Value of the Month: Kindness

Merry Christmas

I find it hard to believe the autumn term has

gone so quickly and we are about to break up

for the Christmas holidays.

I would like to say a big thank you to the staff,

children, parents/carers and governors for all

their hard work and support this term.

On behalf of everyone at Stillness Junior

School, may I wish you and your families a

happy and peaceful Christmas, and best wishes

for the New Year.

Our new term begins on Wednesday, 3 January

2018 at 8.50am and we look forward to seeing

our children return refreshed and eager to learn

in the new calendar year.

Merry Christmas!

Mrs M Nichol

Headteacher

Toilets and Changing Rooms

Can we please remind parents/carers that the

toilets and changing rooms on school site are

for the use of CHILDREN ONLY. Please do

not use or enter these areas at any time –

including before or after school.

If your child needs to use the toilet facilities or

wishes to look for something in the changing

room, please send them in on their own and

wait outside.

Your support on the above is very much

appreciated. It is extremely important that we

all take an active role in safeguarding the

children who attend this school. Many thanks.

UNICEF: UNICEF: UNICEF: UNICEF: Article 43: UNICEF can provide expert advice and

assistance on children’s rights.

Christmas Coffee Morning

We will be holding a Christmas coffee morning on

Friday, 15 December 2017 from 8.50am in the

parent room.

Please pop along and join us for a mince pie and a

cuppa!

Be lovely to see you all before we break for the

Christmas holidays.

Cezanne trip to British Museum

Our trip took us all the way from Honor Oak Park to

Great Russell Street to see the sights of the British

Museum. While we were at the museum we visited

the Egyptian exhibit.

We saw many elegant statues and decorations from

the Ancient Egyptian era, and even saw a tomb! We

were mainly at the museum to visit the

Aztec exhibit, Room 27. We had to fill in questions

about the room such as: what materials were the

sculptures made of and what animals did the Aztecs

show in their early drawings/sculptures.

There were masks in the room that were used as

decoration that were just like the masks we had been

creating in Art Class.

Stillness Junior School

Newsletter December 2017

Cold Weather Clothing

Over the coming weeks, the cold weather will

start to creep in. Please ensure that children do

not leave home without a coat, hat and gloves

on cold days. All clothing must be labelled

clearly. On snowy days, children can wear

wellingtons or boots, as long as they have

school shoes with them to change into. The

classrooms get very warm and children will be

too hot in in boots all day.

Please also remember that children are welcome

to take advantage of free porridge every day of

the week. This is served between 8.40am and

8.50am.

However, children will not be admitted in to

school before this time for health and safety and

insurance reasons. Your support is appreciated.

Poppy Appeal 2017

The first Poppy Appeal was held in 1921, the

founding year of The Royal British Legion. Red

silk poppies, inspired by the famous First World

War poem In Flanders Fields, sold out instantly

and raised more than £106,000. The funds

helped WW1 veterans find employment and

housing after the war.

This year the children raised £57.40 by

purchasing poppies in school. Thank you for

your support.

‘The Great British Bake Off’!

Love Productions - makers of ‘The Great

British Bake Off’ are currently looking for a

fresh batch of brilliant, amateur bakers who

would love to enter the tent for our ninth series

of the show!

If you are interested in the opportunity to take

part please visit: www.applyforbakeoff.co.uk or

call / text: 07384 748 225. Applications close

on Sunday 7th January 2018.

Stillness Monthly Brain Teasers

Y3 and Y4

Dan the Detective Part I

Dan the detective looked for a number.

He found a two-digit number less than 50. The sum

of its digits was 12.

Their difference was 4.

What number did Dan find?

Dan the Detective Part 2

Dan found a two-digit odd number.

One of its digits was half the other. The number

was greater than 50.

What number did Dan find?

Y5 and Y6

A Perfect Match

1. A matchbox tray slides into its outer cover.

In how many different ways can you do this?

2. Imagine a cube and an open box just large

enough to hold it. In how many different ways can

you fit the cube into the box?

Answers to all of the above maths problems can be found on

the front page of the school website:

www.stillnessjs.lewisham.sch.uk

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Stillness Children take to the Ballot Box

The Learning Council recently met to discuss an

official name for our new reading shack. After

discussion the Learning Council agreed on three

names; Stillness Snug, Book Beach or Stillness

Story Shed.

The Learning Council then campaigned to the

rest of the children during school assembly.

Reasons were given why they should vote for a

particular name and the election date was set.

On Wednesday, 15 November 2017, the children

took to the polls to vote.

The official adjudicator from the Learning

Council counted the votes and we are pleased to

announce that our new outdoor reading area will

be called the Stillness Snug.

Two Spoons – Honor Oak

Small Craft Creatures needed on 27/11/17 @ Two

Spoons Honor Oak between 3:30-5:30pm. We would

love for you to make the shop feel Christmassy with

some handmade decorations. You will all so be able to

see your artwork hanging up.

So pop down and have some FREE fun.

Many Thanks

Paris Nicholson

Pupils Returning to School on Crutches

Before accepting a pupil back into school on

crutches, the school will require a letter from a

medical professional (GP, Hospital, Clinic)

outlining exactly what injury or suspected injury

has been sustained.

