Hitherfield Herald Number 0479 www.hitherfield.co.uk 20th September 2019

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Tuesday 24th September - 2 Manatee trip to the Botanical Institute

Wednesday 25th September – 2 Mongoose and 2

Hummingbird trip to the Botanical Institute

Friday 27th September – PTA Macmillan Coffee morning and uniform sale in the Infant Hall 9am – 10am

Monday 7th October - Growing Against Violence

Workshop

Friday 11th October – EID Party 3pm – 5pm

Wednesday 16th October – Individual and sibling photos

Friday 18th October – PTA. AGM

Friday 18th October – Last day of term

Tuesday 12th November – Flu immunisation

Clubs Update

Please note that clubs will be starting up again

soon. As previously mentioned, we will be

introducing charges for clubs and we need to

ensure that the new system is fair for everyone. A

more detailed announcement will be made in the

next week’s Hitherfield Herald.

Year 6 School Journey

Our Year 6 children are returning from a

wonderful week in Dorset this evening. They have

thoroughly enjoyed a huge range of fun and

challenging activities including: raft building, zip

wire, giant swing, fencing and archery. Our Twitter

feed @hitherfield15 has a large number of photos

and videos from their week. Perhaps our year 5

pupils would like to take a look?

PLEASE GIVE IF YOU CAN!

On the 10th of October, Jacinta and Katy will be

travelling to work with our partner school,

Dodoma Mlimani, in Tanzania.

We would love to take them range of educational

gifts from our school community. To fund this, we

will be holding a collection at the beginning and

end of the school day next week. Please make a

contribution if you are able to. You can also leave

a contribution at the school office if you take your

children to Breakfast or After School Club. Thank

you!

Is your child due to start

secondary school in Sept

2020? Apply now as the

deadline for applications is

31st October 2019. Applying

later can reduce your child’s

chances of getting into the

school of their choice.

Reminder.

On the 7th of October we are running some workshops for Year 5 children with the organisation Growing Against Violence. As part of this, we are also offering an informative parent session. This will take place in the school (location to be confirmed - depending on numbers) after drop off at 9am. The session is 90 minutes long. Due to the content and topics covered, it is not appropriate for children, so we are offering a creche service, which will be held in the children's centre creche room. A sign up sheet will be in main school office, so please register your space with one of the office staff. This is open to ALL parents. Sessions will also be run in January with the Year 6 pupils Please see the attached flyer further down the Herald for information about these sessions.

Breakfast and Afterschool Club Emergency Places: Our priority is to ensure that the children attending the clubs are safe, well supervised and have a range of engaging fun and learning activities. It is essential that we know the number of children expected to attend every session. We understand that on occasion families have emergency situations and we aim to support real emergencies by offering ‘Emergency Places’ at the clubs. If there is a family emergency it is essential that the parent contacts the main school office as soon as possible, as we will need to update registers, check staffing levels and ensure a meal can be provided for the child before we can agree to the emergency place. Please do not request emergency places from anyone else, eg the managers or club staff, as the decision to offer a place is made by Senior Staff only. A real emergency is a very rare occurrence and is not to be used for ad hoc attendance at the clubs. We do not offer ad hoc places in our Breakfast and After School Clubs.

Football Coaching

I am now taking registration for our Thursday weekly football sessions at The Elmgreen School. Our fun and exciting weekly programme is for both boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 14 years olds where your children can win trophies whilst staying healthy, meeting new friends and developing personal and social skills!. Interested? Contact Lionel Best on 07908 950 630

Make sure your child understands that people may hide behind fake profiles for dishonest reasons and the

person they've been chatting to could easily be someone with bad intentions. For younger children watch

‘CEOP KS1 Film : 'Lee & Kim' Cartoon Suitable 5 yrs - 7 yrs’ on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

nMUbHuffO8&t=1s)

Remind your child that they should never give out personal information to someone they don’t know online.

Make sure they understand what personal information is. According to research on average 6 out 10 of

children's online friends are not 'real' friends offline.

Be clear with your child that they should never meet someone face to face without your consent. Show them

how to block and report anything offensive.

Your child should know they can come and talk to you if someone or something is making them feel

uncomfortable online.

ALSO please remember to email us at onlinesafety@hitherfield.co.uk if you have a particular element of keeping your

children safe online you want help with. Children can also put any worries they have in the ‘Online safety worry box’ in

the corridor near Year 2.

Dust off your bikes! Let’s ride to school next week!

