Newsletter edition: 34 25th June 2021

Dear School Families,

Thank you to everyone who was able to make our Sports Day on Wednesday and for following the rules to makes sure it was covid safe. We all had a lovely time and it was great to get us altogether, in key stages at least, to celebrate our children and our school.

One of the 800m winners spoke to me afterwards. When I asked what the secret of their success was, they replied:“Passion and courage and never giving up. I’m grateful to all my friends for

their support.”If that doesn’t sum up everything that’s great about Sport Days, I don’t know what is. A special shout out to Mr Barker for organising the day, our school office for sorting out tickets at the last minute and our Trust tech team for setting up the speakers and mic. I am blessed to serve such a wonderful community.

Stay safe and have a lovely weekend. Shelley England sengland@stbarnabasmat.com FAITH . ADVENTURE . TOGETHERNESS

Bring It!

Bring your light to St Martin’s, and we will help it

shine!

Great teams pull together!

Parent Picnics - Weather Dependent MOANA! Collective Worship and Values

Despite the delayed lockdown, we are still going ahead with parent picnics on Fridays

leading up to the end of term. Please check your child’s dates overleaf.

However, our covid risk assessment means we will need to unfortunately adhere to the following:

● We are unable to allow access to toilets (sorry)

● Families must be socially distanced and in their child’s bubble (class) in groups of 30. Staff will need to organise this on

the day - please be patient!● Mobile phones are not to be used on

the premisesChildren can still order a lunch to be collected at

the kitchen, but as other adults are unable to enter school, grown ups will need to bring their own picnic. We’re really sorry you will miss out on

Ann’s fish and chips, but you can always pinch a couple!

Please bring a blanket/something to sit on - we are looking forward to seeing you!

We are looking forward to going out as a whole school to watch Moana at Hillfort playing fields next Wednesday!We will be taking a packed lunch and

enjoying an ice cream before watching the performance and

walking back to school.The trip is covered by our local trip

permission and does not cost anything. However, children will have the chance to buy an ice-cream for

£1, so please send your child with £1 on the day if they would like to buy an

ice cream.We will be back before the end of the

school day at the usual time.

Our overarching Christian value this term is

FAITHIn collective worship this week, we heard the final instalment of the story of Nehemiah. Nehemiah

rallies his people to repair the city wall of Jerusalem, making it safe. However, the people

who lived there before the war, had fled to safety, were afraid to return and the city felt empty. Instead

of feeling fed up and worn out by their work, the Jews set the goal to bring them all back: they

prayed to God, met together to eat and worship and gradually, people were drawn back to the city to

make Jerusalem flourish once more.

Mr Barker’s Rocky Award

Angel in the Wanderers class for showing amazing resilience and determination on sports day to

complete her 400m race.

Dates for Your Diary! Learners of the Week

30th June - Moana

2nd July - Parent Picnic Voyagers &

Buccaneers

9th July - Parent Picnic Wanderers

& Globetrotters

14-16th July- Y6 Camel Valley

Residential Expedition

16th July - Parent Picnic Pioneers &

Pathfinders

16th July - Y4/Y5 Kayak and Canoeing

at Roadford Lake

23rd July - 11am Year Six Leavers’

Service at St Martin’s Church

26th July - Summer Holidays

30th Aug - Summer Bank Holiday

6th Sept - Inset day

7th Sept - Back to School

EYFS: Adventurers Year 1 Explorers Year 2 Voyagers Year 2 & 3 Pioneers

VanessaVanessa is such a bright

shining star in Adventurers’ class. It is

always a joy to see Vanessa’s art work and creations, but this week

Vanessa has been shining in Literacy and

has been discussing her understanding of

sentence structure and completing some beautiful writing.

ScarlettMrs Jackson says

she always tries her best and is ready to learn - even when she finds it difficult. She’s been working really hard to learn

all sounds!

Oakly For his hard work and

perseverance with reading and comprehension skills.

Oakly has made good progress and was able to

achieve great results in his reading quiz this week!

You are a Reading Superstar Oakly!

Jess For outstanding effort in all areas. Jess is always a

fantastic role model and a real shining star in Pioneers. Well done Jess!

Year 3 & 4 Wanderers Year 4 Globetrotters Year 5 Buccaneers Year 6 Pathfinders

Harley CFor fantastic quality in his

talk for writing. Harley has been writing imaginatively using the

toolkit.

Keep up the star work Harley, your writing is

coming on brilliantly and we look forward to reading

your whole story.

LeoBoth myself and Mr Barker thought his

high jump efforts were phenomenal!

His perseverance secured him a

fantastic 3rd place! Well done Leo!

Leona For making superb

progress in reading. She has doubled her PIRA

score and improved her reading age!

OliwierFor his excellent work researching the three

stages of a river. Fantastic research

and presented beautifully!

Great work Oliwier!

Term dates for 2021 - 2022 can be found on

our website Adventurers 90%

Explorers 95%

Voyagers 98%

Pioneers 96%

Wanderers 90%

Globetrotters 95%

Buccaneers 95%

Pathfinders 96%

AttendanceMatters

Every lesson, every day is important and attendance of 96% and over is linked to good progress in school.

This week’s winners are Voyagers class with 98% attendance!