Headteacher’s Blog
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Sat 25 Nov 2023I am so sorry that you have not had a blog for a couple of weeks and that you have been waiting for me. Thank you for waiting.
As we are coming to the end of the term, you should have received your child's term report. This is to indicate how well they are getting on since the parent meeting in October. If you have not received a report, please come to the school office and we can check to ensure that we have the correct email address for you.
I hope you enjoyed all the pictures on Facebook with the children enjoying spending time with the animals. I know they had an amazing time - thank you kindly to the parents who organised and paid for this wonderful opportunity.
Our youngest children started our Christmas celebrations with a wonderful nativity. It definitely made me very Christmassy and I want to start looking forward to the Big Day.
Next week is our final week of term as we break for Christmas on Friday 15th December. The school closes at 1pm. There are no teacher clubs on this day but the After School Care is open as usual until 6pm. Just to remind you that 2nd January is a teacher training day, and therefore, the children are not in school. All children come back to school on 3rd January 2024.
Consultation for joining Brunel Academies Trust
Thank you to all the parents who came to the meeting on Wednesday, it was great to see you there and you were asking some great questions. Thank you also to the parents who have emailed in, they also were very insightful questions. Parents have until Friday 15th December to put in their views about joining the MAT, but thus far, we have had some positive feedback. If you want any more information or you want to ask me a question, please email me: head@chiseldon.swindon.sch.uk or if you would like to email the Chair of Governors, please email clerk@chiseldon.swindon.sch.uk. If you would like to email Miss Jackie Fieldwick, who is the CEO of Brunel Academies Trust, you can by emailing: jfieldwick@brunel.org.uk
ScholarPack to Arbor
There will be an email coming out to you before the end of the term explaining why we are moving our system from ScholarPack to Arbor. This is not something that we planned on doing but Arbor has bought out ScholarPack and is now slowing down their service and support for this service. Please see the email next week regarding what parents need to do to be prepared for when we come back in January.
Stars of the Week
EYFS Arabella C & Jaziel D 🤩 Year 1 Olivia M & Travis F 🤩 Year 2 Amy Grace C & Chizi N 🤩 Year 3 Benjamin RP & Reuben J 🤩 Year 4 Jibril S & Grace C 🤩 Year 5 Aurora Joan CM & Oliver M 🤩 Year 6 Rosie M & Eymen T 🤩 Well done to all of you for working hard during the final weeks of term.
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Arthur H 🥳 Key Stage 1 Sebastian P 🥳 Lower Key Stage 2 Jasper M 🥳 Upper Key Stage 2 Imogen D 🥳 Well done on earning lots of housepoints for your house.
The winning house this week with 467 points is St. Patrick 🇮🇪
The winning house this term will select their celebration next week. The winning house with 3904 points is St. Patrick 🇮🇪
Top Doodlers
I am in shock and awe with the following children who have managed a massive 500+ day streak. I cannot believe that you have not missed a single day in well over a year. What a super job. Well done to:
Jack Taylor
Sebastian Plumstead
Imogen Davies
The following children have achieved amazing streaks:
Hugh Rogers for 365 days in Spell
Logan Curtis for 100 days in Maths &
Jasper Maybury for 100 days in Maths and Spell.
Maths: Year 4
Spell: Year 4
Attendance
The winning class this week with 97.49% attendance is Year 5! Well done on being in school regularly.
Whole school attendance is 95.39% Remember, every day counts and we must be in school. We are just above national, so we must keep working together to improve our attendance,
In other news...
As we enter the final week before we break for Christmas, everything is going on.
Monday
6pm KS1 Christmas Show. If you have not purchased your ticket yet, please see the office on Monday.
Tuesday
6pm KS2 Christmas Show. If you have not purchased your ticket yet, please see the office.
Wednesday
6pm KS2 Christmas Show.
Thursday
Christmas jumper day
Christmas dinner, please purchase on ParentPay.
Christmas disco - this is free but they may want £1 for sweets & a drink (15:25 - 17:00). They will already be in non-school uniform with their Christmas jumper.
Friday
Last day of term. There are no teacher clubs, so school finishes at 13:00. After School Care is open until 18:00 as normal.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing you all next week.
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..
Sat 11 Nov 2023Good morning everyone,
It was lovely to see some of you at the Cenotaph this morning to remember those who gave so much.
It has been a busy week, but the children have all returned to school after the half-term break. We are learning lots and preparing for Christmas already, as we do break up rather early this year 15th December.
