Maynards Green CP School
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Dear Families,
Welcome to our final newsletter of 2024!
Christmas performances
This week we have had the joy of our YR/1 Nativity Baarmy Bethlehem, and the Y2/3 Christmas Show Lights, Camel, Action 2 - "The Sequin."
Thank you for your generosity with donations. The money you give will go towards our bank of costumes, paying for scripts and music rights and means we can continue to put on such fantastic productions every year! You can see how much the children enjoy it, and the impact on developing oracy skills and confidence is exponential. The Y4,5,6 Carol Concerts are next week on Tuesday 17th December at 9am and 2pm. I hope to see many of you there.
Term 2 Parent Feedback
There is still time to give your feedback on Terms 1 and 2! Thank you to those who have taken the time to complete the feedback survey. It is hugely important for us to have your input, and this is an opportunity for you to share successes, thanks, concerns or suggestions.
Feedback from parents and families is vital to enable us to continually evaluate and improve our school.
The survey will close on Friday 20th December.
https://forms.gle/y8Cby52WYmhGsgmq9
Behaviour update
From the DFE publication Behaviour in Schools Feb 24 Maintaining a positive culture requires constant work and schools should positively reinforce the behaviour which reflects the values of the school and prepares pupils to engage in their learning.
Following a review of Pupil Voice in Term 2, it was clear that many pupils who consistently demonstrate our school values and good behaviour for learning felt they were not "seen". As a team, we feel that recognition of these pupils is important.
I am pleased to share with you a new recognition of good behaviour - Hot Chocolate with the Headteacher.
Pupils who consistently show the school values through their behaviour over a sustained period of time are invited to the Headteacher's office to enjoy a drink and a chat at the hot chocolate bar! This will take place on a termly basis.
Staffing update
We are delighted to announce several new staff will be joining the team at MG from January 2025.
We welcome Ms Changleng and Ms Turner as Teaching Assistants, Mr Townsend as our Outdoor Learning Teacher and Ms Smith as our Bursar.
Ms Turner will lead our Nurture provision supported by Mrs Jones our SENco.
Ms Changleng will lead our academic interventions in the afternoons supported by our Phase Leaders, Mrs Green, Miss Taylor and Miss Francis.
Mr Townsend is developing our outdoor curriculum and our site, and will begin teaching outdoor learning sessions with Reception and KS1 in Term 4.
Mrs Gadsden is moving from the classroom to the school office as Office Administrator supporting Hannah.
Mrs Alexander continues to teach science across the school.
Our class teams from January 2025 will be as follows:
Reception - Mrs Green and Mrs Evison, Mrs McFall
Year 1 - Mrs Osborn, Miss Phillips, Mrs Lindfield, Miss Street
Year 2 - Mrs Boorer, Ms Changleng, Miss Street
Year 3 - Miss Taylor, Mrs Townsend, Mrs McFall
Year 4 - Mrs Holton, Ms Turner, Mrs Mockford
Year 5 - Miss Lacey, Ms Turner, Mrs Richmond
Year 6 - Miss Francis and Mrs Delves
I'd also like to take this opportunity to share my sincere thanks to all our staff for their hard work and unwavering commitment to our school. You bring our school vision to life though everything you offer our children. Thank you.
Our final day of term is Friday 20th December, with open classrooms from 1pm. Please feel welcome to pop in to look at your child's books and spend some time with our class teams.
Wishing you all a very happy and restful Christmas break.
Mrs Clark
Headteacher
Contents
Maynards Green is a nut-free school. This means we kindly ask that you avoid sending any food items containing nuts or nut products to school with your child. This includes snacks, lunches, and birthday treats.
We understand that food allergies can be serious, and this policy helps us create a safe and inclusive environment for all students.
As part of the school’s Healthy Eating Policy, children are encouraged to bring in a healthy snack. These do not need to be limited to fruit and vegetables but could include breadsticks, rice cakes or the like.
Reminders
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Pain Relief in school
Please be aware that any pain relief medication your child needs to take during school hours must be brought in and taken home on the same day.
All pain relief medication will be sent home on the last day of this term.
A reminder that if your child experiences vomiting or diarrhea, they should stay home from school for a full 48 hours after their symptoms subside to prevent illness spreading to others.
It can be tricky deciding whether or not to keep your child off school when they are unwell.
