St Marks CE

Junior School

7/5/10
Peter Pan Week ran from 26-30
April 2010, nationwide, in order to Newsletter 24
raise money for Great Ormond
Street Children’s hospital. We
joined hundreds of schools across
the country for Peter Pan themed
activities and fundraising, including
a Guinness World Record attempt
for the greatest number of people
dressed as Peter Pan!
Great Ormond Street are aiming to
raise £160,000 through Peter Pan Week to help build two new en-suite
bedrooms in the cardiac centre. The current facilities are cramped and the Dates for your diary:
new rooms will mean having * Monday 10th– Friday
enough space for life saving equipment 14th May—Year 6
and a spare bed for mum and dad, mak- SATS week—please
note, no intervention
ing it a much less frightening experi-
programs will be running
ence for the whole family.
as the TA’s will be in-
Great Ormond Street are currently volved with SATS help.
busy getting all the documentation *Wednesday 12th May–
ready to send to Guinness World Re- visit from Paul Collard,
cords (GWR). Once they have re- director of Creative
ceived what they need from all the Partnerships program.
schools that took part, they will sub- *Monday 17th May–
mit the record attempt. It can take Year 4 Stubbington Trip
up to three months for GWR to con- *Monday 17th and Fri-
day 20th May– Creative
firm if it has been successful but we
Partners in.
will be sure to let you know as soon as
*Wednesday 19th May–
they do! A huge thank you to all of you Class 3B assembly.
who made the effort, as well as volun- * Wednesday 26th May
teers from Disney Store in the Mar- – Class 4H assembly
lands, Chris Davis and staff from the *Friday 28th May–
Furniture Workshop. Watch this school finishes for half
space for more information! term.
 Fairtrade School
Mr Hawkes has launched our journey to become a Fair trade School. This means we
will use Fairtrade products as far as possible (selling fruit at playtime etc), we will
learn about how global trade works and why Fairtrade is important, and we will take
action for Fairtrade in the school and the wider community. This award means the
school gets local and national recognition and will support lots of other initiatives (such as Eco-
Schools, International Schools, and Healthy Schools). We will be contributing to making the world a
fairer place.
The award will also provide opportunities to enhance many areas of the
curriculum and explore citizenship from a global perspective, giving pupils
an opportunity to participate and take responsibility for their decisions.
We will be running this with a Fairtrade Steering Group, made up of staff,
parents and teachers. Please see Mr Hawkes if you would like to be in-
volved in this group! Thank you!

Summer Production Class Water Bottles/Jumpers

A plea from Mrs Bevan—the choir will be
learning songs and acting out small scenes
for our summer concert, a mini produc-
tion! We would like as many
of you to join in as possi-
ble—please see Mrs Bevan
if you would like to be in-
volved in any way at all!
Assemblies Now the weather is (hopefully!)
getting warmer, please ensure
Class 3B will
your child has a named water
have their assembly on
bottle in school which they can
19th May at 9am, and take out on the field. Please also
Class 3H on 26th May at ensure all jumpers are named as
9am. We would love to there will be many floating
see you there! around school! Thank you.

Fabulous find of the fortnight

This fortnights fabulous read is a non fiction text, ’Why eating bogeys
is good for you’ by Mitch Symons. This book has won the Blue Peter
Best Children’s Book with facts’ award 2010.
Ever wondered why we have tonsils? Is there any cream in cream crack-
ers? Why is the sea blue? And if kangaroos keep their babies in their
pouches, what happens to all the poo?
Mitch Symons answers all these crazy questions and plenty more in this
wonderfully funny and addictive book for children from 8 to 80! And yes,
eating bogeys is good for you ...but only your own! Fun to read, it is also
full of some real facts as well as some amusing fantasies. It might even
get even the most reluctant reader reading!! If you do read it—come and
share your facts, we’d love to hear them!

PE and Games Reminders: Have a great couple of

Year 3 Games: Tuesday afternoon, Year 3 PE: Wednesday mornings weeks!

Year 4 Games: Thursday afternoon, Year 4 PE: Tuesday mornings Miss Blightman
and the Year 3/4 team
Targets: Please continue to support your child with the targets re-
ported on at the end of term. Times tables and reading journals
should be being worked on at home, as well as a piece of weekly
homework. Please see your child’s class teacher for any further in-
formation or support you may need.