Autumn Term Excitment
It has been a fantastic start to the new academic year. The children have settled brilliantly into their new classes.
We started the academic year with the Education Sunday Celebration Service at St Michael’s.
We have loved welcoming our new reception children to the school – they have settled brilliantly and are all enjoying their learning and being a part of the school. On Wednesday we have their ‘Welcome Service’ at church. We will be celebrating their start to school and welcoming & praying for them and their families as we look forward to seven exciting years as part of the school family. We are particularly blessed to be joined by Bishop Paul for this service.
We have had so many wonderful things happening already this year.
Our Young Engineers club is preparing for the First Lego League Challenge at Nottingham University – ‘Into Orbit’ which will take place at the end of this term:
‘The 2018/2019 FIRST®LEGO® League season will transport the team into space, where we’ll explore, challenge, and innovate in the vast expanse of space.
FIRST LEGO League challenges children to think like scientists and engineers. During the INTO ORBIT season, teams will choose and solve a real-world problem in the Project. They will also build, test, and program an autonomous robot using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® technology to solve a set of missions in the Robot Game. Throughout their experience, teams will operate under the FIRST signature set of Core Values, celebrating discovery, teamwork, and Gracious Professionalism®.’
Our older children have started ‘The Daily Mile’ initiative and our Year 1 & 2 are doing ‘The Change 4 Life’ Programme – both initiatives promoting healthy lifestyles.
Children are loving books with over 30 pupils completing the Summer Reading Challenge at the local library – fantastic. The children have also started back well on the weekly reading challenge. Last week’s book fair was brilliantly supported – the children love to choose new books.
The sporting year has begun with a flying start following last year’s fourth successive school games Gold Award. We have won both events we have competed in – Tag Rugby and Tennis.
On the 19th of October we are celebrating the school building’s 50th birthday with an evening of music (5 decades of music!) and a traditional school dinner. This event is open to adults who have an association with the school and would like to come and celebrate with us (tickets £20 from the school office – tickets and meal choices must be reserved by Friday 12th October). All the profits from this event will go towards the cost of the children’s celebration day on the 24th October – this will be a workshop day including making a new commemorative mosaic for the school, 60’s dance, sports, history, crafts & arts.
What an exciting term!