Our School Value for May is Cooperation.

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.

• Maths Challenge Day

  Fri 25 May 2018 Mrs E Bretherton

  On Friday 25th May, we had a fantastic day with lots of children from other Herefordshire schools,  joining in with a range of activities that really got us thinking.  Thank you to the Year 4 puzzlers that came with Mrs Bretherton - you mixed really well with everyone and got stuck into those challenges!

  

• A busy end to the half term

  Tue 22 May 2018 Mr D Perkins

  This week is packed with fun activities and events and is a lovely way to end the half term.  

   

  We will be adding more photos over the week, so do keep checking back each day.

   

  Our Year 3 & Year 4 indoor tennis team played fantastically against other schools on Monday afternoon.  Our B's finished 3rd, while our A team finished a close 2nd and will be on the reserve list for the Herefordshire Winter Games.

   

  On Tuesday, we held our 5th Enrichment Day.  The mixed aged groups moved onto their next activity of the year and some fantastic art, drama, food, animations, sports and global learning took place!

   

  On Thursday, Key Stage Two children attended the Hay Festival and enjoyed hearing from a number of great authors:  Andy Stanton, Julian Clarey & David Roberts and Cressida Cowell.

   

  To end the week, we celebrated the successes of children for their Head Teacher Awards.  We also collected in all of the children's sponsorship monies for taking part in Buddy's Big Workout.  Thank you all so much for your generosity and for raising over £760!

  

• Friday 18th May

  Fri 18 May 2018 Mrs ACL Phillips
  The sun shone for the children invited to a 'Wedding Party' at Little Orchard. They had fun and games and plenty to eat with music to dance to and places to explore. There was such a buzz in school as they brightened our day with their party clothes. Thank you to Little Orchard, Red Kite Fostering and Kington Lions for so generously giving them such a lovely celebration.

  

• All Stars Cricket

  Tue 15 May 2018 Mr Perkins

  Mr Dixon delivered an assembly to children from Year 1 upwards this afternoon.  He shared with us his enjoyment of sport and, more specifically, his passion for cricket.  

   

  Through some fun videos and mini challenges, Mr Dixon shared with us the opportunities to join an All Stars Cricket club here in Kington.  The children left with smiles, stickers and an information card with more details about this opportunity.

   

  Mr Dixon has been working with some of our classes during PE already this term and more children will be getting an opportunity too soon!

  

• Buddy's Workout for NSPCC

  Fri 11 May 2018 Mr Perkins

  Congratulations to this week's well deserved winners of the Head Teacher's Awards.  There seemed to be a theme this week of people who are fantastic both in and around school, making them excellent role models to us all. 

   

  Mr Waugh has run a fantastic day of mini-Olympics activities Thursday and Friday this week for each class as part of our NSPCC-sponsored activity. 

   

  We hope you are able to start collecting your sponsorship money over the next two weeks before returning them to school in the envelopes provided.  I wonder which class will have the most people sponsored to win the award?   

  

• Emotion Coaching - Year 5 and 6

  Wed 09 May 2018 Mrs Bretherton
  Today we welcomed Amanda Cotton, an Educational Psychologist, to come and talk with us about the different emotions we feel. We also discussed how we can manage them to help us or our friends calm down and 'hug our emotions'.  Thank you to Amanda for coming to talk to us and for running our parent workshop which was really well attended.

  

• Spring Greens Fair

  Wed 02 May 2018 Mr D Perkins

  It was a real pleasure to take 10 children from Year 4 to The Court Of Noke today to take part in the Spring Greens Fair.  This is the 3rd year in which the event has invited schools to take part in workshops.

   

  It was great to see some of our other children's Recycled Sculptures on display there too.  Our children worked alongside children from other schools, through 4 workshops during the day.  Their topics included: 

   

  1) Food miles - where our food comes from and what foods  we can get locally.

  2) Word Lab - exploring words, their meanings and sounds.  The children wrote a word to display that made them happy - either from physically saying the word, or by what the word means to them.

  3) Yoga - Children worked on relaxation and mindfulness.

  4) Stop the Drop - children discussed the issue of waste and littering in Herefordshire and the consequences of not being responsible for our waste.

   

  To end the day, all the children and adults there wrote a postcard with their suggestions and / or hopes for the future.  I was very proud of all of our children and how polite and engaged they all were in the day.

   

  The Spring Greens Fair is open to the public this weekend and you can find it at The Court of Noke, near Pembridge.