Weekly Newsletters

Friday 4th October 2024

We have been busy bees! We have attended not one, but two Harvest services. Thank you so much for all the donations. The display was impressive indeed!

Our health has been a focus too - both physical health and mental health - the nurses came in to measure our height and weight, the ladies from the NSPCC came in to do a workshop and then some of us had the nasal flu spray.... and that is all before we have done some amazing year 6 learning! 

We are really enjoying our creative writing at the moment. If you can share some fantastic new vocabulary, descriptive phrases or similes with your children that they can use in their writing that would be great.

Next Monday we start a set of mock SATS, please don't be alarmed or let your children stress about them, we are merely trying to get them used to the processes and format so nothing comes as a surprise for the real ones!

Homework club for the rest of this term will be on Thursdays rather than the usual Tuesdays, due to prior commitments to meetings and parents evening! Miss Fuller is very sorry for any inconvenience and would like to reassure you that the normal day of Tuesday will be resumed next term.

Friday 27th September 2024

This week has been a lot less frantic but really productive. Most of the children are really engaged and working hard. We have noticed a significant improvement in their creative writing in terms of amount and enjoyment. Poor things with a bunch of writing fanatics for teachers!

Miss Jarvis was appalled to be beaten by the children at TTRS (not really, she loved it) and now Miss Fuller has challenged the children too. Please encourage your children to revise their times tables as often as possible. We need them to have rapid recall.

Next week we look forward to both of our Harvest festival services. Please remember to drop the children to church on Wednesday and Thursday morning.

Friday 20th September 2024

Oh my goodness we have had a crazy week! We started and ended the week with much excitement about the famous poet, Brian Moses' visit. We were not disappointed. He was really entertaining and inspiring! (The teachers were a little star struck!) During celebration worship 6F performed his poem 'Still to Do' and 6JP performed 'Walking my Iguana.'

Friday was full of surprises - we met our buddies which was wonderful and then were amazed at the flash flood that happened after the mega thunderstorm! 

Don't forget to book your tours of secondary schools as the deadline for applications is the end of October. 

Also, homework club begins next Tuesday if you would like to attend to ensure that homework gets done!

Friday 13th September 2024

The hard work has begun in earnest in year 6. This week has culminated in an excellent review of poems that we have been studying and the teachers have been really impressed by the children's focus and independence. This is in preparation for our famous visitor who comes on Tuesday afternoon, the poet Brian Moses. Please remember to pop onto Parent Pay to pay and give consent for your child to attend. We will post photos afterward of his visit and the classes performing one of his poems to the school in Celebration worship. 

On a more boring note for the children, (because teachers are weird and love marking assessments!) we have completed our baseline assessments for English and Maths. This means that the staff can understand where there are gaps in the children's knowledge and can endeavour to plug these in lessons and interventions. We mentioned these, and the necessity for the children to complete their homework this year as it is directly related to the content of the SATS tests, in the meet the teacher meeting on Wednesday. If you were unable to attend, please look at the PowerPoint slides in the presentations folder. 

Friday 6th September 2024

What a wonderful first week back we have had! It has been so lovely to see the children and for us all to get stuck into our new topics. 

We have given the children new contact books and reading records. Please remember to use your child's contact book if you have any queries this year and encourage them to read at least three times a week. Homework will be set every Friday (usually from the CGP books that the children will be given as soon as they arrive) to be in by the following Friday. The children will mark their homework with their teacher on the Friday during lessons.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the Meet the Parents morning on Wednesday the 11th of September. Please enter the school through the Yr 5/6 exit door. A member of staff will be there to open the door at 9:00.