Primary Newsletter – Friday 1st December 2017 TAG RUGBY TOURNAMENT On Thursday 23rd November, a team of year 6 students took part in a tag rugby tournament. They won their pool against 5 other schools and made it to the semi finals, where in the last 30 seconds the other team scored a trail. We came joint 3rd out of 18 schools. What a great success! ATHLETICS TOURNAMENT On Friday the 24th November a team of students from Year 3 and 4 took part in an athletics tournament at the Thunderdome. They took part in the field & track events throughout the day. Sheena from 3W won an award for having the spirit of team work. Everyone did really well. YEAR 4 AND 5 ‘ONE DANCE’ PERFORMANCE Congratulations to St Matthew Academy's Year 4 and 5 dancers who 'wowed' the audience at the One Dance UK conference at Trinity Laban. Their high energy contemporary dance drew it's inspiration from African poet Lebogang Mashile's poem "I dance to know who I am'  and involved some very complicated and dynamic partner work and movement phrases. Well done to all the children who worked so hard and thank you to Ms Smith and all the teachers who gave up their time to support the trip.

Let Your Light Shine Dragonfly Class 5W Class Class: Bumblebee Oliver DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Tuesday 5th December Year 4 trip to St George’s Cathedral Friday 8th December Class 5W Assembly and Dance Performance 2pm Monday 11th December Year 2 Nativity Play 2pm Wednesday 13th December Reception and Year 1 Christmas Concert 9.30am Friday 15th December Christmas Dinner and Christmas jumper day for charity. Monday 18th December Year 3 – 6 carol Concert 2pm Tuesday 19th December Last day – (half day) STAR OF THE WEEK Each week, one child from each class is named as ‘Star of the Week’ for working really hard on one of our learning characteristics: Persistence, Aspiration, Collaboration, Independence and Versatility. This week we congratulate the following children: Bumblebee Class Danae Frog Class Matia Dragonfly Class Abigail 2E Shai’Reik 2W Temitope 3E Oliver 3W Matthew 4E Carolina 4W Eriane 5E Opera 5W Louise P 6E Prince 6W Princess ATTENDANCE CUP WINNER PUNCTUALITY PANDA WINNER : Dragonfly Class Class 5W . GOLDEN TABLE WINNERS Well done to the ‘Golden Table’ winners this week who displayed excellent manners in school Year 1: Jeremiah and Jonelle Year 2: Amalia and Xing Zhe Year 3: Iroha and Kaylen Year 4: Shumsana and Kaiden Year 5: Tatiana and Elijah Year 6: Rahul and Danielle FEAST DAY Next Friday, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of the Immaculate Conception and believers are required to attend mass at their local parishes. Please check individual websites of the parishes for confirmation of mass times. Please see local parishes:  Our Lady Help of Christians, St Mary’s Blackheath Village Our Lady Star of the Sea, Greenwich St Mary Magdalen, Brockley Holy Cross, Catford Church  of Our Lady of The Assumption, Deptford St. Saviour’s, Lewisham Class of the Week For walking around the building quietly and sensibly. Class: Bumblebee Pupil of the Week. The pupil in each class with the most positive behaviour points each week. The Pupil of the Week will be awarded an orange tie on a Friday. Frog Class Matia Bumblebee Class Danae Dragonfly Class Gabriel 2E Tiana 2W Brianna 3E Derek 3W Asher 4E Jeramiah 4W Eduardo 5E 5W Eryn 6E Sahara 6W KC Have a lovely weekend Mrs Beckley