On Tuesday 29^th June, the Year 6 children took part in a transition to secondary school workshop, entitled Embracing Change. The workshop was delivered by two educational mental health practitioners and covered questions around moving to secondary school. Children were shown relaxation techniques and discussed any worries they might have about moving to a new school. At the end of the session, children took their booklets home to complete home tasks linked to the workshop.  

In the week commencing 28^th June, we had the opportunity to talk with Kennedy from the Skint-to-Mint company. We learnt about different financial struggles and different strategies to prevent these difficulties. We also discussed ways to make money in order to provide a better future for ourselves. To add to this, we also played exciting games about money. We all enjoyed this very much! Reported by Ndey and Ruvarashe.

A reminder, if anyone in your family has COVID symptoms they should have a PCR test as soon as possible and everyone else in the household must self-isolate until the test result comes through. If the result is negative, self-isolation can stop. If any child has a positive test result can you please let us know immediately as it will affect the other children and staff in that year group. We will let you know about arrangements for September as soon as we know them. Until the government change their guidelines for school we have to carry on as we are.

In the week beginning 21^st June, each year group held their own individual sports day, which unfortunately we weren’t able to share with parents, due to Covid restrictions. The children participated in the different events that make up our traditional sports day, including a running race, standing long jump and various throwing events, like the javelin and discus. As usual, the children were all able to earn points for their house team and we will be able to report the final results in next week’s newsletter after the final count has been completed.

As part of Sports Week, classes also got involved with a range of activities that they might not normally enjoy, for example in Year 5 the children took part in Just Dance and in Year 3, the children invented their own sports game, which included them having to decide on the rules, select equipment and even teach the game to their friends!

In the week commencing 14^th June, our children learnt about what it might be like to be a refugee in Great Britain. They found out about the struggles a family could come across eg: loss of family members, language barrier as well as housing or food worries. Each class shared what they had learnt in a Zoom assembly on Friday 18^th June and everyone agreed that it had successfully raised awareness across the school.