We are delighted to be continuing our collaborative work with Wall Heath in Bloom.  There are a couple of exciting projects that we would love to get involved with, as a school.  Children and families have been invited to contribute to the Remembrance Day service by creating either crocheted or knitted red poppies for a central display in the church grounds. If you would like to contribute any poppies, we are happy to accept the donations at school.  We will also be inviting children to design a Christmas Card competition. I have shared this with children today in assembly, and look forward to seeing their competition entries.

Music lessons with Dudley Performing Arts have resumed for those children learning to play an instrument, in school.  If you would like your child to have lessons with Dudley Performing Arts, please follow this link – Music lessons in school | Dudley Council

Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed their opportunity to visit church this week for the Experience Harvest event.  Children listened carefully and interacted thoughtfully in all of the activities.  Thank you to all of those at church who supported and hosted us.  Thank you also to our amazing Worship Committee who have worked closely with Mrs Moore and Mrs Austin to lead very thought provoking and interactive services for our key stage 1 and 2 children.  I thoroughly enjoyed the services and I know that the children did too.

Many thanks for all of the generous Harvest donations that we have received for the Foodbank.  We are happy to continue to accept donations next week and then we will ensure its safe delivery to The Black Country Foodbank.

We are very excited about our first school discos of the year, which will be taking place on Tuesday 6th October.  Details for booking a place at the reception class disco will be sent separately.  Key stage 1 and 2 children can pay on the door, as usual.

This week, we started thinking about the people of God.  We explored the story of Noah and the ark.  We considered what qualities Noah held that meant that God considered him trustworthy which such a big mission.  God made Noah a promise and Noah trusted in God – we thought about what that means about the relationship that God had with Noah.  At the end of the story, there was a rainbow that signified that the storm had passed.  We all agreed that we love rainbows and how they represent hope and brighter things.  The children made some very thoughtful contributions about the importance of promises and why they are sometimes quite difficult to keep.

Once again the weather has impacted our sports day! A very well done to our year 4,5 and 6 pupils who competed so successfully, this morning in the events that we were able to fit in before it rained. It was great to see so many of you taking part and enjoying the morning.

We have had a lovely afternoon, concluding our work on the whole school text, Scarecrows Wedding.  It has been amazing to see so many creative and crafty ideas coming together to represent the story.  Please visit the class pages for photos of the afternoon’s activities.

Thank you to all of those who were able to attend our HSA AGM, on Tuesday.  It was lovely to be able to welcome some new members. Our sincere thanks go to Gemma and Ryan for all of their support and dedication in their roles as Chair and Treasurer – we are very grateful for all of your hard work and look forward to continuing to work with you as members of the association. Thank you also to Tash and Lee who have kindly volunteered to take up these roles for the coming school year.  Thank you also to Sarah who has agreed to maintain the role of Secretary.

Well done to all of our pupils who have volunteered and been elected to represent their classes in our various pupil voice groups. Our Sports Ambassadors are working really hard to learn new sports and games to play on our playgrounds.  Our School Council representatives met this week to think about our Harvest Festival Collection and have written to you separately regarding contributions.

This week, we listened to the story of The Fall. We thought about how the relationship between God and people changes in Genesis 3, when Adam and Eve disobey God’s instruction. We explored the Christian value of forgiveness and talked about other places in the Bible where we think about the theme of forgiveness.  The children gave some very thoughtful and insightful responses to how we can repair a relationship that has been broken or disrupted.

We have had another busy and productive week, at school. It was great to see so many of you who were able to attend the ‘Meet the Teacher’ meetings.

A polite request – please could adults collecting the children not stand on the grass opposite the school office, when collecting from the year 4,5,6 exits.  We ask the children not to stand or walk on this grass in an effort to preserve it, now that the grass has regrown following such a dry summer.

The Home School Association, AGM will now be taking place on Tuesday 22nd September at 8pm and will be online.  If you would like to receive the link for the meeting, please request from info@chur-ascen.edlt.org.uk New members are very welcome to attend. We look forward to planning events and activities for the coming year.

Thank you all very much for your support in ensuring that all of our children are kept safe by ensuring the snacks and lunches do not contain any nuts.

This week, we started our “Bible in a Year” journey.  We started at the beginning – a very good place to start.  In our Collective Worship, we explored Genesis 1-2 – the story of Creation. We explored the 7 creation events and how everything that was created was ‘good’ until God created humans, which was ‘very good’. Christians believe that this shows the importance of God’s relationship with us.  We looked at pictures representing the story of Creation and thought about ways in which we can be good stewards of God’s wonderful world.

The School Shop is now available to purchase school uniform on Arbor.

Please see the link below on how to order:

Purchasing School Shop items on the Parent Portal or Parent App – Arbor Help Centre

Items ordered will be sent home with your child as soon as we are able to.

Please bear with us during busy times!

If you have any issues, please contact the school office.