This week, we have been considering how sometimes being proud of achievements might turn into boasting.  We explored this idea through the the story of The Tall Tower.  Once people had settled from the floods, they lived peacefully and happily together for some time.  However, they then started to compete with each other to see who could build the tallest towers.  Instead of concentrating on living a good life, people started to focus on showing off and boasting.  The children gave some great responses as to how it feels when people boast and whether it helps or hinders friendships.  When God responded to the selfishness and boastfulness by creating lots of new languages so people could no longer communicate, this caused huge confusion.  We considered how difficult this must have made life and how the people must have thought hard about how they were behaving.

In Thursday’s assembly, Mrs Peters and Mrs Birad introduced the children to our OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) curriculum and explained how playtimes and lunchtimes will be changing, following the half term holiday.  The children responded very positively and are looking forward to having an increased variety of resources and activities for social times.

Please see the information below for Ace Coaching Half Term Sports Camps:

Ace October Half Term 2026

Appointments for Parents’ Evening on Wednesday 14th October will be available to book on Arbor from 8:00am on Monday 5th October. Bookings will be open until 8:00am on Tuesday 13th October. If you have any difficulties making a booking, please email info@chur-ascen.edlt.org.uk or contact the school office.

We would be really grateful if parents could complete the survey to help us improve our provision at breaktimes and lunchtimes.

Thank you for you support.

Permission letters can be found here:

Church Club Permission Letter

Or collected from the school office.

Can we please remind parents not to send in sweets/lollipops for break or lunchtimes.

Thank you for your support.

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.  I look forward to seeing how well the seeds of radishes, carrots and lettuces grow.

Lunchtimes have been full of new activities, this week, thanks to our Sports Ambassadors.  They have been working closely with ACE coaching to lead some really great games and activities.  It has been lovely to see the children playing so creatively, although I have discovered that I need to work on my penalty taking skills.

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 will ensure it’s safe delivery to The Black Country Foodbank next week.

We are looking forward to  our first school discos of the year, which will be taking place on Thursday 8th October.

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.