We hope you are ready for a nice summer break with lots of fun and relaxing activities planned.  

We've had a lovely last few days with lots to celebrate in our Leavers' Assembly to our Year 6 families and to the school today. Congratulations to Violet who was presented with the Values Cup and to Sonia who has been awarded the Jubilee Cup for an outstanding year.  The House Captains presented their last house point badges today and announced the Values Beads winners who were Ireland - but only just!  All our best wishes go with our Year 6 pupils as they move on to their new secondary schools.  We will miss you Year 6!

We have also presented some very proud children with their Achievement Certificates this week and lots of athletics badges earned by the Athletics Club with Mrs Welson.

Please have a wonderful rest over the next few weeks and enjoy some time together with friends and family.  As a staff, we thank you for your continued support over this year and next. Thank you also for our lovely gifts - the wonderful cake in the photo says it all!

Take care all and we will see you in September. 

We've had some lovely Indian dancing this week from the children in the Tuesday club with Mrs Bachmann and Mrs Sandher - a real treat for staff and parents and soon to be shared in our assembly too.

Thank you to all of our pupils who represented our Kington so well at the Summer Games at the Hereford Leisure Centre, joining many other school from around the county to take part in dodgeball, rounders, athletics amongst other sports.  We will aim to share some photos with you soon.

Thursday was our transition morning as well as the day our Year 6 children went to their new high schools for the day.  It was so lovely to go around the school and see the children happily working with their new teachers in their new classrooms. 

Please note that we will be holding a parents' drop-in on Thursday 11th July from 3.30pm to 4.45pm for any parents who would like to pop in and say hello to their child's new teacher in the new classroom.  All welcome!

Congratulations to our many awardees today; house point badges, TTRS green map winners and our Headteachers' Stickers.  Thank you for working so hard and showing the values in such a positive way.  Mr Sell, our Mayor also came in to share a story he had written that incorporated all of our important values.

Our youngest children had a great time this morning searching for buried treasure around the school for their Pirate Day - there was some fierce 'Ooo-arrhs' coming from the Nursery all morning!

I will let the photos do the talking today as it was such a great morning and a huge thank you to all our parents, friends and families who were able to come and support the children.  The team spirit, determination and passion for the sports shone through in every race and activity.  A special well done to our class medal winners William, Aria, Ellie-Mae, Jake, Bailey, Milan and Roxy for their excellent attitude shown in PE lessons this year.  Presented by Emma Hancocks from the Kington Festival Committee, we are proud to announce this year that our Victor trophy goes to Jonny and our Victrix trophy to Sara as they have shown wonderful qualities in participating and leading sports throughout the school.  Scotland and Wales were the winners of the shield and trophy this year - but only just!

Thank you to all our hard-working staff for making the event happen and especially to Mr Ward-Willis and Mrs A Welson for organising the whole day.

Enjoy a restful weekend - please do join us at the Church Fete on Saturday afternoon (2pm to 5pm) if you are able, where we have some games to play.

What a lovely, sunny way to end the week!

We had a very busy assembly today, welcoming Emma from the Kington Festival Committee who came in to present our Year 6 Wheelbarrow Race Attendants with their thank you gifts. We hope you have a really lovely day tomorrow and thank you for representing the school.

Well done to all of our children who received their achievement certificates (from last half term) today - they really are well-deserved and it was lovely to see everyone so proud of their fantastic qualities, progress and choices.  

And finally, we were very sad to say goodbye to our lovely Mr Haines today as he leaves us to start a new job in America! We have all loved working with you Mr Haines and we thank you for being such a super part of our team here at KPS. All our best wishes on your travels and adventures. We will look forward to reading the postcards out in assembly!

Have a lovely weekend everyone - take care.

We have had a wonderfully busy last week of this half term including enrichment morning on Tuesday, representatives from Year 1 and 2 taking part in the Herefordshire Panathlon event, Key Stage 2 visiting Hay Festival and some of our Year 5 and 6 children going on the residential trip to London! We celebrated achievements from this week in our Friday sticker assembly. On a Friday each class takes a turn to share something that they have been learning and exploring recently and this week Year 1 treated us all to their performance of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. Our stickers were awarded for amazing phonics; being super role models for others to follow; having a wonderful enthusiasm for learning; writing independently about topics which are important to us; showing fantastic team work and determination in PE and for showing impressive focus during activities. We would like to wish everyone a very happy half term and we will see everyone on Monday 3rd June.

Thank you to some of our Year 3 children for sharing their excellent version of Rumpelstiltskin in today's celebration assembly.  It was entertaining and dramatic in equal measures and superbly acted out.  We also had a lot of head teacher's stickers to award, house point badges for our House Captains to hand out and some certificates and medals for times tables expertise in school and for football and rugby tournaments some of our children took part in last weekend.  Well done all!

Our whole school art work in Border Bean has been really well-received so we took even more over this week to use every space we could!  It looks really fabulous displayed on the walls and visitors have left some wonderful compliments in the comments book. Thank you to Becca and her team for supporting the school to take part - please do pop in and visit if you can.

We also thought you might like to see how Willow and Squirrel are relaxing into their new home - they look so happy! Hope you enjoy the sunshine as much as they will be this weekend.