Head of Academy Update

NOVEMBER 2018 NEWSLETTER ALL SAINTS MARSH C OF E

ACADEMY

Together we empower excellence

Dear Parents and Carers What a fabulous start to the half term we have had! The children have been busy learning in their classrooms and immersing themselves in their new topics. Bradley class have been learning all about the Great Fire of London and creating amazing home learning projects. Forde class have been listening to stories and acting them out on in their new theatre role play area and KS2 have all been deepening their understanding of world religions. Each classroom has a real buzz about it and the children are all so excited about their learning. With Christmas fast approaching there are lots of events and exciting things happening for the rest of the term. There is a list of dates at the end of this newsletter, please put these in your diary and keep an eye out for letters with more details on! In particular, we are looking forward to our joint Pantomime trip with Dunsford Academy on the 12th Decem-ber. Our amazing PTFA have funded the theatre tickets for this trip but please ensure that you pay for your child’s coach travel and send the permission form back to school asap. We are thrilled by the number of parents who are keen to come and have a look around All Saints Marsh with a view to applying for a Reception place in 2019. If you know anyone who is interested in one of these places, please ask them to phone the office and make an appointment with me to have a tour of the school and see our lovely children in action. Regards, Miss Garside

Head of Academy

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PE and Sport

We have had a really busy few weeks with our Tag Rugby, the children have really enjoyed taking part in the competitions and learning new skills. KS2 have enjoyed their time with Mrs Stanley from Spires and have been participating in tag rugby and hockey. KS1 have bee spending time with Mr Patchett, from Newton Abbot College and enjoying their indoor PE sessions. Premier Sport have been working on our ‘Well Being’ with KS2 every Friday and they will be doing the same with KS1 next term. Some of our KS2 children met Cricket super star Marcus Trescothick. At the REC just before half term. They asked him lots of questions and found out how you become an international sporting superstar!!

Collective Worship

Our new value, compassion, has been a great one to explore as it is part

of our six school values. In Family groups, we have looked at times when

Jesus showed compassion to the people around him. While examining

his actions and the impact they have on his followers, we thought of

ways that we could show compassion to the people around us. These

involve situations where we need to be kind when it matters the most,

especially when it is difficult to do so.

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This month, Templar began their Judaism topic, which started off with each child carrying out personal research. This formed a class discussion point, where we explored meaning behind new words, while discussing the facts surrounding this world religion. In class, we will continue our learning by focusing on Jewish celebrations as we look at how they differ from Christianity and other religions that we have learnt.

Courtenay Class

Courtenay class learnt about the centenary of the WW1 Armistice and

designed some poignant artwork which they displayed at the church. They

found out about the significance of the poppy, and then created their piece

of artwork including a landscape with poppies. The Year 4 children also

spent time practising their readings for our church

remembrance service.

Templar Class

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Forde Class

We have been so busy this term with our learning! We have started our new topic of ‘Tell me a Story’ and started to retell different stories! We even acted some stories out and dressed up! We have been also been creating our own story characters. We made some for our home learning. We have also been creating our own poppies for Remembrance day. We made sure we took our time and decorated them neatly.

Bradley Class

Bradley class absolutely love their new topic ‘The Great Fire of London’ and this love has been exemplified by their fantastic home-learning. Within class, we have spent time understanding the historic events of 2nd September 1666 and the children have been sequencing and retelling the events through role play and writing. We have also used the fire as inspiration for descriptive writing. The children have been thinking about adjectives to describe the colours, movements and sounds of fire and then used these to build and write a short descriptive paragraph.

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Breakfast and After School Club

We are really excited to be able to offer our fun breakfast and after school clubs! Breakfast club starts at 8.00am and is a perfect way to start the day. The children can choose their own breakfast with toast, cereal, brioche and fresh fruit on offer. Children can relax or select from the many activities before they start their day.

After school club runs from 3—6pm. We offer a variety of snacks ranging from wraps, sandwiches with a choice of fillings, salad, fresh fruit and yoghurts. Children can partake in lots of fun activities including arts and crafts, good old fashioned board games, computer games and seasonal activities. They also have access to the outside area to play.

We have had some wonderful feedback from our children…...

Family Support at All Saints Marsh Hello! My name is Miss Cavanna and I am the Family Support Worker for All Saints Marsh. My role in school is to provide support, advice and information to the families within our school community. I can help you with any worries that you may have in relation to your child's education, behaviour and wellbeing. I am also here as someone to talk to if you need it! I can meet with you at home or in school at a time to suit yourself. Advice and support is confidential although concerns relating to the safeguarding of children will always be dealt with in accordance with the school's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. I may not have all the answers, but hopefully I can help you to work out how to find them. How to get in touch: I will be in school every Thursday, if you would like to make an appointment please contact the school office on 01626 365293 to make an appointment or pop in and I will be happy to see you as soon as I can.

I get to see my friends and have

lots of fun!

We get lovely food and we play different activities

If you would like to book either breakfast or after school club, please log onto School Money and register. Please note you need to register 24 hours in advance of any ses-sion you wish to book. Some of our sessions are fully booked already! If you have problems logging on, please speak to the office.

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The new PTFA would like to introduce themselves to you all!

The President: Miss Garside

Chairman: Miss Liz Journeaux

Vice Chairman: Mrs Kelly Wagstaff

Treasurer: Mrs Ellie Brooker

Secretary: Miss Katie Steele

The members of the PTFA are extremely proud to be representing their school community. This year and want to make themselves as accessible to all, so please feel free to come and have a chat with them, they would love to speak to you!

