Dear Families,
What a week it has been! Packed not only with learning but fun community events including Parents’ Evenings and pancake races.
Assembly
The week started with an assembly led by our amazing Reading Ambassadors who told the school all about what was coming up this week for World Book Day! The reading ambassadors should be incredibly proud of the way they led the assembly and communicated to the whole school. This year’s World Book Day theme is all about ‘Read Your Way’ and it was great to learn what this meant and hear from Mr Guilder about how he likes to read and other authors including Bluey and Tom Palmer!
Annual House Pancake Race
Tuesday saw the return of our legendary House Pancake Day races!! Children from across the school were selected to represent their house and run in the races. Our wonderful house captains helped organise it all whilst our teaching team of House Leaders ensured it all went smoothly! I am sure that you could hear the cheering and laughter from outer space. What a fun event this is and a special well done to the children in Salcey House who are this years’ Pancake Day victors!
Parents’ Evening
It was lovely opening our doors to so many families this week as we held our second Parents’ Evening. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to offer a kind word and to support our school. Understanding how your child is progressing at school is really important to us, so if you were unable to attend your appointment, feel that you need to know more or have any questions, please do not hesitate to be in contact with either your child’s class teacher, phase leader or myself who will be more than happy to talk to you.
World Book Day
Thursday was such a special day for us (it always is as we put reading at the centre of everything we do)! Here are just some of the things that we got up to. Please see a page dedicated to the day in our newsletter.
- Year 6 children read with our younger classes in Reception and Year 1
- We had a teacher swap for half an hour
- The author and poet, James Carter – a firm favourite of ours – visited us by Zoom (he actually did this on the 5th) and led inspirational and rather bonkers workshops across the school
- Every child received one of the £1 World Book Day books as a gift from the school
- Year 4 & 5 took part in a live football quiz which was led by the Literacy Trust
- Years 4 & 6 heard from the amazing Ross Mackenzie, who wrote The Nowhere Emporium trilogy. This special virtual visit was organised as part of our work with Positive Footprints and raising aspirations within our Careers and Aspirations Team.
- Year 3, 5 & 6 took part in a BBC Live Lesson, building up to a special live moment when children in schools across the UK read a book they love for 60 seconds all at the same time.
…And we even designed Book Tokens and chatted endlessly about books, books, books!
Smile Mile
I am very thankful to share that our Smile Mile event raised an incredible £763 to go towards our Change Makers’ Appeal (watch this space for information on the structure we can purchase). 
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
EHPS goes out and about!
And have you seen our new addition?… we have a new minibus! We are looking forward to getting out and about on it – please give us a wave if you see us.
Phew – the staff and children deserve a rest after this week. Here’s to the weekend!
See you all on Monday and don’t forget next week is Walk in Wednesday with Spring Crafts and the closing date for Parent Governor nominations is Monday 10th March.
Mrs Pennington