Follow this advice on when to keep your child home.
➡️ https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school
Teacher Contact Details
Teacher Contact Details
Ailsa Clark - head@maynardsgreen.org
Amy Jones - senco@maynardsgreen.org
Claire Boorer - cboorer@maynardsgreen.org
Christina Green - cgreen@maynardsgreen.org
Colette Lacey - clacey@maynardsgreen.org
Isabel Phillips - iphillips@maynardsgreen.org
Carly Townsend - ctownsend@maynardsgreen.org
Nicola Alexander - nalexander@maynardsgreen.org
Sophie Francis - sfrancis@maynardsgreen.org
Karolina Holton - kholton@maynardsgreen.org
Robyn Osborn - rosborn@maynardsgreen.org
Jane Taylor - jtaylor@maynardsgreen.org
Attendance
Attendance
Link to our attendance policy - click here
Year R - 97.0%
Year 1 - 96.1%
Year 2 - 92.3%
Year 3 - 97.6%
Year 4 - 94.2%
Year 5 - 96.5%
Year 6 - 95.1%
Regulate, connect and rest
Resources specially designed by therapists to support regulation, connection and rest during December.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding
Link to our safeguarding policy - click here
Cyber Choices has gathered resources that may help parents and carers in having conversations with young people about their digital life. Some are to help you understand technological terminology your children may use, others are to provide guidance on how to protect young people when they are online, or to support you in having constructive conversations with young people about their online activity.
Please also find attached a flyer from Cyber Choices promoting their free parent webinars on online safety.
THE DIGITAL DILEMMA: Keeping Your Kids Safe Online
Thames Valley Police Cyber Protect are running a free webinar to help parents and carers understand some of the risks young people face online, and how they can best protect themselves and their family from falling victim to cyber criminal behaviours!
Covering social media, gaming and emails, this webinar will give you tips and tricks to help you protect them in today’s online world.
The webinar is running three times over the next few weeks, and tickets are available here:
Reserve your space today!
Mrs Carly Townsend
Deputy Headteacher and Safeguarding Lead
Mental Health
The Early Help Parenting Team are offering a new parenting course from January.
The Early Help Parenting Team are offering a new parenting course from January.
EarlyBird Plus!
EarlyBird Plus is a programme from The National Autistic Society to support and empower parents of children (aged 4-9) who are diagnosed with Autism or on the diagnosis pathway.
Meet our Governors
Hello everyone, my name is Julie and I became a co-opted governor at Maynards Green in 2023.
I am currently the Co-Chair, with specific responsibility for Safe-guarding, Curriculum and Data and the Training and development of Governors.
I meet each term with Mrs Townsend to ensure that the Safeguarding Policy and Procedures are being followed and provide support when needed.
I was recently involved with an external review of Safeguarding in the school by ESCC, and I am pleased to say we had a very positive outcome.
I enjoy coming into school and helping with the enrichment afternoons and attending school events, seeing first-hand how the school operates and meeting the children.
I have lived and worked in the area for more than 30 years and ran my own dental practice. I have also been involved with the teaching and assessing of adults working the social care sector.
I am Chairman of Age Concern Heathfield & District and run a luncheon club for the elderly.
Two of my grandchildren attend Maynards Green School and I collect some afternoons, please feel free to come and have a chat, if you are curious about the role of a Governor, we do have a vacancy on the Board!
Reception
Reception
This week the children were amazing in their first Nativity! We had some dancing sheep, inn keepers that were finding it difficult to find room and some very sparkly angels. I am sure you will agree that the class tried really hard and were very brave getting up on the stage in front of so many people.
This term we have also been learning about nocturnal animals and how some animals hibinate for the winter. We have found information about hedgehogs and have even made our own hedgehogs using materials in the classroom. Can you spot the spikes on Isabella's playdough hedgehog?
Mrs Green
Reception Class teacher
Year 1
Year 1
This term we have been practicing really hard to learn our lines and songs for our nativity 'Baarmy Bethlehem'. Many of you came to see all the children's hard and we think they did an amazing job. We really enjoyed working with Reception and Mrs Green again! We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did.
Mrs Osborn and Miss Phillips
Year One Class Teachers
Year 2
Year 2
We have had an exciting and busy couple of weeks. We enjoyed "No pens day", practised and performed our Nativity production of "Lights, Camel, Action 2 - the sequin". In English we have been enjoying "Stuck" by Oliver Jeffers. We loved how he threw everything in the tree - we made our own kites, then threw our own shoes, just to see what it was like! We have been working on addition and subtraction in Maths. In RE, we have been learning why does Christmas matter to Christians, following a Nativity trail around the playground. and had some amazing discussions - did Jesus get any Christmas presents?
Mrs Boorer
Year Two Class Teacher
Year 3
This week saw the much anticipated Year 2 and 3 Christmas performance. The children had all worked incredibly hard learning lines and dances, lyrics and tunes. We really enjoyed working together to produce the show; we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
We have also started our Geography topic on Volcanoes; we are very excited and can't wait to learn more.
Year 4
In year 4 we are continuing to study Ancient Egypt. We sculpted our canopic jars, using scoring to attach elements to our sculpture.
We also finished writing a fantastic set of instructions from Marcy from Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx to help her rescue her father. Within our instructions, our focus was on cause and effect conjunctions to explain clearly the effect of the action on the obstacle Marcy needed to overcome.
Year 5
Year 5
Year 5 have been Learning all about Pablo Picasso in art. We researched his background and took a look at some of his amazing artwork. The children then watched a tutorial on how to create a Picasso style face. Below are a couple of wonderful examples (inspired by Picasso) that the children in Year 5 produced.
In other areas of learning, Year 5 have been working hard to understand fractions. We have been looking at equivalent fractions, improper fractions, converting mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa. It has been a lot to take on board, but the children have shown great determination and resilience.
Year 6
Year 6
Year 6 walked down to Oaklands Court of Horam this afternoon to sing Christmas songs to the residents. They also handed out the personalised Christmas cards that Year 5 had created for them.
The children sang beautifully and behaved impeccably.
We are very proud of them for representing our school so well!
What a busy Term 2 it's been in Year 6!
We have enjoyed our learning across the curriculum this term.
In English, we have continued with our 'Dragons' topic. We created our own dragons and wrote descriptions; published our non-chronological reports about dragons and have written stories about dragon training!
In maths, we have continued to work on our 'fast track passes' and applying the multiplication and division facts to new concepts.
Miss Francis
Year Six Class Teacher
Year 3 - worked in pairs to build famous London landmarks from various construction materials.
English News - No Pens Day
This year, we all had a lot of fun on No Pens Day. Everyone brought in their special item to talk about in class and also participated in other verbal and practical activities. Here are a small selection of those activities.
Year 1 "wrote" a popcorn story (a storytelling game where players take turns adding to a story).
Year 4 communicated via visual morse code and expanded their vocabulary by playing Taboo.
SCIENCE NEWS
SCIENCE NEWS
Year 1
We have been learning about how materials have different properties and we played a game where we predicted if an object would float or sink in water. The children explained how the properties of the material had an effect on this.
Year 2
We have been learning if different materials can change shape using forces such as squash, twist, stretch and bend. The children carried out comparative testing of different materials and recorded their results in tables.
Year 3
Building on our knowledge of nutrition we have been learning about the skeletons of various different animals. The children have been classifying and sorting animals based on their skeletons and also building their own model of a human endoskeleton.
Year 4
We have been learning how states of matter change in different temperatures and used this knowledge in a collaborative diagram of The Water Cycle. They identified the different processes involved including evaporation, transpiration, condensation and precipitation.
Year 5
We have continued to learn about Earth and space and look at how ideas of the solar system have changed over time with advanced technology and the exploration of space. The children have drawn the solar system and made a pocket one based on relative distances worked out.
Year 6
Our light topic has developed to discuss what affects the length of shadows detailed scientific diagrams have been drawn. We have also had discussions about the transparency of objects and the type of shadows formed.
If they have continued their learning at home I'd love hear about it!
Mrs A
Science Lead
🌟Headteacher Awards🌟
🌟Headteacher Awards🌟
Dormice
Maggi - for excellent use of stem sentences in maths
Annabella - for becoming a lovely confident reader!
Obi - Amazing progress in reading. Well done!
Daisy - For being an amazing Mary during our Nativity
Squirrel
Frankie- for his amazing progress in Maths
Dexter - for his amazing story map in English
Hedgehog
George L: great effort in writing
George ET: progress with his handwriting
Charlie: awesome progress in phonics and reading
Murray: learning all the rules this term in phonics and applying them.
