Head teacher’s update
What a busy week we’ve had at Church of Ascension Primary School! Our Year 2 students had a meaningful experience visiting the church to Experience Advent, which I’m sure will have been both educational and spiritually enriching. Feedback from the church community who led the experience for us were very impressed by our children’s engagement and responses – well done, year 2! I’m particularly proud of our girls’ football team, who represented our school magnificently during their recent matches.
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our non-uniform day and made generous donations for the Christmas Fayre. Your continued support makes such a difference to our school community. We’ve also enjoyed fantastic school discos this week, which brought so much excitement to our students! It also raised very much appreciated funds for the school. These events are always a highlight in our school calendar.
I would also like to share an important staffing update. Mrs Walley, who is a very valuable and long-serving member of our team will be leaving at Christmas, to pursue further career opportunities and personal interests at another school. While we will miss her significant and hugely valuable contributions to school life at Church of the Ascension, we wish Mrs Walley every success in her future endeavours.
Collective Worship
While I am aware that we are a little early, this week we began our focus on Advent. We thought about how we feel when we are made to feel welcome and how we know that we are welcome somewhere. Children gave some very thoughtful responses about a time when they have been made to feel welcome. We thought about how we are getting ready for a very special time, both in and out of school. For Christians, this is a particularly important time and we thought about the significance of Mary welcoming the news from the angel Gabriel that she would be having a very special baby. Lighting our advent candle, while we held Mary in our thoughts, is always a special occasion for us, at Church of the Ascension and I am very grateful to the children for their sensible and thoughtful reflections.
Next week, will be our termly Eucharist Service. Members of the church community are very welcome to join us, in taking communion, at school.
Attendance Figures
Class RH 92.4%
Class RY 92.6%
Class 1C 97.6%
Class 1/2B 96%
Class 2S 96.6%
Class 3N 94.7%
Class 3/4JB 99%
Class 4C 97.9%
Class 5CS 94.5%
Class 5/6M 95%
Class 6P 98.7%
Santa’s Grotto at the Christmas Fayre
SANTA’S GROTTO AT THE CHRISTMAS FAYRE
FRIDAY 5TH DECEMBER 5-7PM
We hope you will be joining us for our Christmas Fayre this year. If your child/ren would like to visit Santa, tickets will need to be pre-booked. Please see the information below which explains how to book and what to expect.
Tickets are £5 per child and can be booked by going to…
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/church-of-the-ascension-primary-school-hsa
There you will be able to select which time slot you would like starting from 5pm, every 10 minutes until 6.50pm.
Each time slot has 15 tickets available. Only children require tickets. The time you select is the time you should be at the Grotto entrance by the Key Stage 1 library.
In groups of up to 15 children, they will be taken in to meet our cheery elves and make reindeer food before going to meet Santa and Mrs Claus. Mrs Claus will then tell them a festive story and they will be given their small gifts.
Please note if you choose the 5pm slot then we advise that you arrive slightly earlier than the fayre start time and let them know on the entrance you are here so we can start everything on time.
We are so excited to bring back our grotto and hope the children will enjoy it too!
Book Fair
Come and visit our book fair in the spare classroom straight after school on Friday 21st November and Monday 24th – Wednesday 26th November.
Please access through the Jubilee Library door on the Key Stage 1 playground. Payments can only be made by card, we are unable to accept cash unfortunately.
The school will receive commission on any books sold and this will be used to purchase more books for the school libraries.
Thank you for your support.
Playtime Games
It’s that time of year again when you might be having a good sort out of your children’s toys and games. If you find you have items that you no longer need, we are looking for any donations of card games, Hot Wheel cars, superhero figures, construction such as Lego etc., games that challenge, anything suitable for children to use on the playground at lunchtime.
If you have anything that you would like to donate – please send it into school.
Thank you for your continued support.
1/2B Forest school
A very chilly day at Forest School today, but the children kept warm by keeping busy! They worked together on two fun tasks — building shelters for the birds and going on a scavenger hunt to find worms for them.
There was plenty of mud fun too with the mud kitchen and the mud-pit den building.
We shared the story of How the Robin got his Red Breast, enjoyed waffles with strawberries and blueberries, played a round of Sneaky Bob, and finished with a song. A cold day, but a lovely one!
Experience Advent Year 2!
Yesterday our Year 2 children enjoyed a visit to Church. The children learnt what advent means and why we celebrate it.
Father Chris invited the children to discuss what joy is and what it means to them. He also related it to the Christmas story and the good news the angels shared with Mary. The children then wrote what joy means to them on a lollipop stick. Some other lovely ladies then worked with the children creating wreaths, stars and hand decorations and exploring their meanings within advent. 
3N Rhyming Poetry
This week, we have enjoyed exploring the poem sung by the Oompa Loompas in the chocolate room. Today, we have performed the poem in small groups and we thought about suitable actions we could use.
Here are some photos from our performance
We also explored the use of rhyme in the song. We had a go at using rhyme to help us write our own poems. Here are some examples