Welcome back. We hope you have had a good half term break. The second half of our Spring term has started in its usual busy fashion.
We began the week with a CAFOD Big Fish assembly (full details on Mr Cunningham’s Blog) to help raise money to help families in Zambia. Children will have brought the money boxes home this week for any loose change your family and friends may have and we shall be collecting money through a year 6 fundraising activity. Details to follow early next week.
Monday also saw the start of our Mock SAT’s week. The children have worked so hard this week and we have definitely seen a more positive and resilient attitude in their approach to these tests. As I am sure you are aware, the ARE expectation of the new curriculum is aimed at a much higher standard than in previous years, therefore we would encourage parents/carers to continue to support your child in their preperation for these tests.
Wednesday saw the start of Lent and children took part in an Ash Wednesday service with Father Jeremy and Father Vitalis. The children have also been reflecting on their Lenten promises. Please find attached our weekly lent newsletter.
On Thursday, World Book Day saw some fabulous costumes from the children and a welcome respite from the busy start to the week. Every child was issued with a book voucher and mini books were given out aswell.
Today ended with a visit from two authors – The Two Steves. http://the2steves.net/
Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore have written around 200 books including many popular fiction series like Action Dogs, Challenger, iHero, iHorror, Mad Myths, Vernon Bright and The Dark Forest.
Year 6 children really enjoyed a noisy afternoon, wearing embarrassing costumes with lots of audience participation. It is well worth looking at their books as the children became very involved with the plots.
A great way to end our first week back!
Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 6 Team