Message from the Headteacher - 25th November

Dear Parents

 

We start this newsletter with the wonderful successes of our Year 6 pupils. A high proportion of them undertook scholarship assessments at the Abbey earlier this month and we are very proud of all of them for setting themselves this challenge. We are thrilled that the following pupils have gained scholarships to our Senior School:-

• Gregory Gallagher – Academic.

• Sian Pearson - All Rounder.

• India Taylor-Johnson – Academic.

 

Wednesday’s Assembly really showed the children doing what they do best – working as teams and supporting each other. Part of the Assembly involved the children from Year 1 to Year 6 getting together in their House groups to undertake a special challenge set by Ms Duncan-Broad. The children worked co-operatively in their groups to solve the word challenge; with the older children making sure the younger ones were fully involved at all times. Each group successfully completed the task demonstrating good listening skills. The children from St Patrick’s House worked especially well and came first. We then discussed how it is nice to win, to be first, to be ‘king of the castle’, but that we cannot always win: someone has to lose – life is like that! We reflected on working as teams, supporting each other and to be as good at losing as we are at winning.

 

The theme of working as a team carried on throughout the day with the U11 football team working together for a well deserved draw at Bricklehurst Manor.

Also later that afternoon, in the end of term Dance Club performance, the children performed together a well rehearsed dance to South American music. The children performed with great skill and they greatly enjoyed the dance which was the culmination of a term’s hard work. The rhythms of the carnival music had the audience tapping their toes to the beat and the children were rewarded with certificates and great applause. A huge thank you to Miss Mills for the choreography; her obvious enthusiasm for dance was evident in the children’s performance.

 

Rehearsals for the end of term performances of "Born in a Barn" (Reception and Key Stage 1) and "Robin Hood" (Key Stage 2) are progressing well. The stage has gone up in the hall and there is an air of great excitement developing as the end of term productions approach their final stages.

Best regards

Maria Maslin