A joyful Happy Easter to all our friends and families, do have a great break. We look forward to welcoming everyone back after the holidays.

Work Party

We will be gathering at school on Thursday April 9th for a work party to improve the Nursery/EYFS Garden. We have all sorts of plans afoot but need some strong and willing workers to help out. Come along to school from 10:00 a.m. If you are handy do bring along tools. Even if you are not handy, do come along and we will find work for you to do! There is a second work party planned for the Tuesday focussing on gardening and on painting pallets so they can be used for the more construction based jobs. I believe that work party is being coordinated through the WhatsApps so do look out for messages there.

Bug Hotels

After Oak Classes trip to Powderham to build a bug hotel last week, this Tuesday it was Willow’s turn. The short walk down to the Riding School felt like a jolly long way for some of our smaller people but they held it together and we got there to eat our packed lunches in one piece. We had a great time filling up our bug hotel with leaves, pine cones, twigs, bamboo tubes and all sorts to create sheltered living places for a whole variety of mini beasts.  One junior farmer even showed us how to get the string off a hay bale with predictable results – there was hay EVERYWHERE! I hope to pop back in a few weeks and see the place teeming with bugs.

Book Fair

Thanks to Mrs Best for organising our Scholastic Book Fayre which ran after school on Monday and Tuesday. I’ve seen a lot of children around who look very happy with their purchases! I understand the QR system wasn’t great due to the flaky Kenton mobile signal – we would need a better option for a other year I think.

May Day

Another call to put the date for our May Day Bank Holiday celebration in your diaries and to invite grannies and grandpas, aunties, uncles, friends and neighbours. There’ll be pizza, a barbecue, morris dancers, owls, circus and all sorts of fun, plus, of course, the legendary may pole dancing. Do not miss it.

We are collecting toys for a big bring and buy so do clear your attics. Speak to Heather if you can spare and hour or two to help out on the day.

We the Curious

Chestnut Class had a terrific day at We The Curious in Bristol. They had an amazing time working with chemicals to create different colours, experienced and planetarium and got hands on with all sorts of other fascinating scientific adventures. Thank you to Mr Keirle for all that organising and driving, it must have been a long and exhausting day but it looks like it was well worth it.

Gymnastics Club

Mr Tyrell’s brilliant Thursday Morning Gymnastics Club finished their term in style this morning by giving the whole school a performance of what they have been working on. There were back bends, flick flacks, cartwheels and who knows what all. Every child was a superstar and it would be wrong to pick any out in particular but I am going to give special mentions to Mollie for confident leadership, Grace for extraordinary bendiness and Robyn for being a smiling superstar. It was a lovely way to start our last morning of the term and at least one of us adults had a tear in our eye as we reflected on the bravery and brilliance of our pupils.

That’s all for now – have a wonderful Easter Break and see you soon everyone.

Best wishes,

Ed Finch (head teacher)