We would love to share with you news from our busy and productive week here at Kington Primary. 

This week our Reception class had a wonderful walk around Kington visiting our local shops and they all behaved so well and were very polite.  Through their walk Reception have learnt about what a butcher, baker and green grocer sell, and where our food comes from. Thank you to all of the business owners who made us feel so welcome.

Our Year 3 and 4 netball players took part in a competition at LHS against 4 other schools and played wonderfully. They all enjoyed the opportunity to explore this game and meet other children of the same age, from different schools. Thank you to Mrs. Joyce and Mrs. Bretherton for accompanying them.

Our whole school focus on reading continues from World Book Day last week, with the exciting visit from Duncan 'The Book Man' with his £3 book sale. Everyone who was lucky enough to be able to buy one of Duncan's lovely books was really pleased with their purchases and the super variety of books available meant that some tricky decisions over which book to buy had to be made! Thank you for your support with this. We are also looking forward to sharing the entries for the 'book on a plate' competition with our families today and know that everyone will quite rightly be very impressed with the effort that had been put in by you all.

Our new 'Young Leaders' who support playtimes with our Key Stage 1 and Reception classes at lunchtimes have been on their official training accompanied by Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Welson. They had an amazing day and represented our school so well. They are all now ready to start supporting our younger children as they have fun, active and positive lunchtime playtimes. At their training our Y5 children received our 'Equal Access' award which reflects our inclusive sports and PE practice. 

In our assemblies this week we have continued to think about our whole school values and celebrated Ireland's victory in the monthly values beads count and a 'well done' to Scotland who lead the overall count for the academic year to date. Our values beads continue to be a prized acknowledgement of behaviour and actions that mirror our school values. To support our whole school assemblies 2 of our school community have written a values poem which will be shared at the end of each assembly. We would like to share their poem with you.

'Let us hope and trust in each other to show courage and perseverance so we can be ready, respectful and safe in school.

We co operate best when we show responsibility and kindness in our friendships.

Help us to be honest in our school so we can be full of peace and understanding.'

In our sticker assembly today we all shared this poem and thought carefully about the meaning of the  words. We were pleased to celebrate today stickers for being so wonderful at the play leaders training, for consistently working hard, for making excellent progress in everything, for writing an amazing poem, for having a great understanding of healthier foods, for problem solving and for being such a kind and supportive friend who includes everyone.

Wow! Just brilliant reasons, congratulations to you all.

We hope that you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday.