Thank you to all of the parents who completed our parent feedback survey.  We were delighted with the number of responses and we appreciate and value all of your feedback and comments.  A few of the key responses are shared below.  Our staff and Children’s Safeguarding Board will be exploring some of the suggestions made in the responses including the way children are released from class at the end of the day and parent/carer photograph permissions.

School Council elections have changed this year with children being appointed to the different pupil councils by democratic peer voting.  We were really impressed with the way the children took part in this process and the new school councils will be meeting later this term.

We had some really positive feedback to the new format of our parent drop-in sessions this term which were intended as brief updates as to how your child has settled into this term. We will be having formal parent meetings in the Spring term where anything of a confidential nature can be discussed.  As always, please feel free to contact your child’s class teacher via the school office if there is a confidential matter you need to discuss sooner.

On Thursday, Oak class got ready for blast off with the ‘Road to RIAT’ STEM challenge which involved children teaming up to design, build, and test a rocket capable of launching a satellite into space. The excitement was palpable as they channelled their inner aerospace engineers and reached for the stars!

A big well done to our award winners this week!

Kian was chosen by our House Captains for settling in brilliantly into Maple Class

Jude has been showing respect in class and is always ready to learn.

Silas has shown great perseverance during his learning.

Isaac has shown love and kindness to new people in Maple.

Charlie has shown great Perseverance and effort in his writing.

Marie was chosen by our Sports Captain for always working hard and giving 110% in PE.

Jacob has done swimmingly this week achieving the level 5 award in his swimming lessons!

A big well done to our award winners this week!

Joel has been working really hard to show that he is ready to learn in class.

Linda has shown wonderful determination in football.

Alfie has been showing perseverance and independence in maths.

Jude has shown great sportsmanship on the playground.

Florence has shown kindness and care to everyone.

Niamh has shown joy in everything she does.

Another big congratulations to Poppy who swam a whole mile (!) and Olivia who completed her Dark Run for Hope House.  I was also delighted to present Rowan with an outstanding achievement award for raising over £1000 for Bicton School and Nursery.  You are all amazing!

Dear parents/carers,

We have had a very busy first week back at school after the half term break! It has been wonderful to see the children coming back to school refreshed and ready to learn.  Please go onto your child’s class page on the website to see their learning over the coming half term.

A few reminders:

• Please ensure Chester Zoo payments are made by the end of the day.  We require all children to wear school uniform and trainers/comfortable shoes.  We will be outside most of the day so please bring a coat, a packed lunch, drink and snack.
• Please do not park in the minibus bay at the beginning or end of the school day as it prevents the children being able to get on and off the bus safely.
• A big thank you to the parents/carers who have found the time to fill in our survey.  Your feedback is very important to us and we would appreciate your responses and comments – positives included!  Please follow the link and complete the survey by Sunday evening: Parent Survey

It was lovely to welcome so many Willow parents/carers to lunch on Wednesday. It is Birch Class’ turn this week so please let the office know if you intend to attend on Wednesday 13th November (12pm).

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Mavin