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 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!