Parents were invited to attend a Maths Presentation on Monday morning followed by visits to classrooms - we hope those parents who attended found it informative and enjoyed looking at the children's work. The presentation can also be found on our website.

On Tuesday Miss Beaver and her class attended a Hockey Festival at The De Montfort School where they competed against children from other schools. Although our team didn't win they all enjoyed taking part!

School photographs were taken by Mrs Croft on Wednesday - proofs and order forms will be available soon.

Mrs Enstone held a short meeting on Thursday for parents of Year 5 children to discuss our next residential trip to West Malvern Outdoor Education Centre. The letter giving information about costings can be found on our website.

We welcomed many parents into school on Monday evening for Meet the Teacher.

This is always a great opportunity for parents to meet with school staff and to explore our school and lovely outdoor learning area.

The PTFA also held their AGM on Monday. Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting or offered support. It was very positive and we look forward to sharing more details soon. 

We are delighted that so many children have signed up for after school clubs this term. School run clubs began this week which include Girls Football, Young Engineers, Handbells, Eco and Netball. To ensure that these clubs are enjoyed by all we have expectations of attendance and behaviour. It is expected that children attend every session please.

Miss Willmore led an Online Safety Presentation to parents this morning. Thank you to those parents who joined us - we hope you found it informative.

A Maths Presentation to Parents will be held on Monday 2nd October at 9.30am in the school hall followed by visits to classrooms. We hope parents will be able to join us.

This week our presentations for the role of Prime Minister have taken place.  The whole of Key Stage two voted for who they thought would be the best Prime Minister and I am pleased to announce that Lily Kealy was the successful candidate.  The teachers have been very busy going through all of the application forms for the other minister roles and the successful applicants should have received a letter to inform them of their new role.  Congratulations to all of the children who have been successful and thank you to everyone who applied or did a presentation. We will keep you up to date with our projects!

We welcomed Helen Davies from Severn Arts into school on Monday who will be teaching our Year 4 class how to play the violin. Helen will attend on a weekly basis. Children are reminded to bring in their instruments every Monday.

Reverend Richard, together with him team, led an Open the Book assembly on Wednesday. The children always enjoy their imaginative story telling.

A child from each year group participated in a 'Golden Tea' with Mrs Fishbourne. It was lovely to hear how well the start of the term is going whilst enjoying delicious biscuits and juice.

We are pleased to announce that, with over 67% of the votes, this year's school charity is The Vale Wildlife. We look forward to supporting this local animal rescue centre.

We welcomed all our Reception children into class full time this week. They have enjoyed a busy week learning new routines, exploring the school grounds, getting to know their teachers and making lots of new friends.

On Tuesday Mrs Clark met with our Eco Warriors to discuss what they wanted to achieve as ECO warriors and the children decided that saving energy and recycling was the most important. Their ECO message is:

TURN IT DOWN, SWITCH IT OFF, REUSE IT OR RECYCLE IT!!!!!

Music lessons started again this week. Mr Blackman from The Musical Box teaches guitar lessons on a Tuesday and Mr Telford teaches flute, cornet, keyboard and recorder lessons on Friday mornings. We look forward to listening to the children play their instruments at our Music Concert in December.

On Wednesday, Mr Kings from Direct Sports Provision, led an archery after school club. The children had great fun aiming at the targets.

After another successful year of fundraising for charity (we raised a whopping £1539 for St Richard's Hospice), the children and staff took part in a vote this week to choose another charity to support over the coming year. The choices were The British Heart Foundation, Vale Wildlife and Christian Aid - the winner will be announced shortly.

Year 2 received a special delivery this week of caterpillars. The children are learning about life cycles and will be watching the caterpillars closely to watch how they transform into butterflies.

Reception children have been making models of London landmarks this week and have also made a train out of cardboard boxes.

As part of the KS2 art day, Honeybourne pottery came into school to work with Years 4 and 5 to create a flowerpot. The children were able to use the potter's wheel to create their pots. Our artwork and pots will be on display in our charity art gallery in June, details to follow.

Year 3 have created some wonderful Pop Art which will be on display soon.

We welcomed the children back to school on Monday after a lovely Easter break and are now looking forward to a busy summer term.

Music lessons started this week with Mrs Jefferies, Mr Telford and Mr Hardwick - please remember to send in instruments and music books where necessary. Year 4 are also continuing with their violin lessons on Mondays with Mr Hawcutt.

