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Early Years Craft Workshop

On Thursday afternoon our Early Years children were very excited to welcome their parents for a specia​l spring themed craft event. Our outdoor area was transformed into a vibrant craft workshop, filled with an array of materials and paintings of the children’s artwork. The children eagerly explored the various craft stations and worked together with their parents to make their creations. As the event drew to a close, the children proudly shared their amazing work with their families, friends and teachers and celebrated all their fantastic achievements!

House Point Celebration Lunch

On Friday, the House Captains hosted an exciting lunch with 12 students who had earned the most house points in their class. They celebrated by bringing in their favourite foods and enjoying a special meal on the balcony while taking part in fun games like Pin the Tail on the Donkey and Musical Chairs. This monthly event will continue, and the House Captains look forward to rewarding more outstanding students in the future.

Y5 Assembly

This week, Year 5 invited parents to the primary weekly assembly to showcase their learning from the Mission to Mars topic. The children creatively demonstrated their understanding in ways they designed themselves, including skits, astronaut training activities, and news broadcasts. Throughout this unit, they have explored the solar system, space exploration, and Mars rovers, developing their knowledge in an exciting and hands-on way.

Here’s what the children had to say about their learning:

‘It was really interesting to learn about the Mars Rover and how it got to Mars’ – Priya 5H

‘It was really engaging to build the crumble kit cars as it made us think a lot’ – Aayan 5H

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Maths Parent Information Session

We recently held a Maths Parent Information Session, where students took an active role in presenting their learning. The session provided an overview of how maths is taught in our school, including key strategies, problem-solving approaches, and ways to support learning at home.

Our students confidently demonstrated various maths activities, explaining concepts and engaging parents in hands-on tasks. This interactive approach allowed parents to experience firsthand how their children develop mathematical understanding in a fun and supportive environment.

Thank you to all the parents who attended—we appreciate your involvement in your child’s learning journey!

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Spring Concert

We are looking forward to the Spring Concert on Tuesday 1 April. This is an exciting event that will feature the KS3 PAWS Choir, Senior Choir, solos, small ensembles and even a Rock Band! There will also be a wide variety of music from pop, classical, jazz, rock as well as some well known favourites.Ìý

Doors open at 4:30pm and audiences will be entertained by some light piano music whilst waiting for the main event starting at 5:00pm. There is no pre-registration required and no entrance fee is being charged.

It’s going to be a great show and a musical celebration of the season!Ìý

Academic Enrichment Week 2025

Academic enrichment week 2025 was launched by Ms Williams at Tuesday’s whole secondary assembly. From Mamma Mia and Ellevate to robot buildings and ceramics, there is an exciting range of projects available. Academic enrichment week activities aim to offer genuine academic enrichment and enhance a student’s 91´«Ã½ learning experience by focusing on a special project for one week of the year. Please have a look at the for more information about what is on offer. All students from Year 6 to Year 12 are expected to attend Academic Enrichment Week – there is really something to interest everyone in the 12 different projects on offer – and students will be asked to select their three top preferences early next week. Especially for younger secondary students, please do talk to your child about what choice might be best for them.

Duke of Edinburgh International Award

Next weekend most of Year 10 and a small number of Year 12 students will be away from school completing their bronze and silver expeditions respectively. I look forward to sharing photos from these trips in the end of term newsletter.

Social MediaÌý

I would like to inform parents that the secondary pastoral team will be focusing on safe, responsible and kind social media use with students next week. The Pastoral Team have noted that the vast majority of significant behavioural and pastoral incidents that we have dealt with this term have their origins in misuse of devices or inappropriate and unkind use of social media. Whilst the posting may occur outside school time, the impact on friendship groups and student mental wellbeing has had a significant impact on students’ experience at school.

The Secondary Leadership Team would like to invite all parents to a special Parents’ Information Session next Thursday at 8.15 am in the secondary library, to explain our expectations for students for their responsible use of social media and to make some suggestions as to how we can support our children at different stages of the secondary career, from young children entering Year 7 to young, almost independent, adults graduating from Year 13. I am afraid we will not be able to offer quick or easy solutions, but as a leadership team we have given this significant thought and believe the advice we will share will be helpful. We would also like to hear from parents their experiences of managing screen time and device uses in their families.

The secondary leadership team will be sharing a set of responsible social media use expectations with all students in Key Stage assemblies this week and this education will be followed up by mentors through the mentoring and PSHE programme. I will share these expectations in full with parents next week, at the Thursday PIS and in next week’s Yeti news.Ìý