School Blog
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.
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Friday 26th January
Fri 26 Jan 2024Good 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.
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Friday 19th January
Fri 19 Jan 2024It's been a really lovely end to the week! We had our first assembly with everyone from Reception all the way up to Year 6 with us and we were able to celebrate lots of house point badges as well as the Headteacher's Stickers. Well done to you all! A lot of teachers mentioned children making huge progress and great choices, wonderful story writing skills and showing kindness by helping and encouraging others around them.
Thank you to our lovely House Captain team who were the first to enjoy our new signs and maps that we have put up today. They really are fantastic and will give us all a chance to practise our map-reading skills and view the different parts of our town, continent and the world. Please look out for some more in the next few months.
Have a lovely weekend everyone - take care.
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Young Voices 2024!
Sun 14 Jan 2024We had a fantastic time at the World Resorts Arena on Friday, joining over 5500 children from other schools to sing and dance through a very exciting evening Young Voices performance. Thank you to our marvellous Young Voices choir from Years 4, 5 and 6 who represented the school so well and sang their hearts out!
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Headteacher stickers
Thu 11 Jan 2024It has been so lovely to welcome everyone back to our new term and new year this week.
We have had a busy and exciting start to the new term and tomorrow our Young Voices singers from Years 4,5 and 6 are going to Birmingham to sing as part of the 'Young Voices' performance, due to this we had our sticker assembly today.
Our sticker children this week have done ever so well to impress their class adults in just a few days so congratulations to you all.
Reasons for the stickers this week included showing a positive learning attitude at all times, demonstrating our values of kindness and thoughtfulness to others and for showing determination to start our new term with focus and positive learning behaviours. Stickers were also awarded for showing excellent understanding in maths, showing enthusiasm in all lessons and for improvements in reading comprehension and handwriting.
Wow! What a super variety of reasons for our stickers this week.
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Friday 22nd December
Fri 22 Dec 2023Working in a school at this time of year definitely feels like one of the most 'Christmassy' of places. We've had parties, carol concerts and sing-a-longs, Christmas lunch (served by our amazing Lunchtime team), Year 6 Christmas games and achievement certificate assembly - all in just 4 days! In our assembly today, Year 3 won the class attendance award again so well done to them and England are currently coming out on top in the values beads count.
We also said a very sad 'au revoir' to Mr Perkins who has kindly donated some ICT books and awards for the school so we can keep up his amazing work in the field of ICT. He certainly deserves his own very special achievement certificate!
Thank you for all our cards, gifts or well wishes and we hope you all manage to switch off a bit and have some lovely times together. We will see you all back in school on Tuesday 9th January 2024! Take care all and happy Christmas and New Year.
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Friday 15th December
Sun 17 Dec 2023We've definitely got into the Christmas spirit this week with our KS1 and Early Years children performing their nativities to packed audiences! They did so well at singing, dancing and acting out the stories to so many proud family members as well as the rest of the children in school. Well done to our youngest children for bringing it to life and a huge thank you to all the wonderful staff for their hard work in putting it all together.
I had a lovely morning visiting each class on Friday to hand out Headteacher's Stickers. The teachers have found it really hard to pick just two for their class this week as everyone has been working so hard and being such good role models. Of course, Mr Perkins was awarded one too - he's definitely earned his sticker over his 13 years of teaching at KPS! Year 3 had a great afternoon of games in the LHS sports hall with their special teddies - their chosen prize for winning the highest class attendance last half term.
Well done all and have a lovely weekend!
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Friday 8th December
Fri 08 Dec 2023So many lovely things to write about in this week's blog.
Today children have been awarded Head Teacher Stickers for many reasons; including making good choices, playing well with others, enthusiasm and for showing our value of 'understanding'.
Well done to our Sports Council for organising and running our Santa Dash, which saw children across the school being active and taking part in fun challenges.
Thank you very much to many of our Year 6 children, who helped to bake and raise money for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). All the children across school really enjoyed the cakes and together we raised £90 for this special charity.
Also this week, the children were treated to a lovely pantomime of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. Thank you again to the 'Friends' committee for organising this and using raised funds to subsidise so all our children could enjoy it.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in school now with our Christmas lights up and tree in the main entrance. Thank you also to Tack Barn Farm for donating a beautiful tree for the garden again this year; we really appreciate it and it looks lovely.
A very busy week and there's yet more exciting things to come in the last few weeks. Have a lovely weekend.
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Monday 4th December
Mon 04 Dec 2023Just a quick blog this week to celebrate our Headteacher Sticker winners who have been spotted working really hard, being kind and friendly and setting a wonderful example to their fellow pupils. Thank you so much everyone and we look forward to spotting lots more this week!
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Monday 27th November
Sun 26 Nov 2023We thought we would wait until Monday to publish last week's blog so we could include some pictures of the Christmas Fair that our PTA held on Saturday down in the barn at Turners. It was such a lovely occasion with plenty of wonderful Christmas cheer, sparkle, food and gifts and was really well-attended by the local community. Thank you so much to our fabulous team of hardworking parents and staff that make up the Friends of KPS and to all the stall holders who joined us for the fair. We were very lucky to have Father Christmas with us too along with his team of Elf-dogs! A huge thank you to all at JP Turners for hosting the event and also for keeping our school flower beds looking beautiful too.
There was lots of celebrate in our Friday Headteacher Sticker assembly too with our teachers choosing children who had shown super progress, great choices and lovely enthusiasm in their learning. Well done to everyone.
Some were also chosen because they had tried out their bread-making skills to contribute to the World War 2 themed dance and soup event that Year 5 and 6 put on for their parents and visitors on Thursday.
Our School Council, made up of representatives from Year 2 to 6, presented an Anti-bullying assembly to the rest of the school last week too. The children acted out some scenarios encouraging children to be kind and look after each other but to tell someone if they feel someone is being unkind to them. It gave us lots to discuss and we have continued to explore the theme this week too.
And lastly some photos of our youngest children going on an animal hunt with Mr Haines in the hall - they found lots of tigers and elephants and had so much fun!
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Friday 17th November 2023
Fri 17 Nov 2023Congratulations to all of our sticker winners today and to those who have earnt their next house point badge. We are very proud of you all and keep working so hard - you are excellent role models!
Also well done to our Year 4 class for winning the highest average score on the inter-class Times Tables Rock Stars competition that Mrs Turner ran this week. There was a real buzz as the children came in in their own time as well as in lessons to try and reach the best scores. We had three top scorers, all from Year 3 or 4 and then, to top it all, Year 3 also won the highest overall score with over 15,000 points! Fantastic!
Thank you to all for donating to our Children in Need collection today. It was fun to see so many colourful, sparkly, odd or even homemade socks and we all helped to raise nearly £210. Thank you again and have a wonderful weekend.
