LMPS NEWSLETTER—ISSUE 14 10th January 2020
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Lady Margaret Primary School Where Learning and Motivation lead to Progress and Success
Please make a
note of our term dates.
Spring Term 7th January
to 3rd April (school
finishes at 1.30pm)
Half Term 17th February
to 21st February
Launch Event—year 6
On Tuesday, Year 6 participated in a Mosaic workshop as part of their learning about Islamic Civilisations. For this activity, the children created a piece of artwork inspired by Arabian Nights, their core text for the Spring Term. In addition to this, the children also learnt to construct quadrilaterals and triangles, accurately drawing and measuring angles. This learning supported them with creating symmetrical repeated patterns, inspired by Islamic Art. ‘It was a very interesting and fun experience because use different types of colours and an art form that we don’t use often.’ – Meeyah ‘The workshop was very interesting because using actual broken tiles and gems ensured that it was more realistic to actual Islamic mosaics than squares of paper.’ Virgil ‘Our artwork was based upon a front cover design of our current core text – 1001 Arabian Nights and is a great legacy project to have completed.’ Aarav
ATTENDANCE Our percentage attendance
for the last week for the whole school was 91.8%
which is below our target of 96.4%
Well done to RAG for having 100% attendance
last week.
Remember children must not be taken out of school during term time.
DON’T BE LATE TO THE SCHOOL GATE!
68 children were at least 5 minutes late
last week.
Your child should be in school between 8.30am
and 8.45am for the start of the school day
at 8.50am.
NEXT ASSEMBLY
Achievement assembly
Friday 17th January
for years 1 and 2
at 9am
3SW class assembly
Thursday 23rd January
at 9am
LMPS NEWSLETTER—ISSUE 14 10th January 2020
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Launch event—year 2
On the first day back to school after the Christmas holidays, Year 2 were exposed to a HUGE MESS! The area just outside 2UA’s classroom was completely destroyed. It was covered with green slime, blobs of jelly and a whole load of litter! The children were perplexed as they were unable to figure out who caused this mess and why.
The children then went onto making their own slime and thinking about the science behind this. They really enjoyed exploring the different consistencies. Next, they made their very own jelly and gobbled this up! They were able to think about how the states change from liquid to a solid. Finally, the children created their own rockets, which will be used to launch off in Northala Fields as their end of topic event.
The launch day enabled the children to begin to make links with their core text, ‘Man on the Moon’. For example, what creature is slime typically associated with? Where did the slime come from? Who littered everywhere? Who is responsible for clearing the mess? When the children finished reading the core text, they were able to make the links all by themselves! We also captured our feelings during each part of the day in order to help us create our own word banks for when the children write their diary entries about their launch day.
Below are some of the quotes from the children about the mess in the playground:
‘Maybe there were two aliens that came because there are two plates of jelly.’—Muzammil 2UA
‘It must have been aliens because they left slime behind.’ - Taio 2UA
‘Aliens travel in spaceships so maybe they came in a spaceship to our school.’—Emilia 2UA
‘Maybe the man on the moon lost his way and started playing at the school.’—Jayden 2UA
Launch event—year 1
On Tuesday, Year 1 got to hear about Mr Peacock’s exciting adventures as he was once a great explorer and has travelled all over the world. He showed children lots of photographs from his travels and talked about the exciting places that he has visited. Together the children located these countries on google Earth. The children were able to look, handle and use some of the equipment that Mr Peacock use to take with him. Such things included; binoculars, a compass and even a tent! ‘It was fun to see all the places that Mr Peacock explored.’ – Japji ‘I liked his binoculars because you could see things that were really far away.’ - Kavisha ‘I liked using the compass and listening to Mr Peacock’s stories.’ - Kyle
LMPS NEWSLETTER—ISSUE 14 10th January 2020
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Dog Blog
Kenny had a wonderful first Christmas! On Christmas
morning Kenny woke up to find Santa had left a stocking
just for her filled to the brim with lots of treats! Although
Kenny thoroughly enjoyed the holiday break, she was
very excited to return to school. She has received lots of
attention and many walks with staff members who also
missed her during the break. Kenny would like to know if
you enjoyed your break too?
Mrs Bhuee retires
Best wishes to Mrs Bhuee who retired at the end of
the autumn term. She worked as an SMSA at LMPS for
33 years this means that she may have looked after
over 20,000 children during her career.
Launch event—Reception On Thursday Reception had an exciting visit from Professor Memo. He spoke to the children and told them all about the amazing inventions he had made. He set the children a task in helping him prepare for travelling back in time to the dinosaurs. Children made leaves, vines and camouflage patterns to help disguise Professor Memo from the dinosaurs when he arrives. He also sent us a message telling us he arrived safely and will be in touch soon! ‘A time machine teleports you to another place.’-Fatima ‘You can find dinosaur fossils when you dig in the ground.’-Paramveer ‘Look I made a leaf to help Professor Memo camouflage from the dinosaurs.’- Harkirat
LMPS NEWSLETTER—ISSUE 14 10th January 2020
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Further sessions will be held on the following dates:
Punjabi speaking parents:
Wednesday 5th February 2020, 10am at the CONTACT office in Lancaster Road, Southall
Somali speaking parents:
Friday 20th March 2020, 10am at the Lido Centre
If you require further information, please email [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
LMPS NEWSLETTER—ISSUE 14 10th January 2020
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Attendance
Last week, seventeen classes’ attendance were below the target set by the Local Authority of 96.4%. Attendance is monitored closely by the school and if your child's attendance falls below 90% and they miss more than three days in any half term for whatever reason, you will be sent a letter and you may be invited to meet with the head teacher. Children with attendance of less than 90% are judged nationally as being a persistent absentee. Over a whole year 90% equals 19 days and almost one month of learning lost. I f your child becomes a persistent absentee your child ’s attendance will be monitored by Ealing Council’s attendance officer.
Important Dates for Your Diary
Please check this section regularly for updates
Wednesday 15th January
Reception application deadline
Wednesday 22nd January
Parents’ evening
Monday 17th February to Friday 21st February
Half term—school closed
Friday 3rd April Last day of term—school finishes at 1.30pm
Top Table
Congratulations to all the children who
were on Top Table during the autumn
term. Top Table will resume in
January.
LMPS NEWSLETTER—ISSUE 14 10th January 2020
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