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‘Mayflower Primary School ensures children learn in a safe, caring and enriching environment. Children are taught how to keep themselves safe, to develop positive and healthy relationships, how to avoid situations where they might be at risk including by being exploited.’
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Friday 5th April 2019
TERM DATES 2018/19
School closes: Friday 12th April School opens: Monday 29th April
School closes: Friday 3rd May School opens: Tuesday 7th May
School closes: Friday 24th May School opens: Monday 3rd June
School closes: Friday 12th July School opens: Thursday 29th August
School closes: Friday 11th October School opens: Monday 21st October
ATTENDANCE
Mayflower School’s attendance target for the Academic year 2018/19 has been set
once again at 95.2%+. Having received paperwork from the Local Authority, I am
pleased to inform parents’ that we did just meet our target last year, but I am hoping
that we can all work really hard to improve it for this academic year.
At present, our attendance at 28/03/2019 stands at: 96.1%, which includes the
Nursery. If we exclude the Nursery, it stands at 97%. We are still maintaining a good
level of attendance at present, and I hope that you will help us to improve this further
by sending your children to school every day.
Class attendance figures for March 2019 were:
7th March 14th March 21st March 28th March
F1 AM 90% 90.8% 95.4% 90.8%
F1 PM 90.8% 83.8% 92.3% 97.7%
LA 92.3% 94.7% 97.3% 99.3%
AK 93.3% 95.3%% 98% 98%
AB 96% 97.2% 96.6% 97.9%
KM 98.1% 100% 96.1% 97.4%
RMC 97.6% 96.2% 93.8% 94.1%
AJ 96.1% 98.7% 97.1% 99%
PA 94.3% 91.7% 97.7% 98%
LG 99.3% 96.7% 97.7% 96.7%
KW 96.3% 96% 96.7% 96%
CR 99.4% 98.1% 96.1% 99%
PV 96.3% 93.3% 98% 98.3%
SD 95.3% 94.3% 97% 96.6%
RC 99% 97.6% 97.1% 95.2%
CS 100% 98.5% 98% 95.5%
BW 96.7% 99% 100% 98.6%
Our trophy winners for March were:
Foundation Key Stage 1 Lower
Key Stage 2
Upper
Key Stage 2
7th March AK KM CR CS 14th March AK KM CR BW 21st March AK AJ PA/LG BW 28th March LA AJ CR BW
Congratulations to all of these classes for their fantastic achievement of winning the
trophies in March.
SINGING TROPHY
The singing trophy for March is going to our afternoon
Nursery children who are fantastic and join in with
enthusiasm and joy every week. Well done.
COMIC RELIEF
Once again thank you to all our Parent’s, Children and Staff
for a great day, great costumes and great jokes.
You managed to raise a magnificent £305.52.
NURSERY PLACES (F1)
If you have got children at home who turn 3 years old before the end of August 2019, and
you would like them to attend Mayflower Nursery, can you please come into school and put
their name down on our Nursery Waiting List. Many thanks.
LIVING STREETS – WALK TO SCHOOL
Thank you to all our families who are making the effort to walk, scoot or park and stride
into school in order to earn the monthly badges.
Class of the Month: January 3PA February 6RC
If you can’t walk all the way to school, please try and make
the effort to park and stride instead.
This involves parking a few minutes’ walk away from school
and will help make the approach to school much safer and
nicer for everyone travelling in.
Please avoid parking on the pavements, zig-zag lines, over
junctions at which families are trying to cross and away
from the sections of road marked on the map with a red
cross.
WORLD BOOK DAY
We had a wonderful day celebrating reading and enjoying stories from around the world.
Thank you to all our families who put so much effort into the wonderful costumes.
TOY SALE
A huge thank you to our families who supported our fundraising efforts at the Toy Sale.
SCIENCE WEEK
We had a fantastic Science
Week in March looking at
Science Through Stories and
we’ve made a short video
sharing all of the different
activities which the classes
undertook.
Some of our Year 6 children
also demonstrated some
fantastic experiments from
their Science Club.
