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Red Nose Day, Winners and more – 12.3.21

12th March 2021Mr Bennett

Wow, where has the week gone??? It’s been extremely busy but so lovely to have everyone back in school. I think there will be some tired pupils and teachers tonight!

In today’s update:

Red Nose Day
Story Jar Competition
Free school meal vouchers
Fitness Factor
Social distancing

Red Nose Day

Friday March 19th

A non-uniform day is on the cards!

Children have the option of dressing as a superhero or wearing non-uniform (but to include something red). A donation of £1 through parent pay would be appreciated which will all go to the charity.

Children will take part in some Red Nose Day activities through the day.

Story Jar Competition

We would like to say an enormous well done to all of the children who participated in our story jar competition for World Book Day. We were so impressed with the photographs which were sent in and it was incredibly difficult to pick our favourites.

Congratulations to our two winners:

Key Stage 1 winner: Pippa Robson

Key Stage 2 winner: Dexter Carr

Each of our winners have been awarded with a bedtime story gift bag containing a new book and everything they need for a cosy evening tucked up reading. We hope you enjoy them!

See their creations at: https://mortimerprimary.co.uk/story-jar-winners/

Free School Meals

Families will be getting a £25 voucher per child to cover the Easter holidays from Wonde. They will be sent on 29th April.

Fitness Factor

Congratulations to all the children who successfully completed the Fitness Factor activities. The children worked very hard in all the different physical challenges and are worthy recipients of the certificates they have been awarded.

Check out our superstars at https://mortimerprimary.co.uk/fitness-factor/

Social Distancing

Please can we ask all parents to ensure that they are not blocking entrances when dropping off their children, especially around Reception and Nursery. Once your child is with their teacher please move away to allow others access. Thank you

Have a wonderful weekend

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Story Jar Winners

12th March 2021Mr Bennett

12.3.21 Story Jar Winners

Congratulations to our two winners:

Key Stage 1 winner: Pippa

Key Stage 2 winner: Dexter

Each of our winners have been awarded with a bedtime story gift bag containing a new book and everything they need for a cosy evening tucked up reading. We hope you enjoy them!

Fitness Factor

10th March 2021A Stelling

Looking back: No screen day 5th March

9th March 2021Mr Bennett

On Friday 5^th March, we turned our screens off and went back to basics. Mrs Mackay organised some fab activities for all of the children in school around science and the outdoors.

Year 3 tended to the Mortimer Woodland – clearing up dead foliage and watering the trees.

Year 5 turned over the Minibeast garden and applied fresh soil as well as planting 10 begonias.

Whole school including Nursery – every child planted a bulb to be cared for at home to mark the end of Lockdown 3 and looking forward to a brighter future with every child back in school.

Athletics Clubs – KS1 & KS2 starting this week!

8th March 2021Mr Bennett

We are delighted to say that our athletics club are restarting this week.

KS1 – Year 1 & Year 2

We’re pleased to announce we’ll be continuing our KS1 Athletics club this half term for year 1 & 2, starting 10/03/21.

See sign up letter below

KS2 – Year 3 & Year 4

We’re pleased to announce we’ll be continuing our KS2 Athletics club this half term for year 3 & 4, starting 12/03/21.

See sign up letter below

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7.3.21 The Big Return…

7th March 2021Mr Bennett

7.3.21 The Big Return…

*As sent via email

Uniforms are washed, school shoes polished and alarms set…tomorrow sees the return of ALL pupils back to Mortimer Primary School. We know nerves will be jangling and hands held tightly as the start of school approaches. Rest assured we are ready for every child to return and we can’t wait!

We hope you and the children enjoyed the No Screen Friday and hopefully we can forget Remote Learning/Home Schooling for a good while now.

Tomorrow is the first part of the roadmap to ‘normal’ and we can all play our part. Please can parents social distance whilst dropping off and picking up, whilst also wearing masks if possible (adults only).

If you have any concerns or questions, please just get in touch (see below if you’ve missed the return details).

Enjoy your Sunday, stay safe and we will see you tomorrow!

Parent Hamper Raffle

Thank you to everyone who purchased entries to the spring parent raffle and helped us raise £587. That is fantastic and will all go back into providing excellent opportunities for all children.

The winners!

