Headteacher Weekly blog week beginning 2nd May

Date: 8th May 2016 @ 11:36am

My week this week was dominated with booster sessions for both Year 2 and 6. I have been so impressed with their attitude to their learning. It has been a focus on poetry this week. The Year 2 pupils had their Poetry X Factor (but thankfully no red buzzers and no Simon Cowell!!!) The childen enjoyed learning their poems and performing them to the class. Clearly, we have some future stars for the upper junior Speech and Language festival. The Year 6 pupils worked hard on the comprehension of poetry; which is never easy. They did so well and will certainly be ready if a poem comes up in SATs next week.

I enjoyed taking the Year 2 pupils for a computing lesson. The children were trying to create an Olympics quiz using the coding programme called Scratch. Their confidence is growing and they managed to create the start of their game.

In sport, our Year 4 class were away, so we sent a Year 3 hockey team to the Year 4 tournament. Even though they were a year younger, they did a magnificent job! Noah played particularly well in goal and was fearless!!! They won 2 of their matches and narrowly missed out on the semi-finals. Next week, it is the Year 1 and 2 football team torunament. It is Team Walker and Team Pimparel; if we meet in the later stages of the competition things could get very interesting!!

Mr Bond, Mrs Hartwell Jones and Mrs Hughes took our Year 4 pupils to the residential in Bala. They were so lucky with the weather and they all had a fantastic time. As a school, we believe passionately in offering things such as this to broaden and enhance our curriculum. What was most pleasing was that the centre running the residential trip have commented to me on how well the children behaved throughout the 3 days; they said they were an absolute credit to the school. However, I am not sure Mrs Hughes agreed when she was woken at 5:00am in the morning! THere are photographs on the website.

Finally, I was thrilled this week to hear that Mrs Cornforth was successful in her bid to access funding from the  Erasmus project. We have been given 18,000 euros which will enable our teachers to visit France and have quality professional development in the teaching of a modern foreign language. This will be one of our school improvement points for next year. There is now a scramble for who gets to go first!

SATs begin next week for our Year 6 pupils. They have worked so hard and I wish them all the best of luck.