This Week at Pathway 20/11/23

Message from the Executive Headteacher

Our last week of term before hitting the month of December! We’re doing a wonderful in our schools of keeping learning focused as the festive season approaches. There is no doubt that things begin to get more Christmassy from next week!

In each school, there will be plenty of Christmas events to enjoy so please do take some time to consider the dates shared by each school so that everything is in your diary.

This week has featured more Federation activity than others this term as we instigated school visits for staff and a shared Professional Development Meeting for teachers. Two members of Whittington staff visited Morda this week to get a taste of ‘The Morda Way’ and were glowing in their feedback about the school. They commented on the welcoming atmosphere, the conduct of the children and the ‘above and beyond’ efforts of the staff. We will look forward to arranging more visits for staff to visit our schools.

During Wednesday’s Professional Development Meeting, subject leaders met to discuss action plans for this year and ideas for working together. The discussion was rich and purposeful and gives me cause for optimism about improved opportunities for our children.

Teachers then met their age-group counterparts (e.g. Conker class (Whittington) and Shamrocks (Morda)) to compare standards in books and to discuss way of working together.

Feedback from staff was very positive. What a brilliant team we have!

Enjoy the weekend, and bring on the Advent calendars next week!

Mr Carl Rogers
Executive Headteacher

Message from the Head of School

This week Shamrocks Class completed the Lions club of Great Britain 'Roar' competition. This is a programme for Primary Schools designed to give a platform to young people be innovators and entrepreneurs. The challenge was to think big and positively and design products which could change the world. Year 6 worked in teams to design, produce and market innovative products to improve our lives. The children thought up and designed some amazing prototype products. They worked collaboratively and their ‘Dragons Den’ style pitches were fantastic! This programme was generously funded by the Oswestry Lions Club. The winning Morda entry, by AJ Jones, Kia James and Mike Jones has gone forward into the national competition.

We held another successful Parent Open morning this week. Prospective pupils and their parents enjoyed looking around the school and seeing great work. Morda and Whittington staff had a productive shared staff meeting on Wednesday evening where subject leaders had the opportunity to exchange ideas and work together.

Art club (which meets on a Tuesday after school) have produced a beautiful exhibition of collage art inspired by sacred depictions of the baby Jesus and Mother Mary. The art is displayed in the Steam Room.

As the season of advent begins next week, we are all looking forward to the Christmas celebrations at school. We have already begun learning Christmas carols and working towards our Christmas nativity service which will be held at St Oswald's Church on the 13th of December. This is always a wonderful event and we look forward to welcoming parents to the festive service.

Mrs Helen Chapman
Head of School