Good afternoon,

Please click on the PDF link below for information of our current job vacancy. You can find the person specification, job details and application form on our school website.

We are so impressed with all the learning that is taking place in school and remotely at home. The following children will be receiving a certificate for their fantastic efforts this week. Children in school will receive their certificates on Monday when we return after half term and children at home will receive theirs in the post. Well done everyone.

There has been a special buzz this week at school as everyone has been talking and emailing about the Bake Off.

Mrs Wallace has organised a school wide bake off competition and the response from everyone has been phenomenal! With virtual entries from so many families-THANK YOU.

School staff had the tough job of creating a shortlist of finalists in each category - with prizes up for grabs for KS1 and Early years and Key Stage 2.The standard of baking has been so high and it was difficult to narrow down the list to just a couple of finalists in each group.

We have been absolutely amazed by your wonderful Valentine's baking creations. You have done a brilliant job! Well done.

The winners have been chosen and they are:

KS1

1st - Freya

2nd - Harriet

3rd - Aurelia

Show stopper - Ruby

KS2

1st - Jess

2nd - Katie V

3rd - Ethan

Show stopper - Natalia

Worcestershire Children's First have received a plea from the Big Local, please see the flyer below. If you would like to donate, please find the details on the attached flyer.

This half term, we have been focussing on the virtues grateful and generous. We have been growing to be grateful for all our gifts, developing them to the full so that we can be generous in the service of others. 

Well done to the following children who were nominated by their teachers for having shown these virtues: 

We are delighted that the following children were nominated by their parents for demonstrating these virtues at home:

Congratulations to Polly-Anna in Year 4 who received the Vice Principal's nomination this half term for always being grateful and generous and being an excellent role model to others.

This Wednesday, we took the time to focus on physical activity. Miss Ballard challenged us to complete some of the following activities: design your own sports activity or fitness work out; research your favourite sport or athlete; find out about healthy eating and design your own food plate; try a yoga session or invent your own sport. As always, we were really impressed with the results.

Here are some pictures of our work for Well-Being Wednesday. Mrs Lloyd taught the children in Year 2 about healthy eating and they designed their own healthy plate food. At home some children also found out about healthy eating. We all had lots of fun and learnt to be fit and healthy which is so important.

Today the children learned about all the ways they can stay safe online. They watched a BBC Learning lesson all about Internet safety and did in class activities to learn the best ways to keep safe while enjoying the Internet. The key things the children learnt were: who they can trust and should not trust, who not to talk to or accept virtual invites from, who they can rely on and talk to when they are worried, how to spot things which put them at risk and to not give anyone their personal information. In the afternoon Year 2 learnt how to refine searches on Purple Mash using a Search tool. The children then learnt how to share their work on Purple Mash. Miss Crumpler made a virtual Year 2 display board that the children used to safely share their work on Purple Mash.

For our Space Topic in D.T. Year 5 all chose a famous Space Mission e.g. Apollo 11 or the Mars Rover and recreated these Space crafts using household items. Take a look at some of our creations:

This week I have been so impressed with the wonderful writing in Year 1. Please see below two examples of the writing from our Year One pupils.

We are delighted to share the wonderful news with you that our former pupil, Robert Darbyshire, has won national gold for 50m freestyle and national silver for 100m freestyle in his year group. Robert always represented our school in our CTA Swimming galas -even representing us when he was in Year 2- and we are really proud of his success.

The next parents appointments via Teams are for children working in school and this will be on Monday 22nd February.

Please click the link below to access this week's Wednesday Word.

Change4Life have created recipes and shopping lists for families which can be used to create lunches for around £15 each week. Please click on the link below to access this information.

Please click on the PDF link below for more information on food and activities for children in our local area.

Take some time to relax at home with your family with YogaBugs relaxation session, a simple stretch routine, breathing and visualisation!

 Please watch this video in your spare time over half term.

Also, with it being Random Acts of Kindness Day next week, YogaBugs are giving you some free activities that you can do at home with your children and families!

Please see the flyer below from Home Start.

Please click on the link below for the winter edition of Raring2Go.

Latest update on testing and isolation periods.

• If a child or member of staff tests positive, they now have to self-isolate for at least 10 days, even if they feel well.
• If they are NOT a known contact of a confirmed case they can return to school if the result is negative, providing they feel well and they have not had a fever for 48 hours.
• If they are a contact of a confirmed case, they must stay off school for 14 days isolation period, even if they test negative. This is because they can develop the infection at any point up to 14 days after being in contact a confirmed case. This would apply to pupils and staff who have been in a bubble with a positive testing child.  School Leadership will decide which members of staff have come into close proximity with the bubble and therefore also need to self-isolate for 14 days.
• Please be aware that anyone admitted to hospital is likely to receive a test for Covid, whether they are showing symptoms or not.  
• Covid symptoms are now being classed as: a persistent cough, high temperature, and/or loss of taste and smell.
• No action needs to be taken as a school until a test result is shared with us.

Please also note that we cannot request test results, parents have to approach us with results.

Kind regards,

Mrs Brocklesby.