Just over a week to go and we are still standing – but what a week it has been. The main chat on Thursday morning was all about England as I am sure you can imagine. After 55 years England have finally made it to the final of an international football tournament and national expectation is high. You will know by now that we are going to have a very soft start on Monday and children do not have to be in until 10.30am so they can have a little bit of a lie –in to recover after the night before. As we stated in our email we will assume that those children who normally have a school lunch will be doing so unless we hear differently from you.

Another big event that happened in school this week was the Year 6 ‘Apprentice Day’ Just like the programme the children were put into groups and then had to come up with an idea to raise money and the group that raised the most money is the one that wins. Normally, this event is held outside with all the classes mixing but due to Covid restrictions that was not possible this year. The Year 6 did an amazing job though in modifying the activities in line with the guidance, and, like many retail businesses, went online to advertise their wares and then delivered their goods personally to the children in the classrooms. They raised over £400 and all profits raised will be donated to Breast Cancer Research. Thank you to all of you for sending in money to help raise funds for such a worthwhile cause.

On Monday we completed our Sports Day and I am sure that many of you now know that the winners were Thornton House. Some of the younger children appeared to be a little confused about what was going on so I have listed the results with you so you can talk to them about how Sports day finished.

1^st - Thornton (Green) 7766 points

2^nd – Osborne (Blue) 7550 points

3^rd – Frampton (Red) 7253 points

4^th - Grangewood (Yellow) 6021 points

It was lovely to have so many parents back on site (some people were on the school site for the first time) and hopefully next year we will be able to have everyone together for Sports Day.

You will also know that it is likely from the Prime Minister’s broadcast last Monday that we will be moving to Step 4 On Monday, 19^th July and many measures which now are in place will no longer have to exist. However, in the school’s guidance we have been advised to keep the current measures in place until the end of term which is what we are going to do and when we come back in September we will make the adjustments that we need to make. I will send more details out about this in a letter next week.

Hope you all have a great weekend and fingers crossed we all have something to celebrate on Monday morning. Hopefully, England will ‘Bring it Home’.