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Some thoughts for the starting school year
What a fantastic way to the start the new academic year! Thank you parents, carers and children for attending our very first Teacher Meet and Greet afternoon on Friday 11th September! Once again the PTA outperformed themselves and organised a great community event. While parents had the opportunity to meet and greet their children’s new teachers, the children had fun on the bouncy castle, joining in with the band, enjoying refreshments and just having fun! We are all very excited about this year ahead and we would like to thank you in advance for your continued support.
Central to raising standards in all schools and ensuring all pupils can fulfil their potential, is the need for children to attend school regularly to benefit from their education.
There is a strong link between good learning, high achievement, rapid progress and developing good social skills with excellent attendance.
We want to take this opportunity to outline our expectations for school attendance this academic year.
If your child arrives at school from 9.01am they will be marked as LATE, if they arrive after 9.30am they will be classed as “late after the register is closed” and their attendance is classed as absent for the morning session. As the registers would have already been returned to the Department for Education.
Regular poor punctuality can also have a negative effect on your child’s attendance as well as their academic learning. Being 6 minutes late each day equals 30 minutes of missed learning every week.
If your child’s attendance drops below 90%, we will need to share our concerns with the Local Authority Education Welfare Officer at Lambeth Council.
Dolphin Class proved that if you have a burning desire to achieve or do something you are ambitious and will be able to achieve things beyond your dreams. We were given a outstanding performance from the children of Dolphin Class who were not afraid to show off their talents on the stage and in doing so shared with us their ambitions. If you fast forward a couple of decades you are looking at our future poets, professional footballers, doctors nurses and even pilots! As Dolphin Class reminded us these ambitions start with habits of perseverance, patience and much more!
We are so proud of you all Dolphin Class keep reaching for those stars and Going for Gold!
Year 3’s had a great start to this academic year and have settled in well into Gorilla and Elephant classes!
The Year 3’s topic for this term is Ancient Civilizations. The children will use maps, atlases and globes to help them locate continents and countries. During the term, they will be comparing the physical and human features of Ancient Egypt and Greece. The Year 3’s will also be attending weekly swimming lessons at the Brixton Recreation Centre and we are excited to see how their skills and confidence will develop over the course of time. They thoroughly enjoyed their first lesson!
Toys Glorious Toys
Year 1 have fully immersed themselves in our Topic Toys. In our History lessons we will be looking at toys throughout history. How toys have changed over time and how they have evolved and developed. We have started with bringing in our own toys (living memory).
We also made and wrote instructions on how to make ‘Forky’ from ‘Toy Story’ in our English lessons. In our Geography lesson Children explored “our school” - showing their toy around.
Well Done Year 1 we are proud of you. Keep Going for Gold!
Teddy Bear’s Picnic!
The children in EYFS got off to a fine start, and settled quickly into their new school and with their peers. We had a great start to the year where parents came to our first welcome party aimed at getting parents to meet and greet the parents and children in EYFS. A massive thank you for making the day such a success.
On Friday 22nd September we all came to school wearing our jeans and raised a total of £150! Your donations can help to change lives and Jessop could help fund projects that provide nursing care, equipment, activity weekends, online support and counselling. Thank you parents, carers, children and staff for supporting such an amazing cause! For more information about Jeans for Genes Day, please visit https://www.jeansforgenes.org/
