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• Trustees and Governors Visit

  Fri 18 Mar 2022

  This week, Trustees and Governors visited our school to meet with pupils and staff. They had a tour of our FAB school and saw the wonderful learning offer that our pupils received. They watched presentations about our curriculum developments, our teaching and learning pedagogy, early reading and phonics and Early Years. They looked at how attendance and progress is improving across our schools before finishing exploring governance across the Trust.

  It was a positive day and the Trustees and Governors were impressed with how our pupils presented themselves and how engaged they were with their learning.

  We also welcomed five members of staff from a local Trust in Dartford who were also very impressed with our school and again, particularly with our pupils. They said our pupils are very well behaved, really interested in their learning and extremely proud of their own school. They were very impressed with how they conducted themselves within lessons and around the school and how #happyandbright our school is.

• International Women's Day

  Tue 08 Mar 2022

  Our Year 2 pupils have been learning about Inspirational Women for their topic this term and to coincide with International Women's Day they have been telling their class teachers and peers which women they find inspirational.

   

  'Mummy inspires me because when I am sad, she makes me feel better'. Bella S, Year 2

   

  'Florence Nightingale, because when people were sick she helped them'. Teddy, Year 2

   

  'My gymnastics teacher inspires me because when I can't do a trick she believes in me until I can do it'. Bella C, Year 2

• Author and Poet Visit

  Tue 08 Mar 2022

  We were privileged to be visited by Author Clare Luther and Poet Zohab Zee Khan. Clare held special assemblies with pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 during which they enjoyed listening to the story of Olive the sausage dog who was afraid of sand. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the story and were fully engaged throughout, asking questions and getting involved in the rhyming story.

  Meanwhile, in KS2, pupils took part in a poetry workshop with Zohab who delighted them with humorous poems and inspired them to write their own 'What if...?' poems. The pupils were fully engaged and really enjoyed having the opportunity to create their own masterpieces. 

  A huge thank you to Clare and Zohab for giving our pupils this amazing opportunity.

   

  'I would just like to say thank you so much to the school for last Tuesday, thank you for organising this day. My daughter had the most amazing time and her class teacher said that she has never seen her so excited with anything. Thank you so much, the girls were so excited, they absolutely loved it. Thank you all so much for your love and care for our children'. Parent of a Nursery and Reception child.

   

   

  

• World Book Day

  Thu 03 Mar 2022

  All of the pupils and staff had such a fun day dressing up as their favourite book characters to celebrate the 25th anniversary of World Book Day!

  We held special assemblies for each key stage and winners were awarded with a certificate and a lovely new book to enjoy. Our teachers and teaching assistants also got involved and our Year 6 Reading Ambassadors voted for who they thought was the best dressed and most creative. They gave bonus points for the use of recycled materials linking to our Environmental Theme for book week.

  Well done to our EYFS team who were 'The Three Little Pigs', Miss Mahoney who was 'The Worst Witch' and Mr Naidoo who was 'Gangster Granny'.