This is where you will find all of the information that will keep you up to date with our latest events!
Please put the date in your diary for the annual World Book Day. We work hard to promote a love of reading for pleasure throughout the school year and will be celebrating this national event with a range of activities. We want to give parents plenty of notice as the children have asked to dress up as book characters. There is no expectation that families spend money buying costumes– please encourage the children to make a costume. We are looking forward to seeing them in school dressed as their favourite book character on Thursday 6th March and nearer the time will update you on other activities the children will be enjoying during the week.
The children in Year 1– Year 6 are invited to attend the PTA discos on Thursday 23rd January. The first disco for Y1, Y2 & Y3 children will start at 4pm and finish at 5pm and the disco for Y4, Y5 & Y6 children will start at 5.15pm and finish at 6.15pm. Entrance to the disco is £3 and this will include a glow stick. There is no need to pre-book a place at the disco, instead the children should bring £3 with them and hand it to a member of staff / PTA as they enter. Discos will be held in the upstairs hall and the children will be en?tering through the side gate (as they do each morning) and collect?ed from the car park gate. The children may want to bring their water bottle with them as well as £3 disco entrance fee!
We will be holding a parents workshop on Thursday 30th January at 5pm. The session will be led by West Midlands Police and will focus on raising parents awareness of the dangers and possible consequences of children accessing the internet if appropriate safety measures and monitoring are not put in place. The session is extremely relevant and important for all primary school parents as school and West Midlands Police are seeing an increase in primary school age children getting involved with things online or accessing things they shouldn’t. Throughout the session PCSO Chater will give tips and strategies that parents can use to make the online space a safer place for their children. Some of the topics included in the parents workshop are listed below:
•Apps and appropriate ages
• Children sharing inappropriate images
•Gaming
•Grooming and radicalisation
• The dark web
• Settings
•Digital footprint
Please put the date in your diary and look out for more information in January.
We were pleased to welcome Heart of England Community Rail Partnership this week who brought in the finished Rail200 banner created by our pupils and pupils from a Warwickshire school. We are looking forward to taking part in many events next year to celebrate 200 years of the railway.
Thank you to our Welcome Committee who have been working hard all term to welcome new pupils to our school. They held a special party to make sure that all new students had a positive and happy end to their first term with us.
Our house teams have been working hard to win house points all term. We have seen a brilliant attitude to our school rules with many children going over and above to make our school so special. The winning house this term was the green team, who enjoyed a treat of hot chocolate with marshmallows and light-up bingo.
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported the fundraising to build a learning shelter at the allotment. We have raised money from our Millsy's Takeover Pizza Nights and from the Winter Wreath Making event. We would also like to say a very big thank you to Agema Engineering for their very generous donation this week. We are over halfway to raising the £6000 that is needed to build the shelter that will be used for science investigations, shelter for seedlings and community events.
Christmas Eve Nativity Service at St Barbara's. St Barbara's
Church warmly invites everyone to their Nativity Service at 5.30pm on Christmas Eve. Everyone is welcome and if any children would like to participate in the nativity play, come along at 5.00pm to get a costume. More information is available at https://https://stbarbaras.com
Key Stage 2 pupils took part in an online Christmas concert with partner schools in Japan, Finland, Indonesia, Canada, Mozambique and the Philippines. We had a lovely time singing together and learning about the different countries.
Congratulations to our athletics team who have been training hard for the School Games tournament. They had one of our strongest performances to date and we came a very close second overall.