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  • Newsletter – February Week One

    Published 03/02/23

    Dear Parents / Carers,

    Children’s Mental Health Week

    Next week is Children’s Mental Health week.  All week the children will be learning about important aspects of being safe, being healthy, knowing it’s ok to talk and learning about how to deal with various emotions.  The Anna Freud support link below is really useful for you as parents and for children too.

    On Friday (10th Feb) we will have a non-uniform day – Be yourself!  

    Anna Freud support

    Self-care top-tips for young parents and carers booklet offers some simple self-care advice for young parents and carers about the importance of self-care and looking after their own mental health and wellbeing whilst raising children.  Please click here to find out more.

    Safer Internet Day

    Next Tuesday is Safer Internet Day.  The theme is ‘Want to talk about it?’  It’s about making time to talk about life online.  Here’s a Youtube video which you may find useful to help to start these types of conversations with your child. We also have some useful links on our Online Safety page

    Drop in Coffee morning

    On Monday 6th February we are having a ‘drop in’ coffee & cake morning from 9am to 10:30am.  We have a range of charities and organisations coming into school who can chat to you and give you advice regarding health and finances along with your wellbeing.  It’s also a chance to have a coffee and a chat – which always does people the world of good.  If you are free, please come and  join us.  If you know of a relative or friend please bring them along too.

    Police visit

    Some of our younger children have had a visit from the police today.  The children learnt about the role of the police officer and had fun learning about police cars too.  Photos will be on the website soon.

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  • Newsletter – January Week 4

    Published 27/01/23

    Dear Parents/Carers,

    Up date on Strike Action

    Although I still don’t know which, if any, teachers are striking, I’ve made arrangements so that we have cover for any potential classes affected. I won’t be able to confirm this until Wednesday morning, but just to reassure you we are not envisioning any classes being closed.

    A plan will be put in place for each of the further strike days closer to each day of strike action.  I will of course keep you updated with these.

    Windmills Fundraising Table

    Next Friday,  (3rd Feb), Windmills charity are setting up a table of toys and games for sale and a tombola to help them to raise much needed funds for their charity.  Please support as much as you can.  The charity support children who are in crisis due to a close relative about to die or a close relative has just died.  There is no other charity in the country who support children at such a time.  

    Unfortunately the team is extremely busy working with young children in our area.  The funds raised pay for the therapy activities for these children.

    Early Years

    We have had the Early Years Director for the Trust visit us last week and this week.  She was over the moon with our children and our early years team.  The children impressed her with their thoughtfulness, their hard work , their phonics and their enthusiasm.  Well done everyone.

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  • Newsletter – January Week 3

    Published 23/01/23

    Dear Parents / Carers,

    The children have had so much fun in the snow this week.  They have played so well together and have certainly been busy building snowmen.  There are still a few bodies left on the field!

    Teacher Strikes

    You may be aware that the trade unions who represent teachers in our academy, have been balloting for strike action. This is a national action, in relation to a dispute with the Government about pay, which you will also have seen in other sectors. To be clear, this is not a dispute about the operation of our academy.

    The results of the ballot from the National Education Union (NEU) supported strike action. Some of our teachers are members of this trade union, and may be taking strike action on the following dates:

    Wednesday 1st February

    Tuesday 28th February / Wednesday 1st March

    Wednesday 15th March

    Thursday 16th March

    We are currently working on plans to keep our academy open for as many children as possible, but it may mean that some children will need to learn from home on these days. We will communicate again with more details when we know which children will be affected.

    We’re aware that this is a cause for concern for everyone, but we will do everything we can to ensure that learning continues when these strikes take place.

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  • Local Artist visits Year 6

    Published 20/01/23

    Our Year 6 pupils’ were visited by local artist Kate Windsor this week – as part of their ongoing Art studies.

    Kate is well known for her painting and collage of local iconic bottle ovens, sacred hearts, and Bobcats.

    Our pupils’ learnt about her use of colour, shape and how art should be free, fun and imaginative – there are no rules!

    Year 6 took part in four fun activities and had the opportunity to ask Kate about her career, her work and her inspirations.

    What an amazing afternoon!

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  • Newsletter – January Week Two​​​​​​​

    Published 13/01/23

    Dear Parents / Carers,

    Year 6 have had a fantastic week at Standon Bowers,  They’ve shown confidence and enthusiasm in all of the activities.  We have seen the children really develop with some of their personal skills. From the beginning of the week where some children struggled with independence, throughout the week they have shown a growing strength and have amazed us at how resilient and independent they’ve become.  By the end of the week, they’ve been problem solving and making informed decisions along with independently completing tasks.  They’ve dealt with the wind and the rain and kept smiling throughout it all.  There will definitely be some extremely muddy washing for you later!

