Friday 23 November 2018

Weekly Newsletter- 23rd November 2018


Dear Parents,
Our younger children thoroughly enjoyed meeting the author Abie Longstaff today. I did put a message on the blog/facebook about buying books but I appreciate it was short notice. Mrs Horsham has agreed to have some of her books for sale in the reception area after school on Monday for anyone who missed the initial message.

Mrs Napier has kindly sorted the lost property out for us and the good news is that named items will be returned to your children today. However, we have an abundance of unnamed jumpers/cardigans, T-Shirts etc. -If your child has lost items in school this term you will have the opportunity to reclaim them from the KS2 playground after school on Monday.

Diary Dates
Monday 26th November -2 of our JTAs will be attending a STARs seminar at The Oval in recognition of all the hard work our travel team have done in retaining their GOLD award. During the afternoon some of our year 4 pupils will be attending the 3rd of the Mary Poppins history sessions.

Tuesday 27th November -The first of our Autism Parents Network coffee mornings will be held at Mead between 9:00 and 10:00. Italy class will be going to MOD Pizza in Romford during the morning and Year 3 parents are invited into school for the year 3 showcase between 14:00 and 15:00. Year 4 pupils will be attending the West Ham Health Programme sessions during the afternoon.

Wednesday 26th-Some of our pupils will be representing Mead at the Sports Hall Athletics event at Hornchurch Sports centre in the afternoon while some year 3 pupils will be attending a Forest School session at Mead

Thursday 29th November-Some of our older pupils will be taking part in a Basketball competition at Draper’s Academy during the morning while others will be cycling with Phil. During the afternoon our year 1 Spinebreakers will be going to Waterstones in Romford. Parents/carers of year 6 pupils are invited into school for their showcase between 14:15 and 15:00. After school our Football team will be playing a match against Broadford. We are thrilled that our choir will be contributing to the celebrations at Hilldene for the switching on of the lights-They will be singing at approx 4;45pm- would be lovely if some of you could join us to support them.

Key Dates for the Autumn Term 2018
As you will see I have added a couple of additional events for the end of term:
Christmas Dinner Day in school is Tuesday 18th December
Parents/Carers are invited to join us at 14;30 on the last day of school for Carols in the playground

Monday 10th December -           KS1 Nativity@ 14:00

Tuesday 11th December -           KS1 Nativity@ 9:30
                                                    YR 3/4 Carol concert @14:00

Wednesday 12th December -      YR 3/4 Carol concert@ 9:30
                                                     Reception Xmas concert @ 14:15

Thursday 13th December -          Reception Xmas concert @ 9:15
                                                    YR 5/6 Carol Concert @14:00

Friday 15th December-               CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY
                                                    YR 5/6 Carol Concert @9:30
                                                    Nursery Nativity @ 10:30 & 14:00

Tuesday 18th December -          Christmas Dinner Day
                                                   Carol service@ St Paul’s 18:00-19:00

Wednesday 19th December -     Last day of the Autumn Term.
                                                   Carols in the playground 14:30-15:00

Tuesday 8th January -                Pupils return to school after the Xmas break


Havering Catering Services
Week beginning Monday 26th November is week 2 on the Havering catering services menu. All meals are served with unlimited salad and vegetables and cost £2.20. Meals are free to our KS1/EYFS pupils.

Please be reminded to top up your child’s catering account as we cannot provide dinners for pupils whose accounts exceed a debt of £10.

Attendance Update
Well done to Argentina class who had the highest attendance in Y5&6 at 95.7% . N. Ireland had the highest attendance in LKS2 and overall at 99% and Palau and Madagascar shared the highest attendance score in KS1 at 97.9%. Well done to them!. The overall attendance was disappointing at only 94.9% which is below our target!

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs L. Smith