We have made it through the second term without too much disruption to learning. Phew! This term has seen lots of extra adaptations for covid, including online learning. We hope that next term will be easier, with better weather and infection rates dropping.
Did you make your appointment for the parent/teacher conferences? If for some reason you did not arrange to see your child’s teacher you can email them for an appointment after the holiday. The last day of term has been set aside for teachers to talk to parents without disruption or other demands being made on them so please keep an eye open for the invitations next term as well.
I hope you saw last week’s Newsletter from the students all about our Literacy week. The students really enjoyed learning through these activities. The photos of students and staff reading in unusual places were very funny to start the week off on a high note and of course we ended it with the dressing up as a book character day. We appreciate all the parents effort to support their children with these dressing up activities. It certainly adds extra interest for us all to see what everyone has come as.
As I was checking the reports over the last week or so before they were prepared to come out to you; it made me feel very proud of the opportunities we as a school are able to offer your children. Our curriculum is wide and designed for the needs of these children as they grow up into an unknown future, our teachers are committed and caring practitioners with a high level of expertise and international experience and the students themselves are a joy to work with. It all comes together to make a great school. I know the children love coming here and on the whole achieve great results.
I have just received the latest Maths Olympiad results and I am informed they have been sent to individual email addresses. If your child took part and has not received their result please let me know and I will see if I have it. We had some fantastic results this year but I won’t tell you what they are yet. We will announce them separately. Well done to everyone who took part. They tell us the medals and certificates will be with us in July, we await them with anticipation.
Class 5 have been continuing their ‘transition to secondary’ process by spending time with Ms Relf and finding out about the needs of the adolescent learner. The students will be shadowing secondary classes for a day in April after the holidays so that they begin to understand how the secondary system works.
Please make sure your children get plenty of rest and relaxation over the holiday. Play games with them and make sure they get outside and to the park a lot, whilst still keeping their distance of course.
I wish you all a happy Easter holiday and look forward to seeing the children back in school on the 19th April.
Warmest wishes,
Sharon Short
Head of Primary and Lead Safeguarding Officer.