Dear Parents and Carers,

We have been enjoying lots of enrichment opportunities this week which we call our 'magic moments', they bring the learning to life for the children and help them to remember what they've learnt and make links through memorable experiences. One such event was for Key Stage One when on Monday they visited The Natural History Museum to find out more about their history topic 'Dinosaurs'. Not only did this opportunity give the children the chance to find out more about Dinosaurs, but the experience of travelling on a coach to London was also extremely exciting for them. For some of our children it was the first time they have visited London and a museum! We are delighted that we could provide this opportunity for the children; thank you to Miss Slough for organising the trip, our parents and carers for valuing the trip and sending your child and of course all of our helpful volunteers! Another enrichment opportunity this week was Biology week! We love to focus on this area of science each year during the national week and Miss Stevens always organises a fantastic week of learning for everyone which starts off with an exciting assembly; this year our theme was the human body. There was a buzz of excitement this year where the children got competitive in their houses to work out which of the fascinating body facts was true; thank you to the house captains for leading on the answers and collecting house points for each house! It has been great to see the children enjoying practical science learning about the body from investigations linked to our senses to making blood and learning about the circulatory system in Key Stage 2. Thank you Miss Stevens for organising. This week we were also pleased to take part in some workshops as part of our PSHE learning. Our visitor spoke to our children in Upper Key Stage 2 about good drugs and bad drugs and peer pressure, whilst in Lower Key Stage 2 the focus was on managing our feelings, looking after our bodies including sleep and food intake. If your child is in either of these key stages then see if they can remember what they have learnt? Next week we are looking forward to lots more 'magic moments' which include a local area history walk for Lower Key Stage 2 and also a workshop on road safety.

Yesterday I was delighted to take Lorraine Hughes, our Deputy CEO for The Chiltern Learning Trust, on a tour around our school. She was blown away by the quality of the learning on offer for the children as well as the work they were producing. In Upper Key Stage 2 we were both incredibly impressed by the children's engagement in their current text 'Windrush child' and the fantastic poems that were performed in Mrs Francis's class; well done everybody, keep up the hard work

Finally, today we enjoyed our first class assembly of the year which was from Eagles Class. Well done Eagles Class for your efforts to rehearse and learn your words in order to showcase your learning to us. It was lovely to welcome our families into school for this event too; thank you to those of you who could make it.

I hope you have a lovely weekend

Mrs Romina Lang

Headteacher