Welcome back to Term 3! It's great to see all our students return to school after the holidays, refreshed and ready to learn.
This week, we are happy to have to hosted Parent-Teacher Meetings across all year groups. This is an opportunity for us to celebrate the successes of our fantastic students and for you to discuss their progress with their teachers. Many of these meetings have happened in person, but we are also delighted to continue offering meetings via MS Teams.
Term 3 is always a busy one for us, with a great many activities and events taking place. It is also a time when we start to plan for our new academic year, including resource orders, class allocations, and teacher placements. Next week, I will be sharing information on the, small number of, valued staff members who are leaving us this year. This will give you a chance to say a fond farewell!
On that note, do you know someone who might wish to join the Patana teaching team? We are always looking for qualified and experienced cover teachers, able to join us for short- and medium-term placements. If you know of someone who might be a good fit, please pass on my email contacts of samc@patana.ac.th.
We are all looking forward to an exciting and productive Term 3, filled with new learning opportunities, engaging activities, and meaningful experiences for all our students. Thank you for your ongoing support.
Sarah McCormack
Wellbeing
Block D ECAs begin
Please make sure that your child knows what ECA they have each day and what their home time arrangements are.
Smart watches
Smart watches for Term 3
April 23
A simple watch
can help children to develop an understanding of time and support their
independence.
A growing
number of children are now wearing a smart watch to school.
Many of these
watches allow for online access, including games and other features that they
do not need in school.
Some children
spend time interacting with their watch instead of talking and playing with
their friends.
There have also
been concerns about unsupervised access to online content, including taking and
sending images.
Starting from Term 3, Primary students will be required
to keep their smart watch in their bag during the school day.
Please note,
that the school takes no responsibility for loss or damage and only Year 6 have
access to a secure locker.
Smart watches
can be taken out of bags once a child exits the school gates at 2:30 or once
their ECA has ended at 3:30 or 4:30.
Smart watches
can be worn on school transport but should never be used to take or send images
whilst on the bus.
Learning
This term, we will be learning about the theme ''Might Metals". If you would like to find out more about this please follow this link
RSE (relationship and sex) presentations
If you were not able to attend the Relationships and Sex Education presentation this week, we have recorded it for you. You can use the captions and translation tools on YouTube if you would like to. The videos within the presentation will not play. If you wish to watch them, they are below the presentation.
We will start teaching this in Week 3 of this term and will provide you with an update each week about the content for the following week.
Swimming Lessons
We have started our new P.E. rotation with swimming as follows:
3M, 3C, 3A and 3T will be swimming on a TUESDAY.
3K, 3P, 3D and 3J will be swimming on a THURSDAY.
For swimming, they need a black school swim suit , rash vest (optional), towel, goggles and a swim hat (for all hair longer than shoulder length).
Changes to PE changing!
From now on, if your child has PE they can come into school wearing their PE kit. They will also need their uniform and school shoes packed in a named bag to change into after PE.
On swimming days they will need to come into school in uniform, with their swimming kits in their bags.
Please ensure any snack or Birthday cakes/doughnuts that come into school are nut free. This is to ensure we are keeping all our students safe as we have some students in the Y3/4 Building who have severe nut allergies. Thank you for your help with this.
Please click the picture below to visit your child's class blog.