VISITORS
International Visitors
We have had many visitors from many different countries in school during February and
March. We have had teachers from Panama who were studying at the University of
Leicester visit us for one day.
Three lovely teachers from Guadalajara in Spain have been in school on an Erasmus Plus
KA1 Job Shadowing week. We have been listening to and learning with each other all week,
and are all working hard to be the most effective teachers we can be.
Also, our old friend Sandrine Rose from France visited us for a KA1 Job Shadowing week
where she was particularly interested in looking at how we have developed our yoga and
mindfulness provision in school.
Leicester City of Sanctuary
Year 6 invited Tess Newman, who works with Leicester
City of Sanctuary, and Jaffor, a user of the services they
provide, in to speak to the pupils about refugees and the
asylum process.
This was to support the learning the children were doing
in response to a book they were studying in English - “A
Story Like the Wind” by Gill Lewis.
The children showed real respect, understanding and
compassion and were a real credit to the school.
Rev. Dr. Tom Wilson – Living Well Together Project
Year 5 are once again this year engaging with this fantastic project to help us develop our
skills and understanding around living successfully in a multi-cultural, multi-faith
environment. The Rev. Dr. Tom Wilson came into school to launch the project and to start
getting the children to consider the issues we would be thinking about.
Creative Learning Services - Wild Things Workshop
Year 4 had a whole load of fun exploring the natural world with some exciting activities.
Cricket Coach from Leicestershire Country Cricket Club
We have had a lively assembly, some great
cricket sessions and a very popular after-
school cricket club with Sam, our LCCC
coach.
He has shared some really important life
messages, as well as cricketing skills:
#WinWellLooseWell
#PlayAsATeam
#HaveAGo
#RespectOthers
#PlayHardButPlayFair
Alexander Whitley Dance Company
Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed their Dance and Space
Workshop delivered by professional dancers from the
Alexander Whitley Dance Company and linking to their
science topic of Space.
Our visitors were hugely impressed by our children’s
science knowledge and loved how the children threw
themselves into creating their orbital dances.
John Rolfe CBE, British Council
Huge thanks to Mr Rolfe from the British Council for coming all the way from London to
help us celebrate being awarded our Second International School Award. For once, it was
the teachers’ turn to receive certificates for all their hard work!
Do please enjoy this video which explains the activities the school had to undertake in
order to achieve the award: https://youtu.be/X4jpvt1aoP4
Claire Williamson – Stained Glass Window Artist
We are planning some exciting projects with Claire as part of the 800th anniversary
celebrations of St Denys Church in Evington! Watch this space!
Creative Learning Services – The Gift of the Gods (Egypt)
Thank you to CLS for their fascinating morning in Year 3 exploring all things Egyptian!
Creative Learning Services – Dinosaur Discover workshop
Another amazing workshop for our younger children who thoroughly enjoyed discovering
dinosaurs!
Our Local PCSO Phil visited Reception
SCHOOL VISITS
Year 4 - Author Week
What a wonderful opportunity to be inspired by authors to get reading!
Year 3 – Local History and Evington House walk
Huge thanks to Ismail Dale from Historic England whose knowledge and enthusiasm about
local history cannot help but rub off on our children and staff!
Year 5 – National Holocaust Centre
On 21st and 22nd March, 180 pupils in year five from three Leicester schools visited the
National Holocaust Centre. The visits were part of the Living Well Together project
funded by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire Police.
Pupils learnt from the experiences of a ten year old German Jewish boy and heard the
testimony of a Holocaust Survivor. It was a memorable and moving day that enabled
pupils continue learning how to live well together.
https://www.stphilipscentre.co.uk/news/visits-to-the-national-holocaust-centre
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY
Erasmus Plus KA2 – Thinking Allowed
Miss Brown and Mrs Boydon travelled to Finland during February half term for our termly
project meeting where plans were made for the next phase of our work together.
Staff CPD
We were delighted to be able to send four members of staff to Oulu in Finland for a KA1
Course – Do Joy. As more teachers and teaching assistants travel to visit schools in other
countries, we can develop our own practice taking the best of what we see and embedding
it into our teaching at Mayflower.
