News - 21 November 2019
Next week’s value is Faith
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in faith and in purity”. 2 Timothy 4:12
Dear parents/carers
This week kicked off with all of us still basking in the glory of the performances of the pupils at the Children in Need show held at Woolmer Hill last Friday evening. Our Key Stage One entry won best act in their age category, well done to Mya, Imogen, Grace and Pippa, (you will be able to see them perform next year at the Haslemere Fringe Festival); Darcey and Sam were our Key Stage Two representatives and both performed with confidence and style! The school choir sang with the other confederation schools, which sounded magnificent. We could not have been prouder of all of the children who took part, you did yourself, St. Mary’s and Chiddingfold proud! A special thank you to our music co-ordinator Miss Griffiths for all your hard work leading to this event. St Mary’s also raised £215.40 which is a great effort.
Myself and Mrs Evans have been carrying out lesson observations this week as part of our termly monitoring procedures and we also met for our half termly governing body meeting.
This morning Year 3 impressed us with a fabulous performance as they took us on a journey through prehistory from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Set against a backdrop of the children’s prehistoric artwork, they spoke and sang out beautifully, and it was wonderful to see the enjoyment on their faces as they took part in their class assembly. Well done and thank you to Mrs Ryder and Mrs Balchin for their hardwork and support with numerous costume changes!
Mrs Creswell completes her final day of ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) training and will soon start working with individual and groups of children as part of our mental health and resilience initative.
On Friday morning myself and Miss Clark will be attending our mastery embedding meeting. This will allow us to build upon the mastery maths within the school and share good practice across the confederation. Miss Clark will soon be hosting the participating schools where in she has the opportunity to showcase St. Mary’s excellent maths teaching and learning.
Please may I alert you to the signs put up on School Lane requesting that you refrain from parking there; emergency services would be unable to access the Lane if required. Thank you in advance for supporting us with this request.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Sheila Buckley
Deputy Headteacher
REMINDERS
22nd Nov@ 9.00am |
School Assembly |
25th Nov 25th Nov |
Clubs Week 9 Y6 Surrey History Centre |
28th Nov @ 9.00am |
Y5 Class Assembly |
28th Nov |
Y1 Weald & Downland Museum |
29th Nov |
Patron Saints Day |
29th Nov @ 9.00am 29th Nov 2nd Dec 2nd Dec 2nd Dec |
School Assembly Reception & KS1 ‘Star in the Jar’ performance Christmas Card box will be out in the Mullard Building Final Clubs Week Nasal Flu for Whole School |
4th Dec @ 9.00am |
Y4 Class Assembly |
6th Dec @ 2.15pm |
REACH Assembly & Certificates |
PARKING
Please note there can be NO parking in School Lane on the cricket pitch side. This causes many access problems for residents and for staff at school.
There is NO access to the school at drop off or pick up via School Lane (other than for Breakfast Club or Koosa).
Please park either in the Catholic Church carpark or at the end of the recreation ground.
We have had many complaints recently and we need your co-operation in this matter to keep pupils, staff and residents safe.
Thank you in advance.
CHRISTMAS LUNCHES
Due to numbers, the houses will have their lunches on the following days:-
Amber and Sapphire will be on Tuesday 17th December
Ruby and Emerald will be on Wednesday 18th December
Please provide a packed lunch for the days that your child(ren) is not having a Christmas Lunch.
Please note the vegetarian option will be Festive Quorn Lattice
SPORTS NEWS
Please can parents remember to provide tracksuit bottoms and jumpers for outdoor PE, we go outside in all weathers. Thermals, hats and gloves are welcome too. A good example of sports gloves with grip are:
We have two KS2 fixtures coming up: Football versus Grayswood (Home) on Wednesday 27th November and Netball versus St Barts (Away) on Monday 2nd December. This involves children in Boys football and netball fixtures club.
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