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Friday 18th June 2021

Pedestrian Training

Year 3 took part in the Richmond Safe Walking pedestrian training scheme this week in the lovely sunshine. This is a practical roadside training course which encourages children to think about the dangers of traffic, understand and deal with hazards and to plan routes that make use of crossing facilities where they are available. As so many of them walk or scoot to school, this is an extremely important part of their physical wellbeing and is also part of our Relationships, RSE and Health Education policy which says children need to recognise, predict and assess risks in different situations and decide how to manage them responsibly.

Covid

You will have seen from the email yesterday that we have had a positive Covid case in the school and currently have a class and 3 members of staff isolating. This is a reminder for us all that the virus is still around us in the community and we cannot be complacent about the rules and regulations we have put in place to keep everybody safe. We would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our shared responsibility and to respectfully encourage you to keep adhering to the rules to limit the spread of the virus. This means maintaining the recommended distance from each other in the queues and wearing a face mask - it has been particularly noticeable this week that people are forgetting to, or choosing not to, do this. Please can we also encourage you to think carefully about the number of people you are meeting outside of school. We are just as frustrated as you about the situation we find ourselves in and cannot wait until we can return to normal. However, we are a large school and with around 700 children and adults on site each day, we are very aware of the potential for the spread of the virus and our responsibility to keep everyone healthy. Thank you for supporting us with this.

 

Drop off arrangements
Thanks for rolling with the changes to the drop-off this morning as we tried to keep everyone as dry as possible. Mrs Paemen has just about dried out but my shoes are still squelching!  This trial allowed us to see how a more ‘whole school’ socially distanced drop off could work and we think that with the maintenance of a fluid stagger, we might be able to manage it, with siblings being able to enter school at the same time.  This will require parents to be incredibly sensitive to social distancing and the need to judge over time the best point to bring your children into school.  Our proposal would be that we introduce a window of entry into school between 8:35 and 8:55.  If you have one child in the school then they should aim to arrive at the following times:
Yrs 1 and 2 - 8:35
Yrs 3 and 4 - 8:40
Yrs 5 and 6 - 8:45
Reception - 8:50

All children should be in school and ready for the register to be taken at 8:55.  If you have siblings you should choose the time that works best for your family.  If everyone tries to come for an 8:35 drop-off this will not work and we will have to rethink.  If we can trial this from next Monday and we’ll feed back as to how it is going and whether or not we can keep it going!

Please can we request that masks are still worn by all adults in the queues and that the one-way route is maintained.  

Reception can be taken to their classroom fence.  Year 1 and Doves can be dropped off at their classroom doors.  Owls, Robins, Year 3 and 4 drop-off at the corner of the main building and Year 5 and 6 to go upstairs through the door closest to their staircase.

Have a great weekend.
 


What's been going on this week?

Reception

18 Jun 2021
Snails and slugs
In Reception this week we have been continuing our minibeast topic looking at snails and slugs. We read the book Snail Trail and have been planning out, drawing and measuring our own snail's journey around the classroom. We have also been learning lots of different facts about slugs and sna...
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Year 1

18 Jun 2021
Who should be King of England?
Our learning this week
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Year 2

18 Jun 2021
The drama of a poor Victorian Child!
This week in maths we have been looking at doubling and halving and how these relate to multiplication and division. In English we wrote a diary entry recounting the day in the life of a poor Victorian child. We shared how miserable it would be working in a dangerous and terrifying factory or Coal m...
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Year 3

17 Jun 2021
Plant hunting, music making and word searching!
Year 3 have been busy with their learning this week. It has been wonderful to get outside in the sunshine for Safe Walking Week and all the children earned their badges - well done! In science this half-term we are learning about famous scientists and inventors. So far we have learnt about...
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Year 4

18 Jun 2021
Times Tables, Swimming and Programming
Year 4 children have impressed us all this week with their times tables knowledge as they have completed the government's Multiplication Tables Check. We ensured that each child was able to do their best  by providing a calm, quiet room for them to do the online test. The children do not ge...
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Year 5

18 Jun 2021
Longshore drift
We have had a very busy week in Year 5 with a lot of learning in geography and science. We continued to learn about coastal erosion on Monday. The children recreated a beach using sand trays. They observed what happened to the sand when the waves approached from straight on and then from an angle (u...
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Year 6

18 Jun 2021
Assessments and Europe
This week has had a different focus from usual as the Year 6 children have been working hard on the year end assessments.  They were not able to sit their SATs in May but this week has provided them with the opportunity to show their teachers how much they have learnt during their time at Sheen...
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School Diary

3B / 4L swimming
All Day
From 21 Jun and on Monday each week until 12 Jul except for 05 Jul except for 12 Jul
21
June
Y6 Engineering Day (exact day this week tbc)
All Day
21
June
3H / 4HW swimming
All Day
From 08 Jun and on Tuesday each week until 13 Jul
22
June
3C / 4T swimming
All Day
From 09 Jun and on Wednesday each week until 06 Jul
23
June
Y3 Ancient Egyptian Arts & Crafts day; children to dress up!
All Day
23
June
3B / 4L swimming
All Day
From 21 Jun and on Monday each week until 12 Jul except for 05 Jul except for 12 Jul
28
June
3H / 4HW swimming
All Day
From 08 Jun and on Tuesday each week until 13 Jul
29
June
Year 6 Walton Firs - 6AD
All Day
30
June
3C / 4T swimming
All Day
From 09 Jun and on Wednesday each week until 06 Jul
30
June
Y3 fun evening at school
All Day
02
July
4MW to Putney Arts Theatre
All Day
05
July
3B / 4L swimming
All Day
05
July
3H / 4HW swimming
All Day
From 08 Jun and on Tuesday each week until 13 Jul
06
July
4T to Putney Arts Theatre
All Day
06
July
Year 6 Walton Firs 6K
All Day
06
July