Headteacher’s Blog
Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment.
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 25 Nov 2022I am not sure where this week has gone. I am sending a virtual hug to all our pupils who currently have chicken pox. I hope that you are not feeling too poorly with this and are looking forward to being back in school.
I am really pleased to share a link to a book titled, Auntie Margie, Onion Bhaji by Paul Patel (a parent of our school). How exciting: Children's Book by Paul Patel
I am just looking at ways we can present the children's work that have achieved during our sharing assembly so that you are able to see the high quality work that the children are presenting. You can see Esther's writing and Hunter's artwork by clicking Here: Sharing Assembly 25.11.2022 It would be good to have some feedback about presenting pupil’s work like this and if you find it beneficial.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Tommy C & Hunter T 🤩 Reception Corey B & Muhammad A 🤩 Year 1 Eva D & Sebastian P 🤩 Year 2 Tristan B & George H 🤩 Year 3 Nathan K & Ryker H 🤩 Year 4 Oliver M & Iyla T 🤩 Year 5 Alfie C & Sidney M 🤩 Year 6 Esther BM & Zachary M 🤩 Super job. You have all achieved great things this week and your teacher’s have recognised your journey.
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Colby D 🥳 Key Stage One Sophie KP 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Phoebe D 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two George G 🥳 That’s amazing - you have all added to your house. 3 of you are in St. Patrick’s and 1 in St. David’s house - well done for adding to your house points.
The winning house this week is St Patrick’s 🏆
2nd: St Andrew
3rd: St David
4th: St George
Well done to everyone, as over 1300 housepoints have been earned this week.
Top Doodling Classes
Maths: Year 2 🧮
Spelling: Year 5 📖
Attendance
The winning class with 95.6% is Year 5 🏆 Well done for making every day count! The best way to learn, is to be in school.
Whole school attendance is 95.24%. Obviously all our poor Y1 pupils with chicken pox are affecting this overall %. We wish you all well Y1!
In other news…
Wednesday
St. Andrew's Day, children in this house can come to school in something blue and non-uniform.
Thursday
Y6 small schools football tournament.
14:45 Y5 Class Assembly, parents welcome to come in and watch the performance.
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Thu 17 Nov 2022Spots, spots and more spots...
Thank you to everyone who helped out and joined in with Children in Need, especially during the most challenging of financial times.
New app messages. I know that some of you are finding the new app messages very brief. This is because we are only allowed 160 characters, which includes spaces. Therefore, I have written all the achievement and behaviour messages - the idea behind these messages is that you talk to your child about what they have achieved, a good starting point for talking about their day or you discuss why they have been given a warning.
In regards to warnings, please remember that your child does know and understand the language that is used in the message, as firstly they would have had a reminder about the rule that they are not following, eg: Do we defy teachers at Chiseldon Primary School? Thank you for listening (the class teacher would then have explained what defy/defiance means). If you receive the message: Your child has received a warning for defiance - please discuss this at home. They will have understood what they have done.
However, we do understand that sometimes, children do not want to confess what they have done or they may have forgotten what they have done after a long day. If that is the case, you can either leave it and speak to the class teacher at drop off/pick up, or you can go on the website and complete the form on the class page and this goes directly to the class teacher and they will respond with a detailed explanation via email.
I know that social media and WhatsApp are effective ways of checking things through and discussing things but if you do have a concern or want something explained, please see me at the gate or email or call, as a 5-10 minute conversation with me or Mr H can decrease the stress and frustration that having a 2/3 hour conversation over WhatsApp can have on us.
I pride our school on effective communication but I understand that during this transition time, it has not been as good as it should be or has been. I am now hoping that you are kept up-to-date as much as possible through my weekly blog, app messages, or indeed emails. I am asking all staff that if they send you an email, can they please send a quick app message so that you know an email has been sent. This way, it will make sure that you are getting all the information that we need. Please remember to update your information in the app if your email or telephone number should change.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Phillip C & Alex S 🤩 Reception Eleanor T & Tymon J 🤩 Year 1 Sofia G & Skyla L 🤩 Year 2 William S & Benjamin RP 🤩 Year 3 Charlie S & Lucas L 🤩 Year 4 Ethan M & Jakub K 🤩 Year 5 Jacob L & Deau D 🤩 Year 6 Castor S & Raymond C 🤩 Well done everyone for working extremely hard and congratulations on being a star of the week.
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Eleanor T 🥳 Key Stage One Chloe A 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Imogen D 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Esther BM 🥳 Brilliant job! Well done for earning so many housepoints.
The winning house this week is St Patrick 🇮🇪
It was very close between the teams this week but well done St Patrick for being top.
2nd: St George
3rd: St David
4th: St Andrew
Top Doodling Class
Maths: Year 3 🧮
Spelling: Year 2 📝
Attendance:
This week's winner with 97.27% is Year 2 🏆 Super stuff, keep it up.
Whole school attendance is 96% Remember, being in school every day counts
In other news…
Next week things are a little calmer as we build on the new systems that we have put in place.
