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.

• Friday 17th February

  Sat 18 Feb 2023 Mrs Bretherton

  So much happening this week as usual: fantastic Enrichment activities to celebrate our sustainable Harmony values and the chance for all year groups to work with each other; our local Fire Crew came to visit to tell us all about the important job they do for our community and gave us the chance to share their equipment and fire engine with us; sharing stories in Nursery; making gingerbread biscuits in Reception to explore The Gingerbread Man story; Sports Leader training in Hereford for some of year fives who will help lead playtime activities; Sports Council competition winners announced with great prizes and amazing achievement certificates awarded in our achievement assembly.  That really all is in just one week! Thank you so much to the Fire Crew Mike, Phil, Leanne and Liam for spending the morning with us on Thursday - we learnt so much and the children absolutely loved the chance to watch what you do and ask you questions. 

  Another very special thing that happened this week was that our Sports Council and Young Leaders were the first to wear our brand new sports kit which we have ready for when we play events with other schools. A huge thank you to Mrs Joyce and G. M. Joyce for sponsoring our new kit. It is much appreciated and the children loved showing it off this week.

  Happy half term everyone. Take care and see you on the 27th February.

  

• Friday 10th February

  Fri 10 Feb 2023 Mrs Bretherton

  As I write this, the school disco is in full swing and the hall is full of budding Strictly stars!  Thank you so much to our wonderful Friends of KPS and staff who have helped to make the discos happen - they have been great fun.

  Congratulations to our sticker winners this morning, for so many different reasons. "Fantastic" was a word used by many of our teachers today when introducing their awardees, along with perseverance, resilience, beautiful story writing, hard working, making good choices and even good balancing in gym!

  Each class has also spent time this week exploring the Safer Internet Day 2023 theme of 'Want to talk about it?' so we can share good things we use the internet for as well as what to do if something is worrying us.  It has tied it really well with discussions we have had in class about our own mental health as part of Children's Mental Health week.  And finally, well done to our last group of Year 5 who have successfully completed their Bikeability course.

  Fantastic all round. Thank you everyone and have a great weekend.

   

  

• Friday 3rd February

  Fri 03 Feb 2023 Mrs Bretherton

  Another busy week! The children love non-uniform days - thank you so much for any donations you have been able to send in to help the Friends of KPS to buy the prizes for our up-and-coming Easter Bingo. 

  This morning, we were so pleased to award Headteacher's Stickers for being wonderful friends, creating expressive dances as a team, hard-working attitudes, showing resilience at Forest School, keeping going with tricky subjects and impressive reading on Bug Club. Well done everyone!

  Congratulations to our first groups of Bikeability participants in Year 4 and 5 who impressed our instructors with their cycling abilities. Thank you to the Bikeability team for helping us develop our road-awareness skills.

  Our classes have started to buddy up this week to share their reading books and discuss their favourite stories. Year 2 and Year 6 made good use of the library to get together and created a super 'reading buzz'.

  We have also welcomed Steve and Di from 'Hands Up!' this week to help our Year 5 children learn about climate change and explore more sustainable ways to use energy now and in the future. There were some wonderful news reports being produced and then the children enjoyed making flower-pot stoves that are being used sustainably in Malawi.

  Have a fantastic weekend all and we hope to welcome many of you to our Parent Workshops on Tuesday (3.45pm to 5.00pm) to discuss the different types of national assessment for some of our year groups and ways you can support your child.