Rabbit
Oliver H - super inference skills in reading
Kaiser - a wonderful show and tell on No Pens Day
Pandora - showing great enthusiasm and confidence in oracy lessons this week
Charlie - working so hard on his reading and completing Little Wandle.
Foxes
Mason - for his fabulous progress in reading and successfully completing his Star Assessment!
Theia - for her resilience in our DT clay work and having the courage to try again and again!
Martha - for a big improvement in presentation!
Stella - for her determination in learning her times tables!
Badger
Evie - for consistently working hard in all areas of learning
John - for excellent reasoning skills in Maths
Cooper -for his excellent Picasso style artwork
Deer
Sam - for amazing maths! A great effort with reasoning and checking his answers.
Lucas - for writing an excellent non-chronological report about dragons.
Mollie - for great work when learning a new method in maths - you have grown in confidence!
Jacob - for stunning singing and learning the words for our poem so brilliantly.
🌟Citizenship Awards🌟
🌟Citizenship Awards🌟
Dormice
Hector - for being courageous during our Nativity practises
Lilly - for excellent perseverance in PE lessons
Ella - for always helping to look after our classroom by helping to keep it tidy
Ava - for being courageous in her role as the star in our Nativity
Squirrel
Ben- for making gingerbread men at home and then bringing them in to share with the whole class
Tess - for showing respect and kindness all the time
Hedgehog
Levin: bravery to keep going when she was feeling poorly
Eddie: respect and patience - always being ready to learn
Rosie: friendship and resilience - always being cheerful
Dolly: friendship and kindness to everyone
Rabbit
Mollie - showing respect to all
Freddie - always showing kindness to all in class and at breaktime
Albie - showing responsibility in class at all times
Foxes
Zoe - for inspiring kindness through her No Pen Day show and tell.
Tabitha - for always being polite, respectful and considerate of other people's feelings. It is a joy to have you in class!
Freddie - for being an encouraging and supportive talking partner!
Xena - for her resilience and positivity in settling in to her school day.
Badger
Samuel -for always being respectful and kind
Willow -for being a responsible and respectful member of Year 5
Evie - for being kind and patience when reading with the reception children
Deer
Oliver - for showing care and kindness towards others in our class.
Mathilda - for showing emotional resilience during No Pens Day presentations.
Bertie - for showing honesty by advocating for himself and his learning needs as well as being authentically himself at all times!
Ivy - for constantly making progress with her confidence, resilience and courage.
Chartwells
THURSDAY 19TH DECEMBER
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School Council
School Council
Thank you so much for your generous donations! We have managed to raise an amazing £142.52 for the Children in Need.
We raised £194.93 for the Royal British Legion.
Parent Information
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⭐️Do you want to work in a school, that fits in with your family?⭐
Fully Funded (FREE) NCFE | CACHE School Support courses available in levels 1, 2 & 3, starting on 2nd December!
Sessions will be available with Aspire Education's employment engagement officers after course completion!
We run ONLY in term time and not during half term/ end of term periods.
This is a six-week intensive course, with online live webinars with Aspire Education's friendly tutors, starting at 9:30am and finishing at 2pm (with lunch break period) from Monday to Friday.
All you need is access to the internet and a laptop or tablet.
These courses are fully funded by the ESFA (Education Skills Funding Agency).
If you are earning less than £23,500 per year OR claiming benefits (including Universal Credit, JSA, ESA, PIP, Income Support, Housing Benefits, carers allowance or any type of Tax Credit including Child Tax Credit) you are eligible for a fully funded place on our courses.
*Please see more details about our eligibility on our website.
Take advantage of this opportunity while it's still available.
Please go to: www.studysmartuk.online for more information.
All sessions include a healthy meal and are free to eligible young people. There is a great range of clubs spread across multiple venues in East Sussex. Activities include sport, art, theatre, forest school, animation, music, computer coding and crafts.
A small number of places will also be available to children and young people who:
Disabled or special educational needs, including those with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
Children in Need (CiN)
Referred to Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Young Carers
Have a disabled sibling
Children on a Child Protection Plan (CP) and Looked After Children (LAC)
Refugee groups
Parenting Team whats on Jan to March 25.pdfPlease note. HUGGG Vouchers for those in receipt of FSM will always be issued in the last week of the term.
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