Welcome to the Habbit Factory

The Habbit Factory have run after school sessions at Mead for many years and are now able to reopen their community workshops in the MySpace Centre and the Salvation Army hall in Petersfield Avenue.

From the Habbit Factory

Firstly, apologies for the sombre nature of this email.
In light of today’s latest government guidelines, it is with much regret that the board of trustees have unanimously taken the decision to postpone this year’s performance at The Queens Theatre to a later date. The advice from the PM is to avoid pubs, clubs and theatres, non-essential travel and contact with others. Those at most risk are the elderly, pregnant women and those with underlying health issues. As we fall within the latter category with some of our members, we have also taken the precautionary measure to postpone all after-school and workshop sessions from this eveningonwards until we are given the official all-clear to start back up again. We understand that the decisions we have taken will impact the lives of Lee and Hannah, our Blue T’s, our members and their families and carers, but this is an unprecedented global crisis and our actions are being taken with the best interests of everyone involved.
We will keep you all posted as and when we have any further developments, but for now, please keep safe and well, and hopefully this awful virus will soon be behind us.

Yours sincerely


Tony Dance
Chair
The Habbit Factory

Weekly Newsletter - 30th November 2018

Dear Parents,
A massive well done to Mrs Kumszczynska, Mr Gowers and the school choir for their wonderful singing at the Hilldene Christmas lights event last night. I know those present were really impressed with the quality of singing and despite the technical hitch, when the accompanying music stopped, they carried on. Occasions such as this make me very proud to be the headteacher of Mead School.

Mr Stanbridge and Mr Robinson accompanied pupils to two sporting events this week. Our Indoor athletic team finished fourth out of 34 schools -a fantastic achievement! Our Basketball team came against some tough opposition from other schools in our cluster but came away with a fantastic trophy as they were overall winners-Very well done to everyone involved.

We are looking forward to welcoming parents/carers next week for our farm ‘Open Afternoons’ when you’ll get a chance to meet Bobby the pony, Paige, Bertie and Blue the goats, along with our chickens, ducks, rabbits and guinea pigs. We are having a dress up ‘Animal Day’on Friday 7th December when we would like pupils to come to school dressed as their favourite animals and bring a small donation which we will put towards the running costs of the farm.

Diary Dates
Monday 3rd December-Last week of swimming this term. Some of our child will be competing in the para bowling competition with Mrs Jolly. During this afternoon some of our year 4 pupils will be joining pupils from Broadford and Brookside for the 4th Mary Poppins History Session at Draper’s Brookside. Between 13:30 and 14:30 Parents of Reception and year 1 pupils are invited to the Mead Farm Open Afternoon.

Tuesday 4th December-Germany class will be visiting MOD Pizza in Romford. Between 10:45 and 11:15 and 14;30 and 15:00 Nursery parents are invited to visit the Mead Farm. The West Ham Health Programme sessions for year 4 pupils will continue this afternoon

Wednesday 5th December- Argentina class are visiting the Royal Courts of Justice in London today. This afternoon sees the last of our Forest Schools sessions for this term. Year 2 parents are invited in to visit the Mead Farm between 13:30 and 14:30, while year 4 parents are invited into school between 14:00 and 15:00 for their showcase.

Thursday 6th December- Chile and Brazil classes are visiting the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Year 5 Parents and carers are invited into school for their showcase between 14:15 and 15;00.

Friday 7th December-Animal Dress Up Day. Reception parents/carers are invited into school for their stay and play session today. Parents/Carers of our year 3 and 4 pupils are invited into school to visit our wonderful farm between 13:30 and 14:30. The last Habit after school club is this evening -but they’ll be back in the spring term.


Key Dates for the Autumn Term 2018
Your children will be bringing letters home next week so you can reserve places for the Christmas concerts. We have to limit the number of places to 2 per family due to Health and Safety regulations-Please complete the forms indicating which concert you wish to attend and return to school a.s.a.p. Thank you.

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 14th 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 3rd December is week 3 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 Canada class who had the highest attendance in Y5&6 at 97.3% . Germany had the highest attendance in LKS2 and overall at 98% and Palau had the highest attendance in KS1 at 97.1%. Well done to them! The overall attendance was disappointing at 94.8% which is still well below our target of 98%

Have a good weekend

Mrs L.Smith

Habbit Factory members meet the Mayor

The members of The Habbit Factory (Callie, Brooke, Jasmine, Mihaela, Chloe and Grace) took part in the annual New Years Day parade in London and proudly represented Havering. To reward them for their great effort, they were invited to a special ceremony where they received medals as special recognition.They met the Mayor and had a fabulous afternoon tea with her. These pupils can feel very proud of their achievement!