The Admin Team and Leaders are still keeping a close eye on attendance. Today was our lowest yet with 7% of pupils missing school today. This does not include anyone isolating due to COVID-19. This was mainly due to colds and not feeling themselves etc. Children have missed so much of their education already due to Covid and unfortunately may still end up missing more this year..

So please ensure that for the time being, you send your child to school even if they have a cold (as long as their temperature is ok..).

It’s important that children only lose 6 days absence due to Non- Covid related absence like we used to say…

We will be sending out the attendance slips next week so you can see which category your child’s attendance is hitting at the minute. Please remember this does not include Covid related absence whereby family members have had to isolate due to being with someone who has tested positive. Thank you to parents for sending in screen shots of test results etc to show that their child is off for a genuine reason linked to Covid.

As a school, we need to be seen to be encouraging good attendance as we would normally and hope that today was just a little blip. I hope to have our attendance back up to where it needs to be tomorrow.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation at this time.

Today is WMHD. We did lots of work around this yesterday with the children in school. But we have also linked our HoWLs work to it too. Over the last week or so, the children and staff have been really thinking about our HoWL ‘Be Kind’ both to ourselves and others.

As part of this work, Leaders tasked children to come up a with with a way that they are going to ‘be kind’ within their local community. This way, we can begin to discuss what it ‘looks like, feels like and sounds like’.

I received a cup cake from Crew Elmer who shared that this was to thank me for my hard work. Beaming with pride right now. It was such a lovely moment. It made me smile, feel proud of Crew Elmer and made me realise how delivering acts of kindness can have such an impact on people. It made me smile for the rest of the day. Thank you Crew Elmer.

Let’s keep being kind to each other. After all, that’s what ‘Crew’ is about. Keep an eye out to find out what your child’s Crew have completed as their act of kindness.

Handwriting superstars! ✏️

This really is the highlight of my week. I love chatting with the little ones and they are trying so hard with their writing.

Then the older ones come came along….

The first 5 minutes blew me away when Zane in Year 5 asked to read his work out loud to the rest of KS2. This is a young man who hasn’t always found concentrating easy at times. Just wow! 🤩

Then we looked at each other’s handwriting. I was impressed by the improvement by every single pupil.

But two pupils really stood out. This was Chloe in Year 3 as her handwriting looked like a year 4. And Darcey’s in Year 6. Darcey’s handwriting can be used by all classes now for our key stage 2 pupils to work towards. Great work girls 🙌🏻

You may have heard your child mention HoWL-opoly. This is where they get a spin on the wheel if they beat their previous weeks HoWL score for working hard, getting smart and being kind. There are lots of prizes on offer as can be seen below. One of them is for children to throw pies at the Headteacher. Two weeks ago two crews spun a 1! What are the chances! So this week, I had to take on the challenge… so much fun had by all. Praying no other classes spun a 1 this week. 🙏🏻 The children are working so hard 🥰 Keep it up guys and girls!