Friday Update from Miss McNamara
Posted 18th April 2024
Message from Miss McNamara
This week's highlight has definitely been our Around the World event on Thursday. Parents with various nationalities came into the school and set up their own stall - we had parents from Pakistan, Romania, Spain, USA, Lithuania, Romania and many more countries. Our parents put so much effort into their stalls, with balloon displays, food that had been made, flags and traditional clothing. Each class then had the chance to go 'around the world' and learn about different cultures, try new drinks and foods. It was really impressive and we are so thankful for the effort our parents went to. The children loved it, every class that left were buzzing with excitement and I could hear them chattering away about the food they had tried. Please look on our social media for photos. Thank you to Mrs Nalder, Mrs Baxter and Mrs Wright, who organised the event.
We are looking forward to next week and some (hopefully) soon coming warmer weather.
PTFA News
Some news from our fabulous PTFA:
Wellbeing Garden
Please share our fundraising link! We are 70% of the way there!
Wacky Dress Day
Our School Council raised £113 on the day - thank you to those who donated £1 to dress up. The children will be spending this on equipment for the playground.
Attendance
This year, we are at 95.7%.
We hope to reach 97% by the end of the year.
Miss Winterburn
Last Friday, we held interviews for our Year 2 teacher post (as Miss Ramsay is moving into KS2). We appointed an excellent teacher, Miss Winterburn, who will be starting with us in September. She is an experienced teacher who has previously taught in year two through to year six, is currently the English Subject Leader and Safeguarding Lead.
We received over 40 applications for this post - we are really excited for her to join our fantastic staff team.
Summer 1 Key Dates
Tuesday 30th April: Family Breakfast, from 8:15am in the school hall
Monday 6th May: Bank Holiday, school closed
Monday 13th May - Thursday 16th May: KS2 SATs Week, a breakfast club will run this week for Y6 pupils
Tuesday 21st May: SEND/Wellbeing Drop-in
Wednesday 22nd May: Oak visit to Born of the Forest
Friday 24th May: Break Up
Summer 2 Key Dates
Monday 3rd June: Inset Day
Tuesday 4th June: School re-opens and Year 4 Multiplication Check week
11th & 13 June: Y6 Bikeability
Thursday 27th June: Sports Day
Thursday 4th July: Sorts Day Reserve (in case of bad weather)
Thursday 18th July: Family Picnic
Shed
We have success! A shed is harder to get money for than you might think...
A big shout out to Miss Wright who works really hard to get grants for our school. We have now obtained the funds for our shed, which will support our Nature School offer. Currently, teachers carry equipment from the main building up to the nature area and back for every session. We can now get the shed we need and make life much easier for our dedicated staff.
We now have one final project which we hope to gain funding for this year - the tree hung canopy. Fingers-crossed for the next few months!
