches are healthy!
We hope from children playing the game they are able to identify the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods.


Diary Dates
Monday 4th June- Pupils are expected back in school-Doors open at 8:30 (Breakfast club at 7:45).

Wednesday 6th June- Some of our year 3 pupils will be attending a Forest Schools session in school

Friday 8th June -Some of our KS2 pupils will be attending the Havering Music Festival rehearsal at Broadford during the morning while some year 5 pupils will spend the day cycling with Phil.

Important dates the rest of this term
Monday 28th May-Friday 1st June-Half term holiday-School closed

Wednesday 13th-Friday 15th June-Year 5 Residential trip to Mersea

Please note the additional teacher training day at Mead is Friday 22nd June-School closed

Friday 29th June-Inset day/Staff training-School closed

Saturday 30th June -LFPA Summer Fete

Monday 16th July -Parents meetings

Friday 20th July -Last day of school before summer holiday

Sports days
Monday 2nd July 9:30-12:00 -YRS 5/6

1:30-2:45 -YR 1

Tuesday 3rd July 9:30-12:00 - YRS 3/4

1:30-2:45 -YR 2

Thursday 5th July 1:30-2:45 -Reception

Havering Catering Services
Week beginning Monday 4th June is week 1 on the Havering catering services menu. All meals are served with unlimited salad and vegetables and cost £2.20.

Attendance
Well done to Canada class who once again had the highest attendance in Y5&6 and overall at 100%, so earn themselves another cupcake party . Germany had the highest attendance in LKS2 at 99.3% and Palau had the highest attendance in KS1 at 95.3%. Well done to them!. The overall attendance was disappointing at only 94.1% which is below our target- hopefully we can improve on this next half term.

I hope you all have a wonderful week , I hope the sun shines for you and look forward to welcoming you all back suitably rested and ready for the challenges of the final half term of the academic year.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs L Smith
Headteacher

Thursday 24 May 2018

Year 5’s Shocking Sweet Discovery

Over the last two weeks Year 5 have been learning about and identifying acids and alkalies using the pH scale. During the first week the pupils showed reciprocity whilst working in groups to identify the pH of common household products such as apple juice, limescale remover and toothpaste. Everyone was very excited to wear the safety goggles and gloves. David in USA class said, “I feel like an actual scientist.”

This week pupils investigated the pH of sweets. Pupils had to crush the sweets and then mix the ground sweets with water before testing the pH with litmus paper.  The pupils showed resilience whilst crushing the sweets which proved to be difficult! The results were shocking. Kerry said, “I can’t believe how acidic all the sweets are!”. 

The classes discussed what this would mean if we ate lots of sweets. Some pupils felt they should stop eating sweets all together. Ryan said, “I don’t want to stop eating sweets but I think I will eat less and always make sure I brush my teeth well afterwards.”

Wednesday 23 May 2018

Stop, it's reading time in reception



A BIG thank you to all of those parents who were able to make our stay and read yesterday morning. There was lots of children fully engrossed in the stories being told, taking their imaginations to far off lands. "We love reading" said Bella-Leigh and Rae.
We will be holding another reading morning in June, please look out for further details.


Tuesday 22 May 2018

Our very own Mead wedding

You may have enjoyed watching the Royal wedding but at Mead we had our very own Mead wedding. The children in St Lucia excitedly gathered to see the pretend wedding of Junior to Lola.
Junior had  a best man and Lola had two beautiful bridesmaids. The wedding was set in the woods and the sun shone down on the happy couple and the guests. In the afternoon the children celebrated with sandwiches and cakes.
Khadija said` Can we all get married?`
Lola said `I love being a bride`

Year 5 Perfect Playwrites

This week year 5 created their own short plays using a range of props as inspiration, showing resourcefulness with the items available. They displayed reciprocity as they worked in groups to write playscripts and create their drama pieces. At the end of the plays, the class reflected on what went well and how they could improve on their plays. Additionally, they reflected on how well they worked as a group.

'I thought Briana was really good at speaking loudly and very funny' Momina - Canada

'After seeing all the plays from professional actors in school recently, it was so fun to create our own plays' Maddison - Canada

Monday 21 May 2018

YEAR ONE REQUEST

In science this week we are making Cartesian divers. We are investigating why some objects float and some sink. Could you please send in any clean 2 litre drinks bottles you have by Thursday please.

Thank you.

Learning Challenge

Fabian Faron have been working hard at home and extending his knowledge through his learning challenge work.

Year 4 Swimming

This is just a reminder that there will be no swimming for Year 4 this week. Swimming will commence the first week back after school.

