Dear Parents and Carers

Our Lent Appeal continues - see below - and we are already on Day 15 of our 40 Days of Kindness and in this Week 2 we have been so grateful for all the food bank contributions you have donated to the local Wandsworth community.

On Monday morning the Year 6 pupils were presented with their new Good News Bibles in a special assembly - see below.

The first of the Year 5 Level 1 Cycle Training sessions started on Monday too, with another one coming up this week.  Parents have been notified which of the four sessions has been allocated to their child.

Well done to the Reception and Year 1 children who were randomly selected for a dental check on Wednesday - they were so sensible throughout.

Yesterday we welcomed the Safer Schools Metropolitan Police Officer in to speak to Years 5 and 6 about the importance of online and personal safety.

This morning we were all entertained by Year 3 who led us through their learning from this academic year.  We learned all about Prehistoric Britain:  Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.  The children spoke clearly, sang beautifully and treated us to a flash mobile style dance! Congratulations and thank you to all the children and staff involved - and a big thank you to all the parents that were able to attend and provided the amazing costumes too.

As I write it is lovely to see our SAS Group enjoying creating their Mothering Sunday cards.  Roll on the better weather for them to have more fun in the open air as the term progresses!

Next Week:

Along with world book day on Friday 8th March we will be exploring faithfulness and how can we care for others. St Michael's Church clergy will begin exploring this with the children in our Monday worship.

“For great is Your love, reaching to the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.” Psalm 57:10 

At the end of Friday it is the annual and the very popular 'Let Girls Play' event after school on the field!   Fingers crossed for dry weather...

Best wishes for the weekend

Angela Harris

Acting Head

Spring is most definitely here - it's the sound of rain on the windows that gives it away...

And with Spring comes thoughts of sunshine, mocktails and gazebos. Yes it's early but we want everyone to be involved so we would love to hear from you if you can help in any way - planning, baking, sorting, carrying, driving, growing, thinking...we need all hands ands heads.

This year we are thinking ahead so would love if you could come out on Thursday 7th, 8pm at the Earl Spencer for a social chat and to share your thoughts. It is your fete so we want to hear from you - we are not assigning shifts yet, just want to know what you might like to do. And catch up generally so do come along for a evening of fete survival stories. Or if you can't make it but want to share your thoughts, drop us an email pta@stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk

Enjoy the weekend!

Sheila, Louise and the committee

Good News Bible Presentation:

On Monday we had a visit from Mr John Nash. He is a volunteer for GNfE  - Good News for Everyone. He led our Collective Worship and shared some facts about the Bible.

Did you know?

The Bible is a collection of 66 different books and letters, written over a period of some 1,500 years up to about 100 years after Jesus Christ's death and resurrection. It has provided hope and inspiration for generations and continues to be a worldwide best seller and the most published book ever.

The Bible is a book all about God’s relationship with us.

It offers us an opportunity to meet with God and get the direction we need to live life to the full.

It is divided into the Old Testament (the first 39 books) and the New Testament (the last 27 books). The word 'testament' means covenant or agreement, so the Bible shows how God’s old agreement, based on the ‘covenant of law,’ is superseded by a new ‘covenant of grace' - as shown in The New Testament.

It was wonderful to find out so many things about the Bible! Mr Nash then gave New Testaments to Year 6 children to keep. There is a place to write their name inside and a helpful page to show which passages and verses to read for encouragement with the various ups and downs of life.

St Michael's wish to extend a huge thank you to Mr Nash and GNfe. 

Sharon Cunningham

Metropolitan Police Visit to Year5 and 6:

A representative from the Met Police joined us in the Upper Phase yesterday. 

He spoke about the importance of keeping safe when walking home from school and provided the pupils with fantastic tips that will equip them as they venture into secondary school.

Adele Stewart

Letter from Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP, Minister for Schools

We are delighted with our letter from the Minister for Schools congratulating us all for our ...

....'very high standard of achievement demonstrated in the reading, writing and mathematics Key Stage 2 assessment last year.

Your school's results, as published on 14 December, show that 93 per cent of your pupils reached or exceeded the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of Key Stage 2.  This means that for achievement in reading, writing and mathematics, St Michael's CofE Primary School is in the top 1 per cent of primary schools in the country."

Measles Health Notice:

We have been asked by Public Health to share the following message:

"There has been a recent increase in measles cases in England and London. Most of the cases have been in children under the age of 10 years with many outbreaks linked to nurseries and schools.  

Measles spreads very easily among those who are unvaccinated, and can be a very unpleasant illness. In some children it can be very serious and lead to hospitalisation – and in rare cases tragically can cause death. Symptoms include a runny nose, cough, high fever, sore red watery eyes and a blotchy red-brown rash.  

Having two doses of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccine is the best protection against measles."

Maths Day:  Advance Notice:

Friday 22nd March 2024

Children can come dressed in a number-themed outfit!

Parents are also invited to come and talk about how you use Maths in your own working day/everyday life.   If you can offer five minutes of your time on this day please contact Mrs Stewart astewart@stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk

or Miss Fryer: cfryer@stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk

SENCO Surgery:

Tuesday mornings : 8:30am - 9:00am

Feel free to drop in via the front office to speak to Mrs Harris, Head of SENCO, on a first come first served ad hoc basis.

Parent Prayer Group:

Meeting in school straight after drop off from 8.30/40am to about 9:15am

Future Dates:

March 4th

April 15th

June 3rd 

1 July

Come through the front office to collect a Visitor pass and then meet in the Oasis room through to KS1 and on the left hand side.

Prayer Box:

Please feel free to come and post your prayer requests in the box at the front desk of the office in advance of each Parent Prayer Group meeting.