Issue 48 - 17th November 2014

Together, Achieving, Loving, Learning
Weekly news from The Marist Catholic Primary School
For week beginning 17th November 2014
Issue 48
My quandary was settled at 6.30 last night as I purchased my Superman Onesie to wear today… joy!
It was great to have Tallulah Wright and her Mum speak to us all on Monday in worship about the
difficulties and challenges of living with Type One Diabetes and how wonderful to see everybody today
entering the spirit and wearing their Onesie or super hero outfit and raising much needed funds for
these charities. It has been an exciting week – not just with my costume dilemma – but also a
wonderful celebration of our children’s confidence and enthusiasm in our Concert on Wednesday evening
where 54 children performed – it was great! Good to see a number of parents at our information
meeting on Tuesday too about early writing skills. Another exciting and busy week at The Marist and
next week we move into Anti-Bullying week, a nationwide focus on stamping out bullying in every
school. We will report more on that next week; in the meantime have a super weekend!
anti-Bullying Week
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This week is Anti-bullying week and the whole school will be focussing on how we can recognise
bullying, how we deal with it and how we stop it…
STOP PRESS - Shoeboxes deadline extended till 9am today!
Deadline for PTA Cookbook entries – please see below
Years 5 & 6 Primary Maths Challenge
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3.00pm new Parent Volunteers’ meeting with Mr Lewin
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Mufti Day – Please bring in a toy for the children’s tombola at the Christmas Fair
Open Morning for prospective parents with children hoping to start at the Marist in September
2015 or later
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St Cecila’s class are attending Mass at Our Lady’s, parents are invited to join the class at Church for
9.30am Mass
Open afternoon - all parents welcome to come into school and have a look around your child’s
class and see what they have been up to since half term.
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 Mufti Day – Please bring in some chocolate for the children’s tombola
 PTA Pamper evening
 St Andrew’s class attending Mass at 9.30 at Our Lady’s – class parents please do join them for
Mass.
 Christmas Fayre at the Parish Centre, 12.00 – 3.00pm
In the week before half term we put our normal timetable aside to concentrate on learning more
about World War I and as part of our learning every child in the school made a poppy – cutting and
sewing material to make a unique poppy in remembrance of those that lost their lives. Mrs Brewer
(Amiya’s grandmother) spent her half term sewing all of our poppies together to create The Marist
Remembers, our own memorial to all those that have lost their lives in the service of our country
and its freedoms. On Tuesday, Armistice Day, the wonderful memorial was presented to the
children and we stood as a whole school community at 11.00 in absolute silence as we
remembered.
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For children in Year 3 and above…
If you would like your child to celebrate their First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion in the
Parish next year then please ensure that you complete a joining form which will be available at this
weekend’s Masses at Our Lady’s. The forms will be in the porch at Mass times. The First Reconciliations
will be held in Lent next year and the First Holy Communions will be celebrated in Masses close to
Corpus Christi.
Marist PTA news
The next PTA meeting is
TUESDAY DECEMBER 2nd
PLEASE COME ALONG!
Follow the link below to an e-safety newsletter for parents which we will link to each month and which
contains really helpful advice and tips for dealing with safety at home. Your children will all have esafety lessons in their computing lessons but increasingly the issues that arise centre around their
access to and use of messaging sites from home
http://www.esafety-adviser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Parents-Online-Safety-NewsletterEdition-7.pdf
What a fantastic evening we shared on Wednesday with over 50 confident and enthusiastic
budding musicians and singers. I was so proud of every one and I know that you must have
been too if you were there. Huge thanks to all our stars for their efforts, they set a great
example as Marist Learners, and we saw just the start of what I know is going to be a very
successful journey in music at The Marist! Thanks to Mrs Mather for all her hard work
encouraging, rehearsing and organising! Thank you too to everyone who donated to our
retiring collection for
We will be sending over £130 to help their
invaluable work with children around the world.
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A MARIST LEARNER IS...
Always ready to learn
Enthusiastic, willing to take part and
speak up
A risk taker - always confident to
have a go
Happy to try and try again
Not afraid to learn from mistakes
Thinking about what it is to be a good learner:
A MARIST LEARNER is…
Able to learn well with others
it’s about being the best that you can be!
Working together as part of a team or collaborating is a key
learning skill. It can take a lot of patience and empathy as well as a
willingness to speak up and take part. There are so many different
life skills involved and all of the Marist Learner traits are important
to the dynamics of group work. Some children (and adults!) can
prefer to work alone, can feel that they get more done when left to
it and that in itself is a learning habit that is vital (able to learn well
on their own). However, in all areas of life we do have to work at
times in groups and with others and often with peers that we
would not naturally choose to be with. It is important that the
children develop the ability to learn effectively in those situations:
to respect the opinions and ideas of others; to be confident to
share their own ideas; to be able to deal with disagreement; and to
be able to focus on the job in hand – the learning – and not be
side-tracked by distracting conversations or other diversions!
Able to learn well on their own
Collaboration when it works well can lead to accelerated learning,
each member of the group working off each other, feeding on the
shared ideas and strategies and getting to the learning objective
more quickly together. However, it is a discipline which we need to
teach our children – making the most of the opportunities for
learning together when they present themselves.
Reflective - able to think and talk
about our learning
Please help us by reinforcing the message at home – talking to the
children about working together and how to deal with distractions
and disputes but also the importance of sharing ideas and
questions with each other.
