We have been informed by our supplier that they now have adult sizes available.

If you think your child would benefit from an adult size, please contact the school office no later than Friday 30th April.

Thank you

As you maybe aware, we use Place2Be to provide counselling support for our children. They have just released a support website if you are looking for practical advice to help you support your primary school age children and manage behaviour.

Please find the link below:

https://place2be.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60399de5aba8683371fb112c3&id=c5419649d6&e=b49592872d

If you use the School App it may be worth updating –

This will certainly help if you have found you have not been getting any notifications recently. The App also needs the minimum software updates of 707 for Android phones and 3.2 for Apple.

Dear Parents/Carers,

South Tyneside Council has asked schools to provide a £10 Aldi supermarket voucher to the family of each pupil who is not entitled to means-tested free school meals, in recognition that all of our families have suffered due to the Covid 19 pandemic. The vouchers are funded from the Covid Winter Grant Scheme. Funding from the Scheme has supported families who are entitled to means-tested free school meals since December 2020.

Vouchers are now available to collect from the school office.

Many thanks

#MONKTONMILERS  – Thursday 1^st July 2021

Dear Parent/Carer,

We are writing to let you know about an exciting whole-school event which will be taking place in the summer term. As a school, pupils, staff and governors will be taking part in a ‘celebration walk’ on Thursday 1^st July 2021. There is a dual purpose to this walk. Firstly,  we will be celebrating what we hope will be the end of a tough eighteen months in your child’s school life and secondly to raise funds for a former pupil of Monkton Academy who is currently gravely unwell and in need of repatriation to South Shield for further care. Your child will be able to tell you more about this!

The walk is designed to be relatively challenging so that children can feel a sense of achievement upon completion, in line with our school ethos – INSPIRE. EMPOWER. ACHIEVE.

There are three walks taking place across the course of the day so that we can cater for every child’s ability and most importantly, ensure that all children experience success! The whole school will be meeting at lunchtime to sit down together and eat, before continuing the final leg of their journey back to school. Maps of the planned journeys can be found attached to this letter. The three walks taking place are:

• Stadium of Light à School – a distance of approximately 10 miles
• Stadium of Light à South Marine Park – a distance of approximately 7.5 miles
• South Shields à Marsden (and back) – a distance of approximately 5 miles

It is really important that children are properly equipped for this walk so that they are comfortable and avoid injury. Please ensure that your child has the following:

• Comfortable and supportive walking shoes/trainers – these should be suitably ‘worn’ to avoid blisters.
• Suitable socks – mid-length sports socks are ideal (not trainer socks).
• Packed lunch and waterbottle – this will be eaten over the course of the day so please try to ensure your child’s packed lunch can be split across two to three little meals (high energy foods/slow release carbohydrates).
• Backpack with two shoulder straps – children will be required to be self-sufficient and carry their own equipment throughout the day, a comfortable backpack is very important.
• Cap & sun cream – staff will be paying close attention to the weather forecast in the lead up to this event. From here, we will be in a position to best inform parents of the best clothing choice for children.

To prepare pupls both physically and mentally, pupils and staff will be taking part in ‘training walks’ over the coming months. This is important so children have an idea of the distance that will be covered in July and can prepare accordingly. Preparation walks are something you may wish to complete as a family outside of school too. We would love to see photos of children completing training walks outside of school, please email these to [email protected] and we will celebrate this within school! Alternatively, if you post your photos on social media, use the hashtag #MONKTONMILERS to help us raise the profile of this challenge.

More information will be released in due course, but we felt it was important we share this message early to give you time to prepare.

Yours sincerely,

Monkton Staff Team

South Shields Metro to Marsden (…and back)

Seaburn Metro to Monkton

Stadium of Light to Monkton

The new sports tops have arrived and have been distributed across school to everyone who ordered them

The next order will be JULY 2021, with the tops being ready for our return to school in September.

Please note, we will not be placing any orders before this time.

Thank you

Dear Parent/Carer

As with previous holidays, we must still be vigilant and report any positive cases of Covid 19 – the following email [email protected], will be monitored up until and including Wednesday 7^th April. If any students present with any symptoms, a test must be booked and school contacted as soon as possible so we can begin contract tracing.

Thank you

Dear Parent/Carer

We have noticed several children have started to bring mobiles phones into school. These are not allowed on school premises at any time, unless authorized by the school. This is in line with all the school’s safeguarding polices and helps to keep everybody safe. If unauthorised phones are brought into school, they will be confiscated and returned to the child’s parents.

In the unusual event of a child needing a phone in school, please contact the admin team in the school office for authorisation and to make the necessary arrangements. Thank you for your co-operation.

Monkton Academy

Dear Parent/Carer

From tonight, along with their reading book, your child should also be bringing home their Reading Record.

We would love if you could hear your child read a minimum of three times per week. There is space inside the Reading Record for you to leave comments or feedback for your child’s teacher.

There are also some handy questions at the front of this record book to ask your child before, during and after reading to assess their understanding.

Thank you for your help and support as always.