Newsletter. Computing at St. Thomas More. Poppies and Remembrance. Welcome back!

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1 Newsletter Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School Issue 8 Welcome back! 2nd November 2018 We hope that you and your child had an enjoyable half term and are looking forward to the half-term ahead. There are many school events happening between now and December which we look forward to welcoming you into school for, including our Parent s consultation meetings (week beginning 19th November) and the range of Christmas events that we have planned. Please remember that all of our events can be found on the school calendar page on olol.co.uk or via the calendar picture below. Computing at St. Thomas More We are pleased to inform you about an exciting new venture that Our Lady Of Lourdes are working on with St. Thomas More. From this half term onwards, all children in KS2 will have the opportunity to have their computing lessons in the specialist computing suites at St. Thomas More on a fortnightly basis. This allows our children at OLOL to have regular access to excellent resources and we are very excited about working so closely with another school in the Assisi Catholic Trust. Mr Jackson and Mrs Harding (Computing Subject Leaders) Poppies and Remembrance We will be selling poppies to raise money for the Royal British Legion. Children can bring in a donation if they wish to get a poppy. Although Armistice Day falls on Sunday this year, we will be having assemblies and remembrance activities across all of next week at school which will fit into our Love One Another Month (of which there are more details about in this newsletter). Tel: office@ourladyoflourdes.southend.sch.uk School Website Twitter Facebook:

2 Information for 2018/19 admissions: Southend Local Authority are also offering informal open sessions for parents who may wish to talk to someone about any part of the application process. There are two sessions, a morning and evening session on 15th November 9:30 11am (Tickfield Centre) and at 5pm 7pm at the Civic Centre. Southend Local Authority are no longer providing hardcopy booklets but a copy of the Admissions booklet for 2019 can be downloaded from southend.gov.uk/ admissions. Southend LA Single application form (SAF): To be completed by 15th January 2019 ( or paper copies can be obtained from Civic Centre. Supplementary Information Form (SIF) including Certificate of Catholic Practise from Priest: To be completed and handed into school by 22nd January More information can be found here This is available on the school website: olol.co.uk/admissions National Offer Day for Reception places: 16th April 2019 Sports News Please remember to bring in your warm PE kit (jogging bottoms and sweat shirts) and thank you for taking the time to check your child s PE kit over the half term break. Over the next few weeks we have some Football, Netball and Dodgeball fixtures- good luck to all those involved. There are still places available in some of the sports clubs if your child would like to join. Please look on school money for these. CGP Science Books If your child is in Year 5 and would you would like to buy them a CGP Science book to help them with their learning for this year and next, please log on to school money where you can order your own copy.

3 Our School Mission Statement Our Mission Statement should reflect the purpose and aim of our school. It should be a simple sentence or string of sentences that we should all know and be able to remember. Because our school is dedicated to Our Lady, our mission should reflect that we have chosen her as an important role model for us. We should aim to be like Mary in how we behave and how we follow Jesus. With this in mind, I have composed a Mission Statement. Can you talk about it and decide whether it describes what we should do? Can you improve it? Loving like Mary Serving like Mary Learning like Mary Believing like Mary LOVING - Mary was loving when the hosts ran out of wine at the wedding - His mother said to the servants, Do whatever he tells you. LEARNING - Mary learnt about her son when he was found talking to the teachers in the temple - Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. SERVING - Mary agreed to serve when she agreed to carry Jesus in her womb - I am the Lord s servant, Mary answered. May your word to me be fulfilled. Then the angel left her. BELIEVING - Mary s belief in God is proclaimed by her cousin Elizabeth when Mary comes to visit - Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfil his promises to her! If you have any comments or suggestions we would love to hear from you. Please send these in to office@ourladyoflourdes.southend.sch.uk

4 November is Love one another month. During the month of November as a school we want to focus on our message of loving one another. Our message is you do not have to like everyone, but Christ told us we have to love everyone and loving means not wanting to cause anyone any harm. This first week back we have started to emphasise this message. The programme of assemblies are below so that you are informed about all the areas we will cover: Equality not the same but fair Bullying: Why not? Who to talk to if you re not feeling safe. Friendship What makes a good friend? Remembrance Cyber Bullying In order to help us, it would be good if you could re-iterate our message at home. We have clearly defined for the children that bullying is an on purpose plan to cause hurt or upset, that it is usually repeated and that there is an imbalance of power. We all have the potential to be horrible, and children may be horrible to each other; this is not right but is not bullying. In either case pupils should say Stop it I don t like it! and walk away, then tell an adult. In our classrooms there are worry boxes for any children who have concerns. Ambassadors will be made easily recognisable in the playground if children want to talk to a friendly Year 6 who will then pass the message onto an adult. We are asking the children in KS2 to complete a survey about name calling and behaviour in school. I hope this will help us work together to teach children to stop being unkind. Being horrible to one another is something that does happen. We are particularly keen to stop name calling or insults because of the way we look or because we are using terms that are offensive to some people in our community. We ask parents of older children to continue to be vigilant for any messages children may receive or send on their phones or computers. I hope that together we can make our school an even happier place. Mr Bragard

5 Collection for Harp It is that time again when we ask for your support in helping our local homeless. During assembly, each class council representative picked an item lucky dip style (please see the list below). Thank you for helping us to teach our children the importance of helping others in our community. Please do not send in alcohol or any food items that contain alcohol. Please bring in your items by the 5th December at the latest. Thank you in advance for your continued support! Mrs Watts RM Christmas Crackers Superstars! RS IK IW 2M 2L 3D 3HL 4L 4M 5B 5D 6A 6J Warm Scarves Soap Warm Sock for Ladies Nice Coffee Nice Coffee Selection Boxes Pants! Shower Gel Warm Socks for Men Boxes of Chocolates Alcohol Free Christmas Puddings Unisex Hats Large Cartons of Juice If you would like to make a 3 one off donation to support HARP S Harvest Appeal, just text MEAL28 3 to Congratulations to all of our superstars this week, who were chosen for a range of wonderful reasons. RSB Maxence L 3D Ricco A RM Hugo G 4L Ben W 1K Lucas S 4M Mary W 1W Blyth G 5B Grace C 2L Alice T 5D Harry M 2M Oscar G 6A Skye N 3HT Mia H 6J Lizzie G

6 What s happening on Twitter? Have you recently? Here are some highlights from this week:

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8 School Council Prayer Council Our Prayer councillor Anne maria has written a prayer for this week s newsletter: Dear God, At times, it can be hard to treat those who hurt us with the same respect as our friends. Please help us to treat all of our classmates with the same respect. Please also help us to understand what our teachers kindly teach us and fill us with your Holy Spirit. Amen

9 What s Happening? We have set dates for the year ahead that we have been able to so far including parent consultation meetings, stay and pray sessions and whole school celebrations. These can all be viewed at: November Love one Another Month Whole school 05 Nov Library Visit 3HT 08 Nov Netball and Football tournament 1.00pm 3.00pm Invite 15 Nov Library Visit 3D 19 Nov Height and weight check Year 6 20 Nov Parents consultation meetings 3.30pm 6.00pm Whole school 22 Nov Parents consultation meetings 5.00pm 7.30pm Whole school 26 Nov Royal Albert Hall / Barnardos Concert Choir invite 2 Dec Christmas Fayre Whole School 8 Dec Southend Choral Society Concert Choir invite 10 Dec Christmas Disco Whole School 12 and 13 Dec KS1 Nativity (9:30) Information about tickets will be coming out soon. Year 1 and 2 13 Dec Diocesan Carol Concert Brentwood Choir Invite 17 Dec No more before/after school clubs. Breakfast and after Whole School school clubs unaffected 17 Dec Flu Immunisations Whole School Letters will be sent out in the weeks leading up to the date. 18 Dec Reception Nativity at 9.30am Reception 19 Dec KS2 Nativity at 7:00pm KS2 19 Dec Christmas Dinner Whole School 22 Dec 6 Jan 2019 Christmas Holidays Whole school

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