Friday 1st November 2019

Myatt Garden Newsletter Issue 265 www.myattgarden.lewisham.sch.uk

Dates for diary

6/11 Parents’ Evening

4-8pm

7/11 Parents’ Evening

4-6pm

8/11 Year 6 Tower of

London trip

11/11 Anti-bullying week

14/11 Year 5 & 6 Athletics

18/11 INSET DAY

20/11 Year 5 Cinema trip

Horrible Histories

Governors’ Meeting

21/11 Year 4 Science

Museum

International Evening

22/11 Year 5(Pons) trip to

Parliament

26/11Year 5(Damant) trip to

Parliament

28/11 Flu Vaccinations

29/11 FOMG Christmas Fair

4/12 KS1 Maths meeting

5/12 Year 6 National Portrait

Gallery trip

6/12 Vicky Foxcroft MP

visiting Year 6

Our free range playtimes are off to a great start

Playtime makes up 20% of the time that children spend at school, so we

want to make sure that children get every opportunity to build their

physical, emotional, social and intellectual development…. and to have

LOTS of fun while they’re doing it.

Working alongside OPAL, over

the next 12 months, children will

be offered new challenges and

allowed to play with a range of

new equipment and resources. As

we introduce new play items, we

will use play assemblies to talk

through the potential risks, as well

as develop a set of boundaries

agreed with the children so that

they know what they can and can’t do with the

resources available to them.

This week, we introduced tyres, crates and chair

tops. You can see from the photographs how

much fun we had.

We’ll keep you updated as we introduce new

resources and will be inviting all of you to come

and play alongside us on TUESDAY 26th

NOVEMBER from 3:15 to 4pm. Please put the

date in your diary!

You may find that your child is a little

dirtier when they arrive home, but we promise

that the experiences and learning that will have taken place have been

worth the mess. Please let them wear clothes and coats to school that they

are allowed to get dirty.

Huge thanks to the Friends of Myatt Garden for their fabulous support.

You’re helping to make our playtimes amazing!!

Anti-Bullying Week

We will be marking Anti-Bullying week at Myatt Garden (W/B Monday

11th November) in a number of ways - special assemblies, lessons in class

and the launch of our new children’s leaflet on bullying.

We will also be raising awareness by celebrating our

individuality and what makes us all unique with Odd

Socks Day on Tuesday 12th . It’s easy and we’d love

everyone to get involved!

No Idling Banners - PLEASE HELP !!

We are keen to get some banners up outside of the school reminding all

families about the importance of switching off car engines and not idling.

But we need more art work. Can you help us out this weekend? We’re

asking children to paint, crayon or use felt tips to create colourful pictures

of traffic, congestion, pollution, etc. that we can use to fill the letters inside

our message about clean air, avoiding unnecessary car journeys and idling.

A YEAR OF 'FUN' RAISING

The Friends of Myatt Garden needs to raise £20,000 this year, supporting the new Playground Develop-ment Project and educational enrichment activities for all our children. This is £10K more than previous years and we know we can do this together.

See our Friends of Myatt Garden noticeboards for more details.

How You Can Help with our Fun-Raising

The FOMG will hold a number of 'fun' raising events throughout the year. We would love you to come along and enjoy these events. The first date for your calendar is the Christmas Party on 29th Novem-ber, with a Christmas Disco, raffle prizes, treats and food.

Unrivalled Farm Fresh Christmas Trees Delivered Locally

We will be taking orders shortly for our famous Christmas trees, with deliveries in the local area on 30th November and 14th December. They will come direct from our Kent farm to your doorstep, deliv-ered by our very own Christmas Elves. If you have a large car or van and would like to join our elves de-liver trees locally please get in touch.

easyfundraising.org.uk

Do you shop online for anything from insurance, to holidays, clothes or the weekly food shop? Please spend a moment to visit www.easyfundraising.org.uk At no cost to yourselves you will be raising money from over 4,000 shops. It's easy fundraising for Myatt Garden, just add our school name in the search box.

There are so many ways you can pledge your support:

· Volunteer to help before or during one of our events - we always need help · Bake a cake for our Christmas Party and the Summer Fair · Donate chocolates and sweets for our Tombola and drinks for our bar · Are you an entertainer, crafter or just have a flare for fun? Ask how your you can get involved with our events · Match-Funding: If you work for a large business such as a bank, supermarket, or highstreet store, ask your manager if they offer 'Match Funding.' We can provide you with the details. This would mean a donation from that business, when you volunteer some time at one of our events · Run Your own event: from fun-runs, to marathons, yard sales, cakes sales and clothing swaps you can raise money with your friends and families. With donations made directly online with wonderful.org the Friends of Myatt Garden will receive every penny from your effort · Promote your business with the Friends of Myatt Garden; from advertising within our Summer Fair programme, to providing raffle prizes and donating a resource or skill we would love to chat.

Email us at friendsofmyatt@gmail.com , follow us on facebook Fr iends of Myatt Garden or ask to join our Friends of Myatt WhatsApp for regular updates on everything from social events to fundraising.