It has been a marvellous start to our learning at Morda!
Bluebells Class: The new Reception children have settled in well. They certainly feel like part of the Morda family. It has been lovely to meet our new families at the beginning and end of the day. Please take time to have a chat with us on the gate. Year 1s are looking very grown up and helping the new children. There has been lots of lovely outdoor learning in our outdoor area and children have begun to find out about the recent past before they were born and their family history. Daffodils Class: The Daffodils Class are already well underway with their intrepid (drama) expedition to the South Pole with Ernest Shackleton. Ask them about their adventures so far! The year 2s have settled in brilliantly and love looking after the class stick insect! Roses Class: In the Roses Class, our team of archaeologists have already discovered a Paleolithic cave painting on their archaeological investigation. Their writing describing their discovery is truly inspirational! Year 4s are well established and enjoying their learning and looking after Bubbles the fish! Shamrocks Class: The pupils in Shamrocks are really setting the tone for fantastic behaviour and learning. They have been great role models around school. Shamrocks have begun their history topic about the fascinating Ancient Islamic Civilization. After initial teething problems, we seem to be up and running with our new IT system. Our delicious school meals (brought in fresh from Whittington) are going well. Children are enjoying their dinners. Parent Pay is now up and running. If you have any issues please contact our lovely admin team: Laura, Amanda or Eva. It has been great to have Mr Rogers input. He is introducing Pozzy Notes and #HotChocFriday this week. I’m sure the children will tell you all about that! I’m delighted to be in my new role as Head of School and look forward to a fantastic year. Mrs Helen Chapman (Head of School )
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Message from the Executive Headteacher
What a brilliant first two weeks at Pathway Primary Federation! I’ve had the pleasure of spending time in both of our schools and have seen so much to celebrate. The way in which the children have come back to classes after the summer holidays has been really impressive. Children have been focused in their learning and getting into good habits early in the year. My challenge to the children has been to set the tone for the year through their actions in these early days. They have taken up the task with a remarkable energy! This puts us all in a great position to make this year an incredible one for learning and memorable experiences. As we begin this journey as a family of schools, I have been heartened and enthused by the support and challenge that we have been receiving from our school communities. Staff have begun to work together across the two schools with some exciting opportunities planned for the children in the near future. We’ll look forward to communicating these soon. At Morda, my priorities are to learn names and to get used to daily routines and ways of working. The children are doing a super job in testing me on their names and I’m getting used to Morda routines, as I aim to be more help than hindrance to staff! My thanks to all for making me so welcome. This newsletter will be provided each week to let everyone in our school communities know some of the brilliant things that are happening in our schools. Have a wonderful weekend. Mr Carl Rogers Executive Headteacher On Monday 12th June , Councillor Bennett from the Oswestry Rural Parish Council presented every child from Morda Primary School with a specially commissioned King Charles III Commemorative Coin. The children were delighted with their coin and it will be a special keepsake of an incredibly special historical day.
Here is a photograph of the presentation to our school presidents. We had a wonderful day of celebrations for the coronation of King Charles III including lots of wonderful dressing up, lessons in class, a coronation re-enactment assembly and a delicious party tea. Here are some photos of our classes dressed up - more pictures to follow tomorrow. Mrs C : )
After last year's World Book Day Masked Reader Event and the Autumn term Morda Reading Cafe - Mrs Jones our Reading Champion had a lot to live up to - but she did us proud organising a wonderful shared reading 'Book Blast'.
The event really was a blast! Younger children loved being read to by older children. Children in the Daffodils Class also took part in a World Book Day on-line reading event and we had a special World Book Day assembly. Here's Mrs Jones's review of a wonderful World Book Day and some fab photos - just look at how engaged those readers are! To celebrate World Book Day we held an event in the library, with pupils in years 5 and 6 choosing a book to share with the pupils in Bluebells Class. After practising reading the books and thinking of ways to involve the younger pupils in the books, the pupils from Shamrocks and Roses class shared their books with confidence and enthusiasm. Bluebells Class enjoyed being read to in the library and they all want to do this again! The school governors, Mrs Leach and Mrs Shaw, came in to see the event and to help. Well done to everyone involved! Mrs H. Jones (Morda Book Champion). Thank you to everyone who joined in with the FOMs Half Term Activity - all money raised will be put towards future school trips.
This week is our Sleep/ Wellbeing Week. Mrs Edwards has organised some lovely restful wellbeing activities for the week and we will all be learning about how to stay safe online this week. Our Sleep Week diary of events can be found below. Please also check out the National Centre for Children and Families Talking Mental Health PowerPoint.
Key dates for your diary:
13th - 17th February - Sleep & Emotional Wellbeing Week. 6th -10th March - Year 5 at Arthog. 29th March - Easter Service at St Oswald's Parish Church, all parents & carers invited. 9th - 12th May - Year 6 SAT's. 3rd - 5th July - Year 6 High School transition days. 19th July - Summer Leavers Service at St Oswald's Parish Church , all parents & carers invited. Welcome back to a new year and an exciting new term.
Thank you to everyone who attended our Christmas service and for the generous donations to The Children's Society We hope you enjoyed the wonderful retelling of the Christmas story from the point of view of the Christmas Star and the lovely singing and instrumental performances in the service. The children made a great start to the spring term last week There will be a history focus in all the classes this term with children in the Bluebells finding out about the Great Fire of London; the Daffodils about the intrepid men and women who made first flights; the Roses Class will be finding out about the Roman Invasion and Settlement in Britain and the Shamrocks will be studying World War 2 in Oswestry. There will be lots of Mantle of the Expert drama work to bring these historical periods to life. Of course there will also be the full range of other subjects. Science will be focusing on chemistry ( materials and their properties ) and already the Roses are well in to their DT project making a sling shot car. Teachers have been busy planning great art, RE , PSHE and PE lessons for this term. This term year 5s will visit Arthog a children take part lots of wellbeing and relaxation activities as part of our Living Well : Sleep Well week at the end of the February half term. We are all looking forward to a fantastic 2023 Mrs C and Mr E Olivia Lewis was delighted to be asked to help switch on the Oswestry Christmas Lights bringing Christmas cheer to Oswestry - See the lovely festive pictures below.
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March 2024
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