Be Bright, Be Seen in Year 5!

Be Bright, Be Seen Day.

 It was so amazing to see the number of children that have come into school in their bright clothes for our ' Be Bright, Be Seen' day at Mead. It is important for everyone to understand the importance of being seen, especially as it is getting darker a lot earlier now.

Walk to School Week 2019

Join the fun as we take part in Living Streets Five Day Walking Challenge (20th May- 25th May). We want to encourage as many children, parents and staff to walk to school.  Walking to school is one way of ensuring we are getting enough exercise. It  can also help make our streets safer and easier for children to walk to school everyday of the year. How many of you are up to the challenge?

Brilliant Biker's come for Breakfast!

Biker's Breakfast was a great success with over 70 children cycling or scooting to school last Friday. The children enjoyed eating their breakfast at school with their friends and thought it was a good opportunity to socialise.

Many of the children showed they were very independent by getting their own breakfast ready. The teachers were very impressed. 

Thank you to all of the parents, staff and children that got involved. We hope that you will continue to cycle, scoot and walk to school so that we keep travelling in a healthy and environmentally friendly way.

Biker’s Breakfast

On Friday the 22nd of March, we will be hosting a Biker Breakfast so that any children cycling or scooting to school that morning will get a free breakfast in the KS 2 hall from 8.00-8.30 am. The Biker Brakfast will kickstart our Big Pedal challenge.

The Big Pedal Challenge will commence Monday 25 March until Friday 5 April 2019. On each day of the challenge, schools compete to see who can record the greatest number of pupils, staff and parents cycling, walking or scooting to school. There are daily prizes up for grabs, including equipment and accessories to help schools travel actively.

We would love to see as many of you as possible on bike, scooter during those two weeks to see what exciting prizes we could win for our school.

Mead Junior Travel Ambassadors

On Thursday, we awarded our current JTA's with their JTA Crystal to recognise and thank them for all their help, hard work and dedication throughout this year. They have helped plan, organise and deliver various events as well as ensuring they carried out the rest of their travel duties. Well done to  Amelia, Paris, Pawel, Aimee, Amelia and Frankie.

Although, we are sad to say goodbye to them we also used the opportunity to share and celebrate what they have achieved this year. They welcomed and informed our new JTA's from Year 5 about the role of a JTA so that they are prepared to begin their travel duties in the new school term.

Congartulations to our new JTA's, Kyanna, Kerry, Chanelle, Sophie, Maddison and Biddy.

Travel to School Survey

We are trying to collect data on how people from Mead Primary School travel to school. We would really appreciate it if you could help us collect this data by answering a few questions on our survey. Click the link below to complete the questions and click submit when you have answered all of it.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScorUaZIVn2zU0k8T0hBmZJ1z54-GHIGugAS-nMLB3AHQX34w/viewform?usp=sf_link
Thank you for your continued help and support.

Travel Team

Walk to School Week

Walk to school week is from 21-25 May this year. Unfortunately, we have a school INSET day on Friday the 25th May so we have decided to begin our walk to school week early. We are encouraging all of you that can, to walk to school today (Friday 18th May) and the rest of next week.

Children should get 60 minutes' physical activity a day. Walking to school goes a long way to achieving this goal.

Here is a link for you to find out more information:
https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/what-we-do/projects/walk-to-school-week

We hope to see lots of you walking to school today and the rest of the week.

Thanks,

Travel Team

The Big Pedal 2018

From the 23 April to 4 May we are asking you to join in with the UK’s largest inter-school cycling and scooting challenge. During the next two weeks we want as many pupils, staff and parents to choose two wheels for their journey to school. On each day, we will compete with other schools to see which school can get as many of their pupils, staff and parents cycling or scooting to school. Our school will be entered into daily prize draws for rewards including bike stunt shows, equipment and storage if over 15% of our school community cycle or scoot on each day of the challenge.

Make the most of our lovely weather and join in with the fun to see how many prizes we can win for our school.

