This week at Pathway 22.4.24

Message from the Executive Headteacher

Welcome to another vibrant edition of our weekly newsletter. With the spring sun gracing our schools this week, our children continue to shine even brighter with their dedication and hard work!
 
It's been a week filled with joyful learning and positive energy, as our children develop their curriculum themes with enthusiasm and curiosity. Time spent in class has shown that children have made brilliant progress this year and this shows no sign of slowing in the summer term. From imaginative storytelling and brilliant writing, to mathematical speed and fluency, achievement and effort radiates from our school community.
 
On Tuesday we held a Full Governing Body meeting at Whittington. Governors met to consider health and safety processes across the Federation, on which Ms Suzanne Warner takes the lead. It’s not one of the more glamourous aspects of school life but it’s a good example of an area in which governors challenge and support to ensure that school leaders are doing what is needed to keep children and staff safe in school. We also updated on our Federation Strategy plan to see that we are on track to achieve the goals that we set ourselves for the first year. We’re all delighted with how this first year of collaboration is going, with best practice in each school being shared to the advantage of all.
 
I’ve been delighted to see some Forest School in action this week. With Whittington’s site now being ready for class use, Badgers and Otters will be getting stuck in next week. In the meantime, Ivy class have had the pleasure of using Morda’s brilliant Forest School to enrich their outdoor learning opportunities.
 
Purposeful silence is being used really nicely in class, with children reporting positively on having time to reflect enjoy a little bit of quiet. Please continue to explore at home!
 
Have a great weekend.
  
 
Mr Carl Rogers
Executive Headteacher
 

Morda                                                                     

It has been another busy week at Morda.
 
Work on the School House is well underway now, so we can’t access the area for the moment. This means we have less space at lunch and break times, but as the weather is improving we hope to be able to get on the school field for lunchtime play very soon. Please make sure your child brings in their PE trainers every day so they can change into them if they are playing on the school field.
 
The Shamrocks class are working hard on their reading, spelling, grammar and maths as we approach the KS2 assessment week. We try to keep this week as stress free as possible for children, and as part of this we will be offering our Year 6s a delicious, nutritious (and free) SATS breakfast during the test week, so that children start the day calm, fuelled and ready to do their best.
 
Some of the classes have been thinking about what is  ‘value for money’ in their PSHE and discussing whether the things we buy are what we really need or just what we want. Children had to make some hard decisions about what they would spend their money on if they were in control of a budget.
 
We say goodbye and good luck to Ms Walker, a trainee teacher in the Roses Class, who has been working with us all term. We wish her well at the start of her teaching career. We are confident she will be a great teacher!
 
In our assemblies this week, we have focused on Compassion and being kind to our ‘neighbours’, whether they were our family, friends in school, people in the local community or our neighbours across the world. We also talked about the importance of forgiveness, how Jesus forgives us and how we need to be forgiving of others. We thought about the importance of saying sorry and showing you mean it by not doing the same thing again,
 
Have a lovely weekend
 
Mrs Helen Chapman
Head of School