Welcome back everyone, we hope that you all had a super half term. It has been so lovely to see everyone back this week including Mrs. Bretherton and to welcome the gorgeous days of sunshine that we have had

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This week has been a typically positive, productive and busy week across school which has included welcoming visitors into classes, opportunities for lots of PE outside and a celebration of achievement and hard work.

Year 4 welcomed Carey and Cynthia from the 'peace project' who worked with the class thinking of positivity towards others and the impact this can have. The children all represented our school brilliantly and demonstrated our school values of patience, empathy and respect.

Year 2 have started their Forest Schools sessions with Vik and had a wonderful time exploring our garden area exploring the wonders beneath our feet.

In our assemblies this week we have shared the latest 'pup-dates' for our sponsored puppies Jack and Custard. We were able to share videos of our puppies with their trainers and hear the new key skills that they are working on. Everyone was amazed at how much they have grown and developed since our last video!

On Wednesday, we welcomed Reverend Sally to lead our assembly and she shared the story of Elijah, thinking about the importance of listening to our own voice/conscience and sense of what is the right thing to do. Reverend Sally also shared another spectacular candle with us!

In our celebration assembly today we have been so impressed to hear about the effort and determination being shown in all year groups. Stickers were awarded today for many positive reasons which included: being a supportive friend to others, creating the most amazing poetry, for growing in confidence and therefore contributing more to lessons, being a really helpful person around school, for adapting to change so well, for the most wonderful Reception reading (the whole school were amazed at the vocabulary being read independently) and for showing their best. We also awarded 2 achievement certificates from last half term. What an inspiring way to end our week together!

We are all looking forward to our 'World Book Day' celebrations next week and would like to remind everyone that any entries for the 'decorate the plate' as a character or title of a book and the writing competition (details were shared on the reading newsletter email) are due in on Monday 3rd March. Next Friday, the 7th, will be the day when, those who wish to, come dressed up as a character from a story, poem, comic or information text. We can't wait to share photos with you next Friday.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone, hopefully the sunshine will last so that we can all spend some time outside and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday.