As ever this week in school, the time has flown by and I am sitting here writing this blog before heading home for the weekend after seemingly only having just written my last one!

As I mentioned in my blog last week that it would be, it’s been a fairly quiet week in school this week, but Reception did go off to the snow centre yesterday and by all accounts it was an amazing experience for all of the children. Once again, I’d like to thank the PTA for funding this visit as one of their fully funded trips for this year –I hope that it is making a difference.

We are of course into the last week of the half term next week and there is quite a lot going on. First of all, it is our next Sharing Assembly on Monday. If your child is involved in this, you will have been sent a letter this week inviting you to join us and I look forward to welcoming you in if that is you. It is also Children’s Mental Health week next week so the children will get to explore in their PSHE lessons, strategies to support their mental health now and in the future. Tuesday is Safer Internet Day so the children will be carrying out activities related to this. On Wednesday, we have our Open Afternoon for you or another family member to come in and see and share the work that your children have been doing. Finally, on Thursday, we have the Disco that I know that the children always look forward to, before we break up for the half term break on Friday (at the normal time).

Have a lovely weekend and see you all again on Monday.

This is going to be a very brief blog this week as yet another week has just flown by even though it seemed like there was nothing particularly special going on in school. This is not to say that there has not been a lot of enriching learning going on though –quite the contrary! We did also have a PTA meeting last night which was very good and some exciting events will be announced by them very shortly so watch this space.

The calendar looks pretty standard for next week too without too much to report on though I am pleased to say that our reception class will be having the first of their educational visits next Thursday as they head off to the nearby Snow Centre. I am pleased to say that this is one of the trips being funded by the PTA and will no doubt be very exciting for all of the children (and adults) involved in going.

As I said, it is a brief one this week, but I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

I am so pleased to be writing my blog this week going into the weekend with a noticeable rise in temperature from this time last week. It certainly makes it easier to get out and about at the weekend when we’re not faced with sub-zero temperatures!

We had a couple of notable events which happened this week, the first of which took place yesterday. It was fantastic to see the Year 2 children dressed in their Tudor clothes as they took part in their history workshop throughout the day. The children got to experience several aspects of life as a person in Tudor times and they were all buzzing to be part of this enriching experience. It really helps to bring history to life when experienced first-hand by the children and I’m sure they will keep the memory for many years to come. Thank you so much to the parent volunteers who gave up their time to allow all of the planned activities to go ahead.

The next notable event of the week happened this morning and that was our Year 3 class assembly. The children shared lots of learning that they have done so far this year and they presented it in a very humorous and entertaining way! From the work that the children had completed on the Tear Thief in English to the Stephen Wiltshire-inspired drawings that they had created in their art lessons, it was clear to see how much the children have learned during their time in school so far this year. The breadth of learning and the fun ways that these have been presented highlighted how we try to provide as many opportunities as possible across the school for the children to learn in different ways. I was particularly proud of the way the children dealt with the technical difficulties that we had at the start and went with it –they were all stars! Thank you as ever to all of the parents for joining us and supporting the children throughout.

Have a good weekend everyone.