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Mereworth Community Primary School
MEREWORTH MESSENGER
Issue 8 1st April 2015
EASTER HOLIDAYS!
Year Five Class
With the Easter holidays starting
1st place
tomorrow, congratulations to all of
you who took part in our EGG
2nd place
DECORATION COMPETITION! It
3rd place
was great to see all the different
ways in which you made the humble
egg look like all those famous people! It was such a hard Year Six Class
job judging the competition but I really enjoyed it.
1st place
Everyone who entered put such a great deal of effort
into it—it was a shame there had to be winners, but
2nd place
here they are:
3rd place
Reception Class
1st place
Amelie Spurries & Gino Tickle
3rd place
Auden Patt
Year One Class
1st place
Lucia Cortijo
2nd place
Grace Stafford-Brown
3rd place
Rebecca Cross
Year Two Class
1st place
Ifan Bambury
2nd place
Connie Holland
3rd place
Amelia Dalton
Year Three Class
1st place
Elliot Reynolds
2nd place
Toby Denny
3rd place
James Wilson
Year Four Class
1st place
Daisy Bettles
2nd place
Wilf Stemp
3rd place
Ola Gronowska
Miles Coombes
Eva Wilson
Freya Miles-Gould
Gemma Turner
Alex Bowyer
Matthew Claus
Winner of Winners:
Gemma Turner and her Mahatma Ghandi Egg
GYMNASTICS
The gymnastics that was displayed to
the children during an assembly has
been a resounding success and due to
the overwhelming response from the
children wishing to take this activity
up, NGDA are now offering two
different times.
MONDAY FOR YRS R,1,2 FROM MONDAY 16 MARCH
2015 – 3.10-4.10PM
GYMNASTICS FOR YRS 3,4,5,6 WILL STILL BE ON
FRIDAYS AT A NEW TIME OF 3.30-4.30PM
If your child is interested in attend these sessions,
there are still a few places available so please speak to
the office.
SCOPAY—IT’S FREE!
Pay for everything from swimming to uniform with
scopay and at no additional charge to yourselves—please
just remember to pay for all the items in your basket
rather than individually as the school has to pay per
transaction. The address to pay for items is:
www.scopay.com/mereworthcommpri
BREAKFAST CLUB
If your child/children are unable to attend the Breakfast Club for any sessions that you’ve booked, please
can you contact the Breakfast Club directly on their
mobile 07935 828907.
LUNCH BOXES
For The week ending 13th March 2015:
Please can you ensure that if your child has packed lunch
that they only come to school with still water for their
drink.
SPRING CONCERT
The Spring Concert took place
last Friday and it was a
resounding success—what a
hugely talented group of
children we have here at
Mereworth. Well done to each
and everyone for showcasing your skills!
END OF DAY COLLECTION & LATENESS
If you are late getting into school, please remember that
you must come into school to sign the late-book with your
Reception
96.2%
Year 1
93.8%
Year 2
97.5%
Year 3
95.7%
Year 4
99.2%
Year 5
96.0%
Year 6
92.6%
Congratulations to all those in Year 4 on having the
highest attendance for the week!
For The week ending 20th March 2015:
Reception
93.1%
Year 1
88.3%
Year 2
95.0%
Year 3
91.5%
Year 4
96.7%
playground must be cleared by 3:30pm & that children
Year 5
92.6%
are your responsibility from 3:10pm/3:20pm and it would
Year 6
93.3%
child—this is vital. With the days getting longer—which is
a great thing, more of you are collecting your children
and remaining for a chat and catch up in the playground. I
really love the way our school is the hub of such fervent
conversation. Can I please remind you that the
be greatly appreciated if you could ensure that all children, even if they are not pupils here, are supervised at
all times. This will help us all to ensure that everyone is
safe from harm.
Congratulations to all those in Year 6 on having the
highest attendance!
For The week ending 27th March 2015:
BOILER
As you will have hopefully seen from my letter earlier on
this week, the boiler has been fixed of both problems
that have occurred over the past few weeks. During the
Easter holidays, the boiler will also be having an
extensive service.
ATTENDANCE
The attendance so far for all of our classes are:
Congratulations to all those in Year 2 on continuing to
have the highest attendance so far this year!
Reception
94.3%
Year 1
93.1%
Year 2
97.2%
Year 3
95.1%
Year 4
96.7%
Year 5
95.9%
Year 6
96.1%
Reception
Year 1
83.5%
90.8%
Year 2
93.4%
Year 3
91.5%
Year 4
95.9%
Year 5
93.2%
Year 6
80.5%
Congratulations to all those in Year 4 on having the
highest attendance!
It’s my last day at Mereworth today and I would like to
thank you all, parents, children, staff and governors for
making me feel so welcome. Congratulations to Year 5 who
did a fantastic assembly this morning. I’ve enjoyed every
minute here and will be sad to go but I wish each and
everyone of you all the very best for the future!
Diary Dates
Monday 20th April
First day back for term 5
Friday 24th April
Group and class photos
Tuesday 28th April
Key stage 2 writers day
Reception hearing tests
Friday 1st May
Year 1 Cake Sale
Monday 4th May
May Day Bank Holiday
Friday 8th May
PTA Disco
Monday 11th—Friday 15th May
Year 6 SATS week
Wednesday 20th May
Year 3 Class Assembly
Friday 22nd May
Last Day Term 5
Monday 1st June
First day back for term 6
Monday 1st—Friday 5th June
Mereworth Healthy Eating Week
Friday 5th June
Whole School Sponsored Walk
Reception Cake Sale
Wednesday 10th June
Year 4 Class Assembly
Wednesday 10th—Friday 17th June
Year 5 Residential To Rippledown
Monday 15th—Wednesday 17th June
Year 6 Residential To
Swattenden
Tuesday 23rd June
Sports Day
Thursday 25th June
Sports Day Reserve Day
Thursday 25th—Thursday 2nd July
Book Fair
Friday 26th June
Drum Music Workshop
Thursday 2nd July
Year 3 Cake Sale
Friday 3rd July
Staff Development Day—School Closed To Pupils
Wednesday 8th July
Reception Class Assembly
Friday 10th July
Mereworth’s Got Talent!
Monday 20th July
End Of Academic Year Reports to Parents
Tuesday 21st July
Year 6 Performance
Friday 24th July
Year 6 Leavers Assembly (am)
Friday 24th July
Awards Assembly (pm)
Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th September
Staff Development Days ! & “ for the academic year 2015/16—
School closed to pupils
Monday 7th
September
Start of the new academic year for all pupils