Headteacher's News Archive

This week is our story writing week when the children get the opportunity to plan and write a long story over a few days. I have seen some of the children’s plans and I am looking forward to reading some fabulous stories at the end of the week. Yesterday children’s author Paul Coussins visited the school to talk to the children about how to turn ideas into a really good story. Next week some of our Year 4 children are … Continue Reading

Welcome back everyone! I hope that everybody had a great holiday, I am certainly looking forward to the new term as we have a lot of exciting things happening. To begin, next week is Story Writing Week which is organised by Mrs Levy our Literacy coordinator. It is also the start of our Reading Challenge. Children in Years 2 to 6 can win prizes by completing tasks related to books that they read. I am looking forward to hearing about how … Continue Reading

Please remember that school finishes for Christmas at 2:30 on Friday 20th December and that the new term begins on Tuesday 7th January at 8:55. On behalf of the school may I wish all our families a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

This is an exciting week with our Infant children performing their Nativity plays to parents and with Father Christmas being with us all week. Next week it is the turn of the Juniors who will be performing to parents on Thursday 19th December at 2:00. Also on the 19th our school and staff choirs will be performing at St Alphage church at 6:00. School finishes for the Christmas holidays on Friday 20th December at 2:30 and the new term starts … Continue Reading

Following our recent Outstanding Ofsted inspection report we have had a number of different schools, one as far away as Suffolk, telephoning us to see if their teachers could visit Barnfield to see what we are doing. Some of the comments of the teachers include, ‘lovely to see such well behaved children,’ and ‘the children are brilliant, they are so polite and motivated.’ This Friday our local Member of Parliament Matthew Offord is visiting. Our sports teams are in action … Continue Reading

On Monday we will be starting to get into the Christmas spirit when a pantomime visits the school. This has become a yearly event, this year the children will be watching a performance of Aladdin. We had a visitor to our assemblies today, Jessica from the charity that we are supporting this year, Whizz Kidz came to talk to our children about the charity’s work. We have been contacted by our local Member of Parliament, Matthew Offord who has asked … Continue Reading

It was certainly a busy week last week with the after school galleries and Music Day with its Lion King theme. It was also interesting to see all the different clothes that the children wore to school on Children In Need Day! They raised an amazing £448 pounds! Added to the money they raised on Jeans Day it means that the children have raised nearly £1000 so far for our school charity Whizz Kidz which supports children with disablilities which … Continue Reading

Don’t forget that Friday is non uniform day which we are holding to support this year’s school charity Whizz Kidz. If children bring £1 to school they don’t have to wear school uniform. Friday is also our Music Day which Miss Coussins is organising. If you have any old school PE kits at home then Miss Saberwal would be pleased to have them as we need a few spare kits. On Remembrance Day all our children from Year 1 to … Continue Reading

Our School Council have decided that on Children in Need day we will support our school charity, Whizz Kidz which supports children with disabilities by holding a non uniform day. Children can wear their own clothes to school if they bring £1 to school to support the charity. Remember the day is Friday 15th November.

Our Creative Week was great fun! If you want to see some of the results then come along to the Infant Hall on Tuesday 12th and Thursday 14th November at the end of the school day. Miss Biggs, our Art coordinator who organised the week will be displaying some of the children’s work. Nursery and Years 1,3 and 5 will be displaying on the Tuesday and Reception and Years 2,4 and 6 on the Thursday. Our next big curriculum event … Continue Reading