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St William of York Parent Newsletter - Friday 7th March 2025

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This week's letter from Mrs Mayers...

Dear Parents and Carers

This week, Yr6 led Ash Wednesday mass in our church. They read and sang so beautifully and it was a fantastic way to mark the beginning of Lent. During Lent, we will be asking for donations of Easter Eggs for Lewisham Foodbank and more information about this can be found below.

It was such fun to see the children and staff dressed up for World Book Day yesterday. The children had a great day celebrating their favourite books and they enjoyed their time reading with their buddy classes. The Book Day celebrations continued into lunchtime with a 'hungry caterpillar' themed menu from our school caterers, Caterlink.

Thank you to all of the parents who joined Miss Richards for the EYFS and KS1 Maths Parent Workshop this week. We will be planning some workshops aimed at parents of children in Yr3, 4, 5, & 6 for the summer term. I would like to say a big 'thank you' to Miss Richards for organising these sessions.

Kind regards

Hayley Mayers (Headteacher)

SWOY Science Week

We will be holding Science Week during the week commencing 24th March 2025. We will have lots of exciting activities planned during the week but we would like your children to help with the following preparations...

Poster Competition

The theme for Science Week this year is 'Change and Adapt'. Mr Taylor would like children to make posters to promote this theme and our Science Week. We will display all of the posters around the school, but there will be prizes for the top 3 posters!

The information that needs to be included on the poster is...

SWOY Science Week

Change and Adapt

Mon 24th - Fri 28th

Deadline: Wed 12th Mar

Photography Challenge

As the theme this year is 'Change and Adapt, we would like you to take some interesting photographs of something that has changed and adapted. This could include many different things for example: wildlife or technological changes.

We will use all of the images sent in and create a Change and Adapt photography exhibition during Science Week.

Please send your photographs to staylor@swoy.lewisham.sch.uk

Deadline: Fri 21st Mar

Duck Eggs at SWOY

During Science Week, we will have duck eggs arriving at St William of York. These will be located in our Reception Classroom but all of our children will have opportunities to visit and see the ducklings as they hatch!

This week's Friday Club was... Mickey, Conor, Joseph, Ben, Rebecca and Precious.

Well done to all of you! You have been recognised for always being ACE and for consistently going 'over and above'.

07 Mar 2025

World Book Day

All of the children at SWOY had a great time celebrating World Book Day!

06 Mar 2025

Building Our Church

Building time in Nursery

School Information / Reminders

School Uniform

Please do make sure that you check the school uniform list before you buy or replace any items of clothing.

Key things to remember:

Trainers are NOT uniform
Polo t-shirt: white
School shoes: black
Trousers: grey
Skirts: navy
Hairbands: plain black or navy
Summer dress: light blue gingham
Tights/socks: plan grey or white

Absence Requests

In August 2024, the DfE published new statutory guidance for improving attendance; this is reflected in our school attendance policy, which you can find here.

Section 5 details guidance on requests for authorised absences. There is limited scope for requests that can be approved so please read this section carefully when submitting a request.

You can submit a request for an authorised absence via the form on our website, which is linked here.

Late children - please ensure your child is in their classroom by 8:55am, ready for the register at 9am.

Children who arrive in class after 9am will be marked as late.

If you are late, an adult must sign the child/ren in at the main office using the tablet (instructions are below the screen).

Office staff will collect the children while parents/carers sign them in on the tablet.

If your child is unwell - please let the office know before 9am.

Please call the school office (BEFORE 9am) - we have a voicemail that is available any time of day (or night).

Please provide the child's name, class and reason for absence.

Does your child have SEND? Would you like to join a WhatsApp group with other parents to share your experiences and support one another? If you are interested, please let Mrs Mayers or Ms Thorn know.

Rainbow Breakfast and After School Club at SWOY

Drop off from 7.30am for Breakfast Club
Collect at either 4.15pm or 6pm for After-School Club

Book your place in advance! Our school office is unable to book spaces.

Email: Rainbow.ASC@hotmail.co.uk Text or Whatsapp: 0785 477 4096

Dates for your diary

Bow Arts workshops with Yr6

All Day

14
March

Yr3 leading Reconciliation Service

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Year 6 rocking looks from their books or just chilling in their pjs! We made books with our buddies too. Happy World Book day! # WorldBookDay2025 # ReadingforPleasure # Buddytime

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