Macmillan Assembly. On Friday 21^st October, Mary Weavers (from Macmillan) joined our assembly via a video link to say thank you to the children (and parents) for all of the money that we raised (£500.88) at our recent coffee morning. Mary explained to the children how the money helps people with cancer and showed us round the Macmillan centre, which is designed to help people with other aspects of their life that may be affected by cancer eg: finances, hair loss and emotional support.

 

Parents in Reception:        On Thursday 20^th October, Reception held a lovely parents morning to learn about Read Write Inc and to celebrate Diwali.  Parents were invited to participate in a lesson to learn the letter r, they got to meet Fred and practised their Fred talk.  After this, everyone enjoyed learning about Diwali; this included making clay diva lamps, sweet making, window decorations and learning the story of Rama and Sita. The morning was finished off with everyone enjoying some celebratory food including onion bhajis, mango chutney and poppadoms , which were definitely the favourite! Thank you to all the parents that came.  A wonderful time was had by all! 

 

On Monday 17^th October, Year 6 took part in a workshop with the Mental Health in Schools Team. This involved learning all about changes that we could and couldn't control and provided different strategies for coping with these changes. The children participated fully in discussions during this session and were very sensible when sharing their ideas. One key change that children wanted to learn more about was moving to secondary school and the team were able to provide them with some coping methods for dealing with this transition when they move schools next September.