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George Spicer Newsletter - 25th September 2026

Reporting Absence: To report your child’s absence, call 020 8363 1406: · Press 1 for Sketty Road · Press 2 for Kimberley Gardens · Leave a message with your child’s name and reason for absence. You must report your child's absence for each day they are off school.

Emergency Contacts:

Please ensure all of your emergency contacts are up-to-date on Arbor. We must hold at least 4 contacts on file in case of an emergency. Please make any updates/changes via your arbor app.

Lost Property:

Lots of lost property has already accumulated only the third week into term and there is no way of identifying the belongings.  Please make sure all of your children's belongings are labelled with their names. Any lost property will be disposed of at the end of the term.

Felix & Foodbank – Available to all our families who may need some extra support. Please come to the Sketty Road site every Wednesday from 2.45pm at the chalet.

Free School Meals: If you are on Universal Credit, your child may be eligible for FSM. Please contact the office to check. 

Autumn Term Parent Consultation Evenings

Booking is open on Arbor from 28th September at 5 pm. For any special arrangements or split families, please contact the office.

Dates and times are as follows:

  • Monday 19th and Wednesday 21st October 3.50pm-7.30pm 

Please note:
For families in Ash and Owl Class, the consultation evening will take place on:

  • Ash Class 21st & 22nd October
  • Owl Class 19th & 22nd October

Flu Vaccinations 

The immunisation team are coming to George Spicer Primary School on Wednesday 07 October and Tuesday 17 November to give pupils their annual flu vaccinations.

We would like your consent to vaccinate your child. You can respond by filling in our online consent form through this link: https://www.manage-vaccinations-in-schools.nhs.uk/consents/RUE5CPTYxa/flu/start

For more info: https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/child-flu-vaccine/

Harvest

We will be holding our annual Harvest assembly on Monday 5th October.    If you are able to donate and support our local Enfield Foodbank please send your donations to school on Monday 5th October.  Further information:  https://enfield.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/

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Important Dates for Diary

Wednesday 30th September - Reception Curriculum Evening

Monday 5th October - Harvest assembly

Flu vaccinations KG & SR Wednesday 07 October and Tuesday 17th November 

Thursday 8th October – Presentation and guided tour of our school (see below)

Parents Consultation – Monday 19th and Wednesday 21st October

Ash Class 21st & 22nd October

Owl Class 19th & 22nd October

Letterbox workshops:

There has been a date change for the Letterbox Workshops. The new dates are as follows:

Monday 23rd November - Letterbox Workshop Year 1 & 2

Wednesday 25th November - Letterbox Workshop Year 3 & 4

Thursday 26th November - Letterbox Workshop Year 5 & 6

Reception 2027–2028 Starters

"Learning well today, to live a better tomorrow."

You're Invited!

Mr. Spong, our Headteacher, warmly invites you to join us for a presentation and guided tour of our school. Come and see what makes our community special – you won’t be disappointed.

Time: 9:15am – 11:00am
Location: Kimberley Gardens
Programme: Presentation, school tour, and Q&A with our pupils

Upcoming Dates:
Thursday 8th October
Thursday 5th November
Friday 20th November
Wednesday 2nd December
Friday 8th January

Please click below to register your interest, or call us on 0208 363 1406.

Tour Registration

Quote of the week

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better." — Maya Angelou

Attendance week ending 

Overall school = 96.03%  Lates = 78

Best attendance: 1st Woodpecker 98.79%  2nd Mumbai 98.75% 3rd Sparrow 97.98%

Punctuality: Well done to Poppy, Snowdrop, Rhine and Istanbul with 100% for punctuality.

Reception 

What a lovely first full week we have had! The children have enjoyed exploring our indoor and outdoor learning areas and settling into their new routines.

We have been retelling traditional stories and singing a variety of maths songs. It has been wonderful to see the children settling so well into school and beginning to feel happy and confident in their new environment.

Year 1 

This week, Year 1 have been enjoying the story Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson. The children have explored how early humans used caves to create pictures and tell stories and created their own cave drawings using charcoal, pastels and chalk.  They experimented with different lines, shapes and textures to bring their prehistoric-inspired pictures to life. We were very impressed by their creativity and the detail they included in their artwork!

It has been a fantastic way to combine our love of reading with art and history.

