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..
Fri 26 Jan 2024What a super week! The pupils have been looking at the Holocaust and different parts of the Jewish faith. This is formed in celebration today and in remembrance of tomorrow's actual remembrance day around Freedom and what this means to us all.
Congratulations to the football team who won their match 5-2 against Lawn Primary School - amazing job boys - well done.
Stars of the Week
EYFS Harleigh PM & Harrison T 🤩 Year 1 Harry H & Elena FK 🤩 Year 2 Jaxon N & Hugh R 🤩 Year 3 Molly M & Junior T 🤩 Year 4 Phoebe D & Lucas L 🤩 Year 5 Courtney R & Isla Rose S 🤩 Year 6 Sasha C & Brooke C 🤩 Amazing job on completing some lovely work throughout the week.
House Point Winners
St. Andrew William S 🥳 St. George Courtney R 🥳 St. Patrick Imogen D 🥳 St. David Poppy 🥳 Super work earning lots of house points for your house.
The winning house this week with 330 house points is St. Patrick 🇮🇪 Congratulations on winning the cup this week.
Top Doodlers
The following pupils have achieved a massive 500-day streak:
William S for 500 days in both Maths & Spell &
Zayn I for 500 days in Maths - amazing job boys!
Maths: Y5 🧮
Spell: Y2 📝
Attendance
The winning class this week with 94.21% is Year 5 🏆. Well done on being in school regularly.
May I remind parents that headteachers cannot authorise holidays during term time. This could result in a fine from the Local Authority. Headteachers are only allowed to authorise absence in exceptional circumstances. This will result in unauthorised attendance and if there are 10 sessions, which equates to 5 days, this may lead to a fine being issued.
In other news
Monday
Year 4 trip to Steam
Wednesday
Year 3 & 4 Football Tournament
Thursday
Year 5 & 6 Football Tournament
14:45 Y4 Class Assembly - parents welcome
17:00 Arbor workshop for assessment - parents welcome
That is it from me this week. We are going to be holding a 'Break the Rules' day in school, so watch out for our communication.
Have a fabulous 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..
Fri 19 Jan 2024Another week has flown by and we are getting to grips with the new app and getting all the assessments and things set up for you. You should now be able to see where your child is in their learning for Reading, Writing, Maths and Science. We are working on the other subjects, which will appear before the end of the term. You may also have noted that there are two parent evening slots on the app - you can book your appointment from the 30th of January if you prefer the Tuesday appointment or the 31st of January if you prefer the Thursday appointment.
I have reminded the children today that they must come in via the large gates where Mr Hatcliffe and I stand - this is because we have a one-way system in place but also, I feel that it is essential that we say good morning to the children as they enter the school. Can you please make sure that you help them not get into trouble by coming in the right gate, thank you.
Stars of the Week
EYFS Lily H & Phillip C 🤩 Year 1 Roman E & Zayne S 🤩 Year 2 Stanley H & Poppy M 🤩 Year 3 Jasper M & Carter R 🤩 Year 4 Ayla A & Jack P 🤩 Year 5 Sade C & Kanyenna N 🤩 Year 6 Alfie C & Hannah S 🤩 Well done on working well throughout the week.
Housepoint Winners
St. Andrew Hannah S 🥳 St. George Oliver L 🥳 St. David Alfie C 🥳 St. Patrick Alfie R 🥳 Super job on earning lots of house points for your house.
This week's winning house with 286 house points is St. Andrew 🏴
2nd St. George
3rd St. Patrick
4th St. David
Top Doodlers
Well done to Marlon S & Arthur WT for achieving a 50-day streak in Maths.
Well done to Lucas L for achieving 250 day streak in Maths and Spell and well done to Oliver L for a 250-day streak in Maths.
A big shout out to Aflie R for achieving a 500-day streak in Maths - you are all superstars 🌟
Maths: Year 2 🧮
Spell: Year 3 📝
Attendance
The winning class this week, with 99.5% is Year 3 🏆 well done on being in school every day - every day counts!
