As always, we have arranged a week to celebrate the diversity of our school community and have planned a ‘Food Event’ for 22nd October, where we would invite parents to donate traditional food to share with others. If you are able to do this please ensure that all items of food arrive in school by lunchtime on 22nd October and are clearly labelled with the ingredients, so that we know what they contain.
Also, Friday 23rd October will be a non-uniform day, when all the children will participate in a school carnival. More to follow from Ms. Nwichi.
Science Week
Miss Willers has once again organised a week to promote Science across the school for next week. I am sure the children will be very excited about this, and we look forward to parents coming in on Friday 16th October for Good Works assemblies to find out what each class has been doing.
Jewellery/Uniform
I have been disappointed to see some children coming to school not in uniform and wearing large earrings etc. Please note, it is school policy that all children should be in uniform and jewellery is not allowed except for religious observance. Please also note that children wearing jewellery will be asked to remove it.
Partnership Festival
Apologies to Simran Rattan who was missed off the list of children that participated in this festival. Also could children who took part in the Partnership Festival please return their pink T-shirts to Mr. Merchant as soon as possible as they are to be used again next year.
Football Match against St. Anthony's
Well played to the team! Even though we lost, everyone played really well and worked well together as a team. Thank you to all the parents who came along to support us. It was great to see so many of you there. ‘Men’ of the match go to Daniel Hildreth for excellent goalkeeping and Emilios Andreou for great defending skills.
Mr. Merchant and Mr. Ashwell
Dinner Money
Please note dinner money cheques must be payable to ‘London Borough of Redbridge’.
Late Collection of Children School ends at 3.30pm each day, please arrive on time to collect your child.
Good Works Assemblies
Over recent weeks I have been thrilled to see such large numbers of parents coming along to Good Works assemblies on Fridays.
For the afternoon session, in order to help us dismiss the children promptly at the end of the day, from this week I will be asking children to go straight back to class once assembly is finished.
Late Gate/Attendance
Over the last 2 years the attendance figures for the school have shown a decline. Although the main reason for absences is general illness, I am becoming increasingly concerned that some children appear to have absences too frequently. In such cases, the Education Welfare Officer, will be requesting medical evidence from parents. She will also be doing ‘Late Gates’ on a regular basis to monitor punctuality.
On this note, I would like to say ‘well done’ to class 5M for receiving the highest attendance percentage so far since our return in September 97.93%!
