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.

We have said goodbye to our lovely guinea pigs today as they headed off very happily to their new 'forever home' with one of our lovely families.  The children (and Ms Deans!) have loved looking after them when they visit the ELSA room and they have been a very special part of our school for the past year.

Congratulations to the sticker winners today - it's always a lovely way to end the week and today was no exception. From talking more confidently; having a supper attitude to their swimming; asking thoughtful questions; showing our values in their work or play to welcoming visitors to our school; we are proud of you all!

Thanks all and have a good rest over the weekend.

We started this week with Friday's usual Headteacher's Sticker assembly as there was so much excitement with the sponsored Bunny Run on Friday!  Each class took part in a run either round the Rec or the playground which saw them running lots of laps and enjoying raising money for the Friends of Kington Primary School.  Well done to everyone who took part or supported the event and thank you so much to our hard-working Friends who sold all the bunny ears and set up the course.

It was lovely to celebrate our children's achievements in today's assembly. Year Four have started our class assembly season with a super musical performance on their ukuleles and their Ancient Egyptians song.  The stickers were awarded for many reasons as usual including some Year Six running teammates looking after each other and spurring their friends on to keep going. We've also said well done to lots of children who are working hard on their phonics or writing skills and to those who are spotted always doing the right thing and setting a great example to those around them. Well done everyone.

It was lovely to share Aria in Year One's special award for entering a Blue Peter book review competition which has earned her a much coveted Blue Peter badge - a very special thing indeed. Thank you for sharing this with us Aria and your fabulous artwork - enjoy the free entry into all the amazing events that it brings you too.

We held our first maths workshops for our Year One parents last week (thank you Mrs Roberts-Powell) which was really well-attended and equally enjoyed. Practising any skills such as maths, reading or phonics at home is vital at any age and the children loved playing maths games with their adults so they can continue embedding their learning at home. We hope to continue these workshops with other younger year groups soon so please keep an eye out.