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Friday 5th November 2021

Hello everyone,

What lovely weather to end the week - let's hope it extends into the weekend.

I hope you all had a restful half-term and enjoyed spending time with your children. It was really exciting for us to have two members of staff who got married over the holiday and so our congratulations go to Mr Knol and Mrs Bakrania-Ashton as they start their married lives with their partners. They both had fantastic days, as you can see!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You may have heard us talking about RAKAT (Richmond and Kingston Accessible Transport) minibuses, particularly if your child has been involved in an activity they had to travel to, in order to represent Sheen Mount. Well, more recently we have had difficulty in booking a minibus because of their lack of drivers. They are currently appealing for any new drivers who could help out with all their community transport. If there are any budding minibus drivers out there, with time on your hands, please contact RAKAT directly at: 

info@rakat.org.uk  Phone 0208 942 1745

They have let us know that there is a minibus MiDAS training day on Saturday 27th November. Who knows you might even be transporting Sheen Mount pupils to an event!

Accent Catering

Those of you who drop your children at FfS in the morning have already met our lovely chef Gintare. Accent, our catering company, have sent us a little profile on Gintare and have also replied to your queries and suggestions regarding the food. I attach these two documents here:

Accent Catering - November Parent Letter

You Said, We Did - Accent

PSA Corner

A big welcome back to everyone from the PSA Board! We hope you had a lovely half-term break. We are busy readying the slate of events for the remainder of the year!! A few notices regarding these events, in chronological order…

Autumn Ball (19 Nov): the Ball is two weeks away! Table heads please confirm menu choices by this Sunday to Claire Leonard.

Christmas Fair (4 Dec): planning is well under way for this year’s fair. Thank you to the huge numbers of you involved in the preparation!! One of the key attractions will again be the grotto, this year themed “Santa’s Wonderland.” Tickets are £5 per child and can be purchased 15-19 Nov after morning drop-off near the school office. Santa’s Grotto will be open from 11am-3pm and groups of children will have 10 minute slot times with Father Christmas. Slot times can be chosen at the time of ticket purchase. Get your tickets before they sell out!

Christmas Tree sale (5 Dec pick-up): more information to come in the next week, but the PSA intends to help meet the school’s request for classroom filters (see below) with proceeds from this year’s tree sale.

A Magical Christmas (11/12 Dec): Kiddiewinks presents A Magical Christmas, an enchanting family show following Santa and his two elves. Huge thanks to Kathryn and Mads Hauge for the fantastic idea of holding a Christmas spectacular at Sheen Mount and for contributing a portion of the ticket sales to the PSA. It promises to be a lovely seasonal event for the entire family. Some shows have sold out, so get your tickets soon!! More detail and tickets at: http://buytickets.at/kiddiewinks

Classroom Filters: as alluded to above, the school has asked the PSA to fund the purchase of classroom filters to ensure our children have as safe an environment as possible in which to learn. Considering the continued presence of COVID (and other viruses and pollutants), I’m sure we can all agree this is a worthy area for the PSA to fund. Much appreciation to Dishan Manoharan for his research into the filters.

As always, if you have any general PSA-related questions or want to get involved, please contact us via email (smpsachair@gmail.com) or through the class reps.

 

So have a lovely weekend everyone and I'll see you all next week.

 


What's been going on this week?

Reception

05 Nov 2021
Ordering and Weighing
This week in phonics we have covered the phonemes h, b, f and l. It was great to hear the fun things that had happened over the half-term holiday. The children have enjoyed ordering and weighing all of the pumpkins and vegetables that you kindly sent in, they liked looking at the differenc...
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Year 1

05 Nov 2021
The Gruffalo and pictures that move!
The Gruffalo and pictures that move!
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Year 2

04 Nov 2021
How to catch a star!
What a wonderful week full of shapes and books!
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Year 3

05 Nov 2021
Number fluency, Gymnastics Routines and Reciprocal Reading
This week the children in Year 3 have been adding and subtracting 3-digit numbers from 3-digit numbers, estimating to the nearest tens or hundreds number and consolidating their learning through fluency card games and 'Flashback 4' activities.  In gymnastics this week, the...
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Year 4

05 Nov 2021
Colour Team Quiz
Every week year 4 children finish Friday afternoon with a quiz where they battle between colour teams to see who has learnt the most in the week. Read on to see what questions were in this week's quiz.
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Year 5

05 Nov 2021
A thought provoking week...
We were delighted that the historian David Olusoga took the time to answer the questions put to him by Year 5 on his views about Black History Month and what more our country needs to do to make progress in creating a fairer society.  Our teachers were incredibly impressed with the challenging...
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Year 6

05 Nov 2021
We don't normally sit like this!
Year 6 have been learning about the role dialogue plays in conveying character. We have learnt that it is not only the words that the person says, but also how they say it and the actions that accompany the words. 
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School Diary

6H and 5B swimming
All Day
08
November
6S and 5D swimming
All Day
09
November
6AD and 5K swimming
All Day
10
November
Nasal flu spray vaccination - whole school
All Day
10
November
Road Safety Week
All Day
From 15 Nov until 19 Nov
15
November