Welcome back to The Circle! Each Thursday there is a community cafe that takes place at the school from 9 – 11.30. Next Thursday (23 Jan) there will also be a 45 minute watercolour art workshop running for parents and families! This will be run by art- K Hackney who deliver great art workshops for children. Feel free to come along and see what they do! Enjoy this week's newsletter and have a wonderful weekend when it arrives. Best wishes, Andi and team

Our Values in Action:

Reception – Curiosity

The children have been actively engaging in hands-on exploration with a variety of cardboard tools. They have been experimenting to understand how each tool works, discovering the capabilities and limitations of different types of cardboard. Alongside this, they have been learning and practicing important safety precautions for using these tools responsibly. These newly acquired skills will play a key role in our upcoming project, where we will create models using cardboard.

Year 1 – Curiosity

This week in Year 1, the children have shown great curiosity as they worked in trios to research famous London landmarks. They’ve learned some exciting new skills, such as how to use Google and how to find information on the internet. Along the way, they’ve discovered some very interesting (and fun!) facts about these landmarks. We can’t wait to share their findings with you at our end-of-term exhibition!

Year 2 – Curiosity

This week we have had another fantastic opportunity to visit the Hypha Studio. The children loved looking at the different statues and listening to artists to how they made them. Then they participated in a workshop with the artist to create their own sculptures using a range of different materials.

Year 3 – Curiosity and joy

This week, year 3 have started on a new textiles project. Once a week they will be working towards creating their own designs and practicing their threading skills with the help of someone from East London Textiles and Arts organisation. The children discussed how tricky using this new skill has been and the idea of practicing things that we wish to improve on.

Community Corner:

Community Garden now open on Saturdays

It was great to see families getting involved with our first Saturday gardening session in the playground last weekend! We had to break the frozen ground a bit to begin with, then we planted some bulbs and herbs in the new beds by the main gate to the playground and replanted some apple trees that are growing along the metal fence at the other end of the playground.

Please fill in this form – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1h53zjtw8QHmFf7HgLRDkjGgMxlv4ioHHEgQqzs7Qtes/viewform?edit_requested=true – and use this link to join the WhatsApp group for more information and to let us know if you would like to attend – https://chat.whatsapp.com/JX6D7JWzdVTIjhWsTtNwXi. There are going to be two sessions this Saturday, 18th Jan, from 9.30-11am and 11am-12.30pm, one of the community gardeners will let you into the playground via the main gate when you arrive.

My Big Idea: DLR

FREE Half Term Event for Families at School 360

Saturday 22nd February 2025, 10am – 4pm

What might the future of travel look like? At this FREE event for families, children aged 12 and under will come up with their big ideas for the future of travel and bring those ideas to life with junk modelling, LEGO and coding. Get your FREE tickets now!

Room Hire at Stratford Library – Hopkins Room

Address: 3 The Grove, Stratford, London E15 1EL

Information and terms of hire

How to book: Email: [email protected]

Phone: 020 3373 0826

Love 4 reading

To promote the love of reading, we give every child a book for their birthday that they can keep and this is supported through your kind donations. Thank you to everyone who has donated books so far. We really appreciate it. If you'd like to donate more books, here's the link: Love4Reading Each purchase benefits the school and helps us buy even more books! Even better, share the link with friends and family. Thank you!

Short Survey on Barriers to Healthy Eating

Please could you take a moment to fill out this brief survey from a third-year medical student Barriers to Healthy eating

Notices:

After School club updates

FREDS Club

Mondays & Thursdays – Multisports

Wednesday-Introduction to Drama

Years – Reception only

Coaches – Jamie & Matteo

Numbers – 20 child capacity

Sessions – 6

Friday – Drama club

February Half-term

Monday 17th – Friday 21st

Early drop 7:30am

9am – 3:30pm

Late pick up – 5pm

Football club!