On Tuesday, Mrs Fishbourne accompanied Mrs Howard and the Year 4 class to the Evesham Arts Centre where they participated in a Music Cluster Event. Mrs Fishbourne said the children sang beautifully and were a real credit to the school.

On Thursday we welcomed an Orthoptist into school who carried out routine eye tests on the majority of our Reception class children.

Miss Beaver has arranged for Worcester Cricket Club to come into school to run some after school cricket clubs on Thursdays and Fridays  - we hope the children enjoy these lessons which will carry on throughout the summer term.

Welcome letters have been emailed out to parents today and they can also be found on our website. We hope you find the information useful.

We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday after the Bank Holiday weekend.

Thank you to all parents who attended Parent Consultation Meetings on Monday and Tuesday - we hope you found them informative.

On Wednesday, Reverend Richard invited the whole school to a special service at St James' Church to celebrate the school's success in the latest Ofsted judgement. Thank you to all the parents/carers who attended and also those parents who helped walk with the children to church.

Also on Wednesday, Mrs Scrivens accompanied two children to a School Council Cluster Meeting which was held at St Mary's Catholic Primary School. The children met with children from other local schools to learn how they organise their school council meetings.

Yesterday, Year 1 had a fabulous day at The Cotswold Wildlife Park. The weather was absolutely fantastic. Children loved to see the monkeys, rhinos and sleeping lions. The children were a pleasure to take and showed their knowledge and understanding of animals.

Today, the whole school enjoyed being involved in our Samba Bamba Day. Mr Costello led some fantastic workshops for all the children who had a wonderful time playing different instruments. A huge thank you to the PTFA for making this possible.

ECO Visit to Bengeworth School

I took two of our ECO warriors, John Collins (yr3) and Eli Webb (yr2) to Bengeworth School on Monday 20th March, for a cluster event.  We were greeted by members of their ECO group.  We started by having a meeting where we all shared the things we are working on at the moment within our schools.  Bengeworth told us that they had recently planted over 300 trees in their forest school area!  They also told us about their new peace garden which sounded very beautiful.   We then had a tour of both the new school site and old, which was very exciting.  We had great fun talking about how their school was very different from ours.  Unfortunately due to the heavy rain we didn't go outside to see their forest school area first hand.... but we viewed it from a window close by!

By Mrs Clark

Scholastic Book Fair

A huge thank you to everyone who bought books from our fabulous book fair. We are thrilled to announce that we raised £838.83, of which £500 is returned to us to spend on books for our school. We look forward to purchasing and reading some fantastic new books!

SATs Meeting

Thank you to all parents who attended the SATs information meeting on Thursday afternoon.

Red Nose Day

The children came to school today dressed in something red in exchange for a £1 donation.  KS2 also decorated cakes to sell at breaktime. Thank you for all your support with our Red Nose Day celebrations. We are pleased to announce we have raised over £257.00 so far! 

On Tuesday 14th March, Year Four went on a special journey to Worcester Cathedral to take part in this year's 'Pilgrim's Quest'. The children had a fantastic day learning all about pilgrimages (special religious journeys) and the fabulous Cathedral. The children took part in various activities including arts and crafts, singing, games, puzzles and had a guided tour of the Cathedral.

Also on Tuesday, Year One had a wonderful afternoon at St Egwin's Middle School where they met with other schools for a Multi-Skills Festival. The children were split into groups and had great fun in throwing and catching balls, dribbling balls with their feet, balancing on benches, learning hockey skills and balancing shuttlecocks on badminton rackets.

Our Book Fair has arrived in school and is open for parents to visit at 3.15pm today in the school hall. It will be open for children to visit with their class teacher until Wednesday 22nd March. Please send your child into school with their book fair money in a named envelope.

The children returned to school on Tuesday after a restful half term break.

As it was Shrove Tuesday, Class Catering prepared hot dogs and delicious pancakes for the children to enjoy at lunchtime.

On Wednesday, children from Reception to Year 5 walked to St James' Church for the Ash Wednesday Service led by Reverend Richard. Children, who were given permission by their parents, received the ash cross mark on their foreheads. 

Yesterday was World Book Day and the children came to school dressed in some absolutely fantastic costumes. There was a parade held in the school hall and two children were chosen from each class for the best costume.