If you have not signed up for the sleepover on 24th November, there is still plenty of time. This gives you an evening to spend together or go shopping for early Christmas gifts. Children come to school at 18:30 and you pick them up the next morning at 08:00. They would have all had some breakfast and will be very tired.
This week we have a new award. Mrs Perre's OPAL award. Look at the fantastic job she did in creating a smashing trophy (see pictures) - the children loved it!
Stars of the Week
EYFS Theodore I & Hunter T 🤩 Year 1 Samuel T & Lucas O 🤩 Year 2 Imogen L & Eva D 🤩 Year 3 Louis F & Tristan B 🤩 Year 4 Ryker H & Alfie R 🤩 Year 5 Neve D & Thomas C 🤩 Year 6 George G & Ellie D 🤩 Super effort, well done to all of you.
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Tobias S 🥳 Key Stage 1 Oliver L 🥳 Lower Key Stage 2 Mackie C 🥳 Upper Key Stage 2 Alfie C 🥳 Well done on earning lots of housepoints for your house.
The winning house this week with 405 housepoints is St George 🇬🇬 🏆
2nd St Patrick
3rd St David
4th St Andrew
Top Doodlers
Well done to Tobias S for achieving a 50-day streak in Maths and to Alfie C for achieving a 100-day streak also in Maths.
Maths: Year 3 🧮
Spell: Year 4 📝
OPAL Award
The winning class this week and deserved winners of the Golden Welly trophy, is Year 4
Attendance
This week's winning class with 96.57% is Year 3 🏆 Super job at being in school regularly.
Whole school attendance is 95.66%. We do need to keep above 95%, so remember everyone, every day counts in our learning journey.
In other news...
Next week will kick off the week with our Anti-bullying week. To help us celebrate this, we have booked a local artist who is going to be working with every class to create a sculpture to help us remember and celebrate Anti-bullying.
Year 4 are off to their PGL residential trip - have a super time and we will see you on Wednesday when you get back.
We also have our Maths week starting - as this is a national event. If children stay in the green and are in the green on Friday, they will have a hot chocolate to celebrate -so get doodling.
On Tuesday we have a football match at school against Lethbridge - good luck to our team, let us hope we win.
And on Thursday some of our KS2 children are performing at the Wyvern at the KS2 Christmas Voice Festival. I cannot wait to go and see them in action.
Have a super weekend, at least it is sunny today.
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 03 Nov 2023Welcome back!
Does it feel like we have returned for a while and the lovely half-term break seems far away? The children have come back to school positive and are enjoying being back in school. This is my favourite term as we build up for the Christmas celebrations - I know, I have said it, Christmas! Just to let you know it is only 7 weeks away.
You may have noticed our "Show you care, Park elsewhere" signs. Please may I ask that you respect these figures and do not park where they are placed. This is to help with our pupils crossing the road to school. I was shocked the other morning when two cars parked on top of the little guys and another two cars/vans zoomed down The Orchard.
These signs are to make it completely safe for our children to cross the road safely, please think about where you park as there are plenty of places around the village green with just a short walk to the main gates.
A little moan about the main gates, can you please make sure that you come in via the large gates where I or the senior team stand and exit via the small gate. We do run a one-way system at school to help everyone - thank you for respecting this little rule.
Stars of the Week
EYFS Mason H & Arthur H 🤩 Year 1 Zayne S & Mia RM 🤩 Year 2 Sofia G & Arthur WT 🤩 Year 3 Enhar T & Niamh C 🤩 Year 4 Charlie S & Eva G 🤩 Year 5 Bobby A & Thomas M 🤩 Year 6 Yana G & Esmae D 🤩 Housepoint Winners
EYFS Elliot M 🥳 Key Stage One Natalia L & Mia RM 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Niamh C 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Logan C 🥳 Top Doodlers
50 & 100-day streaks for Spell or Maths: Lucas S, Zayyn I, Elliot M, Eleanor T, Imogen L, Elena FK , Natalia L, Oliver L, Mia RM, John H, Niamh C, Alfie C, Sidney M, Logan C, Koby C, Hannah S.
250-day streak Maths - Hannah S
265-day streak Maths - Niamh C
Wow well done to all of you for keeping your streaks going for such a long period of time.
Maths: Year 2 🧮
Spell: Year 4 📝
Attendance
This week's winning class with 98.64% is Year 1 🏆 super work being in school so regularly.
Whole school attendance is 95.48%, which is slightly below our target of 97% for the year. Let us make every day count.
