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7th July 2023 Newsletter – Non-uniform next week, Breakfast Club Changes and more
Non-uniform and Basingstoke Culture Day
On Friday 14th July, we are celebrating cultures and countries represented at St Mark’s and in Basingstoke. Your child can wear clothes with colours that represent a country you have links to (including the UK!). They’ll be doing a range of activities across the day, too. We ask for a donation of 50p to cover costs. The children will all recieve a special ‘We Are One’ badge, too!
This week’s other top news & reminders
Our breakfast club is changing as of September 1st 2023. Please click here for full details.
Please can you complete our end of year survey – once per child – click here.
Current Year 3 parents – there will be an online meeting for the Year 4 residential on Weds 19th July at 6pm. More details to follow.
Remember, registers are taken at 8:50am, meaning your child needs to be through the gate by 8:48am.
A reminder that all after school clubs have now finished.
Spend some time with us on Tuesday 18th July straight after school. You can meet your child’s new teacher, and walk around the School Art Exhibition to see your child’s work on display.
Have your financial circumstances changed? Your child might be elligible for various benefits at school. Click here to find out more.
A reminder that Year 2 pupils no longer receive Universal Free School Meals as of September. Those elligible for Free School meals continue to do so.
Farm Update
- Don’t forget you can book summer slots to look after our animals. We’ve got the summer to fill :) Click here!
- Can you be on a backup list for farm bookings in case of emergency? Just email the office to let us know. Thank you!
We say thank you to…
… our FOSM team and all who attended the Summer Fayre. It was amazing! Total raised was £5,500!!! Just incredible!!
… our FOSM team for putting on the Disco tonight, too!
… our KS2 musicians who took part in a Summer Concert on Wednesday. You were great!
… Year 5 pupils who showed impeccable behaviour on their trip to Brighton Hill on Thursday.
… New parents and children who joined our New Year R events recently. We look forward to you joining us in September.
Got any spare wellies?
We are collecting wellies for children across to school to use in our outdoor provision. If you’ve got any spare, please pass them to the office. Thanks!
Staff Updates:
- We welcome Miss Sullivan to our Office Team.
Parking!
We’ve had a few complaints recently from those in our community. Please can we all try hard to:
- Avoid parking on driveways or obstructing local residents, and on yellow lines
- Slow down around the school and where children will be crossing
- Drive sensibly
This is especially true when school events are on, such as discos. Thank you.
Hatch Warren Summer Festival
A note from the community centre: The Summer Festival is a free entry event aimed at the local community. This year it will be on Saturday 15th July from 12 – 4. We have over 100 events, activities and over 28 local traders arranged for the day. We will also have a variety of hot and cold refreshments, a licensed bar, a dog show, a climbing wall within our Scouts’ fun zone, festival inflatables, crazy golf, indoor seating and outdoor marquee seating, tombola and competitions with some fabulous prizes. There will be live entertainment as well as a DJ. Do join us for an hour or the whole afternoon, you won’t want to miss it! We are encouraging people to walk to the Festival if they possibly can as we are anticipating a heavy footfall on the day.
App/Website for practicing languages
School Dates, Lunches, and Clubs
Music of the Week!
Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Flight of the Bumblebee” is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. Its composition is intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic and rapidly changing flying pattern of a bumblebee.
Photo credits:
Photo by Denisse Leon on Unsplash