    A massive thank you to Mrs Sharman, Ms Shaw, Mrs Hughes, Mrs Bebbington and Mr Golds who have all taken it in turns to stay with the children overnight.

    Internet / Gaming issues

    It’s been brought to my attention about some of our children are seeing scary images on Roblox and Youtube which they are discussing in school.

    Along with this, there’s an online message going around Staffordshire about self harm within the context of a DARE game.

    Please can I ask that you do keep an eye on what your child accesses online.  Whilst we constantly teach children about being safe online it’s very difficult to monitor this outside of school.  We can only hope that with your support, the children use what they’ve learnt and apply it to all contexts. 

    Bikeability

    This week our Reception and Year 1 children have amazed us all.  The trainers have been super impressed with Year 1 and at how quickly they’ve managed to ride bikes with no stabilisers.  The children’s confidence has grown so much and their focus on riding certainly helped them to power around the playground – with no crashes!

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  • Reception/Year One Bikeability 2023​​​​​​​

    Published 13/01/23

    We were very lucky to have the opportunity to take part in this year’s Bikeability course using the balance bikes and then progressing onto the pedal bikes. Our Reception class and some of Year One joined the two biking coaches for this four day course. They were so impressed with our children who did amazingly well. So many of the children who took part can now ride a bike independently and those that were not quite there were very close! We are so proud of all the children, they were fantastic throughout and showed real resilience to gain a new skill. #DoWhatMattersMost

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  • Newlsetter – January Week One

    Published 06/01/23

    Dear Parents / Carers,

    Happy New Year!

    I hope you all had a lovely break and managed to spend some quality time with your family and friends.

    The children have started the new year with a great deal of enthusiasm and have settled so quickly into their learning, which is great to see.

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  • Newsletter – December Week 3

    Published 16/12/22

    Dear Parents / Carers,

    Well what a final week we’ve had at school.  Our Carol concert was so joyful.  It certainly made us all feel more ‘Christmassy’.  The children sang beautifully, the musicians showed off their amazing talents and Mrs Elkin did a fabulous job at getting everyone to join in and ‘raise the roof’ with their singing.

    A massive thank you to both Mrs Elkin and Mrs Harris for organising such a lovely service.

    A huge thank you to everyone who donated to the Baked Beans Christmas Tree for Alice Charity.  It looked amazing and will be gratefully received.

    Our KS1 Christmas performances were super.  Eva, Louie and Elise sang their hearts out and certainly brought a tear to my eyes!  All of the children were superb and your words of praise were passed onto the staff who have worked so hard to make the performances such a success.

    And finally and a huge thank you to everyone for your gifts and cards with such kind words in.  They really mean so much and are appreciated by the staff.

    I wish you a wonderful Christmas and a peaceful New Year.  I hope you manage to have some treasured time with your family and friends. 

    I look forward to welcoming you all back on Tuesday 3rd January 2023.

    Thank you as ever for your continuing support.

    Stay safe and take care.

    Mrs Wilmer and the Friarswood Team.

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  • Newsletter – December Week 2

    Published 09/12/22

    Dear Parents / Carers,

    I apologise now for the lengthy letter today!  There’s some important information at the very end of the newsletter which you may find useful.  Please feel free to pass on to family and friends.

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  • Polar Express Day​​​​​​​

    Published 09/12/22

    On Monday our Year 3 class got to experience going on the Polar Express as part of their writing topic. As you can see, they had an amazing morning! They even got their very own jingle bell and a hot chocolate too.

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  • Grandparent’s Lunch 2022

    Published 09/12/22

    On Friday last week and again on Tuesday this week, we welcomed our children’s grandparents in to enjoy Christmas dinner cooked by our catering team. It was lovely to see so many happy faces making special memories to cherish. We would like to say a big thank you to AIP catering for cooking so many lunches, the PTA for their help in serving and to Mrs Dean for organising and sorting it so that everyone who came along enjoyed their Christmas dinners in our school. #SucceedTogether

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  • Newsletter – December Week 1​​​​​​​

    Published 02/12/22

    Dear Parents / Carers,

    Once again, another great big thank you for the donations of chocolate ready for the PTA chocolate bingo.  

    Celebration of Learning

    It was wonderful to see so many families joining us for our afternoon on Wednesday.  The children loved having you join them for their learning.  Some of you even got to see your child take part in their piano lesson.

    Thank you so much for the many lovely comments.  We’ll hold another Celebration of Learning at the end of next term.

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