We will be having our second Healthy Snack Tuck-shop tomorrow at first and last break.

If you wish your child to purchase a snack please can they bring some pennies in.

Previous bestsellers include:

Cheese portions (15p)

Breadsticks (10p for 2)

Bananas (15p)

Apples(15p)

Low-sugar cereal bars (25p)

Yoghurt tubes (25p)

All the snacks will be prepared and sold by School Council who organised and thought up this scheme. Well done to all of them.

The Healthy Snack Tuckshop will now take place on Thursday, 10th March - this is due to the overlap with the Mothers' Day Pop-Up Shop.

For all parents who have children in Y2 and Y6 this year, we have uploaded some very useful documents onto the website that explain the changes and expectations of the new style SATs tests that your child will be sitting this year.

These documents are to be found under the 'Curriculum' menu and is titled: 'How to help your child at home.'

We would like to point out that these documents are produced by a commercial company and the school in no way endorses the products that this company sells.

Many, many thanks to all of the children who came back after school last night with their pyjamas and sleeping bags for a 'Bedtime Story'.

We had over 70 children come back from KS1 at 5.00pm and the same again for KS2 at 6.00pm. Lovely stories were read by staff and all enjoyed hot chocolate and biscuits at half time.

Huge thanks must also go to Mrs Jones for organising such a lovely reading event, it really shows how much our families and school community value stories and the written word - so very refreshing in this digital age!

Thank you to all the staff and volunteers who helped prepare the hall, make the refreshments and read the stories.

I hope to put some magical photos up on the news page for all to see how fabulous it was. We very much look forward to doing this again next year - Books Rule!

Christingle

We finally counted all the coins donated by our families and can now report that we raised a whopping £241.00 for The Children's Society over the Christmas term.

 Many thanks to everyone who filled a cardboard candle. Your pennies will make a big difference to the lives of young children  who are in need.

After week two, the members of the orchestra feel that they are very keen to participate in the Grantham Music Festival.

The arrangements selected by Mrs Evans are challenging yet achievable with practice and determination.

I have a feeling that we are going to have one fantastic orchestra to show off at the festival.

We will also organise a music night so parents can see the work that has been done.

Well done everyone - keep up the good work!

The School Council have been working very hard to think of ideas how to make us all more healthy.

They have asked if every Friday can now be 'Fruity Friday' where we encourage and reward children for bringing in healthy snacks. I think this is a FABULOUS idea.

We will be launching 'Fruity Friday' this week with a Healthy Snack Tuck-shop which will be available for all pupils in the hall at first break. The School Council members will be selling healthy snack alternatives such as bananas, cheese portions and breadsticks.

From this Friday onwards we will be awarding house points to those who can show us a healthy snack at playtime.

Well done to our School Council for this wonderful idea, let's all give them and our childrens' health our full support!

You may be aware that Smith House was the winner of the race to get the most house points at the end of the Autumn Term.

As a result we have offered the members of Smith house a prize – which is for them to have a non-uniform day.

This will take place on Friday, 15^th January and will ONLY be in place for the children of Smith house.

We send them our congratulations at working so hard to get so many points and we look forward to seeing who will win at the end of this term.