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.
On Friday 5th 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.
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
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!
1st – Lenix Meah
2nd – Teddy Keedy
3rd – 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 8th 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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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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| 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 |
| In-school KS1 Winner: Lucy , 2ES | In-school KS2 Winner: Sophie , 6RD |
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| Remote KS1 Winner: Jack , 1CS | Remote KS2 Winner: William , 3JDo & Charlie 5HA |
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| World Book Day: Story Jar Competition It is World Book Day on Thursday 4th March and we would for love you and your families to join us in celebrating by taking part in our Book Day competition. We would like your child to create a ‘Story Jar’. The challenge is to decorate a jar so that it represents a favourite book. We encourage children to be as creative and imaginative as they like! This competition will be completed at home and is open to all of pupils and families, regardless of whether they are remote learners or attending school. There will be a KS1 and KS2 winner. When your child’s entry is complete, please post a photograph of their story jar in their online Google Classroom or to the learning platform used by your child’s year group (Dojo, Tapestry), with your child’s first name and class, or they can bring a photograph of their finished story jar to school on Monday. The winners will be announced early next week. We can’t wait to see your entries! Good luck! |
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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. Share the newsletter Know someone who isn’t signed up for the school email? Forward this email on and ask them to fill in the form at https://forms.gle/cA5KxngHphamqcZc8 |
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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 8th 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
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.
1.3.21 A little update and a little help
Welcome to a new month and what a significant one it looks to be!
RETURN TO SCHOOL
We will be sharing more information regarding our opening on the 8th March. We will share the details as quickly as we can, but in the mean time please get booking school dinners by Wednesday!
READING BOOKS
We are still missing a lot of reading books which were loaned out during this and previous lockdowns. Please can you return these books asap as we are now heavily down on our numbers.
For Reception it is the Dandelion Launchers books, which are the Initial Phonics ones that we use. It is really important that these are returned.
Please can you bring to the office or return them with your child.
Many thanks for your help.
MISSION TO MARS
Thank you much for engaging with the Mission to Mars week long project. Children had great fun both in and out of school. Winners to be announced very soon!
25.2.21 Parent Hamper – Don’t miss out
Check out the amazing prizes on offer all for the price of a single pound!
We have 3 prizes to give away!
The raffle will be drawn on Friday 5th March so please purchase your tickets in advance. Who wouldn’t love these to help celebrate school reopening fully?
All money raised will be added to the PTA fund to enhance the children’s education.
Entries can be paid for via Parent Pay. £1 per entry.
Prizes have been kindly donated by Mortimer staff.
Thank you for your support.
1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
