BOUTCHER SCHOOL
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
12th December 2025

Dates For The Diary

Tuesday 16th December

Last Y5 Cooking club - 3:30 - 4:45

Last Y3/4 Art in the Forest Garden club - 3:30 - 4:45

Thursday 18th December

Christmas Parties

Friday 19th December

10:00 Whole School Service at St Mary Magdalene Bermondsey Street

Children may be collected from 12:30 and MUST be collected by 1:30

100% Spelling

Year 2 – Ariana, Ezrah, Freya D, Lucy, Paul, Samuel, Yusuf, Amelia, Kaleb, Alador, Tadhg, Eliana, Greysen, Ava, Hiyab, Taika Amirah, Joshua, Mer

Year 3 – Ben, Wilf, Amani, Hasset, Andreas, Harlem, Blythe, Chloe, Lydia

Year 4 – Joe, Alma, Stephen, Sophie, Evan, Tias, Jack, Jotham, Nyriah-Jae, Maryam

Year 5 – Rose, Davina, Rofiu, Imelda, Eleanor, Aaliyah, Evangeline, Harold, Alexandra, Arielle, Kwame, Gemini, Ava

Attendance week commencing 1/12/25

School attendance (class % and no. of children with 100% attendance for the week)

Rec - 93.87% 27 of 31

Y1 - 94.33% 25 of 30

Y2 - 97.04% 26 of 27

Y3 - 96.84% 26 of 28

Y4 - 91.49% 27 of 31

Y5 - 94.14% 25 of 29

Y6 - 99.26% 26 of 27

Whole school attendance (Government expectation 97%) at 95.19%

Highest attendance Y6 at 99.26%

Lowest attendance Y4 at 91.49%

KS2 Weekly Junior comments

Scientists say there are thousands more African forest elephants than previously thought - and they know this all thanks to the animals' poo!

Do you think using animal poo to study wildlife is clever, gross, or both? Why?

Ademola (Year 6)

I think it's smart because if you know exactly how many elephants there are you can determine if they are endangered. By using that information you could see if we need to protect where elephants roam or not which is really important for helping them not to be extinct.

Sebastian (Year 4)

I think studying elephant poo is clever (and gross), but it doesn’t really matter about the smell because you get to know how many elephants are there in the world and know if they’re close to extinction or not, if elephants are close to extinction they might save them and they can tell the world to stop killing elephants for their tusks.

Christmas lunch 12th December

Choir

Our wonderful choir have been in high demand this festive season. Just this week, their engagements have been at some of the most prestigious venues in London – from Southwark Cathedral to St Paul’s in Knightsbridge, to blue chip corporates like Unilever and Lloyds Bank in the City, to Southwark Council offices in Tooley Street!

Bringing cheer to Borough Market and The Sidings at Waterloo Station on Wednesday 17th December at lunch time, if you are in the area please go along and enjoy the voices of the Boutcher angels, guaranteed to put you in a festive mood.

Y5 & Y6 Skating session at Charter Bermondsey

A big thank you to Charter School Bermondsey for inviting our Y5 & Y6 children to their ice-skating rink - what a fun morning before they returned to school for their Christmas lunch.

Notices

We break up for Christmas on Friday 19th December – children may be collected from 12:30 and

MUST be collected by 1:30

Please come along to support our fabulous choir on Sunday 14th December at 6:30 Corner Corner (Surrey Quays Food Hall) a collaboration of joyful carols alongside City Hope Church.

Thank you to all of our Boutcher Family for attending last weeks book sale. We raised £62 which we will use to purchase new books for the library!!

If your child is absent for reasons other than illness, please complete all homework including daily reading and TTRS/Numbots.