George Spicer Newsletter - 7th June 2024
Welcome to the final half-term of the academic year – how time has flown! I hope you all had a lovely break as a family and are all ready for the final push this year. The reason we choose Resilience to be our final value is that is what we all need to finish the year strongly. Mr Spong introduced the value at KG with a story of Z the Zebra who feared failing at things but overcame this by taking deep breaths and controlling his emotions. At Sketty he revisited the inspirational story of Rob Burrow, who sadly passed away this week having suffered from Motor Neurone Disease for a number of years. He showed incredible resilience throughout his life as a rugby league international despite being very small and then battling the debilitating disease whilst raising awareness and money for the search for a cure. If you want to know more about this incredible story of courage and resilience then you can watch an extended version of what we showed here. I challenged the children to be the sort of friend he was and he had to others and to remember his powerful final message to dream big!
In assemblies as usual we shared the various national days that occur in the calendar with the children and this week was a bumper week – Cheese and Bicycle day at the end of the week, world environment and ocean day and of course the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings – ultimate resilience shown – which was such a pivotal moment in both history and in WW2. It is difficult to comprehend what those who gave so much faced that day, but we must never forget and be forever grateful and Rob Burrow’s final words fit perfectly on this anniversary “My final message is whatever your personal battle, be brave and face it. Every single day is precious, don't waste a moment. In a world full of adversity, we must still dare to dream.”
Ambassadors - KS1 GSPS Ambassadors had their first meeting this week with Mrs Allen and KS2 Ambassadors met with Mrs Bugliari. They were all very excited to learn more about how important their role is to the school and are full of ideas of how to make George Spicer Primary School even better.
Asher said, "It's already great here, how can improve it even more?"
With such enthusiasm and positivity, we know these Ambassadors will achieve great things over the next year.
Walk to School Week - Well done everyone who made an extra special effort to use active travel during Walk to School Week before Half Term. Each class tracked their method of travel to school and completed a survey about how they might prefer to travel. Many children (and staff) said they would like to cycle to school. If you would like to brush up on your cycling skills and join your child(ren) cycling to and from school, then please see further below the leaflet to find out about FREE training offered by Enfield Council.
Enfield Council have asked if parents and carers could please complete the following short survey.
https://letstalk.enfield.gov.uk/parent-staff-travel/surveys/parent-survey1
End of Year School Report – we will be sending children's school reports from week commencing 8th July. Please ensure we have your correct email address. To check/amend your details please log in to ARBOR.
Headlice - We would like to advise you to check your child's/children's hair to avoid a spread. Please can we reinforce that it is important to keep your child's hair up if it is shoulder length or longer as per our uniform policy.
Donations - Please could we have donations of chalk, colouring pens and pencils for Ms Barker's lunchtime colouring club.
T: 020 8363 1406 
