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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Dear Parents / Carers,

Thank you to everyone who donated to Children in Need today.  I know everyone is being careful with their money but there are some children who certainly do need some extra support.  Together we have raised £129