1. 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.

2. 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