St Margaret’s CE Primary School

We will be hosting tours of our school for new and existing parents soon! 4th December 2024 at 9.30am 8th January 2024 at 9.30am No need to book - just come along on the day and see our wonderful school in action! #brighton #rottingdean #brightonschool

We will be having the Scholastic book fair with us on 3rd - 5th of February during National Story Telling Week. The book fair will be open after school from 3.15pm - 3.45pm and can be found in the School Hall. Do make sure you pop along to see what is on offer.

This term, all the children will have forest school half days. These will be held on the following dates: Thurs 23rd Jan - Yr 4 / Yr 2 Thurs 6th Feb - Yr 5 / Yr 1 Thurs 27th Mar - Yr 3 / Yr 6 Please ensure that children are dressed appropriately to be outside.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Number Day with the NSPCC on Friday, 7th Feb. Join your child from 9:00 to 9:30 am for fun maths activities. Children can wear number-themed outfits. The day will feature number-related activities highlighting the NSPCC's important work.

On Monday I launched our new value theme for the term - RESPECT with the amazing picture book ‘The Invisible by Tom Percival. This term we will be holding assemblies and RSHE lessons that focus on what this means and looks like within our school and wider community.

Y5 and Y6 have been enjoying creating their own hopscotch games on the playground in French - what a great way to practise!

A reminder that if you have a child starting school in September 2025 the deadline for your application on Wednesday 15th January, so please ensure you visit buff.ly/40pPre2 or buff.ly/40BTGUM - depending on where you live.

SAVE THE DATE - SEND COFFEE MORNING 9.00am - 10.00am Tuesday 21st January All parents and carers of children with SEND are welcome to attend. We will be joined by Jo Heath, ASC Family Support Worker so a great opportunity to ask questions and get some support and advice.

In our end of term assembly Mrs Kershaw launched our Christmas reading challenge with the children. The aim is to complete all the challenges above over Christmas and then hand the sheet back into your teacher in January to be entered into a prize draw.

Last Wednesday saw our annual Christmas dinner day and I think you can see from the smiles, what a happy and joyous day this always is for the team. Big thanks to our catering team who cooked a delicious meal for the children and to all the staff who served the children!

What a special service this was. I always love to hear the KS2 children singing, as they do it so beautifully. Well done to Year 5, who produced the tableau moments in the service and to all the children for their reading, singing and acting

A ‘King is Born’ was a triumphant display of all that is brilliant about working in a school at this time of year! The acting, the singing, the dancing and the general ‘joie de vivre’ on show from the children made this a really special performance!

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The children loved demonstrating what they've been working on this term at our recent Curriculum Showcase!

The children have drawn incredible self portraits and created a beautiful tea towel & canvas bag. The PTA will be selling these after school (on various days) and at the Nativity & Carol Concert. You can always ask one of the PTA team or email stmsrottingdeanpta@gmail.com

We are delighted to announce that this Harvest Festival, our school donated an amazing 127.2 kg for the Brighton and Hove City Mission Food Bank, which helps some of the most vulnerable families across the city. A huge thank you to all that donated for our biggest ever year!

Our St M's postbox is back and ready for you to post your Christmas Cards - collection at 12:30pm Monday - Friday! 💌

REMINDER: Tomorrow 13th December is Christmas Jumper Day at St M's! 🎄 Children can come to school in their favourite Christmas jumper and join millions of people across the UK to raise money for Save the Children. Donations are £2 per child cash on the day.

What an amazing time we had at the St M's MEGA Christmas Party🎅We had a disco, food, party games, crafts, activities and even a visit from Father Christmas too! A huge thank you to the PTA for working so hard to make it happen and the staff and parents who gave up their time too

St M's MEGA CHRISTMAS PARTY! 6th December - 3:15pm - 5pm. There will be a disco, food, Christmas games and a grotto. Tickets available to buy now via ParentPay!