Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Echo First Class - Reception

  Wed 17 Oct 2018

  Our reception children were in the Bournemouth Echo First Class supplement yesterday! They all looked very smart and smiley!

  Images (c) Bournemouth Echo.

  Copies are available to purchase via the Echo website:

  RCN Photo

  RAG Photo

  

• Reception Next Steps meeting slides

  Mon 15 Oct 2018

  Thank you to all parents who attended Friday’s Reception Next Steps meeting.

  We really value our partnerships with parents and this home-school contact is very important to us.

  We hope you found the meeting useful and informative. Below is a link to the presentation slides and links to phonics videos which you can use to support your child’s reading at home.

  If you have any queries, please see your child’s class teacher.

   

  Presentation slides can be found here:

  http://www.st-marks.bournemouth.sch.uk/teacher-meetings/ 

   

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ksblMiliA8

   Listen to the 42 letter sounds of Jolly Phonics, spoken in British English. Each letter sound is clearly spoken twice, before an example word is given.

   https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/2011/03/13/how-to-say-the-sounds-of-letters-in-synthetic-phonics/

   Tami Reis-Frankfort, reading specialist and trainer, demonstrates how to pronounce the sounds of the English Phonic Code, when teaching children to read with Synthetic Phonics.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx4Jj69J1-I

   Jolly Phonics Songs (Letters and Sounds)

• Allergy awareness for children

  Fri 05 Oct 2018

  With recent news coverage of the seriousness of anaphylactic allergies, we are sharing some age-appropriate advice with the children next week on caring for their peers and others who suffer from these acute sensitivities.

  There is further advice available online, including these US resources:

  https://www.foodallergy.org/education-awareness/be-a-pal

  https://www.kyledine.com/store.html

   

  Can we remind parents that we have several children with acute sensitivities and are therefore a NUT-FREE school. Please be mindful of this when preparing snacks and packed lunches.

• Questions, concerns or queries?

  Fri 05 Oct 2018

  Please do pop and talk to us if you have any queries, questions or concerns. Usually, the class teacher will be the first port of call and it is best to catch them on the gate at the end of the day.
  If you need to pass a message in the morning, please pop in to the office and pop a note in the post box. Alternatively, send any queries by email to parentmail@st-marks.bournemouth.sch.uk.
  You can also have a word with Mrs Burn and Mr Bright on the doors in the mornings, or Mrs Biles and Mrs Nickols, who are our parent support workers. If you ever have a safeguarding concern, please ask to speak to Mrs Burn, Mr Bright or Mrs Brewer.

  
  In addition to these options, Mr Bright runs a regular ‘parent surgery’ – this is a drop-in session and is open to any parent. The next parent surgery is on Wednesday 10 October between 8:40-9:30am. No appointment necessary, just drop into the office and sign in.