Primary Newsletter – Friday 20th October 2017 POWER HOUR – CHARITY PLANNING During ‘Power Hour’ on the 16th October, 5E held a Afternoon Tea in our primary hall for their family and friends to raise money for Lewisham Hospital Children’s Ward Charity. Everyone really enjoyed themselves and especially liked eating the cakes! ROWING CLUB Congratulations to Noah in year 6 for being awarded the fastest primary boy to complete 10,000m in Rowing extra curricular club . ‘Thank you to Mr Simmons for enabling me to achieve this.’ POWER HOUR – PORTRAIT WORKSHOP During Power Hour this half term, half of class 5W have been working on self portraits. Have a look at a few examples below. Can you recognise them from their portraits? . HARVEST Many thanks for all of the kind donations for our Harvest Festival. All donations are going to Lewisham food Bank. . SMA PRIMARY FOOTBALL TEAM The Year 5 football team played the John Ball Year 6 team this week. As a new team, they played really well and made us proud. Eryn was presented with the man of the match award. Thank you to Mr Szwejkowski for all of his hard work and effort in creating our new team. .

Persistence, Aspiration, Collaboration, Let Your Light Shine CELEBRATIONS Each week, one child from each class is named as ‘Star of the Week.’ They are awarded the title for working really hard on one of our school priorities: Persistence, Aspiration, Collaboration, Independence and Versatility. This week we congratulate the following children: DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Monday 23rd October – Friday 27th October Half term – school closed Monday 30th October Autumn Term 2 starts Thursday 2nd November Parents’ Evening for Class 4E 3.45pm – 5.30pm Friday 3rd November Class 3E Assembly 2pm Friday 10th November Class 2E Assembly 2pm Dragonfly Class Assembly 2pm Friday 24th November INSET DAY – SCHOOL CLOSED Friday 1ST December Class 6W Assembly Friday 8th December Class 5W Assembly Bumblebee Class Salem Luvuadiokueno Frog Class Olivia Morton Dragonfly Class Emefa Atror 2E Eli Gordon 2W Adil Amin 3E Derek Egharevba 3W Bryanna Curay Teneda 4E Amari Watson 4W Joshua Olenga 5E Michelle John-Okoro 5W Abigail Bepat 6E Nickoyah Forrest 6W Noah Vigille ATTENDANCE WINNERS Attendance Cup was awarded to: Class Class 2E 4W GOLDEN TABLE WINNERS Well done to the ‘Golden Table’ winners this week who displayed excellent manners in school: Year 1: Bobby and Keianna Year 2: Sharon and Jessie Year 3: Theo and Patrice Year 4: Kelly and Zemirah Year 5: Danny and Louise P Year 6: Noah and Princess . PARENTPAY  The Academy is aiming to go cashless by October half term, removing the facility to use cash and cheques to pay for payment items such as dinner money, school trips and uniform etc. Payment items can be paid online using your credit or debit card through a secure website called ParentPay. ParentPay will be our preferred method of making payments to school. How to get started with ParentPay We have posted a letter with your account activation details, just follow the instructions in the letter we sent you to get started with ParentPay. You will not be able to activate your account without an activation letter. If you have not received your letter please contact the school reception to get a copy immediately. If you want to find out more about ParentPay go to: https://www.parentpay.com/parents/using-parentpay. Have a great half term with your families Mrs Beckley Head of Primary