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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 28 Apr 2023Another busy week in the life of the school and we are pleased at how well our children represent the school when they are out and about on school trips. Nursery children went to Witchelstow and boarded a pirate ship as part of their topic. They had so much fun and the school has been sent messages saying how wonderfully behaved our children are, especially when they were eating cakes in Waitrose.
A gentle reminder that in the mornings, can you please make sure that you come in through the large gates where Mr Hatcliffe and I are stood as we like to say good morning to every child as they start their school day. This also helps with the flow of traffic, especially at the start of the day - thank you for your support in this, it is truly helpful.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Ronnie F & Enzo B 🤩 Reception Corey B & Eleanor T 🤩 Year 1 Freddie C & Sebastian P 🤩 Year 2 Carter R & Niamh C 🤩 Year 3 Phoebe D & Jibril S 🤩 Year 4 Cledwyn M & Navam C 🤩 Year 5 Rosie M & Eymen T 🤩 Year 6 Robert R & Raymond C 🤩 Computing Laila H 🤩 Well done to all of you for working hard through the week, you can see some of their work HERE
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Zayn I 🥳 Key Stage One Jack T 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Mollie C 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Alfie C 🥳 Congratulations on earning lots of housepoints for your house.
This week's winners with 386 housepoints is St. Patrick 🇮🇪. The flag is flying at the front of the school.
2nd St George
3rd St David
4th St Patrick
Top Doodlers
This week we had 3 children with a 200-day streak and 1 child with a 250-day streak.
Logan C, George G, & Alfie R - well done on a 200-day streak in Maths.
Esmae D - well done on a 250-day streak in Maths.
Maths: Year 2 🧮
Spell: Year 3 📝
Attendance
This week's winning class with 98.46% are Year 5 🏆 well done for being in school every day.
The whole school attendance is 94.53%. An excellent start to the term, let us keep this going and see if we can make it past 95%.
In other news...
Monday
This is a bank holiday, so have a lovely long weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday.
Tuesday
Although a strike day, we are open, please see your email.
That is all for this week, I do hope that you have a lovely long weekend and have some quality family time.
Kind regards
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 21 Apr 2023Welcome back!
I hope that you have had a wonderful Easter break and managed to have some quality family time. It is a shame that we didn't experience a mini heatwave, but it was nice not to be in the routine of day-to-day schooling and spending time with family.
This week our Y5 pupils have been out all week on their residential to Call of the Wild, you can see what they have been up to. In school, pupils have been working hard to kick-start the summer term.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Arthur H & Hunter T 🤩 Reception Mula M & Roman E 🤩 Year 1 Ethan S & Arya C 🤩 Year 2 Junior T & George H 🤩 Year 3 Amelle D & James W 🤩 Year 4 John H & Teddy N 🤩 Year 5 Jamie L 🤩 Year 6 Esther BM & Castor S 🤩 Brilliant start to the term. You can see some of their work HERE
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Arthur H 🥳 Key Stage One William S 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Mollie C 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Esther BM 🥳 Well done for earning extra points for your house.
This week's winning house with 384 housepoints is St George 🇬🇬 - well done and your flag is now flying high at the front of the school.
2nd place St David
3rd place St Andrew
4th place St Patrick
Attendance
Welcome back. It has been a good start to the term with attendance. The winning class this week with 97.5% is Year 4 🏆 - well-done everyone in Y4 for being in school this week.
Whole school attendance is 94.44%, which is currently above the national data of 93.5% - well-done everyone for being in school every day.
Top Doodlers
This week we have loads to celebrate as more and more pupils are achieving streaks.
50 days: Alfie C, Alex W, Nathan K, Hannah S
100 days: Jack T, Mollie C, Desmond C, Phoebe D, Lyla A
200 days: Zayn I
250 days: Imogen D, Chloe A, Zachary D, Esmae D
Maths: Reception 🧮
Spell: Year 3 📝
Well done to all of you - keep up the good work.
In other News...
Monday
St. George's Day - children can come in non-school uniform if in this house
Wednesday
Beep, beep day in EYFS and Key Stage One
Vision screening check for Reception children
I am delighted to say that we are taking part in Swinpup with other schools in Swindon. We have our Swinpup who we have to decorate (see picture below). Each class will be allocated an area and get to paint the Swinpup ready to be part of the Swinpup Trail. I will be sending out more information about why we are doing this and the charity that we are going to try and raise £500 for - this is our target! Details will come out next week.
I hope you have a great weekend, and Y5 parents, I do hope your children are not too tired after their fun week away.
Mr A
