Headteacher's Message
Welcome back to the new school year.
It has been a great start to the new term. Although it has been very busy, the children have settled in well and walking visitors around the school has been an absolute pleasure for me – I am incredibly proud of them.
Just a reminder that the start time for school is 8.45am. We have been opening the gates at 8.30am to allow children into the playground. From next week we will be opening the gates between 8.35am and 8.40am. Thank you for your support with the new arrangements.
Club News
A huge thank you to all the parents and carers who took the time to fill out our club survey e-form. We received great feedback on the clubs we have already provided and some wonderful ideas about new clubs you would like to see on offer at KG.
We are delighted to announce that a wider range of clubs will return from 27th September. Our survey feedback showed that although the children love our sporting activities, many would like to see more music, dancing, drama and arts and crafts on offer. Look out for our clubs letter and timetable next week announcing our enhanced range of fun activity clubs!
Achievements
Joshua in Year 4’s mum told us that he emptied his money box the other day and asked to buy food for the food bank.
They posted his generosity on their socials and he even got a retweet from Marcus Rashford! Following this he was on BBC Radio:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09v74c7
Well done Joshua from everyone at KG.
New staff
Welcome to: Joana Sousa (Year 1 teacher) who has joined us from a local Lewisham primary school; Emma Davies (reception teaching assistant) who has joined us from a local nursery and Neisha Afflick our new administrative assistant. We are very pleased to have you all on board.
Pupil Record Update
It is vital that we have the correct contact information for you in our school database, so that we can contact you in an emergency and ensure that our school to home communication is successful. It is really easy to check and update your child’s school record using the ‘SIMS Parent’ App or website. Instructions as to how to set up your account are here: https://kelvingrove.lewisham.sch.uk/log-in/sims-parent/
Please make sure that your contact phone numbers and email addresses are correct over the weekend. Thank you in advance.
Medicine in school
It is very important that any medication that your child may need to use while at school must come to the main school office. You will need to complete a consent form HERE so that it can be recorded on your child’s school record and fully labelled up and taken to class. Children who use epi-pens or are asthmatic must also have a full care plan that must be brought in with the medication.
Home School Learning Agreement
On Monday we sent home our updated Home School Learning Agreement. This is an annual agreement between the school, pupils and parents. It sets out how we all work together to achieve the school’s aims for children. You can discuss the agreement further and sign it at your year group curriculum meeting (if you haven’t already), click HERE to read.
Class News
News from Bronze Class
This week Year 6 have been continuing their learning about the Maya. They are thoroughly enjoying the texts ‘Middleworld’ by J & P Voelkel and
News from Blue Class
Blue Class have had a great start to the school year and have settled into our new class routines very quickly! Our topic this term
News from Magenta Class
Magenta class are settling in well into their new classroom and environment. Thank you to all our lovely parents who helped settle their children at
News from Nursery Class
It has been lovely seeing the Nursery children after the summer break. They have returned happy and confident ready to explore and learn with their
News from Coral Class
We are Coral Class! The children have had a very positive start to the new academic year in Year 1. I am impressed with how
News from Saffron Class
The children have made a super start to their time in Saffron Class. They quickly settled into their routines and are working really hard. Our
News from Mint Class
Hello everyone and welcome back! The children have settled in to well to being Juniors. Our topic this term is ‘Camera, Lights, Action’. For our
News from Azure Class
Azure class have only be back for a few days but already have been spotted working well together, being supportive and trying their best to
News from Lavender Class
Wow! What an exciting start to Year 5 and it is only day 2! Yesterday we spent time learning and discussing our new school values
News from Brass Class
Year 6 have had a great first day of school! In the morning, we discussed what our hopes and aspirations are for our final year
Letters sent home
Year 1 Newsletter – 17 09 2021
Reception Newsletter – 17 09 2021
Year 4 Curriculum, Autumn 1 2021
Nethercott Farm, School Journey
Year 3 Curriculum, Autumn 1 2021
Year 2 Curriculum Autumn 1 2021
Year 6 Curriculum Meeting Video
Gold,Blue+Green Curriculum meeting
NHS Height and Weight check
Forest School – Year 1 Group B
Forest School – Year 1 Group A
Year 5 Curriculum – Autumn 1 2021
Y5 African Storytelling Workshop
Year 2 Trip to Horniman Museum
Y6 Curriculum Meeting
Walking home – YRS 5 and 6
Governors' News
From the Governors
Welcome back everyone! We hope that all of our KG families and staff managed to have a good summer, and a successful return to school.
Thank you to all who came along to the Reception Welcome picnic, it was great to see so many new and happy faces!
We are currently setting out our Governance priorities for the new school year, and we will share them with you once they are finalised.
In the short term, we are focusing on getting the Friends of KG (the PTA) restarted, along with the Parent Reps programme. COVID meant that both of these initiatives fell by they wayside somewhat. However, community is the lifeblood of our school, so we are keen to get everything back up and running.
We will also be holding elections for two new Parent Governors in October.
We will be sending out the relevant communication on all of the above in due course, but please do contact us on governors@kelvingrove.lewisham.sch.uk if you want to find out more about how you can get involved.
Community News
Children's Centre
We hope you all had a great summer break. We are running reduced sessions until our new play worker starts, which is very soon. Please see our timetable here: Autumn Term 1 2021
We had some great events over the summer holidays and would like to share some of the photos with you here:
Seaside trip to Westbrook Bay & Summer Fun Day
‘Comedy Special Fundraiser Night’ for KG&EB Community Supermarket. We all had a blast and raised a fantastic £723.20!
https://www.gofundme.com/kgeb-community-supermarket-support
Call 020 8613 0172 and check out our Facebook page ‘Eliot and Kelvin’ for more information.