Friday 17th April 2026
While the events of Tuesday were understandably frightening for many of our children, we continue to be incredibly proud of how calmly and responsibly they responded to the situation. We would also like to thank the local community once again for the kindness, patience, and support shown to us during the evacuation, which was greatly appreciated by staff and pupils alike. Children’s wellbeing remains our priority, and next week we will continue to offer additional support and opportunities for children to talk through their feelings if they need to. The Newdale Cup this week has gone to everyone in school as they very much deserve a special treat within their classes next week.
Achievers of the week:
Year 6 achievers: Niya’h for her fantastic attitude to learning in every lesson. Aidan for amazing progress in maths and writing :)
Year 5 achievers: Jacob for a fantastic effort in Literacy and an overall brilliant attitude towards his learning this week. Ben for his kindness, support and maturity this week, checking in and helping friends.
Year 4 achievers: Ezra for fantastic attitude to learning this week and being respectful to others. Ted for impressive understanding of time in Maths and an overall positive attitude to learning.
Year 3 achievers: Emilia for always being wonderful and for outstanding use of persuasive language in writing all week, I have definitely been persuaded to buy your Roman Villa! Noor for always being kind and respectful to others and returning to school with a fantastic attitude to learning.
Year 2 achievers: Amelie for making positive choices, being kind and respectful. She has had a fantastic attitude to learning and we are so proud of her! Iris for her hard work in literacy with her handwriting and proof-reading. What an improvement this week!
Year 1 achievers: Miss Lowe’s achiever for super listening, reading and writing. He is making us very proud. Frankie-Leigh for always working hard and trying his best in all his lessons.
Year R achievers: Elena for super listening, being a sensible, helpful and brave member of the class. Cohan for being ready, respectful, safe and kind. He has made adults really impressed this week.
Readers of the week – these children were entered into our weekly reading raffle:
Year 6 readers: Alexey for his interesting review of his current reading book. Ria for her engaging, detailed comments while reading a series of detective books.
Year 5 readers: Mr Jackson’s reader for daily, detailed comments about her mystery book. Nathan for always sharing amazing facts he has learnt from his books and giving detailed descriptions.
Year 4 readers: Mr Stubbs’ Star reader is Elva for reading regularly throughout the Easter break. Maya for a fantastic VIPERS response and for her detailed comments about her book.
Year 3 readers: Mayra for going above and beyond in her reading diary with what she writes. Tobias for trying really home to read at home and recording it in his diary.
Year 2 readers: Gabriella for going above and beyond with her reading at home. Eri for all her hard work and reading at home!
Year 1 readers: Lucas for his consistent amazing reading at home! Frankie-Leigh for keeping up his reading even when he was unwell and attempting to read some of his sister’s Harry Potter book during the easter holidays.
Mr Banfield = 97.76%
Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6
Mrs Arthurs = 98.92%