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Hollymount School

Newsletter

Cambridge Road SW20 0SQ

Tel: 02089460454

Date List September Monday 23rd Year 2 Kings, Queens and Castles Workshop Wednesday 25th 2.30pm Secondary School Meeting for Year 5/6 Parents Friday 27th Year 3 to Southwark Cathedral Saturday 28th 9am Gardening Saturday for families October Thursday 3rd National Poetry Day Friday 4th 9.05am Harvest Festival assembly Monday 7th Year 6 Bookfest Tuesday 8th Year 3 Bookfest Wednesday 9th Year 5 Anglo Saxon Work-shop Thursday 10th Individual and Family Photos 7pm Mindfulness Meeting for Year 3 and 6 Parents Friday 11th Year 2 Bookfest

Firstly, I apologise that the newsletter was not emailed out on Friday. It was a rather busy end to the week! Thank you to those that signed up to Parent Fund following the letter sent out last week. We have 102 families signed up to direct debit– thank you. How-ever, this is a little down on last year so I do ask new parents and parents that have not donated be-fore to consider donating a monthly amount. Just

head to www.localgiving.org and search for Hollymount. I hope you all enjoyed the weekend and England's first, if not very con-vincing, win in the Rugby World Cup. Best of luck to Eng-land and all the home nations over the next few months. Let’s hope for another memorable moment like 2003.

23rd September 2019

Platinum Sports Mark Last week, we received our Platinum School Sports Mark certificate. This is awarded to schools that have held the Gold Sports Mark for more than 5 years and is given in recognition to our commit-ment to providing competitive and high quality PE provision. I look forward to seeing how our teams perform in the many competitions we enter this year and I hope for some silverware! Thank you to Miss Howland and Coach Fraser for organising the PE provision at Hollymount.

School Value of the Half Term This half term, the children are focusing on the school value of ‘Responsibility’. They have already had an assembly to remind them how they can show responsibility. The teachers will focus on this value throughout this half term in class. Please see the attached poster explain-ing what responsibility looks like at Hollymount.

PLEASE LABEL ALL SCHOOL UNIFORM! This makes it a lot easier for us to return

lost uniform to the correct pupil.

Energise Monday We welcome parents to stay to watch Energise Monday but can we ask you to not film as we have a number of parents that have not given permission for their child to be filmed. Many thanks.

NO NUT OR SEASAME SEEDS IN SCHOOL We remain a NO NUT school. This includes peanut butter and satay sauce – both of which I had to remove from children’s lunch boxes last week. We also have a child in school that has a severe allergy to sesame seeds and sesame oil. We therefore ask children to not bring in hummus as this contains tahini (sesame paste). I understand this is a healthy option in the lunch box, however we have had to ban this across the school as we do not want this child to have a severe reaction. Thank you for your cooperation.

Gardening Saturday Saturday 28th 9am-12pm

Coffee provided by the PTA Parents and children invited

(children will be the responsibility of their parents!) Please bring gardening equipment: spades, trowels, rakes, etc

A bag of compost to top up our beds. Plants needed:

Winter Honey Suckle Winter Jasmine

Abelia Grandiflora Pittisporum

Choisya (Aztec Pearl) Selection of bulbs

Thank you to the PTA for my plant education! The Rugby World Cup will be on in the Small Hall so you can pop in to check the score.

Star Writers of the Week

Josh Year 6

Rachel Year 6

Mei Year 5

Milly Year 5

Casandra Year 4

Alexa Year 4

Emilia Year 3

Abigail Year 3

Charlotte Year 3

Georgina Rowan

Anoushka Sycamore

Nadine Chestnut

Half Term Childcare at Hollymount Over the last month or so, I have had a number of meetings with Tree Tops. Tree Tops offer good quality, fun, active and affordable holiday clubs. They will be running a holi-day club at Hollymount from this October half term. Please visit www.treetops.co.uk to find out more and make a booking. If you book before September 29th you will receive a 25% discount using the code 251October.

Parent Fund 2018-19

Enriching the curriculum and providing

memorable experiences

PTO

Parent Fund 2018-19

Enriching the curriculum and providing

memorable experiences

The parent fund fully funded or subsidised the cost of

the below:

Dino scientist workshop Year 3

Mermaid & Pirates Workshop FSU & KS1

Bible 66 workshop Year 3

Deep Fear Project x 2 All

Bookfest Y 3, 4 and 6

Recorder Lessons Year 2

Animal Encounter Year 1

Book day resources Year 2

Visiting theatre– Values All

World War 2 day Year 4

MMF Snap Video & Photography Year 4

MMF Street Piano Y3

STEAM Theme Week

Racing Car Kit Year 6

Science museum workshop Year 4

Year 3 Roman Workshop Year 3

Author visit All

Nursery Farm visit Nursery

Year 6 transition workshop Yr 6

Wellbeing Theme Week

Target Sports Yr1-6

Assembly resources All

Fencing Workshop KS2

Sports Day Banners All

Mindfulness Sessions KS1

Salsa Workshop Yr2-6

Values and Attainment Cup All

Mayan Workshop Year 6

Values Theme Week

Kinetic Circus Workshop All

Additional Resources All

Robin Hood Theatre KS1/2

How to contribute to the Parent Fund

1. Go to www.localgiving.org

2. Search for Hollymount

3. Click on Hollymount Primary Parent Teacher Association