Collective Worship

Our sincere thanks to the Open the Book team, who led our Collective Worship, this week.  Pupils from 3N helped to re-enact the parable that Jesus told of the banquet.  The people who were invited to attend the party, refused – Jesus reminded the people to invite those who are worthy and will appreciate the feast.

It was great to be reminded that we are all included and invited.

Head teacher’s update

We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the Family Festival, this evening!

Very well done to our year 6s who have been fabulous all week, during their SATS tests.  We are so proud of their resilience and behaviour, during what is always a challenging week.  Thank you, year 6.

We will be celebrating Ascension Day with our usual Festival of Talents day, on Friday 23rd May. A letter with further details will follow, but we look forward to all that the children wish to share with us.

Thank you for your ongoing support with attendance.  This week, we have joint class winners for the attendance award – well done to 1C and 5/6M for your 99% attendance!

 

Collective Worship

As Ascension Day falls in half term, this year, our Collective Worship theme this week has been on the Festival of Ascension.  We have thought about how this is a very special time in the Christian calendar.

Children gave lots of creative ways to say goodbye.  Our favourites were toodleoo, ta-ra, see ya!  We considered that Ascension is a time when we think about Jesus saying goodbye and the instructions he left behind for his disciples.

Next week, we will celebrate Ascension Day, with church services, for the children and a day of sharing talents.

Head teacher’s update

Thank you all for your very generous donations of bottles, in today’s non-uniform day.  We are very much looking forward to our Family Festival, after school, next Friday and are very grateful to the HSA and other volunteers for their hard work in organising and preparing. Today’s contributions to the bottle tombola, are a very positive start to what I am sure will be a very successful and enjoyable event. Details regarding the Family Festival and safe collection of children will be sent out separately.

During our VE Day commemorations, our children gave some very thoughtful and sensitive responses.  Their stone decorations were fantastic and made a wonderful display on the school playground.

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend, in the sunshine.

 

 

 

 

Collective Worship

This week, we have been focusing on our school vision, in particular, what it means to flourish spiritually.  We introduced the concept of head, heart and hands when we think about spirituality:

Head – I found out about …
Heart – It made me think … it made me feel ….
Hands – so I decided to …

Our reflection this week is to consider what it means to us, as individuals, to flourish spiritually.

Head teacher’s update

What a great first week of the term, we have had!  There was a lot to celebrate in this morning’s Praise Assembly from both outside activities and from lessons. Well done to 5/6M for having the highest attendance, this week.

I had the pleasure of taking some of our School Council representatives to meet with the Black Country Food Bank, today.  Following our successful Harvest Festival collection, we were asked if we would support with the promotional materials for next year’s campaign. Thank you to our 3 pupils from year 5 who agreed to be filmed talking about food poverty and the importance and impact of the donations that we collect.

We are very much looking forward to the Spring Festival on 16th May.  Thank you very much to all of those who have volunteered to support with the event – it is very much appreciated. Further details will be sent out nearer the time regarding end of the day arrangements for collecting children.

Collective Worship

This week, our focus in collective worship has been the core value of honesty.  We talked about the importance of being honest and accountable for actions.  However, we also thought about filtering our words as they can either uplift or destroy.  Before we speak, we have agreed that we should consider whether what we are about to say is honest, kind, necessary and timely.

Our Worship Leaders took over Thursday’s assembly and introduced this term’s focus of ‘keep learning’.  Thank you very much to the students for leading such a thought provoking assembly.

Head Teacher’s Update

At the end of what has been a fantastic term, we have had another busy week!  I very much enjoyed a visit to the farm, with our reception children.  We had a great day in the sunshine, learning about farm life and seeing all the baby animals.  Our reception children had a great time and were a pleasure to spend the day with.

Well done to our Year 4 tri-golf team who took part in a competition this week.  Thank you for representing our school so well.  Well done also to our netball team for your incredible win, this week!

Thank you all for your continuing support with managing rubbish and recycling in school.  Our children are being very responsible and resourceful in supporting school with its recycling commitment.

A date for your diaries – we have had to change the date of the Key Stage 2 Sports Day due to clashing commitments.  It will now take place for Key Stage 2 pupils on Tuesday 24th June.  Key Stage 1 Sports Day remains on Tuesday 1st July.

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter!  I very much look forward to seeing the children on Monday 28th April, and hearing all about the Easter egg hunts!

Collective worship

Easter – a very special time

This week, we have considered Easter Traditions.  We have looked at traditions from around the world and also thought about our own, family traditions.  Lots of children enjoyed telling us about Easter egg hunts!

 

Easter is a very special time for Christians and we very much enjoyed the Easter Services led by our Worship Leaders, today at church.  They reminded us of the symbol of the cross and everything that it represents to Christians.  They also reminded us of Easter as being a time of forgiveness and new beginnings.  Thank you to our Worship Leaders for such an inspiring and thought provoking service.

Collective worship

This week, we continued to focus on the Fruits of the Spirit.  We thought about Gentleness and what this looks like in our daily lives.  We also considered whether gentleness is strength or a weakness.  The children gave some very thoughtful responses and were able to think of lots of examples of gentleness, from the Bible.

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