On Tuesday afternoon our KS1 children took part in their sports day. They were absolutely brilliant even with the heat! The children tried their hardest in every race and everyone made it across the line. The afternoon flew by with a variety of races. We even had time for a parent’s egg and spoon race! Thank you to everyone who came to cheer along the children. It was wonderful to see everyone again. #SucceedTogether
On Monday afternoon we had our Key stage 2 children take part in Sports day. It was lovely to invite our parents in to watch again and their cheering and encouragement was very much appreciated. The children took part with full enthusiasm and tried their best at each sporting event. They were all amazing! #SucceedTogether
Dear Parents / Carers,
Thankfully the summer weather is finally here. Please can you make sure your child brings their water bottle, sunhat and sunscreen to school.
From September, we will be lengthening each school day by 5 minutes. This is inline with the Government request of each school day being 6.5 hours. The reason behind this is to give all children the same learning time in school. As we are nearly at 6.5 hours a day, it will only mean a slight change for Friarswood.
So, from September the school day will be from 8:50am to 3:20pm for all year groups. We will open the doors from 8:40am.
If you have any concerns with this, please feel free to let me know.
The early years team have been busy renovating the outside area. The new outdoor learning area is amazing. We’ve been showing new parents around and they have been very impressed. A huge thank you to Mrs Williams, Mrs Rushton, Mrs Tagg and Miss Goodwin and Mac.
On Friday 10th June some of our Key Stage 2 children went to our Co-op headquarters in Manchester to represent our school and to have a say in how they feel we are doing as an academy and how they see things in the future. It was a very mature task they took on and they were brilliant! We travelled by train, which the children loved! They now have the job to get some of the ideas they thought were great and to get them in action. We look forward to seeing what they do. #SucceedTogether
Welcome back to our last half term of this academic year. We have so many activities planned for the children that I know it will be busy. Please keep a look out for the dates on the website and on social media.
On Thursday 30th June we will be celebrating RSE (Relationships and sex education) Day at Friarswood. The theme this year is ‘Everyone can Sparkle!’ Children are invited to come to school in anything sparkly. It’s a day when we will be focusing on all of our wonderful, unique qualities, relationships and how different they can all be and most importantly we will be celebrating our differences.
Dear Parents / Carers,
What a lovely day we had yesterday. The children have been so enthusiastic about the jubilee events this week.
The bunting looked great and the singing certainly put a smile on our faces. The Jubilee Quilt looked amazing and showed off the children’s amazing art work. A huge thank you to Ms Master for her sewing skills and creating such a fantastic piece of work. I know lots of you stood to admire it yesterday.
A massive thank you to Mrs Bebbington too for leading the organisation for yesterday’s celebrations.
We hope you all have a fantastic week next week, celebrating the Queen’s jubilee.
On Thursday, our gardening club planted a rose in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The gardening club will now nurture it and we will keep you posted on how it grows. Thank you to Mrs Shaw and everyone in the club, we look forward to seeing the beautiful roses. #ShowYouCare
On Thursday, we held a Platinum Jubilee picnic to celebrate our Queen’s 70th year of service. We were really pleased to see so many families and friends come and join us for this event. The children sang the National Anthem so well to kick start our celebration before they went to enjoy their picnics, ice creams and lots of playing on the fields with their friends. There was such a lovely, happy atmosphere and a lots of smiles all round. We hope that everyone who were able to come along enjoyed it as much as we did! Thank you to you all for taking the time out to join us. #SucceedTogether #DoWhatMattersMost #ShowYouCare #BeYourselfAlways
Dear Parents / Carers,
This week has seen our Year 2 children completing their special booklets. They have really impressed us all and we’re so proud of how well they worked in quiet conditions. We will be sending out the results of the KS1 SATs later on in the year with the children’s reports.
A huge thank you to all of the staff for supporting the children whilst taking their SATs (it’s something that is very controversial) and helping the children to make so much progress this year after everything they’ve been through over the last couple of years.
Dear Parents / Carers,
I need to start this newsletter with a huge amount of praise for our Year 6 children. After 2 years of upheaval due to Covid, our Year 6 children have taken their SATs this week. They have been focused and extremely positive. They showed resilience throughout each paper and they have certainly tried their best. We couldn’t have asked for any more off them.
A huge thank you to all of the staff who have supported Year 6. Your dedication and support as well as your calm, positive attitude towards the SATs have really helped the children to stay calm and focused.
On Friday 13th May we celebrated Pyjamarama Day organised by the Booktrust to encourage children to read more with their families at home, to enjoy books and their story times. Our children came in to school wearing their Pyjamas and had a great time reading books and doing a variety of book themed activities in class. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your very kind donations from our Amazon book wish lists which will improve each book corner in our class rooms. We have certainly kept the Amazon delivery man busy this week with all of our parcels! Here are a few pictures from our day. #DoWhatMattersMost #ShowYouCare
Dear Parents / Carers,
Can I please say a huge thank you to everyone for parking safely on Abbots Way. It’s been more noticeable that people aren’t parking on the yellow lines since we’ve had the police buddies.
I don’t know if anyone has used the QR code and sent pictures yet. If you have, please could you let me know how easy it was. I’ve got to complete a form for the police regarding ease of use. Many thanks.