WEDNESDAY

Football club 15.15-16.15pm

Year Groups 1,2,3

Start date: Wednesday 8th January 2025

End date: Wednesday 12th February 2025

Please click on the link below to secure your place limited spaces available

https://4cornersports.classforkids.io/info/59

FRIDAY

Football club 15.15-16.15pm

Year Groups R,1,2,3

This class will be split into two groups

Start date: Friday 10th January 2025

End date: Friday 14th February 2025

Please click on the link below to secure your place limited spaces available

https://4cornersports.classforkids.io/info/60

Football club will run for six consecutive weeks, the price will be £30 for the term.

Children are welcome to bring a healthy snack and bottle of water.

For any queries please use the contact details below;

Registration/Booking

Phone: 07511400986

Email: [email protected] Jumper day

Tuesday 17th December

Please donate £1 or any amount you can to support our chicken fundraiser.

After School club updates!

Dance Club

We are excited to announce that Dance classes for Reception and Year 1 will start on Tuesday, 12th November. The classes will be held every Tuesday from 3:15pm to 4:15pm. To book, please scan the QR code on the flyer or contact Nevena, the Dance teacher on [email protected]/07743 373135

Photographer: Visme

Uniform price update!

Fashion Stop have managed to get a discount on S360 bespoke polo, jumpers and cardigans. Please see below new prices effective from 13/01/25 – in store and online

NEW PRICE

Polo £10:00

Jumper/cardigan £20:00 all sizes

Fashion Stop School Wear

[email protected]

Breakfast Club and After School club

Link to pay for breakfast club and the school trip:

We will be moving our Student Management Information System (MIS) to Arbor in September 2024 and we are no longer using Reach More Parents (WEDUC) to take online payments for trips and the breakfast club. Please use this link to purchase breakfast club places and for trip payments.

Breakfast club opens from 7:50am Children need to arrive before 8.30 to join the breakfast club. If parents arrive at 8.30 or later they will be asked to wait at the main gate until 8.40, because the breakfast club is closed and children are already being taken to their various classes. If a child arrives a few minutes before the club closes, they can still eat breakfast in the classroom as we would never want a child to go without breakfast. It’s the case for all parents that if they let a member of staff know in the morning that their child hasn’t eaten breakfast, they will always be offered and encouraged to eat something as this is best for their wellbeing and learning. ​

We will be asking for a contribution of £2 per day. We can offer a discount for siblings and this cost does not affect families eligible for Free School Meals. If you are experiencing financial difficulties, please contact the School office and we will do our best to help.Thanks for your understanding.

After School club

Premier Wraparound will run after school every day the school is open, subject to demand/minimum bookings being met. For booking enquiries please contact [email protected] or Sophie Morris, [email protected] alternatively you can call on 01953499040 / 07857987693

Attendance Matters – every day counts

This week the average whole school attendance went up to 94.68% and our target is 97%. The class with the highest attendance this week was Reception class well done! Thank you for your efforts in making sure your children are here on time every day. If you ever need support with this – please let us know. You can email the office or speak to your child’s class teacher.

Diary Dates:

Here are some important upcoming events for your calendar, please make a note of them!

Year 1 trip to see landmarks – Monday 20th January 8am – 3pm

Y3 trip to Polka Theatre to see The Nutcracker – Thursday 23rd January 8:45am – 1:30pm

Y1 parents maths workshop – Friday 7th of February 9am – 9:30am

Half-term holiday – Monday 17th February – Friday 21st February

Staff INSET – Early school closure on Tuesday 25th February at 1:30pm

Community Cafe is open to the wider community and runs every Thursday from 9am – 11.30am. Please donate to the foodbank if you are able to.

Key Dates:

Half-term holiday – Monday 17th February – Friday 21st February

Staff INSET – Early school closure on Tuesday 25th February at 1:30pm

Chefs in Schools menu

All our meals are cooked daily with fresh ingredients. Click here to find out more about Chefs in Schools.

Week 1 – Week commencing 06.01.2025

Week 2 – Week commencing 13.01.2025

Week 3 – Week commencing 20.01.2025

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