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Published on: 9th May, 2025

Summer 2025 Newsletter No 15

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Head teacher’s update Skip to article
Collective Worship Skip to article
End of school arrangements Friday 16th May Skip to article
Forest School at the Family Festival Skip to article
Mainly Music Skip to article
AHOY ME HEARTIES! Skip to article
Reflecting light in Science Skip to article
VE Day Celebrations Skip to article
VE Day Celebration Skip to article
VE Day fun Skip to article
Family Festival Skip to article

Head teacher’s update

Thank you all for your very generous donations of bottles, in today’s non-uniform day. We are very much looking forward to our Family Festival, after school, next Friday and are very grateful to the HSA and other volunteers for their hard work in organising and preparing. Today’s contributions to the bottle tombola, are a very positive start to what I am sure will be a very successful and enjoyable event. Details regarding the Family Festival and safe collection of children will be sent out separately.

During our VE Day commemorations, our children gave some very thoughtful and sensitive responses. Their stone decorations were fantastic and made a wonderful display on the school playground.

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend, in the sunshine.

Collective Worship

This week, we have been focusing on our school vision, in particular, what it means to flourish spiritually. We introduced the concept of head, heart and hands when we think about spirituality:

Head – I found out about …
Heart – It made me think … it made me feel ….
Hands – so I decided to …

Our reflection this week is to consider what it means to us, as individuals, to flourish spiritually.

We flourish spiritually through our connections: connections with ourselves, with others, with the world around us and for some, a relationship with faith.

End of school arrangements Friday 16th May

Friday 9^th May 2025

Dear Family

Re. Family Festival

We are very much looking forward to our first Family Festival event on Friday 16^th May. The event will take place straight after school, and we therefore need to make sure that all of the children are safely dismissed at the end of the day.

Reception, Year 1, 2 and 3N will dismiss from the usual doors. Please make sure that you are standing close enough to be visible to staff and that your child comes directly to you and stays with you.

Classes 4J and 4C will not be able to send older siblings round to the key stage 1 playground to meet siblings. Please collect younger siblings first and then come round to the path area where year 4 children are usually dismissed from and collect from your child’s class teacher. Staff will remain with the children until you are able to collect.

Year 5 and 6 will be dismissed in the usual way and if they are permitted to walk home alone, they will still be able to leave the school site, unaccompanied. Please ensure that your child knows the arrangements, as to whether they are to come directly home or if they are permitted to stay onsite for the festival.

After school club pupils will be located in class 6M. This will be signposted from the school office/ main school entrance and parents can collect from the outside door.

We are very grateful for your support. If there are any issues or concerns arising, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

Yours sincerely

Mrs L Mason – head teacher

Forest School at the Family Festival

Only a week to go to our Family Festival!

The fabulous team from Fruits of the Forest who run our Forest School will be joining us at the event and you can book a 30 minute session.

For more information and to book, please follow the link below:-

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/church-of-the-ascension-primary-school-hsa/family-festival-forest-school/2025-05-16/15:30/t-nopndoy

Mainly Music

AHOY ME HEARTIES!

Reception’s Brand New Pirate Ship

Reception are so excited to see their new pirate ship that has been added to our beautiful outdoor learning environment. We would like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful H.S.A who bought this for us. Pirate day is going to be so much fun!

Thank you H.S.A

Reflecting light in Science

5CS have been exploring how we can reflect light using angled mirrors. Great work everyone

VE Day Celebrations

Today the children have taken part in a range of celebrations for VE Day to mark 80 years since the end of World War II. The children brought in pebbles from home and have painted them with a design linked to VE Day. They have all had a VE Day decorated cupcake and tried British scones with jam.

Look out for our pebbles around Wall Heath!

VE Day Celebration

As part of our school VE day celebrations each child was asked to bring a stone to school. Over the last few days, children painted their stones and today we created a beautiful art installation on the playground to share with our school community. Tomorrow the stones will be collected to create a VE Day trail around Wall Heath. Take a look at some of the amazing, detailed artwork. Do you know where your stone is?

Some of our older children reflected on their thoughts and feelings about VE day.

“When I was painting my rock, I was thinking about how we weren’t painting the rocks for us, we are painting them for the community. It’s like when the soldiers fought for me and the rest of the world”. Freya

“When we were playing games I thought about how some children had to play in fear of the air raid shelter alarm going off”. Jake C

” While I was playing different games, I thought about how lucky I am to not be in fear; it must have been really hard to think that a German bomber could drop a bomb at any time. I love running around, having a good time without thinking of running to an air raid shelter”. Lauren