Police Safety Talk 'Safety & Citizenship' - Year 6

Two Community Officers visited Mead Primary just before the Easter holiday as part of the 'Safety and Citizenship' promotion that provides a free-of-charge transport education service to schools within London.

The aim is to promote safe, responsible and respectful behaviour on and around London's transport system.

The session was delivered by an experienced School Liaison Officer, and a member of the local Metropolitan Police Service Safer Transport Teams.

The presentation supported our wider PSHCE curriculum.

I'll be using buses to get to my secondary school, so it gave me some great tips for how to use the buses safely.

Jack - Year 6

Now I know what to do if I feel unsafe or in danger when I am using public transport - it makes me feel much more confident.

Amelia - Year 6

Diary Dates

Monday 26th February -We have the author Cliff McNish visiting our year 5 pupils.
Tuesday 27th February -Our year 1 pupils will be attending a circus workshop, in school, during the afternoon. After school our Netball team will be taking on a team from Broadford.
Wednesday 28th February -Our year 6 pupils will be visiting the IMAX cinema in London and during the afternoon some of our year 3 pupils will be attending a Forest Schools session.
Thursday 1st March is World Book Day-See additional information above. During the afternoon some of our year 5/6 pupils will be representing the school at a Tag Rugby competition to be held at Brookside Primary School
Friday 2nd March- Some members of our travel team will be attending the TFL travel conference with Mrs Harding and Miss Doherty, other pupils will be attending a Zoella event at Westfield.

Bike Safe Competition

During this half term, Mead Primary School will be running a Bike Safe Competition to increase the awareness of travelling to school in a safe and sustainable way.

If you wear your helmet when travelling to school on a scooter or bike you will get a Helmet Point. The children with the most Helmet Points at the end of the 6 weeks will win a prize.

When you cycle or scoot to school wearing your helmet, take your helmet into class where your teacher can help you record it on the Bike Safe Tracker.

Gold level Accreditation 2017

On Monday the 20th November 2017, two JTA's from Mead Primary School attended STARS Travel Plan Conference in the Camden Centre. The JTA's were involved in various activities throughout the day in which they had to look at different scenarios involving travel to school. The JTA's collaborated with local schools to come up with ideas on how to travel to school safely and ensure it was sustainable travel.

At the end of the day there was an award ceremony in which Mead Primary School was awarded Gold level accreditation for the 5th consecutive year. This means Mead Primary School is within the top 10% of London schools that have transformed their travel habits, resulting in a reduction in the number of car journeys made every day.

Well done to the parents and children of Mead Primary School for ensuring that the travel to and from school is both safe and sustainable. Keep up the good work!

Considerate Parking Campaign

Parking near schools is one of the biggest frustrations for residents around Havering. Considerate Parking is a campaign that aims to promote safe and considerate parking, encourage families to Park and Walk, have a Park Away Day or take part in the Parent Parking Promise.

We work in partnership with Transport for London (TfL) to help address the issues and improve parking in their local community. We also have a range of initiatives and resources to support our objective and promote the campaign.

Pupils have been promoting “Perfect Parking” through assemblies, lessons and by asking Mrs Smith to include comments in the newsletters.

With the help of the Havering Travel Plan team, the pupils have produced a banner for the main gate that highlights the need to avoid parking on the zig zag lines.

We need to stay off the yellow zig zags so that drivers can see the children as they cross the road into school. If people park there a child might get hit by a car.

