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Friday 12th January 2024

Dear Families,

Children have been well into the flow of their learning this week with their new texts and humanities topics. In other news, it was great to catch up with the Goethe Institute earlier this week and agree further support for our German provision as part of their GIMAGINE project.  

With the cold weather, it is good to see so many of the children coming to school well wrapped up. Do please remember to clearly label all hats, gloves and scarves to ensure they can be returned to their owners in case they get lost. 

We appreciate that mornings can be tricky for us all at this time of year. Please do, however, ensure children are in school by 8:50am. After this time, the side doors will be closed and they will be registered as lates. This is to help give them a settled start to the day with our morning reading routines.  

Wishing you all a lovely weekend, 

Patrick 

Other messages for the week:

Uniform days - please note that uniform collection day is now on Wednesday mornings at drop off

Following the incident over the holidays when a driver crashed a car into the school playground, a group of parents are focusing on improving safety outside the school. We are doing two things:

  1. Collecting signatures for a petition to Southwark Council to ask for action on road safety around the school. Please come and sign at drop-off next week if you haven’t already. 
  2. Carrying out a transport survey to gather views on what would help our school community to travel safely and sustainably. Results will help us lobby Southwark for support and funding to improve safety around the school. Please take part by next Wednesday (17th), we’d love to get everyone’s views and you can win an after-school tea for four at a cafe opposite the school! Click here

KS2 Choir

School Choir: we are hoping to re-start our KS2 choir this term and Mr Aiden will be running it. Choir will take place after-school (most likely on a Wednesday) and any children attending will need to be fully committed to attending each week (most likely on a Wednesday), as well as any adhoc performances. There will be a charge for attending, equivalent to after-school clubs.

If you think your child would be interested in being part of the choir, please email admin@judithkerr.anthemtrust.uk by Friday, 19th January, with 'School Choir' as the subject header and the following: 'My child, (name), would be interested in joining the school KS2 choir and would be fully committed to attending each week.'

We will then look at forming the choir in the weeks after the 19th. Please note, we are unable to guarantee places but will look at the fairest way to offer places should the number of interested applicants exceed the number of places available.       

Reception Den Building!

Reception den building and making food in their camp kitchen. Fish fingers, pasta and cookies were on the menu! The children worked together to build their den from scratch, problem solving and taking turns to collect wood. Great work and a big thank you to Ms Katrin for another fabulous forest session. 

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A new year, new literature to explore and discover... 

With the new year, lots of our year groups have been starting their new Literacy Tree writing and reading texts. See below for a selection of what some of the year groups have been up to. 

This week, Nursery have been reading their new story Goldilocks and the Three Bears as part of their next topic 'Traditional Tales'. They have been creating painting of the bears for a very special display in their classroom. Watch this space! 

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Reception have been continuing to read 'Leaf' by Sandra Dieckmann. They have been learning about thought bubbles and writing 'thoughts' from the viewpoint of the crows. Look at their amazing writing ' we will help him get home', 'we can help', he's too heavy', 'he's safe'. What fantastic writing and beautiful artwork.

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Times Tables Rockstars and Numbots

Some of you have been in touch this week regarding our subscription to TTS and Numbots. Unfortunately, we did't receive the relevant notification in time. However, we have now renewed our subscription and usernames and passwords remain the same as previously. 

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Friends Corner

Hi again from the Friends. To find out more about us and what we do or to find out how you can donate just head here. Or get in touch at fojkps@gmail.com.  

Happy Friday everyone! To find out more about us and what we do, or to find out how you can donate, just head here. And keep an eye on the noticeboard by the gate if you’d like to know what’s coming up. 

🪴 We have our Gardening Day this Sunday, 11am-3pm. The weather might be a bit fresh, but please do come along, even if you have only got an hour to spare. Every pair of hands helps and there is plenty to do!

👕 Second-hand uniform - if anyone is good with a needle and thread and doesn’t mind stained or torn uniform, we are going to put out a “For Free” box next week. Please help yourselves and whatever is left on Friday will get recycled.

 

Key Dates

Anthem Coffee and Connect Meetings                        24th, 25th, 30th, 31st January

                                                                                                               7th, 21st February 

NSPCC Number Day (EYFS and Year 1)                                        Friday, 2nd February

Y4 Trip to London Zoo                                                            Wednesday, 7th February 

Y5 Trip to All Saints Church (Carshalton)                              Wednesday, 7th February

Children's Mental Health Week                                                       5th - 11th February

Fasching (Karneval Parade)                                                             Friday, 9th February 

Spring Half-Term                                        Monday, 12 February - Friday, 16 February

End of the Spring Term                                                                  Thursday 28th March