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Dear Parents and Carers, 

This week’s senior leader assembly was led by Dennis. The focus was the 75th Anniversary of the Windrush Generation. He approached the topic with a look at the music (it was World Music Day on the 21st June) created by or influenced by the Windrush population. We heard excerpts from songs such as “London is the Place for me” by Lord Kitchener, “My Boy Lollipop” by Millie Small. He discussed the legacy of the Windrush generation and its influence on modern music. 

This week in Nursery, we welcomed parents and carers to our fabulous 'Sporty Stay and Play'. The children loved being in the small playground, taking part in slightly different activities, including bat and ball, basketball, space hoppers, catch and hoola hooping!  It was wonderful to see so many parents with their children and we particularly enjoyed seeing the adults on the space hoppers! Thank you to everyone for making it such a lovely session.

Year 4 enjoyed a visit from some Year 9 students, who act as Stem Ambassadors, from Bonus Pastor College. The children took part in a carousel of fun activities. They learnt about using absorbent materials in a magic trick, Alka Seltzer producing carbon dioxide and causing a small explosion, putting water in a balloon prevents it popping when held over a candle and much more. The students from Bonus Pastor acted as great role models and gave clear explanations about the experiments. Hopefully, they have encouraged our children to embrace a love of science and helped to further develop their enquiry skills. View photos here, below are some quotes from our children: 

• Jules: "I liked everything, especially the balloon experiment" 
• Wallis: "I enjoyed the magic trick with the cups." 
• Ciara: "I enjoyed the mug and fork trick. I thought the mug would fall but the momentum caused it to be wound in the string" 

Yesterday, children across the school wore orange (the colour of solidarity with refugees) and completed activities to raise awareness. Find out more about what is happening across Lewisham: Action for Refugees in Lewisham, Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network.   

Ambitious about Autism: A quick note about support for children with Autism. Dennis went to the Autism Show a few weeks ago and spoke to the team at Ambitious about Autism. They have an online community for parents and carers. It offers peer support and information and resources to help you care for your young person. 

Diversity Working Group: This year we have been continuing our journey to diversify our provision in all aspects of school life.   

We endeavour to do more, and as such Dennis would like to set up a Diversity working group.  This group is open to our school community including staff, parents, governors and will be using the pupils' school council to seek pupil views. 

The purpose of the group is to help the school to find gaps or weaknesses in our school's approach to all aspects of diversity and inclusivity.  

Dennis will be holding a session after school on Monday 3rd July at 3.45pm, venue to be confirmed.  Please complete this form if you would like to attend, or if you cannot attend but would be interested in attending in the future. 

Yesterday, I sent a letter about the forthcoming NEU strike dates on the 5th & 7th July – here is the link in case you missed it. Philippa sent a letter to parents in Nursery – Year 1 who are going on the beach trip on 5th July.  Her letter outlines slight changes to the organisation to the start of the visit and refers to parents with older children as well, her letter can be found here beach trip siblings letter. 

Lion King Bake Sale: Thanks to everyone who donated a cake or came along and supported us at the bake sale. We're delighted to have raised £149 for the Lion King production. 

Call for help: we are looking at options to overhaul the school hall AV and add sound proofing. We need someone with AV expertise to advise / support us please. If you are interested, please email Jo Roper in the school office via the school email address.  

Reminder to parents that you should not be reversing your cars passed the one way system in the middle of Kilmorie Road. School Streets are in place to help keep our children safe, and we ask all of our community to support us in doing so. 

As part of this year’s Great Kilmorie Design Challenge, the children have created eco-friendly, sustainable products. These will be for sale during the Parents Drop in evening, 4-6pm on Thursday 6th July. Products will be for sale in classrooms for cash only and most items will be £1. No change will be available so please bring some coins! We invite all parents, Reception to Year 6, to come to our open parents evening. It will also be a good opportunity to see displays about the process the children went through to design and make the products. 

Information about next year's class teachers will be sent with your child’s annual school report. 

I do hope you are enjoying the sunny INSET day and I look forward to welcoming you back on Monday. 

Kind regards

Julie

In this week's Celebration Assembly, we celebrated... 

 

Platform Cricket

30 of our year 4 children competed in a cricket tournament at Mayo park. The tournament was organised by platform cricket. The children were put into 3 teams. They all played really well, one of the teams only missed out on the semi-final by 1 run!! Another team won all their matches and played in the semi final, although they played really strong games and displaying determination, they didn't win. They did however play for 3rd or 4th place and they won 3rd place and came home with medals. Lucien won a special cup for outstanding attributes in his cricket on the day

"The other staff,  all the parents and I who watched the games were so proud of them and overall a really lovely day if cricket!" Jane Catton - Coach

You can see the photos here

Instrumental lessons - if you would like to apply / find out more information about Kilmorie's instrumental lessons please visit our website. 

Lion King Performances FAQ web page

If you have any questions about the performances, please visit our dedicated FAQ page on our website. 

Please ensure your ParentPay account is up-to-date. If you have any questions, do contact the school office. 

Well done! 100% Attendance Shona's class, Elis' class and Conor's class!

Well done! 100% Punctuality to Jo C's class!

London's first ever festival of children's theatre, shows running daily from 22nd July to 28th August.

Popular children's drama and dance school Perform is hosting a new festival called Perform in the Park in central London this summer where you and your children can enjoy a live theatre show in a 500 seat air-conditioned theatre followed by the fun and activities of Coram's Fields - come make a day of it.

Four wonderful shows for children of all ages, the line-up includes: The Three Billy Goats Gruff / Elephant and Piggie's “We are in a Play!” / Mermaids & Pirates / The Dream - please click the links to find out more. 

Tickets are on sale now - tickets start at £14.50, visit performinthepark.uk to book. 

DREAMLAND T-shirt Competition - *Deadline extended until 9am Monday 26th June*

As judging won't take place until Monday, we're giving you a bit longer to submit your Dreamland inspired T-shirt designs! Please hand to the office by 9am on Monday. Remember to use white A4, vibrant pens/paints and write your name and class on the back, along with a sentence telling us about your Dreamland. Good luck! 

First News Offer  - First News is a brilliant weekly newspaper aimed at children aged 7-14. It keeps children up to date with news events in the UK and around the world, in an engaging (not scary or overwhelming) way - with plenty of fun, happy stories and entertainment too. 

FoK is delighted to be working with First News. As well as sponsoring a bouncy castle at the barbecue and providing a 12-month subscription as a raffle prize, for a limited time they are offering a 20% discount to every Kilmorie family that takes out a 12-month subscription. Click here to take advantage of this unique offer.

Summer Barbecue Donations - A reminder that donations of clean, good condition soft toys (no other toys) and bottles are needed for the barbecue please.

Alternatively, you can help by purchasing an item from our Amazon Wish List here.

Volunteers for Barbecue - We're organising the volunteers for the barbecue slightly differently this time.

Each year group has been allocated certain stalls/activities, and we need a maximum of 12 volunteers per year group to fill the slots.

If you can spare less than an hour of your time to help at the barbecue, please sign up here.

Charlotte from the Early Help team will be in school again on Monday 26^th June from 8.30-1.00pm.  If you would like to talk to Charlotte about any concerns you have about  your child including behaviour, SEN, services in Lewisham, routines, etc. please email Nicola to book a slot.

Next week, children will re visit the ‘Clever Never Goes’ (previously Stanger Danger) message in school.

Please follow the link below so that you can reinforce the message at home to.  Clever Never Goes focuses more on recognising an unsafe situation rather than on the adult. Clever Never Goes Parent Leaflet