JTAs

Diary Dates

Monday 20th November- Learn to ride sessions for years 3&4. Jamaica class are visiting Harold Hill library in the morning and Madagascar class in the afternoon. Some of our travel team will be attending the Travel plan conference in Stratford.
Tuesday 21st November -Learn to ride sessions for years 3&4. Some school council members will be representing Mead at The School Council Alliance meeting being held at St Ursula’ infant school. After school our Netball team will be playing at Harold Court Primary School.
Wednesday 22nd November- Barbados and St. Lucia classes will be visiting Harold Hill library in the morning and Egypt class will be going in the afternoon. Years 5 and 6 School Council representatives ‘Meet the goats’ session. After school between 18:45 and 20;00 Dad’s talk about puberty at Broadford.
Thursday 23rd November-Years 1, 2, and 4 School council representatives ‘Meet the goats’ sessions. Year 2 Spinebreakers will be visiting Waterstones in the afternoon to choose some quality reading texts to share with their peers.
Friday 24th November-Today is the deadline for Mersea deposits for year 5 pupils and it is also Non school uniform day.

Road Safety competition

Thank you to all the children that entered the safer parking competition-there were 286 entries in total so choosing the winners was a really difficult task:
Year group winners are-
Reception-Olivia Broad
Year 1- Julia Newark
Year2- Grace Rowley
Year 3- Pritika Maheshwan
Year 4- Grace Allen
Year 5 Deborah Dimoriaku
Year 6 Lia Summer
The overall winner is Deborah Dimoriaku-she wins a street scooter. Watch out for her poster which will be displayed at the school gates. Congratulations to all the winners and well done to everyone who entered.

Diary Dates

Well done to everyone who has taken part in the Big Pedal over the last 2 weeks. Teachers have kept count of those taking part and the good news is pupils from Mead managed to complete a total of 2,358 journeys. We came 44th out of 147 Greater London schools and 308th out of 1691 schools across the country -So well done to all those who took part.

Year 4 WILL NOT be going swimming on the first week back after Easter-Swimming will start w/b Monday 24th April

Wednesday 19th April 9;00-10:00 -There will be a parent workshop for year 2 parents-This is a repeat of the end of KS1 information workshop which I understand some parents couldn’t make.

On Friday 21st April -Reception Bug day-Our reception children will be meeting and learning about all different types of insects.

WOW Badge Design Competition

We had a fantastic response to the badge design competition- which meant we had great difficulty choosing the 3 best designs to put forward to represent Mead. After a lot of deliberation we decided the winners were;

• Mason Clitherow

• Julia Brikic

• Felicity Applegarth

Well done to them and fingers crossed they will be successful in the national competition.

Diary Dates

Monday 20th March the ‘Big Pedal’ starts (runs until 31st March)-To celebrate the first day we are holding a free bikers and scooters breakfast between 8:00 and 8:30 in the dining hall.
On Monday our year one pupils are visiting the Barbican to watch a performance of Stan and Mabel given by the London Symphony Orchestra and Year 2’s Living Eggs experience begins

During the afternoon of Tuesday 21st March Mead netball team are taking part in a rally at Mead.

On Wednesday 22nd March Chile class are going on a trip to Anglian water and some of our pupils will be going to Wembley to take part in WE day UK celebrations

On Thursday 23rd Year 5 pupils are on a trip to the Crystal at Stratford and in the afternoon year 3 parents/carers are invited into school between 14:00 and 15:00 so pupils can showcase some of the fantastic learning they have done so far this year.
Year 6 are also out on the 23rd-they are visiting the Hackney Empire to see the show ‘Running Wild’.

On Friday 24th March Brazil class will be going on the Anglian water trip. The last Habit club for this half term will take place after school.

The Big Pedal 20-31st March 2017

To celebrate the launch of the Big Pedal competition we will be holding a Bikers Breakfast on Monday the 20th of March from 8:00-8:30 am. Anyone who travels to school on a bike and a scooter can come along and enjoy a free breakfast.


The Big Pedal competition runs from the 20th of March to the 31 st of March. This is a competition that promotes travelling using two wheels and is the UK's largest inter school cycling and scooting challenge.


On each day of the challenge, schools compete to see who can record the greatest number of pupils, staff and parents cycling or scooting to school. There are some brilliant prizes for schools to won!


We hope to see most of you travelling on two wheels for the next two weeks!