Well, where did that week just go? Whilst the half term break already feels like it was ages ago, at the same time, I cannot believe how quickly the week has flown by.

There have been a few things that have happened in school this week worth mentioning, starting with the visit from Saffron Severn on Tuesday and the sponsored fitness event that the children took part in. There was such a buzz in school when she arrived and it was such a wonderful thing to see all of the children from Year 1 up to Year 6 completing their circuits and while there were certainly a few out of breath children at the end, it was all good fun and all for a good cause. Thank you to all of the children for taking part and to all those who managed to raise any money at all. If your child has managed to raise some sponsorship money but hasn’t had the chance to return it then the deadline for this is next Tuesday, 3rd March. As the money then gets collated and sent off, please note that we then need to wait for any of the ‘rewards’ to be sent back to us before we can give them to the children. I can assure all of the children though that as soon as we receive them then they will be sent out and the funds that come back into the school for our participation will be used to buy more brand new sports equipment.

On Wednesday, I then had the pleasure of joining Mrs Robinson and Mrs Lawrence as we took a group of children from the choir to the o2 Arena to perform in the annual Young Voices event. It was an amazing day and we had quite a few hoarse voices yesterday as a result of the children singing loudly among the thousands of other children who were there. The fact that we were allocated a space right at the front again this year was amazing. I want to thank Mrs Robinson and Mrs Lawrence for giving up their time to organise the event and take the children, because without them, we could not attend, but also I want to thank the children who went for taking part and representing our school. 

Yesterday it was brilliant to see all the children from Year 4 (as well as Mr Chanter) in their Egyptian costumes for their engaging and enriching workshop. By all accounts the children learned an awful lot that textbooks (or even the internet) are not able to teach in the same way and I’m sure they will remember those facts even when they are old like me! Thank you to the parents who attended to help it run so smoothly –I hope that you enjoyed it also!

We have also been able to welcome our Nursery and Reception parents into school this week, for their consultations with the class teachers. I hope that for those of you who were in for this, you got a chance to hear about the positive start that your child has had with us so far and all of the wonderful things that they have been up to since the start of the year.

For the rest of the school, today was the day that the children will have brought home their annual school reports. I know that other schools often send their reports out later in the year, but we like to send them out earlier on so that the children can work on the targets set by their current teachers, within the rest of this academic year. I have had the pleasure of reading over every single one of them over the last few weeks and I am very impressed with the excellent, positive comments that have been made about the children and I trust that they will now work hard on their next steps in order to improve further. As a result of these reports going out now, we do not hold an official parents’ meeting for the whole school in this term, but if you wish to discuss anything from your child’s report, you may contact their class teacher to make an appointment to do so.

Next Thursday is of course World Book Day and we look forward to welcoming in the author, Stewart Henderson who will be talking to all of the children in a special assembly before joining classes across the school for their World Book Day related workshops. We also of course look forward to seeing all of the wonderful book related costumes that thee children come dressed in –this is always a highlight of the year!

Have a great weekend.