We were also able to send two teachers on a KA1 Stress Management course in Spain and
they will be sharing their learning with the staff to promote well-being for all at Mayflower.
eTwinning – Hands of the World
Mayflower has a number of ongoing eTwinning projects
running throughout the year. One of them, Hands of the
World, started in January and is bringing lots of joy to
lots of people in lots and lots of different countries.
Each month a song is released and schools from around
the world are assigned a line. Each school learns the
Makaton sing language for the line of the song and videos
their children signing it. This short video clip is send to
the project co-ordinator and she knits all the videos
together to make one video that includes many hands
from around the world. Our song for March was “I’d Like
to Teach the World to Sing”. We hope you enjoy it.
PE
Gymnastics Competition
Gymnastics Final
Year 2 Festival
KS2 Cross Country Running
Year 3 and 4 Tag Rugby
Year 5 and 6 QuickSticks Hockey
Year 5 7-a-side Football
Year 5 and 6 Hi 5 Netball League
Year 5 and 6 Hi 5 Netball League
Year 3 and 4 7-a-side Football
Year 3 and 4 7-a-side Football
COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS
From the 1st April we will be sending out most of our correspondence to parents via email.
If you have not let us have your email address yet, please come into school and complete
a permission form.
SCHOOL DINNERS
From 29th April you will be able to pay for your children’s lunches online and this will work
in the same way as paying for school visits. You should have already received a letter
informing you of this via email, and we will also be sending hard copies. If you have any
questions please do not hesitate to call the school office
Our primary intention is to make this process easier for you and bring school lunches into
line with the rest of our financial procedures. Needless to say, if this does create any
difficulties for you, please let us know, because we would like to ensure that as many
children as possible have hot meals at school.
AND FINALLY…
School does seem to be very busy at the moment and I always see this as a very good
thing. When we step-back and look at the range of different opportunities that have
been created for our children, it makes me feel very proud indeed. I hope that our
newsletter gives some real insight as to what does happen in school and that your
children provide you with plenty of positive feedback, as a result.
This month, I would like to make my primary focus governors. As many of you will know,
all schools have a Governing Body, and they will have a very close involvement with what is
known as the strategic management of the school. I am a governor, and so is Mrs.
Boydon, but we also have other people who fulfil this role, including parents, Local
Authority nominated governors and people that have been co-opted into their roles. Few
schools make good progress without challenge and support from their governors and I am
indebted to the governors at our school, who have worked so hard on our behalf.
As with the leadership team of the school, there is also a structure across our Governing
Body. They are led by a Chair, supported by a Vice-Chair, with committees that look at
lots of different aspects of our work. The main purpose of my commentary is to inform
you that new governors have been elected to these important roles, as follows:
Chair of the Governing Body: Mrs. Yasmin Nana
Vice Chair of the Governing Body: Mr. Imtiaz Patel
Over the coming weeks, months, terms and years, I shall look forward to working closely
with all of our governors as we continue to make Mayflower School the very best that it
can be for all of our pupils. In the meantime, I would like to congratulate Mrs. Nana and
Mr. Patel on their appointments at this exciting time in our very special school’s
development.
To finish, I would like to thank you all for the care and sensitivity with which you have
broached the very challenging subject of RSE. I certainly seem to have received some
positive feedback from you regarding our school’s consultative process and a number of
you have already committed to our open evening, which will take place in the summer
term. As with the letter I published earlier this week, I wish to offer my assurance that
we will be working closely with you to develop provision that is right for our children, our
communities, and that is supportive of the Unique British Values that all state schools
have a duty to uphold. By working together in this way, I feel confident that we will be
able to achieve a successful outcome, and to this I shall look forward. All that now
remains is for me to wish you all, on behalf of the children, staff and governors, a very
restful Easter. Please remember that school closes at 3.15 on 12.04.19, and reopens to
pupils at 8.35 on 29.04.19.
Mr. L. Whitney – Head Teacher
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