Our Wonderful Welcome Service

On Wednesday the 1st October, Reception spent a wonderful afternoon at the church with their special grown ups.  It was a chance to formally welcome all of our new Reception class to our school and church family.  Some year 6 children recalled their memories of their time in Reception. Then the children received a beautiful Bible, as a gift to commemorate the occasion.  We lit candles, sang a song and hung a small portrait on a tree so that the church congregation can hold the children in their prayers and thoughts.  Finally, each child rang the bell as they left to signify the start of their school journey.

 

     

 

 

 

 

Attendance Figures

Attendance figures for week beginning 22.9.25

Class RH  97.8%

Class RY  95.8%

Class 1C  98.6%

Class 1/2B  98.3%

Class 2S  98.7%

Class 3N  98.3%

Class 3/4JB  99.3%

Class 4C  99.7%

Class 5CS  97.1%

Class 5/6M  97%

Class 6P  94.7%

Head teacher’s update

Thank goodness for a week in the sunshine! It has been another busy and productive week.  Our year 5 and 6 pupils carried out a geography field trip to the local area to consider the impact future developments might have on the village and the school.  I had the pleasure of walking with 5/6M and was very impressed by the children’s responses and critical thinking.

Attendance this week has been really positive, with one day this week being very nearly 100%!  We talk about the benefits of consistent attendance in assembly each week.

Our new phonics scheme, ELS, is well underway and the children are responding very well to the new lessons.  Thank you for all of your support with reading at home.

Congratulations to all of the children who have successfully achieved one of our pupil voice and representative positions.  All of our House Captains, School Council Reps, Wellbeing Buddies and Worship Committee are in position and raring to go to help our school community.  Thank you to all of those involved.

Please could we ask for your continuing support regarding water and drinks bottles.  We are very grateful for the support with the size of the bottles that children are bringing.  It really does make a difference to storage in the classrooms and there is a noticeable reduction in spillages.  Plastic bottles are preferable, please as metal ones are hard and heavy and can cause incidents.

 

 

Geography Field Trip

Local Area Field Study

This week the Children from Years 5&6 went on a field trip to study the area known locally as The Triangle. We were looking at the impact of humans in our local area as this area is potentially going to be developed for housing. The children were considering all aspects of the proposed development and how this might impact the village of Wall Heath and surrounding communities.

Collective Worship

This week’s focus has been on resilience, which is both part of our school vision and one of our new Curriculum Drivers.  We have reflected on what resilience means and there were some excellent suggestions from the children.  In the end, we decided that resilience means the ability to bounce back.  We thought about how we have already shown resilience this year by moving to new year groups, lots of new learning and of course, the literal bouncing, on the inflatable assault course!  Children found it very amusing that I had needed help from Miss Cottam to complete the course.  We then considered how we all need help at times, and that it is ok to ask for support.

We finished our assembly with the following:

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Attendance Figures

Attendance figures for week beginning 15.9.25

Class RH  98.89%

Class RY  97.37%

Class 1C  98.57%

Class 1/2B  99.33%

Class 2S  95.33%

Class 3N  96.33%

Class 3/4JB  99.67%

Class 4C  98.62%

Class 5CS  94.84%

Class 5/6M  95.67%

Class 6P  96.67%