Head teacher’s update

It has been an incredibly busy week at Church of the Ascension!  Our week has included a Trust Choir Festival, 2 visits to the Black Country Museum, a gymnastics competition, Experience Easter at church, a football match and lots of learning!

Thank you all for your support with the new rubbish collection arrangements.  The children have been fantastic in trying to make sure that they are putting things in the correct bins.  It is taking some getting used to for us all, but we are very grateful to you and to the children for your continuing support.

Elevate Performance Academy sports coaches will be offering extra-curricular sporting activities for year 2- 4, after the Easter holidays.  We have the following on offer:
Year 2 – cricket/ rounders on Tuesdays

Year 3 – cricket/ rounders on Thursdays

Year 4 – rugby on Wednesdays

Letters are available from the school office, should you wish your child to participate.  There is a cost of £5 per session.

We are very much looking forward to the Church of the Ascension Spring Festival on May 16th.  There are stalls still available – if anyone would like one, then please do get in touch with the school office.  We are also looking for any talents that could perform on the evening, such as singing or dancing.  Again, if you are able to offer or know of anyone who could, please contact the school office who will put you in touch with the HSA.

Head teacher’s update

Many thanks to the HSA for all of their hard work in hosting the Mothers’ Day Sale, today.  The children have enjoyed the opportunity to make purchases for someone special.

Huge well done to our Cross Country team who competed against other Dudley Schools at Summerhill, this week.  We were very proud of how well the children represented the school.

Good luck to our Football Team who play against Maidensbridge, this evening.

I have met with Stephanie Cox of AIP to discuss the issues and concerns raised by both pupils and families.  Stephanie is committed to addressing the issues raised.  I have been present in the dinner hall every day for the past couple of weeks and have spoken to children about the food that they have enjoyed and the food that they do not like.  The last service for dinners has consistently been 12:30, which should hopefully allow sufficient time for children to eat. I will continue to monitor this closely.  There has been fresh bread each day and the salad bar has been replenished throughout service.  AIP have committed to improving the menu, which will be available after Easter and assured me that it will be less repetitive and there will be more choices that children will recognise and enjoy. We have also planned in some theme days for the Summer Term, as requested by the School Council.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend – enjoy the sunshine!

Collective worship 24.3.25

Thank you to Father Chris, who led our assembly, this week.  We always enjoy singing to the accompaniment of Father Chris on the electric guitar!  Our theme this week is Faithfulness and Father Chris reminded us of the importance of faithfulness in friendships. He also shared examples from the Bible for us to consider.

Head teacher’s update

We have all enjoyed the warmer, sunnier weather, here at Church of the Ascension. We continue to be very grateful to the year 5 and 6 pupils who support with positive play at break and lunchtime.

Our week started with a fascinating assembly by Lindsey Brown from New Life Church, who used art to bring a Bible story about forgiveness, to life.  We look forward to Lindsey visiting us again, next term.

A production of ‘Treasure Island’ was a very exciting way to end our week.  We all enjoyed the theatrical performance – thank you to the HSA for funding this Friday afternoon treat.

We had a lot to celebrate again in Praise Assembly, this morning, with many trophies and certificates from home.  It is great to see our children participating in such a variety of activities, out of school.  There was a theme of Perseverance beads being awarded for tackling challenging maths, this morning. It is great to see so many children thinking hard about their work.

A quick reminder that we are all invited to Soul Food on Tuesday 25th March:

Collective worship 17.3.25

We were delighted to welcome Lindsey Brown, to lead our assembly, this week.  Lindsey uses her talents in painting to tell stories from the Bible.  This week, we focused on the value of Forgiveness and Lindsey told the story from Matthew Chapter 18.  We learnt about the servant who had been given forgiveness and mercy but was not then able to pass these values on.  Our children and staff thoroughly enjoyed watching the story come to life, through Lindsey’s art work.

Head teacher’s update

It has been another very busy week, at Church of the Ascension.  Our reception pupils have been busy being scientists and hunting down dinosaurs! There were many excellent homework projects from years 5 and 6 to celebrate in Praise Assembly, this morning.  I have learnt a lot about coastal erosion, by reading them.

 

Thank you to all of those who have responded to the dinner provision survey.  The survey is still open should you still wish to respond –  AIP survey.   I will be meeting with representatives from AIP, next week.

I had the privilege of attending the Dudley School’s  R.E. Debates with 4 pupils from years 5 and 6.  The children were incredibly brave and were the first of the teams to put their motion forward that all schools should teach all religions and faiths in R.E. lessons.  This was opposed by Pedmore Primary School.  We then watched the remaining debates and our children asked some very insightful questions of the other teams. Well done and thank you to the children that represented our school so well.

Collective Worship w/b 10.3.25

This week’s focus for Collective Worship was The Fruit of the Spirit, Kindness.  Children were tasked with reflecting on what the value of kindness is and whether there is any difference between being kind and being nice.  Class teachers were very impressed by the thoughtful responses.  We used the story of Joseph and his dreams (Genesis 37) as an example from the Bible.

 

 

Head teacher’s message

What a great week we have had.  The Secret Readers, Book Swap and Gift Books were a huge success and we all had a really lovely World Book Day.  It was marvellous to see the whole school reading.  Thank you all for your support with the day and for the donations of books.

Wellbeing Buddies lead our assembly on Thursday, encouraging us all to ‘take notice’.  They encouraged us all to be more present and to make sure that we take notice of the environment around us.  The sun shining this week has certainly helped with that!  Classes have been encouraged to play different types of music and look at different types of art, for us to appreciate.  We look forward to hearing about how children have been ‘taking notice’, at home, as well.

My sincere apologies for the ongoing issues with booking school lunches.  We are working closely with AIP, our catering supplier, to address these.

Just a quick reminder that there are no local elections this year, so school will not be closed.

Wishing you all a very lovely weekend.

 

Eucharist Assembly 3.3.25

We are very grateful to Father Adam for leading our termly Eucharist assembly, this week. Father Adam told the story of the Prodigal Son to support us in our understanding of the Christian Core Value of Forgiveness.  We were delighted to welcome members of the church and local community to take Communion with us.

 

Head teacher’s message

Dear family,

Welcome all to our new website! Our new website launched just before the holidays and we are very pleased with how it is coming along. We hope that it will become a useful point of reference for parents and visitors. We are still in the process of adding all of the useful information, so please bear with us while we continue to work on it. Please do feel free to explore and check back regularly to see the updates. Newsletters will now be produced on the website and a link will be sent by text each Friday for you to access them.

It has been a positive start to the new half term.  We have had a very productive and busy week, as you will be able to see from our class pages.  This morning in praise assembly, we celebrated a lot of writing from across the school.  There were also a lot of medals, certificates and badges to celebrate from out of school activities.

 

Mrs Mason

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