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I am sure that all of those of you who have been lucky enough to see our Year 6 production, “Shakespeare Rocks” will agree with me that it was an absolutely incredible performance! I am blown away by the children’s confidence and talents.  Thank you so much to all of the staff and children who have worked so hard to give us such entertaining performances.  You were fabulous and we all thoroughly enjoyed it.

Well done to all of our reception and key stage 1 pupils for their super sports day, this week.  We are so pleased to have been able to carry out the main races before it became too hot! It was a lovely atmosphere and a privilege to see all of our children taking part and giving it their all. Well done, children.

We are very sorry that we have had to send out communication that KS2 sports day has had to be postponed until the Autumn Term for years 3 – 5.  Year 6 will have an exclusive sports day on Monday and we hope that a shortened version of events will mean that we can be back in school before it gets too hot.

A huge well done to Evie and Isabelle, in our reception classes.  They have won the art competition hosted by the Diocese. Evie and Isabelle’s art work will now take pride of place in the Bishop of Worcester’s offices.

We also had the pleasure of inviting Canon Tim Reid to our assembly, on Wednesday where we were presented our Church and School Partnership Silver Award in recognition of the partnership of parish and school in supporting the community that we serve.

Children enjoyed their transition morning with their new teachers, this week.  It was helpful to learn everything that children wanted us to know about them, in the “what I want my teacher to know about me” activity.  They have been very interesting and a lot of fun to read.

We have had a lovely day in Weston Super Mare with years 1 and 2, today.  The children really enjoyed putting all of their knowledge about human and physical features, into practice.  Well done for your super behaviour and enthusiasm, year 1 and 2.  You were a pleasure to spend the day with.

This week, we revisited how we are feeling about navigating our way to the next chapter of education, whether that be to a new school for our year 6 pupils or to a new class, for all of our other children. We thought about where else Christians might find support and comfort regarding new challenges and the children identified the Bible as a source.  Recently, we learned about St Paul the Apostle and how, despite the adversity that he faced, he had written a very large part of the New Testament.  We were able to find the following words of support and guidance that Christians may turn to.

In Philippians 3:13 – 14, Paul writes:​
“Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus”.

The INSET days for the next academic year will be as follows:

Tuesday 1st September 2026

Wednesday 2nd September 2026

Monday 4th January 2027

Friday 28th May 2027

Monday 7th June 2027

We are very much looking forward to seeing many of our children later, at the discos.

Key stage 1 and reception – 530 – 615pm

Key stage 2 – 630 – 730pm

Well done to our year 6 pupils who performed a dress rehearsal of their play, Shakespeare Rocks, to the rest of the school.  It sounded incredible – I am sure that families will very much enjoy the production, next week. We look forward to our families coming to watch the production on Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon. Details of tickets will be sent separately, by the year 6 team.

Some of our year 5 pupils competed in the Maths Quizmasters Competition, at Summerhill. The whole team did brilliantly and were incredible ambassadors for the school.  A special mention to Zeke who can recall Pi to 86 decimal places – wow! Thank you to the whole team, who represented our school so well.

We aim to start our Key Stage 1 sports day at approximately 930am, on Tuesday 7th July.  The school field will be open from 0850.  Please bring your own chairs and please could you remain seated behind the barriered area, for safeguarding purposes.

This week, we have been thinking about transitions.  We recognised that we will all have a mixture of feelings about moving on to a new year group and new class – we might be feeling excited and nervous, all at the same time.  We talked about strategies that we can use to manage those emotions.

I  shared one of my favourite books with the children, The Owl Who is Afraid of the Dark. We talked about the ideas, support and guidance of others had helped Plop to be a confident night bird and who we can talk to about our thoughts and feelings, too.