Head teacher’s update
We have had a lovely week, enjoying the sunshine of Spring and celebrating World Book Day. We have all had a great time talking about our favourite books and book characters. The activities were a huge success and there was lots of healthy competition in the literary orienteering. Thank you for all of the donations to the Book Swap – it was great to see so many children going home with a different book to read. Football books were particularly popular, this year! We had some brilliant costumes – please do visit the year group pages for their photographs and updates.
I am very much looking forward to meeting with school council representatives, next week, to talk about behaviour in school and our behaviour policy. This will complement the work that we have been doing with parents and staff to help inform our new behaviour policy, that we hope to launch before the start of next school year. Thank you to all of those who contributed their thoughts and observations via the parent survey.
Collective Worship
This week, we held our termly Eucharist Service. It was lovely to welcome visitors from the church and school communities to join us for the service and share communion, together, for those that wished to. Father Chris led us through a service that made us consider The Lord’s Prayer. This is a prayer that we say regularly in school, and refer to as our Family Prayer. Father Chris explained that it is called the Family Prayer as it brings all those of Christian faith together, in the unity of one prayer. We considered what each part of the prayer means and what we are asking for when we say this prayer. The children listened and engaged very well and as with all of Father Chris’s assemblies, very much enjoyed the musical responses and joining in with familiar and new hymns.
Attendance Figures
Attendance Figures week commencing 02.03.2026:
Class RH 98.8%
Class RY 94.7%
Class 1C 99%
Class 1/2B 98.7%
Class 2S 100%
Class 3N 99.4%
Class 3/4JB 94%
Class 4C 99.7%
Class 5CS 97.1%
Class 5/6M 97.7%
Class 6P 97.2%
Mother’s Day at Church of the Ascension
Sunday 15th March
Celebrate Mother’s Day with Cafe Church at the Church of the Ascension: come to the church hall from 9.40 to enjoy breakfast baps and pastries, stay for a Bible story and activities, and communion in church: everyone welcome!
iSing Pop-up Church at Church of the Ascension
I SingPop-up service this Sunday at 10 in the church hall, drop your children off, join us for coffee after 11, then a short service by the children in church at 11.20.
Charlie Bears Art and Craft Club
The Football Academy
World Book Day Heart
The letter below has been sent home with all the children, we’d really appreciate it if you could encourage your child to complete and return it so it can be part of our library display.
Inside this heart, draw or write all the things you love to read about. It could be characters, types of books, or even a picture of you reading. Colour it carefully and put your name on it before returning it to school next week. It would be very helpful if you could cut it out too.
Thank you
West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership
We have been asked to share these with our parents and carers.
Stone Age Visit
On Monday, Years 3 and 4 were treated to a visit from Lily who hosted a Stone Age workshop for the day. Our children were given the opportunity to handle and explore a wide range of Stone Age artefacts, try on Stone Age clothing and examine the evolution of human skulls.
They then became archaeologists, searching through boxes for signs of prehistoric life. Once items had been discovered, children had to identify if they were metal or not (using a metal detector) and then had to decide if they were from the Stone Age or a different time in history.
During the afternoon, the children became Stone Age hunters, practising the skill of archery. They also tried out Stone Age cave paintings using chalk and charcoal as well as making tools from wood, string and flint.
What a fantastic launch of our Stone Age History topic!
Year 5 Walk through the Bible
Well done Year 5, for working so hard with David to learn 40 key words and actions, to remember the journey through the Old Testament. Every Year 5 child was presented with a certificate and their own book, generously provided by Church of the Ascension. We were filled with pride watching you perform all you had learnt to the rest of our school.
World Book Day in 4C
We had a fantastic World Book Day in 4C. We got to enjoy all our wonderful costumes, share our favourite books, we completed a reading themed orienteering activity and discussed what it would be like if our favourite characters found themselves lost in a different book.