The aim of the PTFA is to bring the school community closer together by raising money for the children via disco’s, fetes, mufti days and lots more! The PTFA cannot exist without the support of the parents and helpers. If you would like to help, please let us know.

There is currently a donation box in the conservatory for the upcoming fete...please feel free to drop in any good quality toys, books, unwanted school uniform etc.

Event Dates:

Mufti Day Bring a Bottle Friday 30th November

PTFA Christmas Decorations Friday 30th November (pm)

Christmas Fete Thursday 6th December

Christmas Pantomime Wednesday 12th December

Christmas Disco Monday 17th December KS1 (4pm—4.45pm),

KS2 (5- 6pm)

As always, best wishes

The PTFA of All Saints Marsh Academy

There will be a special guest appearing at the Christmas Fete!!!

WATCH THIS SPACE!!

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Harvest

A HUGE thank you to everyone, look at the fantastic selection of food items we have collected for the Teignbridge Foodbank.

Not to forget the fabulous selection of creative

Macmillan Cake Sale

We raised an amazing £134.48 for Macmillan at our cake sale. Well done everyone.

Children In Need

Operation Christmas Child

Thank you to all those who packed and decorated their Christmas shoe box’s. This will make a huge difference to child’s Christmas experience.

A huge thank you for all your donations for Children In Need we

raised a super £250!

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Staff News

We are sorry to say that Mrs Facey is heading off to pastures new. Mrs Facey started at All Saints Marsh as a parent volunteer in 1995 and as a member of staff since 2004! Jean has been a val-ued member of staff and has brought a lot to the school. Her smi-ley face and friendly voice on the end of a phone will be sorely missed. I am sure you will all join me in wishing Mrs Facey all the best in the future.

We are pleased to welcome back Mrs Webber, as Senior Administrator to ASM. The office will have administration cover between 8.30—3pm on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays and 8.30—1 on Tuesday and Thursday’s. If enquiries could be made between these hours, it would be very much appreciated. Mrs Webber is more than happy for you to pop in before school pick up if you have an administrative issue you would like to talk about.

Site Supervisor (Ellacombe C of E Academy)

- £9.16 - £9.68 per hour

Required ASAP 35 hours per week, all year round (based at Ellacombe C of E Academy). We are looking for an outstanding Site Supervisor who is passionate about providing an exceptional service with a ‘can do’ attitude to join our vibrant Premises Team.

Closing date for this role is: Monday 26th November 2018 (09:00 hrs).

For further details and an application pack please refer to www.lapsw.co.uk

Staff Vacancies

Coming Soon!......New App!

We are very excited to be launching a new mobile ‘app’ shortly which enables you to:

* Keep up to date with your child’s attendance

* View key dates

* Access latest News and lots more!

WATCH THIS SPACE!

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All Saints Marsh C of E Academy

Osborne Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2DJ

01626 365293 allsaints@lapsw.org www.allsaints-marsh.devon.sch.uk @ASMLAP

Dates for Your Diary

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DECEMBER

6th December—Christmas Fete (PM)

12 December Whole School Pantomime Trip

12 December Lantern Parade (6 - 7.30pm) Evening

Year 5—Time to be confirmed)

13 December Nativity 10.00am and 1.45pm at St

Paul’s Church

14 December Christmas Jumper Day—Whole

School

17 December Christmas Disco KS1 4—4.45pm, KS2

5 –6pm.

21st December Carol Service 1.45pm at St Paul’s

Church.

2019

7 January—Start of Summer Term

New Church of England Academy for Paignton

You may have seen recently an article in the Herald Express regarding a proposal by the Learning Academy Partnership to open a brand new ‘Free School’ in Paignton at the site which was left derelict since the Element School (former Tower House site) closed in December 2017.

As part of the Trust we are thrilled to be able to advise all our parents that we have now received a provisional opening date for a brand new Church of England Academy and Nursery. The new academy will be called ‘St Michael's Church of England Academy. The site will undergo a multi million pound refurbishment and will open its doors to nursery and reception children in September 2020.

Mrs Atkinson, Chief Executive of our Trust has said ‘ I am delighted that we are going to have the opportunity to work with the community in Paignton to offer an exceptional education rooted in Church of England values. St Michael’s Church of England Academy will be part of the Learning Academy Partnership family of schools, benefiting from the resources and staff expertise from across the Trust and with the same high expectations that delivers excellent educational outcomes for all our children.’

NOVEMBER

23 November—Voluntary donations for Panto due

30 November—Mufti Bring a Bottle Day

30 November—PFTA Christmas Decorations (PM)

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Term Dates 2018 / 2019

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Autumn Term 2018 Ends: 21 December 2018

Spring Term 2019 Start: 7 January 2019 Half Term: 18 – 22 February 2019 Ends: 4 April 2019

Please note 5th April is an additional Non Pupil Day.

Summer Term 2019 Start: 23 April 2019 Bank Holiday: 6 May 2019 Half Term: 27 May – 31 May 2019 Non Pupil Days: 3 June – 7 June 2019 Ends: 23 July 2019

The Head of Academy may not grant any leave of absence during

term time unless there are exceptional circumstances.

All requests for a child to be absent from school during term time must be made in writing at least a half term in advance of the proposed absence by completing the absence request form obtainable from the Academy office.

Please call into the Academy Office if you would like to discuss your child’s attendance or any aspect of absences.