Newsletter – 23rd July 2021 “Every Achievement Counts”

Stars of the Week

Ellie-May Being brave and having a go during sports day Cerim Doing a new job of collecting lunches for his class Clarisse Playing the drum during active listening and for tolerating her new gaiters for 20 minutes Patrick Using his communication to ask questions and to talk to lots of new adults Oliver B Signing a full sentence ‘me time to go’ Keelia Crawling over to a friend Alhagie Being a helpful, kind and caring friend to everyone! Greenmead will miss you! Neo Being able to engage in purposeful, independent play and having some successes in his personal

care Solana Consistently joining in with group sessions and beginning to play with instruments purposefully Eda Developing her communication and showing her sense of humour Abdulrahman Adapting to his new class and being more independent in accessing his favourite activities Quentin Having a positive attitude to new experiences and learning opportunities and always being willing

to give everything a go Alhagie & Grace Being a superstars visiting their new school last week

Shout-out to the Neptune team for a fantastic year; thank you for always providing the children with the best provision and of course lots of laughter

Shout-out to Demi from Mercury Class for all your help at lunchtimes this half term Shout-out to Julia for being so dedicated to Pluto class, supporting the children and for being so much fun

Shout-out to the team in Europa who have helped Lauren with leading the class over the last 7 weeks. She is looking forward to working with you next year again

Soundabout Online – Summer Holiday Schedule

Sports Day

It was lovely to see so many of our families join us for Sports Day last week. We are super pleased that we were

able to hold sports day and have families attend safely.

Our Leavers

This is always a bittersweet moment in the life of our school. We are so proud that our pupils are ready to move

onto new adventures after their time at Greenmead but at the same time they will be missed so much. Our leavers

and their families will always be a part of our Greenmead community so we hope to hear how they are getting on

in their new schools and see them over the coming years. Thank you for inspiring us all!

Martina

Joe

Grace

Alhagie

Foodbank and Messy Church at St. Paul’s

Church, Southfields

St Paul’s Pantry (top of Augustus Road) will be open on

August 5th and 19th from 6.30-8.00pm.

Families (all ages) are welcome to their Messy Church on

Sunday 1st August in St Paul’s Church and Community

centre from 4.30-5.45pm. Includes art, craft, games, a

story and food.

Thank you

A very big THANK YOU to FOG for the summer gift

bags given to every child. We are sure that the

children will be delighted with these.

Thank you too for the ice cream van that came to

school for staff.

We appreciate your support to our pupils, their

families and to our staff.

Thank You Wild Bears’ Summer School

Track and Trace over the Summer holidays

Parents, if your child develops any Covid symptoms from 3.30pm on Friday 23rd – Monday 26th July please book a PCR test

and email Nicky at nicky.chakravorty@greenmead.wandsworth.sch.uk and he will inform contacts.

If your child is attending Summer Scheme and develops any Covid symptoms from 3.00pm on Friday 30th July – Monday

2nd August please book a PCR test and email Nicky at nicky.chakravorty@greenmead.wandsworth.sch.uk and he will

inform contacts.

If your child develops Covid symptoms from 8am on Tuesday 31st August please book a PCR test and email Toni at

head@greenmead.wandsworth.sch.uk as this will be in the period before we return to school on Friday 3rd September.

If your child is taken seriously ill (as in into hospital) over the summer due to Covid of for non-Covid reason please email

Toni and let her know head@greenmead.wandsworth.sch.uk

All about Japan

This half term our theme has been about Japan and the Olympics. Here is a snapshot of some of the learning across all

the classes.

Mars class enjoyed karaoke this week after they completed a quiz about Japan

to show how much they had learnt

Mercury class have enjoyed exploring

music and food from Japan

Jupiter class

enjoyed dressing

up for the closing

Olympic

ceremony and

painting Mount

Fuji pictures

Pluto class

had a

Japanese

tea

ceremony

and have

done such

great work

in phonics

this last

term

Neptune class explored countries represented at the

Olympics and enjoyed making pizzas from Italy

End of year message from Chair of Governors

“What an extraordinary year. I hope you and your family are bearing up despite everything. I have been very proud

of the way Toni and the staff at Greenmead have discharged their role in the most challenging of circumstances. The

school sent learning materials home to children and kept in contact with families whilst the school was

closed. Greenmead opened ahead of many other schools and was able to welcome children back. Having opened,

the school has stayed open even as the wider society went into and out of lockdowns. We’ve had some staff who

were off sick with Covid and had to have substantial time out of school but somehow the team kept the show on the

road. In doing so, the school put in place a recovery curriculum, largely devised by Roxanne in collaboration with

teachers, to enable the children to resume learning and continue making progress. We were so pleased and grateful

to our parents that the school enjoyed such high attendance levels. For Covid-related reasons I have not been able to

come into school to see any classes recently, but all the reports I get are that the children are doing well and appear

pleased to be back.

I hope that is also your experience. I wish you the best for the summer and look forward to a more normal life next

term.”

Paul

Venus class doing what they love the most; being creative and enjoying messy play whilst building on social

skills, communication and independence

Titan class have enjoyed a range of activities

this term including the bubble lady’s visit,

making pizzas and enjoying sensory stories.

End of Term Fun

All the pupils enjoyed a special treat on Thursday. Bonnie, the bubble lady came to visit and the pupils enjoyed a

bubble demonstration, chasing and catching bubbles and getting inside bubbles. We’d like to thank Cerim’s mum and

dad who organised a donation for this to happen.

Saying Goodbye to Staff

It’s always hard to say good-bye to staff who have had such a huge impact on the lives of the pupils but also on our

school community. Thank you for all of your support, commitment and for making sure that our pupils always

achieve their best. We wish you well on your new adventures.

We said a temporary good-by to Katie last week as she goes off on her maternity leave. Enjoy every moment. Good-bye and a big thank you to Rose who has been one of our nurses at Greenmead for almost 3 years. We wish

you well in your travels and as you head back home. Good-bye and thank you to Cami who has been a part of the nursing team this term and supporting pupils’

medical needs in class. Good-bye and thank you to Becca, our play therapist who has been covering Alanna’s maternity leave and is about

to go on maternity leave herself. Good-bye to Sarika who has been such an asset to Greenmead for many years and brings so much joy when she

works with the pupils. Goodbye to Lorna who has been at Greenmead since she was 17 years old and has now trained as an Occupational

Therapist. Good-bye and thank you to Kate who is going onto new adventures beyond the classroom.

It was so wonderful to have Kaz, the physio back at Greenmead for a little while. We say good-bye again as she goes back into her role in the community team. We are so glad you got re-deployed to us!

Wishing our pupils, their families, our staff and their families,

our friends and governors a wonderful summer break. Enjoy

time with family and friends, sunshine, nature and a really

good rest. We look forward to another exciting year with

you all.