Headteacher Message

Hello all,

I hope you are all well and enjoying the lovely sunshine. Below is a table showing which class teachers will be taking which year group next year.  As you will see there are very few changes. This is to be celebrated. Many schools in the locality have spent the last few weeks frantically trying to recruit for next year.  I am really pleased that we have a settled staff team as I believe it helps with community cohesion and also allows us to consolidate and push forward with the improvements we have made to the school. This is evident in terms of curriculum development.  At the moment if you look at Geography, for example, across the school the format and presentation of information is of a high quality and consistent.  This is so much easier to do with a settled workforce.  Also in very simple terms I think our whole workforce is quite magnificent, and I do not want to lose any of them.

There is, however, one departure to share with you.  Kitty Winfield is leaving us to explore the world and is going travelling.  Kitty has worked here for the past 4 years and has been a positive force for good throughout her time at Darell.  She lives our values on a daily basis and will be greatly missed by staff and pupils.  We wish her all the best on her travels and look forward to hearing about her adventures.     

We are going to let the children know in assembly today, so you can chat about it together this weekend. As this newsletter is being published early can I please urge you to attend our Eco sale at the end of the day.  There will be samples of the products on sale and the opportunity to buy washing up liquid, body wash etc.  We have had an issue with our newly acquired card reader, but we are happy to record your purchase and collect the money from you when it is up and running.  Basically, this means that not having cash will not stop you from purchasing today.

Here is the price list.

Please bare with the Eco-team today.  It is likely to be wonderfully chaotic, and they will learn from the process. The learning is all the more powerful because it is rooted in real life experiences and will get them thinking about supply, demand, sustainability and profit.  

I would like to congratulate all of our Year 6 Borough Sports team who did really well at the recent Borough Sports event.  Their behaviour, effort and execution was superb as you can see below.

Have a lovely weekend and see you smelling fresh next week!

Joe Porter  

Parent Coffee Morning 

Parent Coffee Morning Friday, 23rd June after drop off in the school hall.

Please come along to hear and share ideas to help grow our wonderful school and parent community. I am not mentioning the word PSA, but if you're willing and able to help the school run (small) events or have ideas, we'd love to chat to you. It will be an informal chat in the hall over coffee - I will make sure it's good coffee and may even treat you to some biscuits!!! 

Any questions or if you're interested but can't make that day, please come and see me or drop me an email.

We look forward to seeing you there. 

Mrs Claridge

Communications

Sent Home

• Reception - Y6 -Sports day Information
• Year 3 - Medical Information 
• Year 3 - Kew Gardens Trip
• Year 4 - PSHE Lesson Information
• Year 6 - PE Day Change

Stars of the Week!

Early Years Star of the Week

Wonder Class

Max - for following his fantastic ideas! Max has made a lanyard, and a sheet of aspirational stickers for his peers.

Peake Class

Deniz - for having the confidence to explain his mathematical thinking to his friends. What fantastic progress, Deniz!

Weir Class

Gabriela - for having the confidence to try new things and trying hard to use more spoken English. Well done, Gabriela!

Walker Class

Zion - for trying hard and his enthusiastic learning during phonics sessions. Well done Zion!

KS2 Star of the Week

Newton Class

Patrick - for being resilient in his handwriting and for going into his mainstream class most afternoons this week. Well done Patrick!

Thunberg Class

Chad - for being a responsible learner. Consistently doing the right thing and being an excellent role model to the rest of the class

Darwin Class

Jack - for his continued effort to improve his handwriting and his imaginative and excellent news report in English.

Attenborough Class

Kelise - for her enjoyment in our maths lessons.

Parks Class

Lexi - for their sheer brilliant writing about whether or not zoos should exist

Rashford

Fiach - for his meaningful contributions to class discussions and for always being a kind and polite member of class.