What strange weather we've had today! A bit of everything it seems.

We had a lovely assembly today, celebrating a huge amount of people who have earned their next house point badges, expertly presented as always by our House Captains.  Next came our headteacher's stickers which really celebrated the children's hard working attitudes and those who are making really good choices in their learning and around the school.  We also had lots of children nominated because they are doing so well with their fractions which, as you will know, can be really tricky and need lots of perseverance to keep working through.

In other news, I have shared some of our photos from the Year 5 and 6 trip to Blists Hill, a Victorian town last Friday. Everyone found it so interesting to explore all the working shops and buildings, giving us a great insight into life during the Victorian times, particularly the Victorian school lesson which we were dressed up for and then marched through town!

And finally, thank you and congratulations to our Year fives who performed their 'Come Alive' dance in two performances at The Courtyard Theatre on Tuesday to a packed out audience. They were just amazing and did everyone at school really proud.  

Enjoy getting ready for World Book Dress Up Day next Friday and please do come and see our competition entries in the hall after school on Monday 11th March (please note new date due to School Disco on the 8th).

Thanks all and have a lovely weekend, whatever the weather is up to!

We've had so much going on in school this week, I will let the photos do the talking! From Enrichment where each group explores one of the principles of Harmony, Bikeability for some of our Year 5 children, Internet Safety assembly and lessons, a talk on how to be kind online by PC Jo and we even had two rock bands from the Hereford College of Arts come and play to us. They had us all dancing by the end!  Congratulations to Wales for winning the Running Club trophy, four of our Y4 children who already know all of their times tables (wow!) and to our wonderful Achievement Certificate awardees.  A big well done to Year 4 who have worked so well as a determined team to win this half term's attendance prize with a very impressive 98.9%!

Have a lovely half term all and we will see you back on Monday 19th February.

Good morning! You'll notice we have some of our older pupils demonstrating some of the sign language they have learnt this week with Katie who specialises in BSL. See if your children can remember the signs they were acting out in assembly this morning to teach you - they were very good!  Thank you to Katie for coming into school to do the workshops with Years 5 and 6 as well as the staff; we found it so interesting and loved being able to communicate in a different way.

Congratulations to our house point badge awardees and our Headteacher sticker winners today. So many were chosen for making super progress and for being wonderful role models around the school so thank you to them all.

We had a fantastic time at the World Resorts Arena on Friday, joining over 5500 children from other schools to sing and dance through a very exciting evening Young Voices performance.  Thank you to our marvellous Young Voices choir from Years 4, 5 and 6 who represented the school so well and sang their hearts out!

Working in a school at this time of year definitely feels like one of the most 'Christmassy' of places. We've had parties, carol concerts and sing-a-longs, Christmas lunch (served by our amazing Lunchtime team), Year 6 Christmas games and achievement certificate assembly  - all in just 4 days!  In our assembly today, Year 3 won the class attendance award again so well done to them and England are currently coming out on top in the values beads count.

We also said a very sad 'au revoir' to Mr Perkins who has kindly donated some ICT books and awards for the school so we can keep up his amazing work in the field of ICT.  He certainly deserves his own very special achievement certificate!

Thank you for all our cards, gifts or well wishes and we hope you all manage to switch off a bit and have some lovely times together.  We will see you all back in school on Tuesday 9th January 2024!  Take care all and happy Christmas and New Year.

So many lovely things to write about in this week's blog.

Today children have been awarded Head Teacher Stickers for many reasons; including making good choices, playing well with others, enthusiasm and for showing our value of 'understanding'.

Well done to our Sports Council for organising and running our Santa Dash, which saw children across the school being active and taking part in fun challenges.

Thank you very much to many of our Year 6 children, who helped to bake and raise money for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young).  All the children across school really enjoyed the cakes and together we raised £90 for this special charity.

Also this week, the children were treated to a lovely pantomime of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol.  Thank you again to the 'Friends' committee for organising this and using raised funds to subsidise so all our children could enjoy it.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in school now with our Christmas lights up and tree in the main entrance.  Thank you also to Tack Barn Farm for donating a beautiful tree for the garden again this year; we really appreciate it and it looks lovely.

A very busy week and there's yet more exciting things to come in the last few weeks.  Have a lovely weekend.