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.

We thought we would wait until Monday to publish last week's blog so we could include some pictures of the Christmas Fair that our PTA held on Saturday down in the barn at Turners. It was such a lovely occasion with plenty of wonderful Christmas cheer, sparkle, food and gifts and was really well-attended by the local community. Thank you so much to our fabulous team of hardworking parents and staff that make up the Friends of KPS and to all the stall holders who joined us for the fair.  We were very lucky to have Father Christmas with us too along with his team of Elf-dogs!  A huge thank you to all at JP Turners for hosting the event and also for keeping our school flower beds looking beautiful too.  

There was lots of celebrate in our Friday Headteacher Sticker assembly too with our teachers choosing children who had shown super progress, great choices and lovely enthusiasm in their learning.  Well done to everyone. 

Some were also chosen because they had tried out their bread-making skills to contribute to the World War 2 themed dance and soup event that Year 5 and 6 put on for their parents and visitors on Thursday.

Our School Council, made up of representatives from Year 2 to 6, presented an Anti-bullying assembly to the rest of the school last week too.  The children acted out some scenarios encouraging children to be kind and look after each other but to tell someone if they feel someone is being unkind to them.  It gave us lots to discuss and we have continued to explore the theme this week too.

And lastly some photos of our youngest children going on an animal hunt with Mr Haines in the hall - they found lots of tigers and elephants and had so much fun!