Our School Value for May is Cooperation.
Our Core Values: Hope, Trust, Courage & Perseverance, Respect, Cooperation, Responsibility, Kindness & Friendship, Honesty, Peace and Understanding.
We explore our core values in our school and class assemblies and look out for them in our daily practice, earning Values Vouchers and Beads as we go.
We have reached the end of January and thus finished our focus on the value of 'humility'. We awarded headteacher awards to children in assembly for showing this value, however many children had also impressed their teachers with other values too, such as perseverance and determination.
We look forward to working on our next school value of 'patience' for February.
Either side of our Ofsted Inspection the children have enjoyed some special opportunities to explore books. On Monday Year Six started six weeks of drama with The Courtyard Theatre exploring Macbeth and today we welcomed local author C.S.Clifford into school. He entertained KS1 and KS2 this morning in assembly, talking about the exciting possibilities of time travel. He answered questions about his fantastic books before working with children across KS2 on elements of writing and giving them tips and ideas to improve their own writing. The children all had such a fantastic time and were really inspired. The children also had the opportunity to purchase a signed book to take home as a momento of the day.
It's been such a positive start back to term and the children are clearly reenergised and ready to learn.
Choosing children to receive the Head teacher Awards this week was very difficult for every class teacher, as staff continued to comment on how well their children had returned back to school. Many of the adults in assembly nominated children who had shown great levels of effort and participation over the week over several subjects. Congratulations to everyone - and welcome back!