Headmaster's Message

Headmaster's Message

Dear Parents

I hope you have all enjoyed the amazing weather over the last few days. It has been good to see some families taking the opportunity to ride bikes and scooters to school. There is a bike shelter located by the field and this is available for all pupils to store bikes safely during the day.

Many thanks from me to the staff who put together the information sessions earlier in the week on our online learning platforms. I hope parents found these useful and they are still available to view via a link from this week’s newsletter. Online learning is only one aspect of our curriculum delivery, but these platforms can supplement the learning in class in a way that is fun and accessible. We have two further information sessions planned for later this month, on the da Vinci awards programme (23 Sept at 7.00pm) and the teaching of phonics in the early years (29 September, also at 7.00pm). I do hope you will be able to attend one or both of these meetings.

As I have mentioned in a previous newsletter, one of our main school targets this year is to embed self-regulation in children’s learning. We want them to take responsibility for their own work and set high standards for themselves. With this in mind, we have our first learning mentor meetings next Friday, where the children from Year 1 to Year 6 will meet with a member of staff to agree on a set of simple targets to aspire to as the year progresses. This will be followed up with meetings later in the year to monitor progress and re-think targets. We do hope your children will embrace this new initiative and that it will have a positive impact on their learning.

Many of our Year 6s are off to Princethorpe this weekend and their parents can watch a welcome from College Headmaster, Ed Hester, in the Events section.

Have a great weekend and let’s hope the beautiful weather stays with us for a few more days.
 
Joe Thackway
Headmaster