The Year 4 Design Club has had a terrific start! They made posters to present to the governors and Mr Seagrove, which helped them to acquire a business loan of £250. The club plan to use this money to buy materials for their projects. They will make products to sell at the Christmas, Easter and Summer Fayres, in order to pay the loan back. They have already started making these lovely decorative baubles to sell at the Christmas Fayre. In addition, the club have written letters to various businesses to ask if they would be willing to donate materials to the club.
A big thank you all our students and their families this week for supporting our annual book week. This is a designated week where each year group celebrates a particular author and dedicates cross curricular activities to the text.
Once again our pupils have been amazing and the work they have produced outstanding. From our youngest children in nursery reading and exploring traditional tales to our oldest children creating detailed writing using the work of Michael Morpurgo as a stimulus. Our Y2 children enjoyed writing their own additional chapters for a Jill Murphy book and Y4 became authors and wrote Happy Family books, which they delivered and shared, for some of our younger children. The school has been a buzz of excitement!
As a special treat this year, Y3 enjoyed working with local theatre company Artefact and completed a workshop inspired by a play KS2 had the pleasure of watching.
As always, we concluded our week with our fancy dress day. Every year the costumes become more creative and imaginative. We thank all of the parents and carers who help to bring the children’s ideas to life. Click here to see some of the fun we had!
All of KS2 enjoyed a treat today when Artefacts visited to perform a play based on Greek mythology and mathematical challenges.
Y3 took part in workshops this afternoon with the actors.
Our KS2 children enjoyed an assembly with a difference today when Jon King and Julio Arca came in to discuss holiday football camps which are run at Mortimer CA. They also mentioned their ‘Wizard Camp’ for football skills which runs on a Wednesday at Mortimer CA.
For more information please see leaflets which KS2 children will be bringing home. Holiday camps are suitable for children aged 4 to 14 and are for girls and boys.
Thank you to Co-op Funeral Care for providing each of our Nursery, Y3 and Y4 children a ‘Be safe, be seen’ reflective badge to help promote being safe as the dark nights approach.
Over the past 5 years they have given out over 160,000 badges to 1,500 schools and youth groups. Click here for more information.
The school was delighted to receive Silver yet again for the the School Games Award. This recognises the school’s commitment to physical activity and competitive sport.
Both our A and B Team football squad were in action last week. The A Team were particularly successful scoring victories over Ashley and Westoe Crown.
5PM concluded their recent fencing lessons with a very exciting competition. The children were divided into two teams: the Fierce Fighters versus the Fire Blasters. At the end, both teams were drawn. In a nail biting deciding bout, the Fire Blasters were victorious.
Congratulations to the new Fruit to Suit tuck shop staff who were appointed last week. They had a full afternoon of training on Friday and will be shadowing the current staff in their roles for the next two weeks.
































