Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• OFSTED Report

  Sat 26 Oct 2019

  Our recent OFSTED report is now available. It judges that our school currently Requires Improvement but notes the recent, positive changes which have taken place which confirms our journey of improvement which we started in September is already heading in the right direction.  

   

  Please click below to visit the official OFSTED website and read our report:

  https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/104052

• Our Winning House Point Team Afternoon

  Sat 26 Oct 2019

  Red House thoroughly enjoyed their activity afternoon as a treat for achieving the highest number of house points this half term. They also had the opportunity to come in non school uniform and they were invited to wear something red to show how proud they are to be part of Red House.

   

  We look forward to seeing who wins next half term. 

  

• Stone Age Workshop

  Sat 26 Oct 2019

  Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed their Stone Age Craft workshop making jewellery, clay pots and cave paintings.

  It was a great way to finish our topic Meet the Flintstones. We are all looking forward to the next topic after half term.

   

  

• Topic Celebration Assembly

  Fri 25 Oct 2019

  Well done to all our children who received topic congratulations certificates this week for doing a fabulous home learning project in our celebration assembly. There will be another opportunity next half term so look our for those home learning passports.  

   

   

  

• Year Six Greek Day

  Mon 21 Oct 2019

  The children delivered their Trojan War speeches to their class, learned about Pythagorus' theorem, performed the Greek dances they have been learning during P.E. and tried some Greek food.

  

• Year One Trip to Tamworth Castle

  Sat 19 Oct 2019
  The trip linked nicely to Year One's English work about Traditional Tales. During the day, they toured the castle, worked as servants and had training to be a squire.

  

• PTFA Disco

  Sat 19 Oct 2019
  A fabulous PTFA disco! All the children thoroughly enjoyed dancing together, playing party games, doing the Hokey Cokey and the highlight, our snow machine! Thank you to our wonderful PTFA for organising it so well. We look forward to our next event. 

  

• GXXtra Maths Workshop

  Fri 18 Oct 2019

  Some of Year 2's marvelous mathematicians attended the 'No Problem' problem solving and reasoning skills event at St Alphege Infant school this week. They had a really interesting morning investigating Magic squares, dominoes, word problems, ordering months of the year, looking at the Fibonacci pattern, discussing odd and even numbers, making smart guesses and discussing the meaning of infinity. Our pupils' behaviour and enthusiasm was excellent.

   

  This is what they had to say after the event:

   

  Poppy "I enjoyed finding all the different ways of making 37. Today has made me feel more confident to get on and have a go. I liked making a new friend and working things out together like Reciprocal Ruth. When I got there I felt a little nervous but then I soon felt more confident."

   

  Jacob "I think it's helped me get quicker at maths. We can remember to use what we already know. I kept on trying to get the answers like Resilient Robbie. I felt confident to put my hand up to answer questions and to tell my partner if I thought I was right."

   

  Bethany "I liked looking at the Fibonacci pattern. Having one of our teachers there was better as we weren't so nervous this time. I liked John and Dave and how they told us to try and have a smart guess."

   

  Charlie "I saw someone there that I know. I liked working with my partner to solve problems"

   

  Alana "I liked making a new friend. I enjoyed the 0s and Xs game and solving the magic square problems."

   

  Rachel "I knew that I would be at the beginning of the months of the year line because my birthday is in January. I asked other children when their birthday is to help us all get in order."

  

• Thank you to everybody who donated to our Harvest collection, this will be given to 'Helping Hands', a local charity who helps people in need.

  Sun 13 Oct 2019
  

• GXXTRA Choral Workshop

  Sat 12 Oct 2019

  This week some of our children from year 4 and 5 went to Coppice school for a Choral workshop. They aspired to learn 6 songs from the musical Oliver. The children thoroughly enjoyed the morning and challenged themselves to perform their medley to the parents at the end of the morning. Well done children, you did Valley proud!!!