The letter MUST provide the school with details

of whether the pupil requires any reasonable

adjustments to be made whilst in school and for

how long they may be needed. The letter should

also include information about whether the pupil

is able to weight bear and any limitations.

Health & Safety: Without this clear medical

information, the school is unable to assess the

levels of risks involved and therefore unable to

complete a suitable risk assessment. The risk

assessment will cover all aspects of the pupil’s

day.

A risk assessment is a pre-requisite for any pupil

returning to school after an injury.

A Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan will also

be completed and both documents will be

prepared prior to the pupil returning to school.

The pupil must have received training in the use

of crutches from a medical professional.

It is unacceptable for any pupil to arrive at

school with crutches that they have obtained

from means other than a medical/professional

establishment. These pupils pose a risk to

themselves and other pupils and employees

and this could potentially put the school at

risk.

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Stillness Snug

We had a ‘Totally Amazing Bonkers’ morning with

the author Emer Stamp, who we invited to open our

new reading shack in the playground, named ‘The

Stillness Snug’.

After the grand opening, Emer ran a special

assembly for the whole school where she spoke

about her childhood, how she got the ideas for her

characters, and her love of writing diaries. She

showed us all how to draw three of her characters

and pointed out that you don’t need to be the best

writer or artist in the world to become an author,

you just need to have the ideas!

Emer then hung around our Library during

lunchtime to meet the children and sign books and

bookmarks.

We loved having her in the school and we hope it’s

inspired some of our amazing young authors to put

pen to paper this week! - Ruth Horsman –

School Librarian

Thank You

We would like to thank our wonderful school

librarian Ruth Horsman for organising the day and

for continuing to ensure the library is a welcoming

and vibrant place for the children to enjoy.

We would also like to say thank you to

Tallulah Noorbakhsh-Newton and Ciaran

Fitzpatrick from Y6, our school photographers for

the morning.

You can view some of the wonderful photographs

Tallulah and Ciaran took on our school website:

www.stillnessjs.lewisham.sch.uk

Calling all knitters and crotcheters!

St. Thomas’s Hospital has run out of bonding

squares on their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Bonding squares are pairs of 5 inch by 5 inch

knitted or crotchet squares (any colour, design, and

wool – please do be aware it needs to be washable

in a machine). One square is put with the poorly

baby, and the other square is with the parent, and

then these are swapped over daily. They are so

crucial for little superstar premature babies, or

poorly newborns and parents who are separated at

such a stressful time.

Please dig out your knitting needles and send them

to Neonatal Unit, St. Thomas Hospital,

Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH.

Thank you.

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Curriculum Assemblies

Thank you to everyone who came along and

supported our recent curriculum class assemblies

and completed our feedback form.

The children work really hard to learn their lines

and dance moves; it is therefore very rewarding

when they can perform in front of such a large and

appreciative audience.

Miss Curtis “Read of the Month:-

The Suitcase Kid in this story is Andy, whose real

name is Andrea. She's a tall, awkward 10-year-old

whose parents have recently divorced. Her dad

wants her to live with him... and her mum wants

her to live with her, so it's a difficult situation for

Andy who's stuck in the middle.

Andy wishes that her parents would get back

together so that the three of them can move back to

their little house, Mulberry Cottage, where there's a

lovely mulberry tree in the garden.

Andy's forced to spend one week with her mum and

one week with her dad, which means she ends up

having to live out of her suitcase. Not surprisingly,

she starts to get bad marks at school and loses

touch with her best friend. The only thing to cheer

her up is her little stuffed rabbit, Radish.

One day, Andy finds a secret garden with

mulberries growing in it and she goes there after

school. When she accidentally drops Radish down

inside a tree and can't get her out, she has to creep

out of the house in the middle of the night to rescue

her rabbit. Is she going to lose her beloved Radish,

as well as her mum and dad?

Dinner Money

The dinner money from 3 January 2018 to

9 February 2018 will be £56.70. Can

parents/carers please make every effort to pay in

advance.

To improve the service we provide, Stillness Junior

School will no longer accept cash or cheques as

payment.

This can be done online using a very secure

website called ParentPay. You all have your

individual ID and Password to access this facility.

Please note: if you wish to change your child

from packed lunch to school dinners or vice

versa please inform the school office in writing

to avoid being charged. Children can only

change this option at half term break.

Please Note: Dinner accounts that are more

than one week overdue or in arrears will result

in your child having to bring in a packed lunch

or going home for their lunch.

Stillness Junior School Website

We are pleased to inform parents/carers that we

work extremely hard to ensure that our website is

up to date. Please take a minute to have a look and

catch up with the latest news and holiday dates. If

you do not wish photographs of your child/ren

to be posted on this website, in the school

newsletter or in articles that may be published

in the press, please notify the school office in

writing.

Attendance

Well done Monet Class for achieving 98.29%

attendance from 22 October 2017 to

22 November 2017.

Which class will it be next month – can we beat

this with 100% attendance?

Upcoming Diary Dates: December 8.12.17 – Christmas Singalong/Market

12.12.17 – Y5 trip to the British Museum

14.12.17 – Christmas Lunch and Jumper Day

14.12.17 – School Disco/SCA

15.12.17 – Christmas Coffee Morning

21.12.17 – Start of the Christmas holidays More diary dates can be viewed on the school website:

www.stillnessjs.lewisham.sch.uk

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