Dover St Mary’s Church of England Primary

Learning for life with God as our guide

Weekly Newsletter Wednesday, 22nd July

2020

Farewells We extend a very fond and especially poignant farewell to our Year 6 children this week. We send heartfelt best wishes and heaps of luck to them all and look forward to hearing about their exploits as they embark on their secondary school career. A video Leavers Service has been compiled – huge thanks to staff, children and Rev Sean Sheffield for their contributions. This can be viewed on the school Facebook page - follow the link https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Elementary-School/St-Marys-C-of-E-Primary-School-820857021275490/

As you will also know from previous letters, we say goodbye to Mrs Debra Berbiers also. I am sure you join with me in thanking her for her work at St Mary’s and wish her all the very best in her new job.

And Hello! We welcomed new staff to the team in March - Miss Jade Amer, Miss Megan Stone and Miss Claire Yarnley. We also welcome Ms Daisy Craig who will be teaching Class 1 next year, job-sharing with Mrs Emma Fagg who returns from maternity leave. In addition we welcome Miss Beth Roberts who will be teaching Class 3.

We also, of course, welcome our new Reception children as well as children who will be joining other classes across the school. Thank you I would like to say a huge thank you to families, children and staff who have pulled together to keep things going in these last few months.

When this academic year commenced none of us could have foreseen how it would end. There have been many challenges over the last four months but also a great number of triumphs; these are testament to the strength of the St Mary’s Primary School community.

Families who have been at home throughout have done an amazing job keeping their children safe, completing some home learning and staying in touch with us; children who have returned to school have coped admirably with the new ways of working. The staff have been, and continue to be, amazing, taking everything in their stride and embracing new ways of working.

Virtual Sports Day Pictures of this can also be seen on

our school Facebook page.

Thought for the Week

Useful Weblinks

We now have access to the Myon reading

until 31st August

Please log onto the

website https://www.myon.co.uk

Log on and pick

Dover St Mary's CEP School from the drop

down menu. Username is

st039student and the password is read.

Enjoy and have fun reading and listening to 1000's of books.

Looking Forward You will have seen the plans for a full

return to school in September in

letters which came out last week. We

are all looking forward to the start of

the new academic year and are working

hard on arrangements to make this as

successful as possible. Please check

the letter sent for details about when

your child starts school including

detail about drop-off and collection

arrangements.

Dates Dates for next year are being finalised and will be shared with you in September. I can tell you, however, that we will be having three staff training days at the end of Term 1. Therefore, school will finish for the children on Tuesday October 20th 2020 so children will not attend on Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd. This information may be useful to you if you are thinking of a holiday during the October half term, which will be Monday 26th – Friday 30th October 2020. And finally….

I wish you all a good summer whether you are at home, going away and/or still trying to juggle work and childcare. Please do take some time to relax, definitely don’t worry about school work and I look forward to seeing you (from a distance) in the autumn. Ms Helen Comfort, Executive Headteacher