Thursday: team of Y5/6 attend the swimming gala
team of Y5/6 Girls attend a football tournament at F.Park
I hope you have a lovely weekend and have some quality family time together.
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 11 Nov 2022What an amazing end to the week! Our children were exceptional at the Cenotaph. They were courteous, kind, polite and above all, respectful. Thank you so much Oscar and Esther for taking on the responsibility of laying the school reef to remember all those that have died and thank you to the Y6 children who shared their heartfelt poems.
If you didn't hear them or see them, Father Roger will be displaying these in the church ready for the Sunday service which starts at 10:45.
If you haven't managed to listen to my podcast, you can access it here HTs Podcast - Homework I am going to be releasing another podcast throughout the term, the next being about reading for fluency.
I thought it would also be a lovely idea for the Head boy and Head girl to start thinking about creating a podcast of their own. Once they have learnt about them, they will have a go at recording their first one. I'll let you know when it will be released.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Colby D & Arthur H 🤩 Reception Samuel T & Rico P 🤩 Year 1 Savannah T & Chloe A 🤩 Year 2 Mackie C & Molly M 🤩 Year 3 Mbalenhle M & Alfie R 🤩 Year 4 Isla-Rose S & Jack B 🤩 Year 5 Lyla A & Logan C 🤩 Year 6 Oscar N & Finley S 🤩 Well done all of you for achieving wonderful work - you should be very proud of yourselves.
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Samuel T, Eleanor T, Colby D, & Zayn I 🥳 Key Stage One Jasper M 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Phoebe D 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Teddy C 🥳 Well done for earning so many housepoints for your house 🪅
The winning house, a new flag flying outside school, is St Patrick's 🇮🇪 Super work from all of you - well done.
2nd: St David
3rd: St George
4th: St Andrew
Attendance
This week's winner with 99.31% is Year 6. Superstars 🌟
Whole school attendance currently is 96.29%, which is in line with national data - well-done everyone for trying to be in school every day.
Doodling
Our top doodling class for spelling and maths.
Maths - Y5
Spelling - Y3
Brilliant job - remember, doodling every day helps keep your learning up-to-date.
In other news...
Our virtual book fair starts on Monday and Miss Dickson will email out how you can access this and purchase some lovely books for Christmas.
Year 5 are visiting Ridgeway for an author visit - what a lovely opportunity to listen to an author and discover how they have thought about their book.
Y3/4 have a football tournament - come on Chiseldon.
If you have signed up for the Flu vaccines, these are taking place on Thursday morning.
And Friday is Children in Need - children can come to school in non-uniforms and spots if they wish.
Have a lovely weekend, enjoy some quality family time and I will see you all on Monday.
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 04 Nov 2022Welcome back.
I hope that you had a lovely break and are now ready for the build-up to Christmas, I know, I've said the C word. Christmas in school begins on December 1st when our Christmas tree arrives in school. You can see all the Christmas celebration activities on the school calendar, which can be found on the website or the old-school app.
School APP
Although we have switched apps for communication, messages, reporting an absence, and keeping your details up to date; we are still giving you access to the old app for quick reference to the HT blog, calendar, and website. It means you can have both apps. We are not paying for the communication aspect of the old app as it was becoming too expensive and we get the new app as part of our registration system.
If you have not downloaded the new app yet, you are looking for ScholarPack Parents in your app provider. Once you have downloaded the app, you will need a code that was sent out in an email. If you cannot find the email, drop me an email and I can send over the access code for you.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Daisy R & Terrance-James S 🤩 Reception Oscar P & Oliver L 🤩 Year 1 Sebastian S & Grace W 🤩 Year 2 Brody GH & Numa L 🤩 Year 3 Jack P & Naveena C 🤩 Year 4 Blake GH & George T 🤩 Year 5 Teddy C & Sophie D 🤩 Year 6 Freya H & Ruban N 🤩 Fantastic job, well done on achieving this week's star of the week.
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Ronnie F 🥳 Key Stage One Mackie C 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Imogen D 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Teddy C 🥳 What a great job, achieving the most housepoints this week - well done.
The winning house this week, with 436 housepoint is St. David's 🏴 - come along and see their flag flying at the front of the school.
2nd: St Patrick
3rd: St George
4th: St Andrew
Top Doodling Class Spelling & Maths
Maths - Y3
Spelling - Y3
Well done to our Y3 class for being the top doodlers this week. This means logging in daily to complete your homework.Attendance
Whole school attendance is 96.09%, which has fallen slightly behind national. Remember, being in school every day counts. Missing one day means that you have missed 9 sessions of learning.
This week's attendance superstars with 97.31% is Year 5 🏆 well-done everyone for trying to be in school every day.
School Clubs
I have emailed out today a list of clubs that are available this term. Just a reminder that clubs do not start the first week back as this is when we organise the different clubs that are on offer. Once you have selected the club, please email Mrs Embling, who will place your child in a club.
In other news...
Next week we are taking the whole school to the cenotaph on Friday to join in with the community to celebrate remembrance day.
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Mr A
