If you are listed as your child/ren's primary guardian and you have yet to logon to the Arbor Parent Portal, or download the app to your device, do visit our website page to find out how: Information on Arbor Parent Portal.
This week, we all ran amazingly in Southwark Park on Sunday (details below); Y2 continued their PE sessions with Surrey Cricket team, a group of Y6 children took part in their online Scholar’s Programme launch; library and music lessons all continued and children have had a super time in school, producing some amazing RE learning in particular. Very well done to them all! Our Collective Worship theme this week focused on the Parables and Teachings of Jesus – this theme will continue until Autumn half term.
Please see our newsletter in full (which includes lots of half term information) attached below together with an updated diary sheet and some information flyers.
Wishing you, along with our whole community, a lovely weekend!
God bless, from the St. James’ team
Another busy week at St James' with a mix of activities to match the mixture of weathers we have been enjoying! Y2 continued their PE sessions with Surrey Cricket team; a group of KS2 girls attended a Capoeira workshop; Y4 children took part in ‘Dove Day’ positive body image workshops and we're very happy to support the YoungMinds charity today by wearing yellow to school – many thanks for your donations for this! All children continue with library visits, performing arts and music lessons. Please do keep checking the updated Dates for your Diaries sheet attached below. Production dates are all set and events will continue to be added and updated as we receive confirmation of trips and other events. Also attached below is notification of a new parent gym course starting soon as well as information regarding flu immunisation.
Finally, we are excited to see as many of you as possible at Southwark Park running track this Sunday (13th October) to run and/or support Canada Water’s ‘Run Kids Run’ 2km Challenge. We are raising money to continue our work improving our outside spaces to benefit our children. Full information is in the newsletter attached below. You can make a contribution and leave a message of support on our JustGiving page. For all the information you need and to sign up just click the link: https://runkidsrun.org/can. Good luck to all our participants!
Our Collective Worship theme this week focused on the Parables and Teachings of Jesus – this theme will continue until Autumn half term.
Wishing you, along with our whole community, a great weekend!
God bless, from the St. James’ team.
The Children's Commissioner has signposted a wealth of resources for families to access who have children either starting primary or secondary school, everything from what to expect to what to have for lunch! Do take a look, the links are from the BBC Bitesize website and are also listed below. The CC website also has lots of information regarding the wellbeing of children and is worth a look.
There is also information for children moving up to secondary school regarding internet safety and getting your first mobile phone; click on this Moving On link to see some useful videos, as well as the flyers attached at the bottom of this page.
Once again, we signpost our families to our Safeguarding pages on this website including our Safer Internet Day which is celebrated every February to highlight the pleasures as well as pitfalls of internet use. Where to go for advice? Who to contact if you are worried about internet use in your family or by something you have seen?
Families shopping online and also considering buying devices for their children should consider the advantages as well as pitfalls. It is always useful to get some topical advice before you buy so here are some top tips to guide you.
The National Cyber Security Centre has a page giving advice on how to shop securely online, https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/shopping-online-securely. Here is a short video giving an idea of the topics covered:
They also offer a range of advice to protect you and your families as well as information on what to do if you are hacked or have a cybersecurity issue:
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/information-for/individuals-families
Childnet provide some valuable ideas around digital wellbeing:
https://www.childnet.com/blog/how-you-can-look-after-your-childs-digital-wellbeing-this-christmas/
Get Safe Online covers a vast array of safeguarding issues and advice, broken down by subject and by age range: https://www.getsafeonline.org/personal/article-category/safeguarding-children/
Children's Tech guide 2023 and also Setting up Tech safely for children
are both useful links from internetmatters.org
We would like to take this opportunity to introduce the Evelina London School Nursing Service. If you are a parent/carer of a child(ren) at school and are worried about your child’s health and wellbeing, school nurses are here to help. We work in teams across Southwark and Lambeth and you can contact us for confidential advice and support on a wide range of issues. Please see our flyer attached below for further details of the services we can offer.
Please let us know if your child has medical or physical and/or emotional health needs for which they need support. You can text a school nurse on 07520 631130.
