Our School Value for April is Respect.

Our Core Values: Hope, Trust, Courage & Perseverance, Respect, Cooperation, Responsibility, Kindness & Friendship, Honesty, Peace and Understanding.

We explore our core values in our school and class assemblies and look out for them in our daily practice, earning Values Vouchers and Beads as we go.

• Friday 26th April

  Fri 26 Apr 2024 Mrs Bretherton

  We have said goodbye to our lovely guinea pigs today as they headed off very happily to their new 'forever home' with one of our lovely families.  The children (and Ms Deans!) have loved looking after them when they visit the ELSA room and they have been a very special part of our school for the past year.

  Congratulations to the sticker winners today - it's always a lovely way to end the week and today was no exception. From talking more confidently; having a supper attitude to their swimming; asking thoughtful questions; showing our values in their work or play to welcoming visitors to our school; we are proud of you all!

  Thanks all and have a good rest over the weekend.

  

• Friday 19th April

  Fri 19 Apr 2024 Mrs Bretherton

  Our Nursery and Reception children had a lovely treat this week as Sam and Heather McLeod from Pentre Farm kindly brought some of their animals to visit and show us how to care for them.  The children were absolutely delighted and we are so grateful to Sam and Heather for bringing them along.

  Congratulations to our sticker winners today.  Even though Year 3 and 4 were out on their Swansea trip, we were still able to fill the benches at the front!  Well done to everyone for demonstrating such lovely hard-working attitudes and for listening really well to those around you.  Year 5 also entertained us with their Victorian facts they have found out from their recent history topic.

  We will add some photos of the Egyptian Centre trip to Swansea when the weary travellers return but in the meantime, have a lovely weekend and let's hope the sunshine lasts for a bit longer!

  

• Monday 15th April

  Mon 15 Apr 2024 Mrs Bretherton

  We started this week with Friday's usual Headteacher's Sticker assembly as there was so much excitement with the sponsored Bunny Run on Friday!  Each class took part in a run either round the Rec or the playground which saw them running lots of laps and enjoying raising money for the Friends of Kington Primary School.  Well done to everyone who took part or supported the event and thank you so much to our hard-working Friends who sold all the bunny ears and set up the course.

  It was lovely to celebrate our children's achievements in today's assembly. Year Four have started our class assembly season with a super musical performance on their ukuleles and their Ancient Egyptians song.  The stickers were awarded for many reasons as usual including some Year Six running teammates looking after each other and spurring their friends on to keep going. We've also said well done to lots of children who are working hard on their phonics or writing skills and to those who are spotted always doing the right thing and setting a great example to those around them. Well done everyone.

  It was lovely to share Aria in Year One's special award for entering a Blue Peter book review competition which has earned her a much coveted Blue Peter badge - a very special thing indeed. Thank you for sharing this with us Aria and your fabulous artwork - enjoy the free entry into all the amazing events that it brings you too.

  We held our first maths workshops for our Year One parents last week (thank you Mrs Roberts-Powell) which was really well-attended and equally enjoyed. Practising any skills such as maths, reading or phonics at home is vital at any age and the children loved playing maths games with their adults so they can continue embedding their learning at home. We hope to continue these workshops with other younger year groups soon so please keep an eye out.  

   

  

• Friday 15th March

  Fri 15 Mar 2024 Mrs Bretherton

  Red Nose Day is always fun and we love to support these important days. Thank you for all the donations if you have been able to join in - we will let you know how much we have raised as soon as we know.  It's been lovely to pop into each class today and see a sea of red as the children are busily working away!

  We had lots of things to celebrate in our Sticker Assembly today too. Our Year 5 Young Leaders have received a certificate for attending their training on Tuesday alongside other county schools; they will soon be leading games during lunchtimes for our younger children. Some of our children were nominated for a Courage certificate by their friends when they noticed them being courageous around school and we had lots of house point badges being awarded by our House Captains too.  Congratulations to all of these children as well as our Sticker winners.  A lot of children have been spotted for brilliant behaviour; making super progress in their work; practising their reading at home and for having a really positive attitude. 

  

• Friday 8th March 2024

  Sat 09 Mar 2024 Mrs. A. Welson

  We have had such a wonderfully busy week across school and we would like to share some news from the different activities we have enjoyed this week.

  Players from Years 3 and 4 went to LHS to take part in a 'bee netball' tournament on Tuesday and played so well impressing each other and Mrs Wood & Mrs Joyce.

  We have spent time across school celebrating 'World Book Day' in lots of different creative ways. Every class has been excited to spend a session with Kate from 'The Courtyard' working on performance poetry. Kate was really impressed with the quality of our drama work and the confidence that she saw when we were performing. Some classes enjoyed some 'buddy reading' time where everyone had time to 'read for pleasure' which is a key focus across school and Y4 visited Kington library.  KS1 had a fantastic visit to Hereford to see 'The owl and the pussycat' and to spend their £1 book vouchers. We were so amazed at the variety of costumes which were worn on Friday for our WBD celebrations and would like to thank everyone for the hard work and thought that had obviously gone into them, it really made our day special to see everyone and guess who they were!

  In our Friday assembly we were able to give out the prizes to the winners of both our poetry writing and book in a box/jar competitions which Mrs Welson and Miss Moss from LHS had a lovely but tough time judging! (Please remember that the boxes and jars will be on display for families to see after school on Monday in the hall).

  We also said 'well done' to our Head-teacher's sticker children this week who had shown so many positive qualities and values including kindness, determination, enthusiasm for learning, consistency of positive attitude and hard work and being a brilliant role model for others.

  We then finished our week with our two discos organised and run by our wonderful 'Friends' group which were great fun and a super way to end a memorable week.

  Photos of our WBD will be shared on the website next week.

  

• Friday 1st March

  Fri 01 Mar 2024 Mrs Bretherton

  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!

  

• Friday 23rd February 2024

  Sat 24 Feb 2024 Mrs. A. Welson

  We gathered to celebrate our achievements this week from children in our Reception and Years 1,2,3 and 4 classes. We missed Years 5 and 6, but know that they were having an amazing day on their trip to Blist Hill. Our headteacher stickers were awarded for such a fantastic variety of reasons which were lovely to hear all about. They included welcoming new children to our school so positively, being trustworthy at all times, demonstrating self motivation about learning and dependency to show their best, being a wonderful role model for others in their class, asking for help when any is needed and showing an enthusiasm for their own progress and learning.

  We look forward to hearing more about the Year 5 and 6 trip next week and wish everyone a happy weekend.

  

• Friday 9th February

  Fri 09 Feb 2024 Mrs Bretherton

  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.

  

• Friday 2nd February

  Fri 02 Feb 2024 Mrs Bretherton

  We had a real treat in assembly today as a group of our Year 3 children performed a small play they had created themselves to show how we can deal with unkindness on the playground.  This has been a recent focus in our assemblies where we are practising strategies through drama to stand up to bullying behaviour.  Thankyou so much to all our classes for taking part and well done to the Year 3 group who kept practising in their lunchtimes so they could share their play with everyone. Clearly, we have lots of budding young actors!

  We also celebrated lots of children's hard work and wonderful qualities with our Headteacher's Stickers, awarded for super reading, showing resilience, sharing happy smiles with friends and for giving 100% in everything they do.  Well done all. Have a lovely weekend and we will see you on Monday.

   

  

• Friday 26th January

  Fri 26 Jan 2024 Mrs Bretherton

  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.