Parents and carers, send in pictures of everybody in your family cycling or getting ready to cycle to school

all next week. Send one picture per family or child to admin@hitherfield.co.uk

Our Eco Ambassadors will be handing out badges to cyclists at the main gates on Tuesday only.

Silver Star Awards for this week!

Shanel Nakimera-Mukiibi and Astrid Osborne –

1 Cobra

Niah Besong and Kemuel Yei – 1 Sunbird

Pedro Fernandes Sales and Jack Rizzo – 1

Dugong

Cassius Breeze and Max Bowen – 2

Hummingbird

Connor Humphrey and Beatriz Fernandes

Bissolatti – 2 Manatee

Esme Florio and Clem Thomas – 2 Mongoose

Anaconda: Jasmin Watson – 3 Anaconda

Jaguar: Saoirse Gilmartin – 3 Jaguar

Ocean McClymont-Sweet – 3 Macaw

Freya Bucknall & Rafferty Burgess-Pritchard – 4

Cheetah

Samrat Gurung & Cassandra Fowlin-Kamara – 4

Flamingo

Angus Dobson & Karanveer Singh – 4 Hippo

Brooklyn Konhot and Giovanna Fernandes Sale

4 - Cheetah

Molly Short - 5 Hedgehog

Michelle Jakpor – 5 Otter

Max Bhoyroo – 5 Kingfisher

Mayan Purser &

Abudillahi Mohamed Year 6

Parents and Carers are invited to join Poppy

the school gardener on Monday 23rd

September to help tidy up the edible

playground. Please come along for as long as

you want between 9am – 3:30pm. Cake will be

provided and no experience is necessary.

Come to the main office

Hitherfield is about to launch its very own

radio station and we are looking for

donations of any of the following:

Amps

Electric Guitars

Clapper Board

Music posters

Broadcasting posters

Director’s chair

Stand up lamp

Please bring any donations to the main

school office.

Vomiting and Diarrhoea

Children with diarrhoea or vomiting should stay away from

school for 2 days after their symptoms have gone

You're most infectious from when the symptoms start until 2 days

after they've passed. This is the NHS guidelines advice.

PTA REMINDER

Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 27th

September in the infant hall. Please bring cake

donations straight to the Infant hall on the

morning. There will also be tea and coffee

served and we will also be holding a

secondhand uniform sale too. Cards and cash

accepted. Named lost property has been

displayed on tables outside the Main Office.

Please check there if your child has lost any of

their belongings.

Low Cost/No Cost Family Fun in London

Please look at organisations’ websites to double check times and arrangements

London Open House weekend

22 and 23 September – locations across London

Open House London is the world’s largest architectural festival, giving FREE public access to

800+ buildings, walks, talks and tours over one weekend in September each year.

To find out what’s happening visit: www.openhouselondon.org.uk

Examples include:

Kia Oval (Surrey Cricket Ground), SE11 5SS Saturday 22 September 10am – 5pm.

The Edible Bus Stop Studio, Arch 511, Ridgway Road, SW9 7EX

Sunday 22 September 2 – 6pm

A former mechanics garage, refurbished, utilising reclaimed and recycled materials to create a

design studio and workshop.

Brixton Windmill, Blenheim Gardens, Brixton Hill SW2 5EU

21 and 22 September 1 – 4.30pm

The only surviving windmill in inner London, built in 1816.

Guided tours of the exterior and first two floors, bookable through the website. Please note that

the flors beyond the first floor are accessed by steep ladder-stairs, children must be over 1.2m

in height.

Lambeth Tower Hall

21 and 22 September - 10am – 5pm

Warwick & Austin Hall

Landmark Edwardian Baroque style town hall in red brick and Portland stone. striking new

atrium, reception and courtyard space along with grand marble lined staircase and ornate

council chamber. Grade 2 listed.

National Theatre, Upper Ground, South Bank, SE1 9PX

21 September 10am -5pm and 22 September 12.15-5pm

Housing one of the world’s most important producing theatres!

The building is a key work in British Modernism with three theatres, designed with workshops

and theatre-making all on site.

Tootopia, Tooting

20 – 22 September

www.tootopia.co.uk

Tootopia is an end-of-summer extravanganza. Discover local landmarks, great eating places,

activities, workshops and outdoor parties organised by local businesses and venues, including

Tootopia Kids.There will be a food trail, and a street good takeover for great eats and beats

with a DJ line up and live acts.

Kingston-upon-Thames, River Festival,

22 and 23 September