Sunday 20 May 2018

Nursery Newsletter Summer 1 Week5

Summer 1 Week 5-Week Beginning May 21st

Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you are enjoying your weekend.
As we move into the last week of another busy half term we will continue talking about the farm this week and encouraging the children to create drawings and paintings of animals  We will also be continuing with our Read, write inc programme and continuing to practice songs for our end of year graduation.
Thank you to all the parents who are supporting the children to come in and do their own jobs and say goodbye  we are very proud of the children for the independence that they are showing.

We had a lovely day on Friday celebrating the Royal Wedding. Thank you to all the parents who sent their child in  some special headwear. We thought the children looked wonderful and they certainly enjoyed their special wedding party food. We hope you enjoyed watching the Royal wedding at  the
weekend.
Here are our lovely Nursery children celebrating.








Important Dates
Friday 25th May-Staff Training Day-Nursery Closed
Monday28th May-1st June School Closed-Half Term
June 22nd-Nursery Closed-Staff Training
June 29th -Nursery Closed-Staff Training
Friday 6th July-Nursery Sports Morning

We hope you all have a lovely half term and the weather stays nice.
If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk
Regards
The Nursery Team

Reception Reminder




Reading Morning Tuesday 22nd May


Reception are inviting parents to come and join us for our next reading morning which is taking place on Tuesday 22nd May between 8.30am -8.55am. We are asking parents to come and join their child in their classes for up to 5 minutes reading a book to them or with them.
We very much look forward to seeing you soon.


Reception Team

Reception Newsletter Summer 1 Week 6


                                                                                                     Summer 1       21.05.18


Dear Parents/Carers,
We hope you are all having a lovely weekend so far in the sunshine and you managed to catch a glimpse of the royal wedding yesterday.

The children all made such a great effort with their wedding head wear on Friday and we continued the royal celebrations by having class picnics and making delicious sandwiches. Please look out on the blog tomorrow for pictures of our celebrations.

We also realised our butterflies on Friday; we hope you managed to see our blog which captured their first flight to freedom.

As we enter into our final week of this half term, we will be continuing our topic of ‘Growing and Changing’ by reading the story of ‘Titch’ by Pat Hutchins. We will be discussing how the children have all changed since they were babies, discoing the human life cycle and talking about what makes us unique. Thank you to those parents who have sent in/emailed their child’s baby picture already.

Thank you again for your continued support and cooperation in encouraging your child to come in of a morning independently, it is much appreciated and will help in their transition into Year 1. The majority of children are now managing this very well and enjoying the satisfaction of being able to do this.

A little reminder Wednesday is our PE day, please ensure your child has their named PE kit in school. We have a lot of lost property accumulating in school which cannot be returned to their rightful owner as they are unnamed.

When/if we have warmer weather could you please ensure your child comes to school with a sun hat and water bottle.

If your child has needed a change of clothes, could you please ensure these are sent back into school as we now have no spare clothes in school!

This week is Week 3 of the Havering catering services. Monday's choices are:
Red- Hot dog with wedges
Blue- Cheesy Tomato pasta pot
Green- Veggie hot dog with wedges

Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-

Personal, Social and Emotional:

Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.

Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioural expectations in the setting.

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.
                       

Communication and Language:
Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.

Extends vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.

ELG: They give their attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.


Physical Development:
Practices some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision. Uses simple tools to effect changes to materials.

Children show good control and coordination in large and small movements.


Literacy:
Uses phonetic knowledge to write simple CVC words.

Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.

Attempts to write short sentences, which they can then read back.


Mathematics:
Count reliably from 1-20.

Order numbers from 1-20.

Identify 1 more or less of a given number.



Expressive Art and Design:
Experiment with changing songs.

Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect.

Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.


Understanding the World:

Children know about similarities and differences in relation to living things.

Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.

They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.

Messages.
Learning Challenge

Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home. Thank you to all the families who completed this last term we hope to see lots more coming in this term.

The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, famous person, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.

 Person: Mr Bloom

Piece of Art: Eric Carle - illustrator

Illustration by Eric Carle

Person: Mr Bloom

1. To find out facts about the illustrator.

2. To make a collage of one of his illustrations.

3. To choose a favourite illustration and talk/write about why you like it.

Draw a portrait of the person.

Find out facts about the person.

Watch the person in action.

Dates for your Diary:
Tuesday 22nd May – Reception stay and read morning 8.30-8.50am
Friday 25th May-School Closed Staff Training
Monday 28th May-1st June School Closed-Half Term
Friday 15th June-Father’s Day-Stay and make (More details to follow)
Friday 22nd June -Staff Training Day
Friday 29th June-Staff Training Day

If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk
Kind regards
The Reception Team