  

Year 2 

Year 2 have had a lovely week of learning. The children have really enjoyed reading their new text, Amazing Dogs, and have been fascinated by some of the interesting facts they have discovered about dogs and their incredible senses. They have also been working hard to answer retrieval questions, using information from the text to show their understanding.

In Art, the children have been exploring different textures. They had lots of fun placing a variety of objects underneath paper and rubbing over them with crayons to reveal the patterns and textures beneath.

   

In Maths, we have continued to build on our place value knowledge. The children have been representing numbers using Dienes, solving place value problems and comparing different numbers. It has been great to see their confidence growing as they explain their thinking and apply what they have learnt.

Year 3

Year 3 have been building on their place value knowledge in Maths by using manipulatives such as Dienes. The children have been exploring how numbers can be regrouped through exchanging and using this knowledge to explain how the same number can be represented in different ways.

  

In Science, Year 3 have been enjoying learning about a variety of rocks and identifying their different properties. They have even become ‘advisors’ for Enfield Council, conducting an investigation to help select the best rock for building a statue. The children considered the rocks’ absorbency and durability to ensure their chosen rock would withstand weathering and help the statue last for as long as possible!

Year 4 

Wow, what a week! Year 4 exploded into action this week with a superb attitude towards their Strings lessons. The children have been learning how to hold the viola/violin and the bow properly. They have also been playing a simple melody to get familiar with the instruments and what they can produce. 

In Maths this week, we have been tackling how to round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 by finding the midpoint value. We have used number lines effectively to decide whether to round up or down. 

  

In Science this week, the children enjoyed a year group carousel of different science activities. During the carousel, we experimented by testing the big question: 'Are spaces really empty?'. We carried out experiments using sponges to test for air holes, the weight of the air in balloons, the power of air particles and how and when air bubbles attach themselves to objects in water to create buoyancy. It was a pleasure to meet all the children of Year 4 and get to know some new faces. The teachers were thoroughly impressed by their enthusiasm and curiosity during all of the activities. Well done Year 4 – keep up the positive attitude to learning!

Year 5 

'The Flower Block' by Lanisha Butterfield was used as inspiration for a number of activities. Each class produced letters from the characters, Jeremiah and Mr Crisp, persuading others and giving reasons to join communities (Article 15 – Setting up groups). We identified how loneliness and grief could be supported through our neighbours and friends, which linked to Article 27 – Social Help. The rooftop garden in the story brought everyone together, which was made possible by the magic sunflower. We all drew sunflowers using charcoal to create light and shade. Here are some of our amazing artwork (Article 31- Art). 

  

On Friday, we had the pleasure of being visited by Yr2. The children worked collaboratively to design their own inclusive rooftop gardens. They ensured that everyone could use it, no matter their age or disability (Article 2 – No Discrimination and Article 23 – Children with Disabilities).  They had the idea of using ramps, widening walkways, creating areas of play for the young ones and higher level planting for those in wheelchairs. A truly diverse scene!

Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed their visit from Louis from the Fire Brigade Education Department. The children were shown real-life photographs of fires and partook in a number of short quizzes as Junior Fire Investigators. Ava suggested that the hob should be turned off if the doorbell rings and you are cooking. Harry thought that getting another person in the house to answer the door would be a good idea and Aaliyah recommended someone else should look after the cooking while you answer the door. Darcey knows that you should always put matches in a closed cupboard, so children won't be tempted to touch them and Betty informed the class that you must use the back of your hand to check the door is not hot before you can open it. This safety advice all links to articles 6 (Life, survival and development) and 27 (Food, clothing and a safe home). Your children are now fire experts and are able to provide you with safety tips and the procedures to follow if a fire does occur. 

   

Year 6

Romeo and Juliet – "But, soft, what work through yonder classroom window breaks? It is the east, and George Spicer is the sun."

Following our immersive introduction last week, where we had the opportunity to act out pivotal scenes from the play, we have fully immersed ourselves in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. 

The children have created family trees, using expanded noun phrases to add description to our key characters. 

As well as this, we have focused on using a range of adverbials to describe the opening fight scene between the feuding Capulet and Montague families.  We considered our language choices and how to engage our reader. 

It has been wonderful to see their acting skills within their role-plays and see how this has inspired their writing.

"Parting from GS is such sweet sorrow...That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

FoGS 

For more information about the FoGS charity (who we are and what we do), details of our upcoming events, information about how to help, please visit our website: www.friendsofgeorgespicer.co.uk