School News
Everyone has settled back into school life and routine very quickly. Our new
Reception children have settled in very well and are fully involved in the life
of the school. The Year Six children are enjoying their new responsibilities,
especially our Year 6 buddies who are helping to ensure that all children enjoy
their play time.
The swimming pool appeal has gone extremely well and thanks to the efforts of the local community, children and parents we are able to have the pool installed this year, ready for use next summer. We will of course be having an opening ceremony, so watch out for details as we would like as many local people to be involved as possible.
We have been working hard over the last few months to re-design our new curriculum and the children have been fully involved in this. Each class now has an over-arching theme for each term, which all subjects are based on and which teach important key skills as well as thinking and communication skills. The children have responded very enthusiastically, showing that their creativity and independence are developing already. The term started off with a 'wow' factor when all children visited the mobile planetarium for the day which was housed at St. Cyriac's church. This fitted in well with this term's 'contexts for learning', 'Mission to Mars' and 'Wow, that's amazing!'
We have been very successful in achieving many awards recently. Just before the summer holidays we were told we had achieved Health Promoting School status, which was a real triumph as we had put in a lot of hard work towards this over the year. We just need to make sure we stay healthy now! We also achieved our International School's Award this month in recognition for the amount of work we do with the children which relates to other countries and cultures.
We will be having another Walk to School week from the 6-10th October, so hopefully you will see lots of children walking to and from school on those days. We are continuing with our Walk on a Wednesday campaign where the children have to walk to school or park at least half a mile away from school and walk the rest of the way. Children achieving every Wednesday in a month will receive a special badge.
We will soon be celebrating Harvest and our Harvest Festival service will be held at St. Mary's on 3rd October at 11am. It would be lovely to see some of the village community there and all are welcome.
RECEPTION ADMISSIONS 2009
We are now accepting applications for Reception places for September 2008. If you would like an admissions form or to have a visit to our school please contact us on 01638 741529 or just pop in.
Applications need to be in by 5th December.