Ahoy me hearties! Year 2 was overrun on Tuesday with an invasion of unruly pirates. We had a wonderful day exploring treasure maps and directions, creating messages to send in a bottle, making our own hard tak biscuits and finally setting out on our own treasure hunt. We were impressed by the incredible range of creative costumes and the excellent attitudes displayed by all children. Our work on pirates has provided us an excellent opportunity to discuss our British Value of tolerance and how we treat those around us.

For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery

Each week, during our Friday Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. They may have excelled in a particular subject through the week; may have shown one, or more, of the school values in abundance, or they may have impressed their teacher, or other staff members with a huge amount of effort. Whatever they are nominated for, they are recognised in the whole school achievement assembly, receive a certificate to take home and get to wear one of our prestigious black and gold t-shirts. 
During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Friday Achievement assembly recognises this pride. 

Our weekly winners this week are:

Remeh - REB

Adrian - ROT

Jasmine - RAH

Ivy - 1RW

Theo - 1SG

Izzy - 2CP

Ti'arna - 2ERS

Phoebe - 3RO

Louie - 4BB

Harrison - 4KG

Evie - 5LH

Jamal - 5NW

Ellie - 5KR

Harley - 6ES

Phoebe - 6LB

Jack - 6ST

Attendance Winner - Joyce - 1SG

Book Look Winner - Kailynn - 6ES

On Thursday 18^th May our Year 6s took a spellbinding trip down to Warner Bros Studio Tour London - the making of Harry Potter. We immersed ourselves into all things magical: exploring the real sets, real props and real magic seen in the film series. Year 6 took part in a 'Script to Screen' workshop - looking at how an idea makes its way through the film making process to the screen. Pupils got time to explore the Forbidden Forest, the Hogwarts Express and even Diagon Alley!! Mischief definitely managed!! 

For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

On Tuesday 16^th May, Year 4 had the fantastic opportunity to visit Cadbury World as part of our Ancient Aztec topic. They experienced a 4D ride along with learning about the history of chocolate as well as the history of Cadbury. As well as this, children had a design and technology talk where they learnt how chocolate is marketed and packaged compared to other competitors as well as the history of how advertising has developed over time. Following this, children explored how to manipulate chocolate including having their own taste test! 

For more pictures from the trip, please see our gallery

Each week, during our Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. They may have excelled in a particular subject through the week; may have shown one, or more, of the school values in abundance, or they may have impressed their teacher, or other staff members with a huge amount of effort. Whatever they are nominated for, they are recognised in the whole school achievement assembly, receive a certificate to take home and get to wear one of our prestigious black and gold t-shirts. 
During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Achievement assembly recognises this pride.

A special mention goes to year 6 this week with every pupil being nominated for pupil of the week! When the going gets tough, the tough get going! Year 6 have proven these past few weeks that they are made of steel! A bigger uptake in boot camps than ever, huge focus in interventions and a set of tests executed perfectly! We are so proud of you all #More than a Year Group!
 

Our weekly winners this week are:

Kylah - REB

Logan - RAH

Cairon-Rhys - 1RW

Ellis - 1SG

Riley - 2CP

Isla-Grace - 2ERS

Beth - 3JC

Riley - 3RO

Lexi - 4BB

Chase - 4KG

Scarlett - 5LH

Leo - 5NW

Lilly-Anna - 5KR

Attendance Winner - Ethan - 4KG

Book Look Winner - Olly - 4KG