The Lister Weekly Update #5

Dear Parents and Carers,

Ofsted are currently inspecting Lister. No doubt you have received the email so that you can provide feedback on your view of our wonderful school. As you know, Ofsted inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people. We often associate them often as being a school inspection team. During yesterday and today we are welcoming the inspection team to see the collective strengths that we show as a school and the report will be available, for you interest, in a few months time. During inspections all the staff in schools are very busy being at their best in lessons and elsewhere. We find that we have very little to report from the Lister News desk, aside from saying that we are very proud about the dedication and hard work of all of the Lister staff and students. This version of the Lister News will be rather shorter than normal. As we find every day, Lister is aiming for excellence. We are sure that there will be a lot more news to follow next week.

We are very excited to announce the Year 6 Open Evening at Lister, on Monday 14th October, from 5-7pm. Every year year 6 students are their parents have the opportunity to visit secondary schools in Newham, so that they can make an informed decision as to where they can receive the best education possible for their child. At Lister, we feel that we are saving the best till last, as many of the open evenings have already taken place. This is our time to shine and to welcome a wide range of Newham community members to our community school. Our vision is to offer a world class education to all of the students who attend Lister and we look forward to the chance to welcome parents, carers and potential students to our Lister family.

Kooth is an online mental wellbeing community that offers free support for young people. Their webpage can be found here. The Kooth team provide free, safe and anonymous online support and counselling. The whole team are made up of friendly and experienced individuals who want to help you.

They are also hosting a number of webinars for parents, including:

- How to support your child staying safe on their Smartphone

- How Kooth meets the needs of Neurodivergent People

- How to support your child with emotionally based school avoidance

Use this link to book your spot!

The London Borough of Newham would like to hear from parents and carers about

their childcare needs. Your views are important in helping us decide how to shape services that will be useful for you.

We are asking parents and carers in Newham whether they use childcare, how they use it, what they think about it and whether they would like to use more.

The questionnaire will take around 10 minutes to complete. The closing date to submit your survey is Sunday 8 December 2024. We are very keen to ensure your views are taken into account. Anyone completing the survey can opt in to be entered into a free prize draw for a chance to win £100 of shopping vouchers.

At the end of the questionnaire, there is an opportunity for you to request further information about funded early education, the new extension to funded childcare, wraparound childcare, help with childcare costs and childcare providers in Newham.

A link to information on our webpage is here: Newham Families Advice and Support | Newham Council Childcare Survey

To access the questionnaire please click on this link:

Link: https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/projects/newham-parent-childcare-survey-2024

Newham Parent Childcare Survey 2024

Help us to help you! Take the survey now!

The Thought for the Week next week is focused on mental health. Please discuss the thought with your child who will be looking at the thought in assembly and discussing the idea with peers and the year team.