Head teacher’s update What a busy half term, this has been! It has concluded with many of our year 6 pupils going on their residential visit to London and PGL. I have had daily updates about how brilliantly the children have represented our school and how much fun they have had. We very much look forward to welcoming them home, this evening.
AIP will be hosting a bonfire themed lunch on 5th November. The menu will consist of hot dogs and burgers (including vegetarian) and baked potatoes with chilli or cheese and beans.
Thank you all very much for your generous donations to the Food Bank, for our Harvest collection. The Black Country Food Bank were very pleased to collect our donation and are grateful to us for our continuing support. Thank you to some of our year 6 pupils who helped with the collection of the items.
Thank you for organising our donations and helping to pack up the van!
As we break up for half term, I am sure that you will join with me in wishing Miss Slater all the very best as she commences her maternity leave. Miss Slater, we wish you all the very best and thank you for all of your energy and enthusiasm – right up until the end of your last day!
I hope that you all have a lovely and safe half term and look forward to seeing you all when the children return on Tuesday 4th November. We have spoken to the children about the new arrangements for the start of the day and we look forward to what will be a smoother and more settled start to the school day.
Collective Worship This week, we have learnt about the Hindu Festival of Light, Diwali, which was celebrated on Monday. We thought about the significance of light in many religions and what light symbolises and represents. We then considered how we could be the light in someone’s day.
Later in the week, we concluded our Black History Month celebrations. The children spoke with confidence about significant people that they had been learning about, in classes. We then finished the week with a focus on Maya Angelou and her wonderful words of wisdom. Maya’s life and work are an inspiration. We learnt that Maya was the first African American woman to work as a street car conductor and the difficulty and hardship that she had to endure in order to be able to achieve that position. We also read some of her poetry. We finished with a reflection on Maya’s wonderful quote, “If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
Secondary School Places Reminder to Year 6 parents:
If your child is due to start secondary school in 2026 then you will have to apply for a school place before 31st October 2025.
Apply online at www.dudley.gov.uk/admissions
Attendance Figures
Class RH 95.5%
Class RY 93.7%
Class 1C 97.1%
Class 1/2B 98.3%
Class 2S 96%
Class 3N 94.7%
Class 3/4JB 97%
Class 4C 94.8%
Class 5CS 98.4%
Class 5/6M 95%
Class 6P 96.7%
OSCAR Club Could we kindly remind parents that if your child has been booked into Breakfast or After School Club but will not be attending, please let Jacqui know.
Thank you for your support.
PE Uniform Children should have a P.E kit in school at all times. Please see our Uniform Policy to ensure your child has the correct items. Thank you for your support.
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Wordsley Library Half Term Activities
Bonfire Night Special Menu AIP are providing a special menu on November 5th. Order via the app in the usual way.
Bonfire – Special Menu
Changes to start of the day Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Dear Families
Thank you for your patience while our emails were out of action yesterday. Fortunately, the issues have now been resolved.
I am writing to inform you of some changes that we will be making to the start of the day, from after the half term holiday. The gates will continue to be opened at 8:40am. However, children will no longer line up in classes on the playground and will instead go directly to their classrooms, via the allocated entry point, from 8:45 to 8:50am when the bell will go for the start of the day. This is similar to the arrangements that we have during bad weather. Staff will be positioned at the gates to the school and at the entry points. We would ask that families do not approach the classrooms or class teachers directly and instead inform the adults that are on the playground or at the allocated doors, who will pass any messages on.
Allocated doors:
Reception pupils and pupils in 1-2B and 1C: up the ramp outside of reception classes, to the double fire exit doors
Pupils in 2S and 3N: through the peace garden to the double fire exit doors
Pupils in 3-4JB, 4C, 5CS, 5-6M and 6P: bottom of the steps on the path at the side of school, through double fire exit doors.
There will be staff present on the playground and at the doors to help direct the children to the correct entry points. We will also be explaining these arrangements to the children before we break up.
We very much appreciate your support with this and feel that it will make the start of the day a much smoother start for our children. Children will be greeted at the classroom door and will have relevant learning activities to start the day. It will also improve the safety of the school site by reducing the amount of congestion on the playground at the start of the day.
Kind regards
Mrs L Mason
4C Autumn 1 Music This half term, 4C have been looking at soul music.
We have been learning to sing Lean on me by Bill Withers, find the pulse in a variety of songs and play along using out glockenspiels.
Here is some of our singing and glockenspiel playing to Lean On Me by Bill Withers.
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Y3&4 Wild Zoo Experience Today in Years 3 and 4, we had an exciting visit from some zoo keepers from Wild Zoological Park.
We got to see some animals: a snake, rats and an owl. They came to talk to us about how different animal skeletons and digestive systems work.
4C Lowry Art Work Part 1 Today in 4C, we have been drawing some of the local buildings in Wall Heath ready for painting and creating our final pieces. Here are some of our drawings:
4C Lowry Art Work (Final Pieces) This half term, we have been exploring the art work of LS Lowry. LS Lowry painted pictures of his local area (Manchester). Here is his painting titled ‘Going To Work’.
In 4C, we have been trying to create some art in the style of LS Lowry. We decided to create pictures of our local area, the village of Wall Heath. Here is a gallery of our incredible artwork:
Textures Around Our School Year 1 and 2 have rounded off their Textures Around Our School learning by creating beautiful clay tile houses. Each tile features textures and patterns inspired by the surfaces and materials found around our school. The children explored mark-making techniques in clay, drawing inspiration from the sculptural work of artist Rachel Whiteread . The finished pieces celebrate both creativity and the rich variety of textures in our everyday surroundings.
Black History Month The children have enjoyed celebrating Black History Month through various activities. They have all had the opportunity to learn, reflect and celebrate the achievements and lasting influence of black people.
Conkers, Colours and Crispy Leaves We took advantage of the lovely weather on Wednesday, to go on an autumn leaf hunt. The children enjoyed exploring the school environment and were excited to find lots of different coloured leaves.
We tore up small pieces of the leaves we found and stuck them onto a ‘sticky leaf template’. They looked wonderful when we held them up to the light!