11th November

Dear families,

at Shacklewell a large part of our mission, our ethos, is to provide opportunities for children to see outside their usual experience and to enrich their lives. This week children across the school will be doing just that.

For the next two weeks the children in Year 3 will have a daily swimming lesson at the Olympic Park, an incredible opportunity and a special way of ensuring they make quick progress with their swimming skills. The children in Year 4 are going to explore the Tate Britain gallery. Whilst they are there they will be keeping an eye out for themselves because they are part of the Steve McQueen 'Year 3' project, based on class photographs they took last year. You can find out more about the project here. On Thursday some children from across Key Stage 2 will get to have an amazing experience of watching England play against Montenegro at Wembley stadium. This game is also England's 1000th ever international so a memorable game to watch!

This week it is Anti bullying Week and as a result, tomorrow is Odd Sock Day! This fun event helps the children to see that we are all individuals. It is also a good way to start conversations about how we are all different but should be treated with the same respect. Throughout the week the children will be completing several lessons, enjoying a theatre workshop created by their peers and taking part in a friendship lunch on Friday.

In conjunction with our anti-bullying week, e-safety is something we will working on this week. It has come to attention that children at school are creating and uploading videos to social media websites, including Youtube and Facebook. Whilst it is a families choice about how their children use social media we will be working with the children around not disclosing names or other sensitive information about their own or their peer's lives. If you would like to find out more about internet safety and how to have conversations with your children about staying safe online then please come along to our Internet Safety session, this Thursday morning at 9.00am.

May I take this opportunity to remind families of the importance of sending your children to school in the correct uniform. Children may wear wellington boots to school during this wet weather, but they must bring trainers to change into for school. Alongside this, children must be given a coat and jumper every day to wear in the playground. The temperature is dropping and we would like to avoid any unnecessary coughs and colds.

Looking forward to catching up with you all in the playgrounds this week,

Rory

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