Newsletter 

15th December 2023

Attendance

Golden Ticket Winners

Here are the winners for the £40 Cineworld vouchers for this term:

EYFS and KS1 Winners: Logan - Year 2 & Freddie Year 1

KS2 Winners: Lily F-G - Year 5 & Jorge - Year 6

Congratulations to our winners and enjoy your prizes. 

Special Awards

Congratulations to all the children below

Phonics Awards

Oliver Jeffers Class - Kenzie

Julia Donaldson Class - Freddie

Banksy Class - Logan

PE Award 

Oliver Jeffers Class - Nellie H

Julia Donaldson Class - Lenny H

Banksy Class - Daisy

Maya Angelou Class - Jackson 

Paul O'Grady Class - Joe

Steve Backshall Class - Franklin

Emmeline Pankhurst Class - Izabella

 David Attenborough Class - Jorge

Art Award

Oliver Jeffers Class - Lilly

Julia Donaldson Class - Riley

Banksy Class - Sydney

Maya Angelou Class - Franklin

Paul O'Grady Class - Izabella

Steve Backshall Class - Vinnie

Emmeline Pankhurst Class - Cassie

David Attenborough Class - Megan-Lilly

Inquiring Mind Award

Oliver Jeffers Class - Zachary

Julia Donaldson Class - Hudson

Banksy Class - Isabella O

Principals Awards

Oliver Jeffers Class - Sophia

Julia Donaldson Class - Jamie

Banksy Class - Luna

Maya Angelou Class - Evie

Paul O'Grady Class - Ellcie

Steve Backshall Class - Ivy

Emmeline Pankhurst Class - Lexi 

David Attenborough Class - Thomas

Special Awards

Speller of the Term - Willow

TTRS - Gold - Savannah

TTRS - Silver - Valentine

TTRS - Bronze - Alex

Best Linguist - Vencel


Our Wonderful Inquiry Work 

Year 5 

As part of our Christmas Activity Day, Year 5 watched a short literacy shed film called "23 degrees 5 minutes." The children then created their own stories based on this. They had agency to complete this task with some creating posters, books or fully written stories. Scroll down to see some examples!

Please click the link below to watch the story at home. 

Reception class Nativity

Reception class were fantastic in their Christmas Nativity. They were very confident in saying any lines that they had and also in singing many different songs. They used all of the hall space, walking amongst the audience and were completely un-phased in doing so. They spread Christmas cheer to all. Thank you so much to the Reception team for supporting the children and helping them to learn all of the songs.

School information

Key Stage 1

Christmas Nativity performance 


A huge congratulations to Year 1 and Year 2 for working super hard on their Nativity.  We are so impressed with how confident the children performed and  remembering their lines. 

All of the children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Nativity which we are sure the parents and carers noticed from their sparkling smiles!

Thank you so much for organising their fantastic costumes. They all looked wonderful and very Christmassy - especially the aliens!

Key Stage 2 

Christmas Carol Concert


Thank you to all the parents who attended our KS2 Carol concert! The children really enjoyed singing some festive carols and sharing some readings linked to the Christmas Story. A big congratulations to all of the children who took part - your singing and readings were beautiful! 


A big well done and thank you to Vinnie (Y4) who wowed us all by playing some brilliant Christmas songs on his violin and another super well done to our lovely choir who sang some solos in the concert too!


We hope we left you feeling really festive and christmassy.


Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner

All the children made us feel very festive wearing a delightful array of bright and colourful Christmas jumpers to school. Thank you to our cooks from Cucina for preparing a festive dinner and Christmas cookies for the children to enjoy. Thank you also to the PTA for providing the children with crackers, the children enjoyed telling the jokes and finding out what gift they had received inside the cracker. The hall was busy with Christmas hats and songs as well as a few singing renditions from Year 6 and Mrs Champ.  It was lovely to all celebrate together. 

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Christmas Activity Day

Reception class enjoyed all of the activities on Christmas activity day which included icing Christmas biscuits, writing lists for Santa and making snowmen. Their writing is fantastic and Santa will be very impressed! What a great day!

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