News Update – Friday 10th January ’25

10 Jan 2025

Happy New Year

The children and staff have settled back into the routines of school life and we are already enjoying a very busy and exciting start to the spring term.

All year groups are working on their new projects with authentic, purposeful and relevant contexts for learning. The children are looking forward to going out and about on school trips as well as having visitors into school. These experiences enhance their learning and bring their projects to life.

Updated information about your child’s current curriculum project will be shared with you via Seesaw during next week. If you are able to share any experiences or expertise linked to your child’s project please do get in touch!

Our Creative Curriculum

As a school we are continually reviewing and adapting our creative, project-based curriculum with children having a say in what they want to learn, how they want to learn and how they want to record their findings. Our continued focus on learning through authentic contexts has a really positive impact on the standards of learning and teaching within school. We continue to evaluate and revise our projects to ensure that we have a learner-centred, skills-focused curriculum that is relevant to the 21st century and inclusive of all learners.

Through our creative curriculum we are developing learners as:

ambitious, capable learners
healthy, confident individuals
ethical, informed citizens
enterprising, creative contributors

The Literacy & Numeracy Framework (LNF) and the Digital Competency Framework (DCF) remain integral to our project-based learning, enabling children to acquire and apply skills in a variety of meaningful contexts. In each lesson, Literacy, Numeracy and Digital skills are discussed with the children so they are aware of the skills they are developing. Please help us by asking the children about the skills they have been focusing on in their learning each day.

Financial Literacy

As part of our curriculum focus on developing the children’s financial literacy we are fortunate to be engaging with My Bnk charity who will be doing a series of workshops with Year 3 to Year 6 over the coming weeks. The children will be learning about bank accounts, budgeting, prioritising needs over wants, understanding money is finite, why people save and setting goals. They will learn about the importance of creating positive money habits, understanding interest as a reward and charge, looking at financial risks and goals.

PTA Update

Firstly, a huge thank you to Mrs MacCarty, who will be stepping down as co-chair of the PTA. Mrs MacCarty has been a member of the PTA committee in various roles for over 5 years! During this time, she has shown huge commitment to organising and running events which raise vital funds for school and with the children at the heart of all her hard work! We know you will continue to be involved and support PTA events going forward however on behalf of the whole school community – thank you so much!

The PTA had a fantastic end to the autumn term, running a number of Christmas related activities, including: wreath making, the Christmas raffle and the Christmas Fayre. In total over £2000 was raised! Thank you so much for everyone who came along and supported these events and also to the PTA members for their time and effort!

We look forward to some exciting events in 2025!

Reminder – Road Safety

Please, please can we remind parents of the importance of not double parking, parking on double yellow lines, parking across local residents driveways or parking dangerously to drop children off or pick them up. We continue to have a number of complaints from parents and local residents who are concerned about the health and safety of the children whilst crossing the roads. This really is a very serious issue. Vehicles parked dangerously will be reported to the police.

Thank you in anticipation of your support.