Welcome to issue 129 of our school newsletter. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram for regular updates on achievements, class news and school updates.
Coming up in this issue:
Learning updates
Attendance
This Week's Instagram Posts
Upcoming events
The gift of a book
Notices
Permissions
Parent Survey
JRSO Update
Eco-Committee
Sports Crew Newsletter
World Book Day
Foundation Stage Foundation Stage have been learning to use Mass vocabulary and stem sentences to explain which objects are heavier or lighter. Great maths learning Chicks and Robins!
Key Stage One KS1 have had a busy and exciting week. We have been exploring living, dead and never-alive items in the Early Years garden, and enjoyed an inspiring online author visit with Joshua Siegal. The children have also been wonderfully creative, using watercolours in Art and have shown great courage, curiosity and confidence during their gymnastics PE lessons.
Lower Key Stage Two We have had a very inspiring week in years 3 and 4 starting with a brilliant poetry workshop. The author was very funny and supported some really lovely poems which were written and shared. We have made wonderful strides in learning our performance songs and even started setting the actions and staging. We are very proud of how well the children have embraced their parts- such a great team opportunity. In computing, we are learning animation skills. We used some little characters to make a short moving animation. There is a lot of excitement for creating story boards and filming their scenes over the next few weeks. The children in Toucan class have been exploring multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100, and understanding factors. They have used practical resources to help their understanding of the concepts. There has also been another boost in children working through our multiplication challenges to develop speed and fluency. Well done everyone.
Upper Key Stage Two This week has been full of exciting learning across the curriculum. In English, we have been working on the innovation phase of our narrative writing, with lots of shared planning and shared writing to develop ideas together. On Tuesday, the children were especially inspired by a virtual author visit from Joshua Seigal, who shared his poems and showed us how to craft powerful poems using just ten words. In History, our learning about the Maya took another leap forward as we studied archaeological artefacts and debated whether they revealed facts about how the Maya lived and what they achieved – a tricky task that really made us think carefully about the evidence. Year 5 were also lucky to welcome the Lincolnshire Stay Safe Partnership, who delivered a valuable workshop on Conflict Resolution, a crucial skill for navigating relationships now and later in life. Elsewhere in PSHE, we are delving into understand money in our Economic Wellbeing unit. We are very grateful for the continued support from home with homework and home reading, and we ask for your ongoing commitment to this, especially with older children.
80 pupils have maintained 100% attendance so far this academic year.
Last years whole school attendance figure was 96.4%
Current whole school attendance is 96.3%
Our attendance figures for this week are as follows:
Tuesday 27th January- Let's Talk Rubbish Workshops
Wednesday 28th January- Young Voices Concert
Advanced Notice
WC 2nd February- National Storytelling Week
If you would like to gift a book to school for a special occasion or 'just because', please see our Amazon Wishlist for some ideas. All books donated are marked with a special 'gifted by...' message and added to our library.
We have moved our online presence from X to Instagram.
Please update your child's permissions by completing the online form sent to you via email.
At our school, we value the partnership between home and school and believe that your views are essential in helping us provide the best possible learning environment for our pupils.
Your feedback helps us celebrate what is working well and identifies areas where we can improve. Please check your email for a link to a Parent Survey for 2025-2026. All responses will be treated confidentially, and the survey should take only a few minutes to complete.
Our survey will close on Friday 30th January.
Our Junior Road Safety Officers continue to shine so brightly in their role and when representing our school. Allison from The Stay Safe Partnership sent us the following message following her visit to see them:
It was lovely to see you yesterday and your enthusiasm for JRSO work blew me away!
Alison was SO IMPRESSED! The children communicated their ideas enthusiastically, thoughtfully and articulately. Well done JRSOs.
Our Eco-Committee have been busy on their first mission of the year, saving energy. They have shared ideas with their classes and become Eco-Warriors in their classrooms. These are the ways they are reducing energy use in school:
Turning off lights in unused spaces
Encouraging their friends to be responsible for energy use
Turning off screens, lights and boards when they leave the room
Making light switch poster frames to encourage people to turn off communal switches
Opening blinds to allow natural light to fill our rooms
Empowering others to think about energy use
Keeping windows and doors closed when the heating is on
Could you use of any of these ideas in your own home?
It's time to start planning your outfit for World Book Day 2026. Which book character will you choose to dress up as?
More details coming soon.
