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Posted on 04th Jul 2025 by

Head teacher’s update

A very well done to all of our Key Stage 1 and reception pupils for their fantastic participation in Sports Day.  It was a great day and it was brilliant to see all of our pupils taking part.  Well done, children!

Today, we were treated to a brass performance by class 4C.  They performed brilliantly and looked like true professionals.  I was blown away by their confidence.  Thank you for a great start to our day, 4C.

As we approach the end of the school year, year 6 are incredibly busy and have lots of exciting events to look forward to.  A quick reminder of the next couple of weeks commitments:

Monday 7th July Year 5 and 6 production for parents @ 7pm

Tuesday 8th July Year 5 and 6 production for parents @1.45pm

Thursday 17th July Year 6 Leavers’ party @ 7-830pm

Friday 18th July Year 6 Leavers’ service in church @2pm Parents are invited – your child will be coming home with your invitation.

 

1 week ago
Posted on 27th Jun 2025 by

Head teacher’s update

Thank you to all of those of you who were able to join us for the Key Stage 2 sports day.  I am in awe of how well our children participated and supported each other.  It was great to see all children taking part in a track and a field event.  We hope that we are as lucky with the weather for next week’s Key Stage 1 event.

Well done to our cricket team who took part in the Sports Hall Athletics Cricket tournament, this week.  Mr Bradley informs me that they had a great day and represented the school brilliantly.  Well done to them on their bronze medals – very well deserved recognition of their determination.

Today, Mrs Peters held the trial of Goldilocks.  Children in all classes have spent the week looking at the evidence and deliberating about Goldilocks’s innocence.  This morning, a jury consisting of one child per class, gave their verdicts.  With the exception of 1 class, the decision was that she was indeed, guilty of the crimes that she was accused of. Her punishment … 3 weeks community service!

1 week ago
Posted on 27th Jun 2025 by

Collective Worship

We were delighted to welcome Lindsey Brown to lead our act of worship, this week. Lindsey’s creative story telling and skilful painting brought the story of Bartimaeus to life.  The Bible tells us that Jesus valued Bartimaeus, taking the time to listen and understand what his wishes were before curing him of his blindness.  This reminded us all of how important and valued we are, as children of God.

 

1 week ago
Posted on 27th Jun 2025 by

3N Art Project

We have enjoyed exploring the painting A Regatta on the Grand Canal and we have enjoyed looking closely at the boats, which we described as decorative, royal and detailed.

Today, we zoomed in more closely to look at the decoration and the swirl patterns. We used paint and black paper to print some of the patterns.

Here are some examples of our wonderful printing and designs using pens.

2 weeks ago
Posted on 19th Jun 2025 by

Head teacher’s update

Well done to our children, who have coped and behaved so well with this week’s heat!

Our Year 6 pupils spent the day at Severn Valley Country Park, on Tuesday, looking at natural habitats.  Rangers at the park commented on how sensible and knowledgeable our pupils were.  Thank you, year 6, for representing the school so well.

This week, we hosted 3 head teachers from other local schools, who came to spend some time with us, thinking about all things maths.  It was lovely to show them around our school and to hear the children talking about maths, with such confidence.

Our youngest children have done some fabulous writing, this week, retelling the story of the Gingerbread Man.  I had lots of lovely visits from children who wanted to share their pride in their writing. I very much enjoyed the visit and the children reading their recounts to me.

 

2 weeks ago
Posted on 19th Jun 2025 by

Collective Worship – Eucharist

This week, Father Adam led us in our termly Eucharist Service.  The children listened and took part with maturity and thoughtfulness with many asking some excellent questions about the service. Thank you to all of the members of the Parish Community, who came to join us for the service.

3 weeks ago
Posted on 13th Jun 2025 by

Head teacher’s Update

Our Year 6 pupils look incredibly smart in their leavers’ hoodies!  It is really lovely to see them wearing them to school, with such pride.

Well done to year 5, who represented our school so well on their visit to Severn Valley Country Park, today. It was great to hear how thoughtful, observant and enthusiastic the children were when looking at natural habitats.

Thank you to those who have responded to the Forest School parent questionnaire.  The responses are very valuable when considering arrangements for next school year.  The questionnaire will remain open over the weekend, should you still wish to contribute Forest School Evaluation- Church of Ascension CE Primary School 2025

Many of our children have enjoyed a visit to the HSA Father’s Day Sale, this afternoon, to make purchases for someone special in their lives.  We continue to be extremely grateful to the HSA for all that they do to raise vital funds to support our school.  This year, we have been treated to lots of fun events, including film nights, discos and our fabulous Family Festival.  We are incredibly grateful for the purchase of a class set of iPads.  These will help to support our Computing Curriculum, as well as allowing pupils to carry out interventions.  In addition to the IPads, on behalf of school, the HSA have purchased:
– Bibles for our reception pupils.
– Large scale update of school reading books.
– New school website.
– £150 per class teacher for them to spend on what their class needs.
– The theatre performance of Treasure Island.
– The reception outdoor pirate ship.
– KS1 playground games.
– Support for transport to the Mayor’s Christmas Concert.
– New walkie talkies for lunchtime and after school use.
-Items to support Year 6 transition and end of year celebrations.

As you can see, all of your contributions have gone to excellent use in supporting the children.  We are very grateful for all of your support at and contributions to the events.

Parent Governor nominations must be received in school no later than 12 noon on Monday 16th June. We currently have two vacancies and would welcome nominations to fulfil these roles as we value the input from our Governors and the vital part they play in our school community.

 

3 weeks ago
Posted on 13th Jun 2025 by

Collective Worship

This week, we have looked at our school vision:

Do everything in love (1 Corinthians 16:14)​

As an inclusive Christian school, Church of the Ascension C.E Primary School aims to create a loving, caring and respectful community, where individuals can flourish spiritually, socially and academically as children of God in a rich learning environment.

We thought about all the different places that we belong – that we belong to our families, our school, our classes, different clubs and groups, our friendship circles and lots more.  But what does it mean to belong as a child of God?  Our children have given lots of thoughtful responses to this question and what this might look like in daily life, for some Christians.

4 weeks ago
Posted on 10th Jun 2025 by

4C’s Take One Picture Project

This half term, as a school we have been looking at The National Gallery Take one picture project. We have looked at the following artwork : A Regatta on the Grand Canal.

Here are some of our drawing challenges that we used to learn more about the painting. We had to : draw as much as we could in five minutes; draw as much as we could in five minutes without looking at our drawing and draw as much as we could in five minutes using our non dominant hand.

As a class, we decided there were lots of things we are excited to explore on the painting. The first thing we have looked at is the clouds. We had the chance to make clouds in three different ways: wax candles, sponges and bubbles. Have a look at our work.