Headteacher Message
Dear Parents & Carers,
It’s been another great week at school this week, and we have enjoyed lots of fun activities: Year 6 netball; a group of children representing the school with their beautiful singing and a visit to Years 1, 3 and 5 from the Dogs’ Trust. The stand out has be EYFS Nursery Rhyme Week with a focus on a different rhyme each day with some fantastic visitors and trips arranged to bring it to our life. Our very own ‘Grand Old Duke of York’ has put together a film showcasing the highlights!
I have also had the pleasure of reading through many of your children’s books and it has been wonderful to see so much excellent work happening throughout the school!
Christmas is approaching faster than we can imagine, and all the classes are busy getting their Nativity performances ready: I’ve already had a sneak preview of Mrs Porrett’s singing assembly practice! All our Christmas Events are arranged with details here. Both the EYFS/KS1 and KS2 Nativities promise to be a real treat.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
Tom Larkham
Headteacher
Rainbow Hamper Raffle
The School Council are fundraising via our annual Christmas Hamper Raffle. There will be 10 colourful hampers to win, packed full of Christmas treats. We would be really grateful if children could help donate an item to go inside a hamper. The ‘colour’ themes for each year group are below with some ideas.
Reception-Any thing Gold/Yellow (ideas include Crayola, M&Ms, Ferrero Rocher, white wine)
Year 1-Anything Pink (Rose wine, Marshmallows, Mr Kipling, Percy Pigs, scented candle)
Year 2- Anything Red (Wine, Maltesers, KitKats, Jammy Dodgers, Xmas socks, baubles)
Year 3- Anything Orange (Mini Chedders, Fudge, Crackers)
Year 4- Anything Green (Pringles, Matchmakers, Mint chocolates, Bubble bath)
Year 5- Anything Blue (Haribo, Roses, Milky Way, Jaffa Cakes)
Year 6-Purple (Heroes, Dairy Milk, Chocolate Fingers, Lavender toiletries)
You can be as inventive as you like and include any sweet or savoury snacks, drinks, toiletries, Christmas decorations, toys and books.
Children may take donations into class and give them to their School Councillor or Class Teacher. We will be collecting these throughout November. Thank you in advance.
Raffle Tickets
Our Rainbow Hamper raffle is now LIVE!
We have 21 days to sell tickets!
We would love it if you and your family are able to purchase tickets. We know that Christmas brings extra costs and so there is no pressure to buy tickets: you can help our cause by sharing our video with friends and relatives. The raffle is open to anybody. Tickets cost £1 each and can be purchased via the ‘Raffall’ website, please see the link below:
Raffle Link
The “Raffall” website is easy and secure. If you would like to buy tickets, you will need to sign in with your name and email address and then click “Enter” to purchase tickets.
‘Raffall’ will draw the winners on Friday 8th December at 7pm.
We hope to use the proceeds towards new phonics reading books.
Jack and the Beanstalk!
We are looking forward to the whole school Pantomime Trip in December! We very much hope that everybody can contribute in some way, as the cost is over £7,000 and there is no school budget for this. Please make payment of £17.25 via Arbor this month. You are also able to select the amount on Arbor that you can afford to pay. We really hope that you can support us with payment for your child, however small.
Christmas Tree WANTED
We are on the hunt for an artificial Christmas Tree- any size!
If you can help us out with a tree you no longer need, we would be super grateful!
If you also happen to be having a clear out for Christmas we are always happy to accept games, crafts and books to use in school. Please just pop them to the lovely ladies at Reception.
Thank you!
Nursery Rhyme Week
Foxes and Badgers have had a brilliant time celebrating World Nursery Rhyme week! Nursery Rhymes are so important to help develop speech and language and early reading so it was an event we really wanted to get involved with! The children focused on a different Nursery Rhyme each day and have had a host of activities, workshops and special visitors to make it a really exciting and enriching week! Thank you to all the parents for joining our afternoon Rhyme Time with our Music Teacher Mrs Porrett, it was lovely to come together. Fun Fact: The Grand Olde Duke of York isn’t just great at marching, he even filmed this fun video below for us!
Dogs’ Trust Visitor
The Dogs’ Trust visited Year 1, Year 3 and Year 5 today to talk about looking after dogs and how to stay safe when we see dogs out and about. It was a really useful session for the children.
Food & Mood Event
Year 2 had a visit from our Caterers Nutritionist Iona who talked about healthy eating and the effect that food has on our well-being. Thank you to Academy!
Sports Leaders
Mr Halford has been taking Year 6 through their Sports Leader Training. For todays session they had to independently run an invasion game with Year 1 pupils. We saw some lovely interactions, teamwork and some coaching skills shining through! Well done to Year 6 who have all achieved the Gold Playmaker Award with a small group of pupils achieving ‘Outsanding’ certificates.
Netball Fixture
Year 6 children took part in a Netball Competition at Shrewsbury Sports Village. They won two games and lost one. Great teamwork everybody!
