Year 6 have arrived safely and are having lunch. After lunch, they will be getting ready for their first activity, scaling a climbing wall and using team work to ascend Jacob’s Ladder!’
 

Year 6 took part in the vertical challenge, abseiling and canoeing on day 2! They were even able to jump in the water! 

We will be posting updates and photos from school journey here so you can keep up with the fun!

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s theme is ‘Managing anxiety’. Lots of things can make us feel anxious. For children & young people, it could be something at home, issues with friends, exams or leaving school. Not addressed, anxiety can become worse but there are ways to manage it. There are some guided mindfulness resources on The Free Mindfulness Project website you might want to try!

Additional teacher strike days have been confirmed for Thursday 27th April and Tuesday 2nd May, when National Education Union (NEU) teachers will be striking at both national and regional level, in protest of teachers’ pay and conditions and school funding.

The following classes will be open on these days:

• Nursery: Gold (27th April only)
• Reception: Mulberry (both days)
• Year 1: Beech (both days)
• Year 2 Oak and Rowan (both days)
• Year 3 Elm (both days)
• Year 5 Palm (27th April only)
• Year 6 Holly, Hazel and Cherry (both days)

Arrangements have been made with Chartwells, our school meals provider, to provide vouchers for those children entitled to a benefit related free school meal whose classes will be closed due strike action. Vouchers can be collected from the school office between 8am and 1pm on each of the strike days. A hot lunch will be provided for children who receive a school meal and whose classes remain unaffected by the strike.

Breakfast and Afterschool Forest Club will be on for those children whose classes remain open. After school activities will be cancelled on these days and rescheduled for a later date.