Chalky’s Birthday

Today was Chalky the Church Mouse’s 5th birthday.  The children have been so busy all week preparing for his birthday party.

We made a to do list:

wrap a present and write a tag

make a birthday card

make decorations

make party food

get a birthday cake

get ready for party games

The children worked hard to get ready for the party and then this afternoon we had a fantastic birthday celebration.  It was heard several times that “THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER!”

 

   

 

Chalky is one lucky little mouse to have such amazing Ascension friends!

Attendance Figures

Class RH  98.5%

Class RY  98.7%

Class 1C  96.9%

Class 1/2B  96.7%

Class 2S  97.5%

Class 3N  90.8%

Class 3/4JB  92.5%

Class 4C  88.8%

Class 5CS  96.8%

Class 5/6M  94.2%

Class 6P  97.5%

 

Festive Menu

To get us all in the festive spirit, our kitchen will be providing a festive menu for the whole week commencing Monday 8th December. This will include our traditional Christmas dinner on Wednesday 10th December.

The menu options will be available to book on Eduspot from the end of next week.

Primary Christmas Menus_

Soul Food

 

SOUL FOOD this Tuesday 11th November 5pm, at Church of Ascension Church.
Starting with some tasty tea-time food!
Music, bible stories, making friends and reflective time
Everybody welcome, come and join the fun.

Christmas Cards

If your child has brought home an order form for the HSA Christmas Card fundraisers, the deadline to place orders in order to receive free postage is Wednesday 19th November.

Thank you for your support in helping to raise funds.

Christmas Fayre

We need your help!

The H.S.A Christmas Fayre will be taking place in school On Friday 5th December from 5pm-7pm and we desperately need your help!

In order for these events to run we need volunteers to run stalls, help set up and tidy up, help serve food/drinks. If you can offer any help at all we would be very grateful to hear from you! Perhaps you can get a friend or family member to come along and help you too!!

These events are vital for raising much needed funds to help school provide the best possible experience for your child and they can only run with help from all of you!

If you can help, please either contact the school office or a member of the H.S.A – please also see the H.S.A Facebook page.

Thank you for your continued support.

Christmas Events 2025

Thursday 6th November 2025

Dear Families

I can now confirm the dates and times of Christmas events:

18.11.25 – non-uniform day for donations for hampers or tombola

18.11.25 – Christmas discos EYFS and KS1 at 5:30pm – 6:15pm and KS2 at 6:30pm – 7:30pm

5.12.25 – HSA Christmas Family event 5-7pm, details to follow.

8.12.25 for RH parents and 9.12.25 for RY parents – reception nativities, both starting at 9:30am.

Week beginning 8.12.25 – Christmas themed lunches all week with traditional Christmas dinner on 10.12.25.  Details of menus to follow in newsletter.

15.12.25 and 16.12.25 – year 1 and 2 performance, both starting at 2pm

18.12.25 – KS2 Carol concerts at 9:30am and 2pm

Class teachers will provide further details regarding tickets, nearer the time, but we wanted to confirm dates so any necessary arrangements can be made.

Kind regards

Mrs L Mason

Head teacher’s update

It has been a great start to what will be a very busy half term.  It was lovely to welcome the children back to school, on Tuesday and we have had a very settled and productive first week back.  I hope that you all received the letter sent yesterday regarding dates and times of the festive events that we have coming up.  The letter can be found in the parents’ area of the website and we have now updated the calendar.

If your child belongs to any of the uniformed groups, such as brownies, scouts etc, they are able to wear their representative uniform to school for remembrance on Tuesday 11th November.  All other children will attend in school uniform, as usual.

Thank you all for your support with the new start to the day arrangements.  We have certainly felt the benefits in school, with a much calmer and more settled start to the morning.

Well done to our tag rugby team who took part in a tournament, on Tuesday.  You represented our school brilliantly and we are very proud of your performance and behaviour.  Thank you.

I am sure that you will be as delighted as we were, to hear that Miss Slater’s baby girl arrived safely, on Monday evening.

 

Collective Worship

This week, we have been thinking about our core value of generosity.  Generosity is certainly a value that we are very confident with, here at Church of the Ascension.  It is the value that we celebrate most in praise assembly every week, with lots of examples of how children have been generous with their time, friendship and talents.  We thought about the story of the Generous Widow Mark 12:41 – 44.  Jesus noticed the offerings of the rich and then noticed the poor widow who had very little, but gave everything that she had.  Jesus used the example of the generous widow to his disciples.  We then read the wonderful story of the Rainbow Fish and reflected on how positive Rainbow Fish felt when he finally learnt the value of generosity.

Attendance Figures

Class RH  95.5%

Class RY  93.7%

Class 1C  97.1%

Class 1/2B  98.3%

Class 2S  96%

Class 3N  94.7%

Class 3/4JB  97%

Class 4C  94.8%

Class 5CS  98.4%

Class 5/6M  95%

Class 6P  96.7%