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

• Children In Need

  Sat 16 Nov 2019
  Thank you to everybody who came in their pyjamas in order to raise money for Children in Need. Thank you also to our School Council for organising this and also the Pudsey Bear Craft competition which all the children enjoyed. Congratulations to our winners. 

  

• Anti Bullying Week

  Sat 16 Nov 2019
  We did lots of activities as part of Anti Bullying week to help us to understand what bullying is and how we can help to prevent it from happening. Valley Primary is an Anti Bullying school, we always say no to bullying of any description. We wore odd socks to show that everybody was different and celebrate this, noting that differences were never a reason to be unkind or bully anybody. 

  

• Remembrance

  Mon 11 Nov 2019

  At 11am on the 11th Day of the 11th Month, we remember all those who fought for our country. Our children stood in silence following the last post which Mr Hilditch kindly played for us. It was a very moving moment seeing our children so reflective.

   

  Take a look at some short clips...

   

  https://www.valleyprimaryschool.co.uk/photo-gallery/

   

  Or you can visit Valley Primary School U Tube Channel to see the whole clip...

   

  https://youtu.be/X9she855ego

   

   

   

   

• Power of Reading

  Sat 09 Nov 2019

  Take a look at a snippet of our learning using our new Power of Reading Scheme. Click this link to go to our Year 4 page where you can see a group of Year 4 children enjoying their new text 'The Iron Man'

  
  https://www.valleyprimaryschool.co.uk/year-4-3/

• GXXTRA Workshop

  Fri 08 Nov 2019

  We went to Shirley Heath Junior school to take part in a writing workshop learning about mystery and suspense. We watched a short video and then wrote our own mystery stories. We learnt the three skills to create suspense; cliffhangers; ellipsis and; varying the length of sentences. The most important thing is 'Show don't tell!'

   

  Niamh has written a lovely brief recount of the visit...

  

• 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.