Newsletter September 21st

Dear parents, carers and friends, Saturday marks the official start of Autumn, but, to be quite honest, so settled and productive has the start to this year been, it seems a million years since the summer! We have already had some exciting events and some great news. Thank you all so much for your efforts on Pirate Day. The costumes were amazing, and the work of the children was excellent. Next week, Monday 24th September marks Roald Dahl day, which the children will mark with celebrating some of his work. Attendance was really worth celebrating last year. We had 8 children who scored 100% attendance, but added to that we had a further 37 who secured Gold attendance (above 98%), 43 pupils secured silver (above 96%) and 16 secured Bronze (above 94%). We will continue with the self-attendance scheme this year, as so many children benefitted from it, and it gave us the chance to communicate with parents of good attenders as well. In next week’s praise assembly, which will be on Thursday (“Why Thursday?” I hear you ask. Read on friend…) we will reward all of those brilliant gold, silver and bronze attenders. One stage further, we have already had some classes this year with 100% attendance for the week (albeit a short week) which is something we never managed in the whole of last year. For week one this was Mr Davies’ class, and, in their first ever week of school, Miss Rubery’s class scored 100% as well. Brilliant news everyone – keep it going! Praise will be on Thursday next week because – as we mentioned previously – Friday 28th September is an Inset day, and school is closed to children. School will reopen, as normal, on Monday 1st October. Car park – thank you all so much for using the new car parking arrangements. Can you all please follow a simple rule – when the gates are closed, then the car park is closed, as we are trying to protect the safety of children and pedestrians using these exits. Anyone who opens the gates during these times will be challenged. Finally, thank you all so much in helping to make the start of term so positive: attendance is really promising, uniform is dazzlingly smart and the attitude of the children has been delightful – we are all commenting on how enthusiastic they are in class, and how much fun they bring to playtimes and lunchtimes, which have been enormously enjoyable. Have a great weekend everyone. Yours faithfully, Zak Willis Headteacher