Half term activities

Some activities/events that we have been made aware of are:

Love of Oswestry Festival – We have a lot of free half term events happening in Oswestry as part of our Love Oswestry Festival. These include puppet workshops, Drumming sessions, Felt workshops and lots of family activities all leading up to our lantern festival on the Saturday that may interest your pupils and their families.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ford Hall Farm – Marvellous Mushrooms Trail. Link for more information

Puppet team workshops at Childs Ercall Church

Places advertising ‘kids eat free’ or similar deals:

 

Sportshall Athletics success

Well done to the Y6 team who represented school this week in Sportshall Athletics, they were brilliant! Each team member showcased our school values and completed their events with enthusiasm and commitment to the team.  The events were; 4×1 Relay, 4×2 Relay, Speed Bounce, Long Jump, Javelin and Chest Push. Overall we came 3rd out of the nine schools competing.

Our boys team have secured a place in the next round – well done to them.

 

Disco Reminder

Pupils in Reception, Yr1 and Yr2 can stay in school to get changed from 3.15 and 3.30.

Please return slips to school with money in a named envelope.

Staffing update

Mrs Huxtable will be reducing her working hours after February half term from full time to three days per week for the rest of the academic year. Miss Davies will join the teaching team as a job share with Mrs Huxtable in class 4. From Monday 24th February, the teaching pattern in class 4 will be as follows:

  • Mrs Huxtable – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • Miss Davies – Thursday and Friday.

Miss Davies has taken on a Teaching Assistant role mainly in class 3, she will do this alongside her class 4 Teaching role, meaning she remains in school full time. 

Miss Manton returned to school this week to resume her full time teaching post in class 2. 

Mrs Jones has reduced her hours this term, she now works as a Teaching Assistant in a range of classes four days per week, Tuesday to Friday.

 

Weekly House Points 7.2.25

Weekly house point totals are:

Owls = 130

Badgers = 132

Squirrels = 127

Foxes = 127

Well done to the Badgers team this week.

 

Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 7.2.25

Well done to everyone who received awards or shout outs today. We are very proud of you.

  • Class R – Isaac for making fantastic progress in reading and writing. Well done we are every proud of you.
  • Class 1 – Hattie for her fantastic effort in every lesson and always contributing and persevering with her work.
  • Class 2 – Phoebe for working really hard in maths and persevering when things are tricky. Well done!
  • Class 3 – Isabelle S for always being an active and enthusiastic learner, a role model to others.
  • Class 4 – Wren for always persevering with her work and trying hard to improve with her editing work. Wren quietly gets on with her work and always takes on advice, well done.
  • Class 5 – Millie for really trying hard in class, concentrating on her work and putting up her hand to contribute, well done, keep it up!
  • Class 6 – Tilly for increased confidence and showing initiative. A super attitude, well done.
  • KS1/EY Headteacher award – Isla in class 1 for being a kind friend and a super learner.
  • KS2 Headteacher award – Erin in class 4 for being a kind and thoughtful friend to others.
  • Lunchtime award – Jake in class 1 for showing our school value of respect.
  • Raffle ticket – Hattie in class 1.

Celebrating Success. Book Worm 7.2.25

Well done to everyone who received awards or shoutouts this week, we are very proud of you.

Today we celebrated reading in our celebration assembly, with praise for lots of children for their reading at home and reading throughout the curriculum in school.

  • Class R – William H
  • Class 1 – Albie
  • Class 2 – Megan
  • Class 3 – Scarlett J
  • Class 4 – Willow
  • Class 5 – Milly H
  • Class 6 – Jasper

Congratulations to all our chosen Book Worms, your reading at home and school was excellent this week.

Remember to keep up those good reading habits.

Family Hub Coffee & Chat Tuesday’s 9am-12noon

Please see information below from the Family Hub team about the Coffee & Chat drop ins which will be available on the first Tuesday of every month. No booking is required.

Please pop in to speak to the team for family advice and/or support. All welcome.

 

Storytelling in action

For National Storytelling week the children enjoyed sharing stories in shared sessions with other classes, they told stories and read stories with younger and older children paired together where possible. Class 6 and Class R joined together, Class 3 and Class 1 joined together and Classes 2, 4 &5 shared stories in the hall. Children an staff thoroughly enjoyed these opportunities to share imaginatively and creatively. Some children took part in the live storytelling sessions by national authors, others will have the opportunity to look back on these as the sessions have been recorded. In assembly times we told funny stories, we thought about the concept of stories and which components might be essential to making a good story. Today in celebration assembly we shared our best bits of the week; the joining together sessions and having different teachers sharing stories were definitely firm favourites.

We hope to see some of the enthusiasm and sparks flying in the children’s creative story writing over the next few weeks. We also hope children take on their new found confidence and love of reading and story making into their upcoming learning.

Guinea Pigs are settling in!

Our delightful little ladies have enjoyed quite a few cuddles since joining us. We have noticed this week that they are starting to be more vocal and get a bit braver! Many of us have seen them eating or playing in their tunnel as we have walked past, they are also staying out more rather than hiding in their house. Its been lovely to see and hear many children excited by their presence in school.

We’ve started to make our own Pet Care file about how to look after them and we’ve bought some new fiction and non-fiction books which are displayed next to the cage. The children have been very keen to help with the daily water changes, feeding and cleaning them out. So far so good. We look forward to many happy times with our new school pets.

Children, remember to send in your name the guinea pig competition entry and 50p before next Wednesday if you’d like to enter.

Parents please remember to complete the consent form on Parent Pay if you agree to your child handling the guinea pigs.

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