Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• London Zoo

  Thu 09 Feb 2023
  

• Attendance and Attainment the link

  Thu 12 Jan 2023

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  As a leadership team, last week we sat down with your child’s class teacher to discuss the amazing progress your children have made in class so far this year and how we can ensure through the rest of the year this continues.

   

  Every day we strive in school to ensure your child’s needs are met and they achieve the success they deserve. Talking to the teachers and analysing the information we collect, one of the biggest barriers to a child’s success at Athelney is their attendance at school, and it makes sense, if they are not here they will not be learning in line with their peers. 

   

  Below is our first term data which has been split by attendance. As you can see in the graphs below the difference in attainment is quite stark.

   

  

• Virtual Book Fair

  Mon 05 Dec 2022 Mr Simms

  This week we are holding a Virtual Book Fair where you can order books at a discounted rate:

  1. Visit www.harmonychildrensbooks.co.uk  to browse great, discounted books!

  2. Enter the ACCESS PASSWORD: Athelney22 to add books to your basket and make your order.

  3. Wait for you books to be delivered to school and enjoy: wrap them as presents or share them straight away!

   

  

• Sports Day Success!

  Thu 23 Jun 2022 Mrs Dummer

  A wonderful time was had by all at our 2022 Sports Day. Thank you to Miss Hedington for organising the most wonderful circuit of events for our pupils and their families to enjoy! 
  It was certainly evident that the parents, siblings, grandparents and wider family members enjoyed it nearly as much as the children. 

  

• Jubilee Great Bellingham Bake Off

  Fri 27 May 2022 Mrs Dummer

  Our GBBO Great Bellingham Bake Off was a huge success with over 40 entries! 

  Cupcakes

  Fairycakes

  Cream Cakes

  Tarts

  School Sprinkles Cakes

  Cookies

  Shortbread

  Victoria Sponges

  Buttercream topped celebration cakes

  Butterscotch (caramel) tarts  

  Our entries came in all shapes and sizes! The judging was incredibly difficult but we managed to choose 12 winners. Congratulations to our winners who received a prize and certificate and thank you and well done to our runners up, your certificates will be presented after the holidays. 

  

• Parent Forum - Diversity and Inclusion

  Tue 10 May 2022

  We had a great parent forum on Friday with a good turn out of parents (we would always like more!). 

   

  Ms Redshaw and Miss Martin talked through the work they have been doing on diversity and inclusion within school and got parents views on how we can better celebrate our diversity and as a school community.

   

  The full presentation can be seen below. If you would like to be involved please use the email address in the presentation.

  

• YELLOW and BLUE Own Clothes Day

  Mon 07 Mar 2022 Mrs Dummer

  The Athelney Primary School Pupil Parliament invite you to #StandwithUkraine by wearing YELLOW and/or BLUE on FRIDAY 11^th March and bringing a donation of £1 or more if you can afford to do so. 

  See Latest Letters for more information on our  Ukraine Fundraiser

• Lewisham Parent and Carer's Forum

  Wed 02 Mar 2022

  The latest newsletter from the Lewisham Parent and Carer's forum, for any parents or carer's of children with additional needs or disabilities.

   

  https://mailchi.mp/03fea214afc1/lpcf-march-events

   

   

   

• Read Aloud Books

  Wed 02 Mar 2022 Nick Simms

  As part of World Book Week, the teachers have been working very hard on a list of books for each year, which will be read aloud to them during the course of the year.

   

  We have put together a document for each year group, which shows the books your children will read. 

   

  If you click on the book it will link to the book on Amazon should you wish to purchase it for your child.

   

  https://www.athelneyprimary.org.uk/read-aloud-spine/

• TECH Holiday Camp

  Wed 02 Feb 2022

  Dear Parents,

   

  We are pleased to announce our Tech Holiday Camps are running on the 14^th – 18^th February 2022 at Goodrich Community Primary School, SE22 0EP.   

    

  We have 5 days of exciting activities to feed the mind of your inquisitive genius following themes:

   

  • Bot Builders and Coders 🤖 – Our popular robot programming course
  • Ingenious Inventors 💡‍– Implement circuitry to make anything from an alarm to a FM Radio!
  • Virtual Reality 👩‍🔬– Engage with your imagination! Learn about the world of virtual reality including motion sensing and video control skills to bring places and characters to life through your headset.
  • Expert Engineers 🚀– Fantastically fun! Discover how to construct and make mechanisms move. 
  • Media Madness 🎬– Have a creative blast, with movie editing and music production

   

  With the world becoming more digital, this is the perfect camp to develop STEM skills and keep your child ahead. Our camps are for ages 5-11 (years 1- 6) only.  Spaces are limited, for more information, please see attached flyer or to enrol now simply visit: https://nextthing.education/product/south-east-london-goodrich-community-primary-school/

     

  Don’t forget to use the code 5FEB for £5 off your booking! 

   

  Safety is our number one priority and we have implemented meticulous procedures at our camps to ensure that children and staff are safe. You can find more about our latest covid measures here.

   

  Kind regards,

  Lauren Gent