Able to learn well with others
Able to
learn
well
with
others
 We take part in
group activities
 We can share
independently
 We are
beginning to
resolve
questions and
disputes
independently
 We always help
our friends
 We set a good
example for
others to follow
 We are able to
work with our
talk partners to
help our
learning
 We are happy to
work with
everyone
 We are always
tolerant of
others
 We encourage
each other
 We can take
turns
 We listen to
each other
 We are always
positive towards
each other
 We take turns
 We respect each
other’s opinions
 We can
cooperate and
compromise
with each other
when learning
together
 We are able to
keep focussed
on the given
task
 We will always
take part and
share the
responsibility
within a group
 We are able to
stay on task
 We respect and
value each
other’s ideas
 We recognise
the value of
cooperation
with others
 We recognise
the importance
of compromise
as well as
determination
 We are able to
delegate roles
and adapt roles
as required by
the challenge
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I am so very proud of how much our children want to help
others. Pupil Voice has been leading the way with ideas for
raising money for charities and causes that matter to them as
the children at our school.
Already this year the children have raised over £1,000 for
various causes including today’s great effort for Children in
Need and Diabetes Type Onesie Day. In addition we donated
carloads of foodstuffs for distribution locally at our Harvest
celebrations and the Hall has a wall of Christmas shoeboxes for
the Samaritan’s Purse charity – well over 130 boxes full of small
gifts that will make all the difference in the lives of so many
children this Christmas – thank you all…
The shoebox deadline has been extended until Monday 17th
November and so if you haven’t already sent a box in, then
please,
make
a
child
very,
very,
happy,
this
Christmas!
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Fish Friday
Main Course
Quorn Balls in
Tomato Sauce
with Spaghetti
Reggae Reggae
Chicken with
Couscous
Roast Pork with
Gravy, Apple
Sauce and Roast
Potatoes
Chilli Beef with
Rice
Baked Fish with
Country Style
Potatoes
Vegetarian
Option
Cheese & Onion
Pasty with
Mashed Potato
& Homemade
Tomato sauce
Marguerita Pizza
Country Bake
with Roast
Tomatoes
Macaroni
Cheese with
Herby Bread
Vegetarian Stack
with Country
Style Potatoes
Vegetables
Peas
Roasted
Summer
Vegetables
Sweetcorn
Coleslaw
Cabbage Carrots
Mixed
Vegetables
Broccoli
Peas Green
Beans
Dessert
Chocolate and
Orange Sponge
with Chocolate
Sauce
(V)
Yoghurt
(V)
Vanilla &
Raspberry Ripple
Ice Cream
Sponge Roll (V)
Fruit Salad with
a Mini
Shortbread
Biscuit
(V)
Lemon Feather
Sponge and
Custard
(V)
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Well done to our new Year 5 and 6 football squad who sent a team out last night against Ripley
Primary school and won the match 2-0 with both goals scored by Tom Croxford! Matches have been
arranged with Pyrford and many other schools for the coming weeks, so watch this space!
Well done to last night’s players: James Butler, Joseph Stewart, Joe Cipullo, Marco Cipullo,
Tom Croxford, Leo Cook, Matty Cook, Massimo Grosso, Robert French, Christian Fuoco,
Joe Comer and Joseph O’Driscoll
Contacting the School…
[email protected] (Mrs Morreale or Mrs Kassir) to report:
J Absences – or use the absence line to report: 01932 339150
J Lates
J Dinner money queries
J Medical appointments and Breakfast and After School Club bookings and enquiries
[email protected] (Mrs Wort) for:
J Admissions enquiries
J Data changes (eg reporting a change of address etc)
[email protected] (Mrs Vaughan) for:
J ParentPay enquiries or help
[email protected] (Mrs Duckham) for:
J The buildings and Health and safety/premises issues
J Information about the School’s Travel Plan and car share scheme
[email protected] for Mr Lewin
School website: www.marist.surrey.sch.uk
School VLE: www.surreymle.org.uk
Parish website: www.ourladyswb.org
The following items have been with the office for some weeks now
and if they are unclaimed will be disposed of. Please can you check
with your child if they have lost these items: Toy Phone from Build a Bear workshop
 Pokemon Game for Nintendo 3DS
 Sealife Lanyard with a house key
 Bike lock key on a red clip
 House key, no chain
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A proof of our school cookbook is currently available to view on the website alongside this
edition of the Marist Mail.
If you have not had time to include a recipe, but really want to then you have this
weekend to still be included! Go to http://www.thecookbookinitiative.com/se and enter in
the access code: X089234067. Please include your child’s name on any paper recipe
submitted.
Tickets are £5 in advance or £6 on the door. Ticket includes a glass of wine and are on sale
now via class reps or directly from Laura Farruggio. Browse the stalls, have a treatment and
enjoy our fashion show! See you there!
The Christmas Fayre will be held at Our Lady’s parish centre on Saturday 29 November
12pm – 3pm. Each year group have a stall so please do sign up for a 30 minute slot to
help out. We are running two mufti days to support this event where children can come
in their own clothes:
- Thursday 20th November – in exchange for a new small toy
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Thursday 27th November – in exchange for chocolate
- please return all stubs and monies in the envelope
provided, marked Raffle Tickets and post through school post box no later than
Wednesday 26th November
You can contact us via email for any PTA query at all, be it Marist200, PTA meetings,
theatre tickets, cake sales, new ideas etc. [email protected]
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