Meridian Primary School

Parent Newsletter 26 - Thursday, 24th March 2016

www.meridian.greenwich.sch.uk

Today we proudly presented our 2016 Arts Festival Exhibition inspired by“The Merchant of Venice”. This represents 3 weeks of creativity and hard work throughout school. Inspired by expressionist artists and Shakespeare, each class has interpreted the emotions and storyline in their own unique way. Over the weeks, they have got to know the characters and retold different key moments of the play through art and suspense stories, set against the backdrop of London. Again, our festival has given all our children the

opportunity to share this incredible learn-ing experience together.

We enjoyed exploring the expression of emotion through colour and shape. Maddison & Joseph, Y6I

Visiting Authors, Artists & Students Local artist Yvette Blackwood and chil-dren’s au-

thor, Helen Moss visited different classes at Meridian this week. Yvette shared her work and answered ques-tions about her paintings and about life as an artist. Helen Moss, author of the Adventure Island series of books spent time in Year 3. A group of American students from the Murray State University spent the day in school and were im-pressed by our creative and inclusive community of children.

The Meridian Swimathon was launched at Wednesday's KS2 as-sembly and full details about this team fundraising event have been

sent home with children today.

The letter explains how the Swimathon will work and the individual challenges children can choose depending on their swimming ability. There are in-structions for setting up online sponsorship and a printed sponsorship form.

We look forward to another great effort from Team Meridian and hopefully more funds to add to the Ball Cage Project.

I can write lots now and my hand doesn’t get tired. Elizabeth, Y1

We had to find the jewels quickly in case Shylock came home. Matas, RHR

I liked making my

book. It looks good!

Hafsa, RHR

We learned how to incorporate textures to make our painting stand out. Hrishi,

We learnt how to use Microsoft word to pre-sent our fin-ished work to a high standard. Y4

The drama helped us understand the play, Nola, Y6I

We learnt that

there are two sides

to every character.

Castle Group

I learnt that when you write a book, you use facts and your imagination to make it more believable. Ronnie, Y3

I learnt how to build ten-sion and make stories feel scary and dangerous. Osa, Y3

Congratulations to Y6I who were Week 4 & Week 5 winners of the Attendance Shield. Y6E are the Champions for the Spring Term as a whole.

Children with perfect attendance during the whole of the Spring Term were given a certificate today and extremely well done to the following children who have not missed a day of school since September.

FS2: Sarah, Alejandro & Akira Y1: Isla, Hannah, Elizabeth, Daisy, Matilda, Rhea & Tyrus Y2: Jemima, Jude, Miles, Chloe & Jake Y3: Osa, Tommy, Frank, Freddy, Viktors & Tyrone Y4: Bruno, Iris, Esther & Ryan Y5: Ashraf, Coco, Reuben, Matty Y6E: Milo, Charlie, Connor Y6I: Sophie

SUMMER TERM CLUBS Details about registering for Summer Term Clubs were sent home today in a special edition Clubs newsletter; most clubs will start wk/c 18th April (second week back) Registration forms needs to be returned by 9am on Tuesday, 12th April.

School photos have now been collected by Van Cols and orders should be returned just after the Easter holidays.

We held our first Health Advice clinic with our School Nurse, Janet Woolford on Wednesday. We hope parents who used it found it helpful. Janet will be holding clinics on a regular basis so if you would like some health advice, please book an appointment with the school office. Next ses-sion will be on: Wednesday, 27th April.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY (Holiday/INSET dates in GREEN)

Fri, 25th March—Fri,8th April inclusive—Easter hols

Mon, 11th April—First day of Summer Term 1 for all children except FS1 (Nursery) children. Nursery is closed on this day.

Tuesday, 12th April—first day of Summer Term 1 for Nursery children

Tuesday, 12th April 9am —deadline for Summer Term Club registrations

Thursday, 21st April 2016—Y5 Cricket competition

Wednesday, 27th April from 8.45am—Health Advice Clinic with School Nurse—book your appointment with the office.

Monday, 2nd May—May Day Bank Holiday

Thursday 5th May— INSET DAY—school closed to all children except Year 6.

Mon, 9th May—Fri, 13th May—SATS week for Y6

Friday, 20th May after school–FROMS Family Bingo

Friday, 27th May—Summer Term 1 ends

Mon,30th May—Fri,3rd June inclusive—Half term break

Monday, 6th June —Summer Term 2 starts

Wed, 22nd—Friday, 24th June—Y2 & Y6 Camp

Thursday 23rd June—school closed to all children - being used as a polling station for the European Referendum

Saturday, 2nd July from 12pm —Summer Fair

Wednesday, 20th July 2016—Last day of school year

IMPORTANT NOTICE—We are aware of a poten-tial case (not yet confirmed) of scarlet fever in Y1.

Although scarlet fever is usually a mild illness, it should be treated with antibiotics to minimise the risk of complications and reduce the spread to oth-ers.

The symptoms of scarlet fever include a sore throat, headache, fever, nausea and vomiting. This is followed by a fine red rash which typically first ap-pears on the chest and stomach, rapidly spreading to other parts of the body. On more darkly-pigmented skin, the scarlet rash may be harder to spot, but it should feel like 'sandpaper'. The face can be flushed red but pale around the mouth.

If you think you, or your child, have scarlet fever: See your GP or contact NHS 111 as soon as

possible Make sure that you/your child takes the full

course of any antibiotics prescribed by the doctor.

Stay at home, away from nursery, school or work for at least 24 hours after starting the antibiotic treatment, to avoid spreading the infection. If your child has an underlying con-dition which affects their immune system, you should contact your GP or hospital doctor to discuss whether any additional measures are needed.

Advice from Public Health England www.gov.uk/phe

Road Safety at Pick Up and Drop Off Time

A reminder to parents/carers who drop off or collect their children by car—please do not wait or park on the ziz-zag lines for the safe-ty of our children. Also, please can you make sure that your child gets out of the car on the pavement side and not into the road. Even when you’re late don’t park at the gate!

Please take extra care when driving near to school as there are many families who will be walking or travelling by scooter or bike on the roads in the area.

Thank you for your help in keeping all our children safe.

Hope you all enjoy the two week break. We look forward to seeing everyone on Monday 11th April except Nursery chil-dren who return on Tuesday 12th April.