Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Attendance Cup Winners

  Fri 14 Jul 2023

  Every week in Celebration Assembly, we give out the Attendance Cup, which goes to the class with the best attendance for that particular week. Now we’re close to the end of the year, I thought I would share the statistics for attendance across the school. If you want to know where your child’s class sits in the rankings for school attendance, then see below.

   

  Attendance Cup Winners

  1^st Blue Class – 97.5%

  2^nd Silver Class – 96.4%

  3^rd Red Class – 94%

  4^th Green Class – 92.7%

  5^th Gold Class – 92.6%

  6^th Purple Class – 92.2%

  7^th Yellow Class – 90%

   

  Congratulations to Blue and Silver Classes for their great attendance this year. For the other classes, let’s try and boost those numbers in the next year. 90% equates to a day off every two weeks. Just imagine how much learning is missed out on in that time over the course of a year. That would add up to nearly three weeks of school time. We understand that children are sometimes not well enough to come to school, and there are rules around sickness bugs etc. to stop illnesses from spreading. We know that chickenpox or other ailments can knock children out for a good few days. However, the aim should always be for children to come to school whenever they are fit and healthy.

• Purple Class experience Inventing!

  Fri 07 Jul 2023

  On Tuesday this week, Key Stage 2 kicked off the day with a Game Show, hosted by the Inventors and Makers Workshop Leader. The children had to think about and answer questions on inventors and inventions that have changed the world.

   

  After that, Purple Class set about experiencing the invention process first hand when they identified a problem in their lives and had to design an original solution. They worked very well in small teams, fine tuning their collaboration and communication skills as they moved through the 6 steps confidently. If you are in need of a more effective alarm clock to really insist on waking you up; a machine to clean up the oceans and playgrounds or maybe even a special hat that solves the problem of a ‘hangry’ sibling then you’ll find us in the queue at the patent office! After break, they became engineers and learnt about the types of machine for example wedges, axels and levers. They even had a chance to get hands-on to experiments with their own catapults and inclined plain device. It was a fun packed morning and complimented their ‘Cracking Contraptions’ topic perfectly. We’d like to thank the PTA and your cake sale money for providing this opportunity free of charge.