We have all had a lovely, busy last week of the half term and it has been jam packed with moments of celebration, enrichment activities, visits within our community and opportunities to explore our value of 'trust'.

On Tuesday, we had our third enrichment morning of this school year for all children from Year 1 through to Year 6. The children always welcome the opportunity to work with their enrichment group of friends and to explore different activities with adults across school.

Our fantastic adults all work so hard to make sure that this morning is purposeful, engaging and enjoyable for all.

As you can see from the photos Beech group, who visited Kington Court, did a fantastic job of sharing songs and poems and made everyone a 'Happy February' card which were treasured by the residents. This is such an important element of our enrichment community activities.

Our other groups had a wonderful time exploring ideas to help promote our school on our new updated website (hoping to launch in the next half term), learning about making noodles as a healthy meal option, being part of activities to promote mindfulness such as yoga, supporting our wider community with litter picking and focusing on still life using different media.

This week, Year 5 visited Kington library where Angela welcomed them back and shared stories with them. This will have been good preparation Y5 for World Book Day!

In our assemblies this week, we have thought more about the value of 'trust' and how important this is to healthy friendships. We welcomed Hannah from 'Checkpoint' on Wednesday and enjoyed the story which she shared with us.

We have also shared the video diaries of our guide dog puppies, Custard and Jack, which we all enjoyed seeing. Both of our sponsored puppies have made a really positive start to their training at the National Training Centre and we look forward to further pup-dates!

Our celebration assemblies on Thursday and Friday were a chance to say 'Congratulations and well done!' for many different reasons. We were able to award the class attendance prize for this half term to Years 2 and 5 who drew with exactly the same attendance figure! They are looking forward to planning their reward after the holiday.

We also awarded our individual prize for children who have been given one of our 'values tickets'. Everyone is working so hard to reflect our values in all that they do and there were so many tickets in the hat, congratulations if you had been given a ticket for the draw.

Our 'achievement' assembly today was made extra special by our important visitor....Mrs. Bretherton, who visited us this morning. We were all so excited and pleased to see her. We were all proud to hear of the different reasons that our certificate children had been chosen for and these included; for making amazing progress in spelling and reading, for being a positive role model giving 100% all of the time, for showing resilience and perserverance, for working really hard to improve presentation and for developing healthier friendships. Mrs. Bretherton even surprised Mrs. Welson with her own certificate! At the end of our assembly we were treated to a taster from Mrs. Darch and Mrs. Wood, from the upcoming Kington pantomime 'Dick Whittington', we were all very excited and entertained by their song. 

Across KS2 it has been the first time presenting the draw prize for completing homework and collecting the stamps. Our happy winners were really excited with their prizes and we look forward to our next draw next half term.

Today, you will have been emailed our annual reading newsletter which has details of the whole school competition linked to World Book Day (the paper plate which has come home today) and information about how we are celebrating this special day along with information about reading in our school. Please let us know if you did not receive the newsletter.

We hope that everyone has a 'happy half term' and we look forward to welcoming everyone back to school on Monday 24th February and hearing about the things you have done or places that you have visited.