We were so lucky with the weather for our Summer Fayre last Friday which meant everyone could enjoy the stalls and the Year 6 games that they had created especially.  The Friends of KPS team were busy preparing the Fayre throughout the day and we send our huge thanks to them and all of Year 6 for all their hard work. Thank you so much to you all for coming and helping us to raise over £1330!

Mr Sell, the Mayor of Kington, paid a visit to school again last week as he came to talk to our School Council and Sports Council about how the Town Council run their meetings and make important decisions for the town.  He even brought his official Mayoral chain with him to show us.  

We had a real treat in assembly too as Violet and Benedict, two of our Year 6 pupils, performed their Grade 2 examination pieces to the whole school on their clarinets.  They even showed us how to assemble the instruments and were accompanied on the piano by their dad too.  Thank you to the Darch family for sharing with us all.

Congratulations to our Headteacher's Stickers winners too for displaying our values throughout the school; their teachers were very proud to share how well they have been working in class and the lovely qualities they show each other on the playground.  Edward, Tom and Edith also announced the winners and runners up of their poster competition they had set as a challenge after telling us all about the dangers of deforestation and how it is destroying the habitats of many animals including orangutans.  Well done and thank you to everyone who took part - it was a very hard decision!

Our Year 6 children have represented the school brilliantly this week, whether they are practising the KS2 show (performance date is 2pm and 6pm on 12th July at LHS - tickets on sale soon) or at the Luctonians Tag Rugby Fest where we managed to get to the semi-finals and then only lost by 1 point!  They were rightly very proud of themselves, as is Mr Ward-Willis who felt they deserved a special star sticker in assembly for their wonderful team work.

Our sticker assembly was very busy again as we welcomed Mr Axon who will teach our sports for us on Fridays for the rest of this term. We also were pleased to hand out some Grade 2 in Clarinet certificates for two of our Year 6 pupils who both earned a merit in their exams - well done!

And, of course, well done to the children who are proudly wearing their Headteacher's Sticker this week. Your teachers have spotted you showing such lovely values such as: friendship towards new pupils; hard work and resilience in your writing; fractions and spellings; great motivation in learning their times tables and lines for the play as well as just being fantastic role models.  Thank you all so much - you really do help to make the school a lovely place to be!

Please enjoy some photos from our recent Year 5 and 6 trip to London.

It's been a busy week for our Year 6 children - they have coped admirably with their assessments in reading and maths and we are very proud of them. Well done to everyone in Year 6, including our wonderful staff throughout the school who have supported them in their learning. We are very grateful to Ms Deans for preparing the bacon and egg sandwiches each morning again this year too!

After Year 6 had shared an assembly with us on Friday and all received a Headteacher's Sticker, we also celebrated achievements from across the school this week including some super ukulele playing, hard work in every lesson, considerate friendships and being resilient when finding things tricky.  Well done all and have a great weekend.

We had a very special visit from our local police officer PC Turberfield this week who came in to introduce herself and tell us about her job.  She very kindly brought along her police car and some of the uniform and equipment that she uses as part of the role of police officer.  We are very grateful to you PC Turberfield and the children loved meeting you (and having a go on the sirens!).

Congratulations to our sticker winners today who have all shown such lovely values in their work, play and friendships. Well done everyone!

If you are out and about in Kington over the next month or so, please do pop in to the Border Bean to look at our children's artwork which we have out together as part of the Marches Makers Festival that is going on throughout the town this weekend. It looks very impressive! Thank you to Beccy, Anne and Nancy for helping us to get involved.

Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend everyone and we will see you on Tuesday.

Our Nursery and Reception children had a lovely treat this week as Sam and Heather McLeod from Pentre Farm kindly brought some of their animals to visit and show us how to care for them.  The children were absolutely delighted and we are so grateful to Sam and Heather for bringing them along.

Congratulations to our sticker winners today.  Even though Year 3 and 4 were out on their Swansea trip, we were still able to fill the benches at the front!  Well done to everyone for demonstrating such lovely hard-working attitudes and for listening really well to those around you.  Year 5 also entertained us with their Victorian facts they have found out from their recent history topic.

We will add some photos of the Egyptian Centre trip to Swansea when the weary travellers return but in the meantime, have a lovely weekend and let's hope the sunshine lasts for a bit longer!