Message from the Executive Headteacher
The first full week of term has been an especially productive one. Learning has been focused as children get into exciting new curriculum themes for this term. All parents should be able to access newsletters and/or Knowledge Organisers giving details of what children will be learning during the spring term. This term, we have begun to align our approaches to Collective Worship. In each school, a values-focused worship will begin the week on a Monday. In this worship children will be issued with a challenge to focus their thoughts on our school values. At the end of the week, on a Friday, schools will end the day on a high with our Celebration Worship, at which, children who have gone ‘Above and Beyond’ in their learning and have given particular consideration to our values and the challenges of the week, will be recognised with special rewards. This is all in keeping with our relational approach to behaviour management. We want to reward fantastic behaviour when we see it and to ensure that children who work hard, behave well and do their best in school are given the positive recognition that they deserve. Pozzy Notes, certificates, awards from staff, #HotChocFriday and more are all part of this way of working. In each school this term, we are making a special effort to ‘Be Smart’ in our appearance and actions. ’Be Smart’ Week at Morda has seen children looking great in uniform and children at Whittington have been giving thought to how they move around the building and school site safely and with consideration for others. We are never going to be the kinds of school who insist on silent corridors or a particular colour of hair-bobble, but we do have very high standards for our children in the things that matter! Have a great weekend. Mr Carl Rogers Executive Headteacher Morda This week has been ‘Be Smart Week’ and after the dressing up and festive jumpers of the holiday period, it has been fantastic to see our children looking super smart in their Morda uniforms. Children have been collecting raffle tickets every time they have come to school in the correct uniform and tomorrow we will announce the winning children and the winning class. There will be prizes for both! Of course we want this smartness to continue – so there will be ‘spot prizes’ and Pozzy notes over the coming term for children who are looking smart and ready for their learning. All this term, we will be focusing on being ready for our learning by moving smartly around school. We will be noticing children who more around school in a smart sensible way and show they are ready for their learning. Our theme for collective worship this week is one of our values: ‘Fairness’. Children have been challenged to think about fairness not necessarily being everyone getting the same, but everyone getting what they need to succeed. We have been looking at stories Jesus told that illustrate fairness. All the classes have been launching into their new topics: Journey to the Moon in the Bluebells; The Swinging Sixties in the Daffodils; The Roman Invasion of Britain in the Roses and Tudor Shrewsbury in the Shamrocks. Check out the website for more information. You can download your child’s class Knowledge Organisers from the website, these contain all the main learning of the term and can be used as revision aids. The Daffodils had a fun and informative Fire Safety session with a visitor from the Fire Service. They learned how to stay safe and what to do in the unlikely event that a fire did happen. Our computing teaching is going well at school: Year 6 are designing websites; Roses are learning to edit photos; Daffodils are learning to create branching data bases and Bluebells are grouping data. The children are becoming computing wizzes! Wishing you a lovely weekend. Mrs Helen Chapman Head of School
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