1^st – Lenix Meah

2^nd – Teddy Keedy

3^rd – Aris Livadaru

We have set out all the practicalities in our earlier emails/posts for tomorrow, but if you’ve missed anything then please see the links below:

Details about our return on Monday 8^th March

https://mortimerprimary.co.uk/2-3-21-return-to-school-march-8th/

Latest News: Mission 2 Mars & Story Jars

https://mortimerprimary.co.uk/latest-news-from-mortimer-3-3-21/

World Book Day 2021 – Radio interviews and Staff Bedtime Stories!

https://mortimerprimary.co.uk/world-book-day-2021/

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World Book Day 2021

4th March 2021A Stelling

4.3.21 Happy World Book Day to you all!

Today is extra special because we are celebrating our love of books with children all over the world. We would have loved for you all to be in school with us, so instead, we are bringing World Book Day celebrations to you.

Did you hear Mrs Douglas on BBC Newcastle Radio this morning? She was talking about what World Book Day is like this year in school and at home! Have a listen here!

Have you heard the first ever World Book day song by MC Grammar?? How many stories can you spot in the song?

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We have put together a collection of videos of staff from across the school sharing their favourite books. Get yourselves snuggled up, relax and choose a staff member to read you a story from the comfort of your own home. You could even listen to your teacher reading you a bedtime story.

It won’t be long until you are back in school and enjoying story time in class with your friends. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy sharing some of our favourite stories at home.

Have a great World Book Day!

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Latest News from Mortimer – 3.3.21

3rd March 2021Mr Bennett

Mortimer Primary School

Excellence for all

Latest News from Mortimer – 3.3.21

Welcome to this latest news update! Despite everything going on around us, there is still lots to enjoy!
In this edition:
Mission to Mars Winners
World Book Day
Parent Spring Hamper Raffle
Lunch Payment Reminder

Mission to Mars We are hugely impressed with the fantastic designs, models and projects that were completed both at home and in school during Mission to Mars Week. There was a fantastic standard of work produced across the school and it was a really difficult task to choose our winners. After much deliberation, we chose the following children whose work was out of this world

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Parent Spring Hamper Raffle
There is still time to get your raffle tickets bought for the parent hamper. Three prizes on offer. Tickets are £1 and are available through Parent Pay. All funds will go back into supporting our pupils in their education. The raffle will be drawn Friday 5th March.

Lunch Reminder
All school dinners need to be booked by the Wednesday of the week before. Please book and pay for your lunches by the end of today (3.3.21) for next week. Lunches can be booked in advance.

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2.3.21 Return to School March 8th

2nd March 2021Mr Bennett

Dear parents/carers,

Following the announcement of schools fully reopening, we would like to share our plans with you.

Mortimer Primary School will fully reopen on Monday 8^th March and we look forward to seeing all children back in a full bustling school!

We have attached a full overview of our plans, with most elements staying the same since we started the year back in September. Please note the following.

School times remain the same as pre-Christmas.
Children should be in uniform.
Lunches need to be booked the week prior and by Wednesday via Parent Pay.
We ask that parents wear face coverings when on site dropping off and picking up children.
Staff are asked to wear face coverings in school when not able to social distance with other adults. This does not affect staff when teaching.

Again, we would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the parents who have worked diligently to keep your pupils working at home. We know how hard this has been and we are so proud of how our pupils have engaged with the set work. You all deserve medals. No doubt it will be strange for the pupils who have been in school since January seeing the class rooms full and their class mates back at school. But what a great sight it will be!

Let’s hope this is the start to life returning to normal!

From all the staff – thank you for your support throughout these challenging times. It is appreciated.

Ps. As you drop your children off on Monday, please don’t cheer too loudly as you leave

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1.3.21 Emails to parents

1st March 2021Mr Bennett

1.3.21 Emails to parents

We will be sending our first emails to parents tomorrow. (Tuesday 2nd)

The first will be a test sent at 9am, please check your junk and spam filters.

The second will be in the afternoon and have some news about our Mission 2 Mars winners!

You can still get your email address to us, but you will be included in emails after tomorrow’s messages.

Simply fill out the Google form https://forms.gle/iFc5iwooUpWNea1v6

Thanks for your support.

In-school KS1 Winner: Lucy , 2ES	In-school KS2 Winner: Sophie , 6RD

Remote KS1 Winner: Jack , 1CS	Remote KS2 Winner: William , 3JDo & Charlie 5HA