What a great week it has been in school this week, starting with the wonderful learning that was shared by the children in our sharing assembly. It is always great to hear and see what the children have been up to in their classes and this time around there was a clear preference for the art work that had been created. This demonstrates the importance that we put on all subjects here at Little Heath and long may this continue. Following on from this, I do have a request to make regarding our assemblies and performances that we hold here which is particularly relevant since we have our Middle School performances taking place next week. We encourage all of our families to attend as many of these events as they possibly can and as a parent myself, I appreciate how hard it can be to arrange childcare and we would not exclude younger siblings from attending too. All I ask though, is if while watching an assembly or performance, you have a young child with you who becomes distressed or begins to talk out loud for example, that you step outside with them until they are ready to return. It takes a lot of courage from the children to stand up in front of their parents and the whole school and we want to try to avoid causing distractions for them as much as we can. Thank you in advance for your understanding with this.

As I mentioned in my blog last week, as well as the sharing assembly, we also welcomed some visitors into school this week, starting with two Deputy Lieutenants Marion Brown and Akhtar Zaman who visited Year 6 and spoke about the relevance and role of the monarchy and the part that they play in keeping traditions going. The children were encouraged to think about the values which we all need to adhere to in order to make for a well-run society and the presentations that some of them then carried out demonstrated the well embedded knowledge of British Values that they all have. Our visitors were so impressed with the children, they have asked us if they can return again next year which is always a great sign and, as the headteacher, makes me very proud to hear.

Next up was the visit on Tuesday from some firefighters of Green Watch from our local fire station. The children from across the school got to enjoy an assembly hearing about the endeavours and hazards of being a firefighter before getting to see the fire engine up close. During the assembly, one lucky person actually got to try on the uniform, although unfortunately it was too big for a child to put on so Mr Chanter reluctantly agreed. (As I’m sure you can see from the pictures below, he jumped at the chance really!)

Next week, as mentioned above, we have our Middle School (Years 3-5) Performance, which this year is called, ‘Oh What a Knight!’ and having seen the children all out and about at break time this morning in their amazing costumes, it promises to be a fantastic show.

Wednesday afternoon is then our Open Afternoon, where we invite you all in to look at the books with your child(ren). This begins from 3pm and you are more than welcome to take your child home once you have had a chance to share their work with them.  

Finally, as it is the end of term next week, we will be finishing school at 1:15pm on Friday.

Have a lovely weekend, assuming that this sunshine continues!

I will keep my blog brief this week and I wanted to start by saying how gutted I was to have missed the Year 2 class assembly this morning, but that I heard it was amazing, so well done to all of the children for taking part. From wonderful stories about bears to creative pieces of art inspired by Picasso, it was clear to all that they have learned an awful lot this year and a big thank you needs to go to Mrs Beadle, Miss Russon and Mrs Blatch for this.

Next, I wanted to give a huge thanks to all of you, our parents and children, for your support of Red Nose Day today. We managed to raise yet another £450 from the sale of the noses and this money is going to a very good cause which will help so many people living tough lives both in the UK and around the world. For those of you watching the Comic Relief show tonight, I’m sure there will be lots of laughs along with the harder hitting clips showing where the money will be spent.

Next week, we have a couple of notable events beginning on Monday when we will be having a visit in Year 6 from Marion Brown, Deputy Lieutenant. There will then no doubt be lots of excitement in school on Tuesday afternoon, when there will be a visit from a watch of firefighters from our local station.

In the meantime, the sun is due to shine this weekend so do enjoy getting outside and we will see you all on Monday.

I want to start by saying how fantastic it was to see all of the children in their wonderful costumes today celebrating World Book Day. The day started off with an assembly from the author Camilla Chester who was equally as impressed with the costumes as we were and then she spent the rest of the day leading workshops with the children that I hope that they were inspired by. As well as this, the writing activities that the children completed across the day and the character scavenger hunt that took place during break and lunchtime really seemed to engage the children which was great to see and lots of fun was had!

As mentioned in my blog last week, to get the children all enthused for Science Week, Wednesday and Thursday saw the children taking part in Science workshops related to electricity. I sat in on the Year 3 workshop and even I was amazed with what the children got to explore and investigate and once again, watching how much fun the children were having, it was clear that this really brought the learning to life and I am sure that they all got a lot out of the workshops.

The fun continues on Monday of next week, as the children will be kicking off Science Week with a Planetarium workshop which will no doubt cause a lot of excitement and once again, I am sure will also lead to some high quality learning. The children will continue to complete science activities in class throughout the week also, further enriching their scientific skills and knowledge, so there is plenty for the children to look forward to next week as well.

In the meantime, let’s hope that the sun continues to shine outside as it really does put a spring in the step -have a good weekend!