Welcome to this week's Headteacher Round-Up!

It's been another busy week at Aston Lodge Primary School and at long last we've been able to make the most of the outdoors and some time in the sun! Our Y6's have completed their final series of practice tests before the real SATs in a few weeks' time. They showed great resilience and all tried their absolute hardest - we can't expect more than that - well done Y6! They enjoyed an immersive day on their 'natural disasters' work and took part in some very memorable learning.

Our 'Wizard of Oz' rehearsals are well underway and I've been incredibly impressed by the confidence the pupils have shown in these first rehearsals and how well they have been performing. Costume letters have now gone out and can be set into school as soon as you have them.  If anyone has any difficulties with obtaining any part of the costume, please don't hesitate to let us know as we'll be only too happy to help!

Our Young Voices club also started this week and our first session was great! Our concert seems a long way off (24th February), but we're preparing everything for when the concert songs are released and to allow the children to be able to practice at home during the holidays as well! We'll make sure we keep our families updated as new information is received!

Please note that Young Voices is a seperate event to Rotherham One Voice (some children received a letter about this last week). Some children will be taking part in both. Please come and see us if there's anything you're not sure about.

There have been some changes to our PE lessons from next week:  all PE lessons that take place on a Thursday will remain the same (Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6).

The PE lessons on a Friday will now take place on a Tuesday. This will be for FS2, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6. If kit could be in school for a Tuesday now instead of Friday that would be brilliant!

The other lessons that take place with class teachers will remain on the same days as usual. 

RE Review

We have spent time this week carrying out a review of religious education. Our children shared with us that they enjoy their RE lessons, particularly when lessons include discussion, storytelling and interactive elements like drama and pupils feel confident sharing their views. In KS2, many can articulate opinions and make links to real life context.

Our next steps are to make sure that our children can consistently remember what they have learnt in the past so they are able to apply this to new learning as well as further development of specific RE vocabulary.

Thank you for your continued support as we work together to help our children 'Show Pride and Reach for the Stars'.

Warm regards,

Hayley McNeill, Headteacher