Whole school attendance is currently 95.49% and National is 94.7%; therefore we are now 0.79% above national figures - Well done everyone, keep it going. Remember, every day counts, so please make sure that your child is in school every day.
In other news...
All week children will be learning about the Holocaust and the theme this year is Fragility of Freedom. Each class will look at this at age appropriate level and there will be a celebration of work on Friday 26th January for the pupils.
Holocaust Remembrance Day is Saturday 27th January. If you are interested to know more, please follow the link: Holocaust Remembrance Day
I hope you have a lovely weekend and the temperature is not too cold for everyone.
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 12 Jan 2024It has been a good start to the term and the children have settled back in to their routine and learning. As you may have noticed we have several improvement projects happening around school. Y3, Y4, & Y5 have new doors in their classrooms to get to the outside area. We are waiting for the company now to create something different and change from the stones, so that these year groups have an outside area.
The children have also asked for a trampoline through the school parliament, so we are working on this development for the children. This will be supervised at all times and will not be allowed to be used after school.
Arbor
I am hoping that you are now all on Arbor and getting our communication via email or in-app messages. If you have not downloaded the app, please make sure that you do as we can send messages through to the app. I can see that 87% of parents have downloaded and logged into the app - thank you.
Stars of the Week
EYFS Hope H & Tommy C 🤩 Year 1 Olivia M & Mikhail S 🤩 Year 2 Imogen L & Sebastian S 🤩 Year 3 Jack T & Dylan O 🤩 Year 4 Nathan K & Romeo H 🤩 Year 5 Imogen D & Ethan M 🤩 Year 6 Brooke C & Lyla A 🤩 Excellent effort from all of you - well done.
Housepoint Winners for each House
St. Andrew Louis F 🥳 St. David Jack T 🥳 St. George Logan C & Jamie L 🥳 St. Patrick George G 🥳 Well done on earning plenty of housepoints for your house.
This week's winning house with 132 housepoints is St. George 🇬🇬 - super work, well done.
2nd St. Andrew
3rd St. Patrick
4th St. David
Top Doodlers
Well done to Jack T for achieving a 365 day streak in Doodle Spell.
Maths: Y5 🧮
Spell: Y2 & Y3 📝
Attendance
This week's winning class with 99% attendance is Year 2 🏆 well done for being in school every day.
Whole school attendance is 94.64%, which is below
That is it for this week. I hope you all have a lovely weekend and we loo forward to seeing you all on Monday.
Mr A
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Happy New Year Blog
Fri 05 Jan 2024Welcome Back.
Happy New Year 🥳🎊🎉
I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and a welcomed start to the New Year. I cannot believe that we are in 2024. I will have been HT at the school in April for 11 years. Where did that time go?
Arbor
I know that we are having some teething problems with Arbor. We are working as quickly as possible to ensure all these issues are corrected quickly. If you have not connected to Arbor yet, you should have received an email from Arbor with your code. If you have not had this, then we do not have the correct email address for you. Please come into the office and we will update this for you.
The children have settled in well and it is lovely to see them all back and in school uniform. If you are unsure about the uniform you can see what your child should be wearing HERE
Well done to all the children that have been active on Doodle over the holidays. We have had emails about children completing 50 days, 100 days, 250 days, 365 days and 500 days streaks! That is just amazing! Keep up the good work. I do not know what I am going to do when the first child gets to 1000 days.
In other news...
Next week, some Year 5 & Year 6 girls will be representing the school in a football tournament. Let's hope we win 🏆
Later in the term
Y4 are going on a trip to the Steam Museum.
There is a Y3/4 football tournament.
Year 4 Class assembly.
Parent meetings
Maths Whiz
and of course our Topic celebration.
The term ends on Friday 9th February.
That is it from me. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I will see you next week.
Mr A
