Dear Families,

 

Woodland Walk
A sincere thank you to the families who joined Mr. Linley-Simon, our Academy Community Pioneer, for our Spring Woodland Walk this past Monday.

Despite the unsettled weather, it was wonderful to see so many of our community members braving the rain to explore our local environment. The group spent the afternoon identifying the first signs of the changing season, demonstrating that a bit of mud and rain is no match for our school spirit!

We are already looking forward to our Summer Woodland Walk. We are currently finalising a date for later in the term—one where we hope the sunshine will make an appearance!

 

Year 4
Yesterday, Year 4 pianists had the chance to show off their skills to the rest of their class as well as some of our visitors that I was showing around the school.  I was so proud of them and the visitors were in awe at just how super they were.   Everyone was so impressed that we couldn’t take our eyes off them.  Good luck to those children going to the music festival.

 

Attendance
Next week you will be receiving your child’s attendance report.  I’m pleased to say that the vast majority of children’s attendance has improved compared to last year - hitting the Government's targets as well as the Trust’s targets.  Each term, Mrs Dean and I have meetings with Staffordshire LA to go through attendance, especially the attendance of some children who are considered persistently absent.  This year we only have 6 children falling into this category, which is such a huge improvement.

Thank you to everyone for supporting this and ensuring that if there is a problem with your child, report it to Mrs Dean straight away.

 

Red Nose Day
Thank you to everyone who has helped to raise money for this worthy cause.

As you know, this money goes to so many children in need.  Our children have been learning about the charity and some of the fund raising activities going on such as Greg James’ bike ride, which Year 2 learnt about yesterday.

 

Own clothes day in exchange for chocolate
Monday is own clothes day.  We are asking children to bring in some chocolate ready for the Easter egg hunt on Friday.  As we are not having the bingo this year, the PTA have decided to still ask for the donations which can then be used as rewards for the egg hunt.

 

Friday Easter celebrations
Parents are invited in at 1:30pm to watch the Easter bonnet parade and to find out who has won this year’s decorated egg competition.  Make sure you’re ready to join in singing too!

 

Team Treat
The winning team will have their treat on Thursday 26th in the morning.  

 

Lots of our families are celebrating Eid today - Eid Mubarak to you all.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Take care and stay safe.

Mrs Wilmer