What an amazing way to end our half term!  This week, we've had our first set of Enrichment days; a wonderful House team singing competition (narrowly won by Ireland); two of our Year 6 pupils were presented with our Platinum School Games Award at a very special awards ceremony at Whitecross High School and our School Council visited Little Orchards Nursery to build some community links. 

As if that wasn't enough for one week, today, our football and netball teams played so well against the other six schools who took part in the Mitchell Hamer tournament this morning - we were very proud as they all represented the school brilliantly. Thank you to LHS for lending us their field, Mr Ward-Willis and Mrs Welson for organising the whole event and to Mr Spencer and Mr and Mrs Hughes for helping out. 

Back in school, we had our first Achievement assembly of the academic year and everyone was so proud of their certificates. Well done to you all!  Grace won the Voucher prize draw for this half term and the class attendance award was won by Year 5 with a very impressive 97.4%.

You may have noticed that all the children came home today with a packet of bulbs that have very kindly been donated by Tony and Tracey from I Can Foster.  This is so that everyone can plant them now ready to enjoy the daffodils, crocuses or tulips that come up in the spring time. Thank you!

We send all our love and best wishes to Miss Minett and her husband-to-be for their wedding next week. Year 5 children and staff loved holding a special 'wedding ceremony' for her this afternoon followed by a fun party and cake!

Finally, thank you to you all for your support. It has been lovely to see so many of you at Parent's Evenings this week and we really appreciate how much you work with our staff to support your child in school.

Have a fantastic half term break and we will see you back in school on Monday 4th November.

What glorious weather to finish our week with!

We had a super start to the week with our Harvest assembly at St. Mary's. Thank you to Mr Sell and Miss Edwards for making us all feel so welcome.

Today our school has hosted the 'Selina Cup' which is our football competition for Y5 and Y6 girls. Our two teams represented our school so well and demonstrated our school values in every match that they played. Special thanks go to Mr. Ward-Willis who organises this tournament and to LHS for allowing us to play on their pitches and for letting us have some of their fabulous students as the referees. 

In school we have been excited to see our new playground shelter taking shape and we are all so pleased with how it is looking. Thank you so much to the Friends of KPS and the Co-op for helping us to raise funds to build it!

In our assembly, Mrs. Welson shared information about the BBC 500 words story competition which has been launched and showed everyone how there is information on the school website (supporting the curriculum) for any of our brilliant story writers who would like to enter.

Our weekly attendance award went to Year 2 for 100% weekly attendance!

Our stickers this week were awarded for such important and wonderful reasons including super behaviour, being excellently engaged in their own learning, contributing more in lessons, great reading and maths work and for being a kind, encouraging friend.

We hope that everyone has a super weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.

We have had such a lovely busy day in school today and we were all so happy to see the sunshine this afternoon! Our Headteacher stickers were awarded this week for a variety of amazing reasons including children who are showing that are ready to learn and do their best in lessons, for excellent progress with phonics and reading and for super problem solving in maths. Other reasons included for showing brilliant friendship qualities and for being a very kind person. Congratulations to you all.

This week we said 'Well done' to Year 2 whose class attendance was the highest last week and they enjoyed their extra playtime.

Year 3 and a group of Year 4 visited Kington Court this morning and shared a Harvest song and some animal poetry with the residents and their families. We had such a lovely warm welcome and can't wait to visit again.

Have a great weekend everyone and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

It was super to see so many familiar faces at Kington Show and we had many visitors who wanted to say 'Hello' and try one of the lovely activities which Mrs Palfreman had organised. Next week we will find out how Years 2 and 4 did in the competitions which they entered at the show.

We have had an amazing week across school. We have been able to say 'Congratulations' to all of our new Year 6 House Captains, we know that they are going to do a terrific job this year. Across school, we have all been working so hard on our values of friendship and kindness, with many of our values tickets being awarded.

This morning, we were able to celebrate the many wonderful reasons for children being chosen for a 'Headteacher sticker' . It was so lovely to hear about the hard work going on in maths lessons, phonics sessions and swimming. There were also children who are always showing a positive attitude in whatever they are doing and others following our 'Ready, Respectful, Safe' rules so well. In our assembly, we also introduced our new weekly attendance award, which will mean that the class with the highest overall attendance for the previous week, will be able to have 15 minutes extra playtime during the Friday. Everyone was very excited by this news and our first class to have this award were Year 4!

Year 4 have had a very busy week as they also had the opportunity to work with Steve and Ingrid from 'Hands Up' thinking about how important water is to us all.

We hope that everyone has a great weekend and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

We wish you all a very warm welcome to the new term!  There has been such a positive buzz all round school this week as everyone settles into their new classes and routines.  A particular welcome to all our new children and staff that have joined us this week including Miss Tindale in Year 3, Mrs Guy in Year 4 and Mrs Mills in Reception.

Already, we have been focusing on our new simplified rules of 'Ready, Respectful and Safe' which we will share more about next week.  During our first Celebration assembly today, staff have clearly been so impressed by their classes that they really struggled tochoose only two children for the headteacher's stickers!  Please do enjoy some photos of our first awardees and some around the classes - keep an eye out for the blog at the end of each week too, so we can keep you updated with what's been happening in school.

This week was all about the show and what a show it was!

Thank you to everyone who helped to bring it together and make it the colourful and entertaining spectacle that it was. A particularly large thank you to our Year 6 team of children and staff who have spent the last six weeks rehearsing.  We have some great photos to share from the dress rehearsal- thank you to Kim for coming along to take them!

We also had lots to celebrate in our Celebration assembly this Friday with our non-fiction writing competition winners being announced - all the wonderful entries madeit very difficult to choose from! We said a huge thank you to those who represented our school so well at the Summer Games in Hereford last week and shared some photos from our beautiful Indian Dance group who have been practising their dances to share with the school and parents. It was so beautiful that all of Year 1 went back to their class and had a go too!

The children kept our House Captains very busy this week too as they had a huge amount of house point badges to hand out - keep earning those house points everyone! And finally congratulations to our Headteacher's Sticker winners today - they really have done themselves proud.  The teachers are finding it increasingly hard to choose between the children each week as so many are working hard but just someof the resaons include: great listening skills; being super kind and helpful; amazing singing and dancing; super progression in maths or in their attitude to their own learning; fabulous sportsmanship and for someone who stepped up to take on three roles in the play at the last minute! Wow - what an end to a fabulous week!  Thank you everyone and enjoy the weekend.