Dear School Family,
We would love to share some exciting, fun adventures that your children have recently been experiencing.
There is nothing better than walking into a classroom and seeing tomatoes being mummified (yr3) or careful thought being given to the classification of animals (yr6)! All our children are certainly on an adventure of learning and are growing in confidence when they are asked to talk about their learning.
Below is a snapshot of some of our church and school adventures from last week.
WHAT IS HAPPENING ON OUR SCHOOL GROUNDS?
This year, we are developing a space on our school field into a Spirituality Garden. Our wish is to design and create a beautiful, contemplative space where children can be calm, relax, reflect and have the opportunity to encounter God. The design will include; seating, pathways, a simple water feature and various sensory herbs and flowers.
Thanks to a plea via Tapestry, we received 6 messages from families who will form a working party over the next 4 weeks offering; manual labour, diggers, planting, advice and expertise as well as free resources. We thank you all in advance as ‘Many hands make light work!’ In addition, we have a strong party of 8 talented and creative volunteers from All Saints' Church (some of whom are currently chopping back trees and digging out the ground for our water feature!). Exciting stuff!
Church Week's theme for 2021 will be "Growing Faith" and will take place between October 18th- 20th, when we hope we can get children and volunteers working together to develop our Spirituality Garden for an official opening on Friday 22nd October.
Our next meeting will take place next Monday 4th October @ 3.30pm on the school field to allocate areas/ jobs on the action plan! If you are available and haven't yet contacted school, please do get in touch via Tapestry. We still need any carpenters to help build seating... so if you know anyone we would love to hear from you!
Kind regards,
Mrs. Noble, Mr. Mc Shane and Sarah Holton (All Saints' Church Children and Families Worker)
In Reception, we have been having a great time! We have been introducing counting activities, phase one phonics and learning how to write our names. This is helping us build our fine motor skills and letter formation.
Mrs Gaynor also loves coming in when we are having our Dough Disco session!!
In our Year 1 topic work we have done so much! We finished our underwater scenes, learned how to log on to the computers and had fun in PE with Mr G.
As part of our Science activity we investigated the human body by drawing around Malik. We have also named the different body parts.
Can you children remember the correct vocabulary?
This week in DT we made out fabric using wet felting. The children loved the process, and seeing how the fibres changed through rubbing with the soap and water. We noticed all the changes to the fabric, and we also made our own designs, choosing how to arrange the colours. After we made the fabric, we decorated some card using collage, then placed our fabric on it, creating a sea scene. Well done Class 2!
In Year 3, Ancient Egyptian mummification has been a highlight. Children have adored writing instructions on how to mummify a deceased pharaoh and a tomato! We even did some Y5 reading comprehension questions about mummification using the READING VIPERS which we were all so super proud of!
Year 4.
What a great start to the new year, we've managed to squeeze so much into a very short space of time! Whether this is diving into our new Roman topic, writing a job application or revisiting our maths skills the children have given it their best shot and should be very proud of themselves.
We have also completed some challenging science work on the digestive system. I wonder if we can all remember the different parts and their function?
During languages day Class 5 were learning to count to ten in Mandarin as Miss Foster’s mum is from Hong Kong. They have also been very busy designing posters naming French food. Class 5 have been remote learning this week but that hasn’t stopped them creating some wonderful pictures and working really hard, Well done Class 5!
This week we got to work digging holes in what was named ‘Camp Field Lake’ by Penny. This experience gave us some empathy with Stanley Yelnats from our novel and helped inspire our writing. Muscle and stamina was in evidence (though I am not convinced they could do it for 18 months, in the desert, like Stanley!). We have also begun to write our “I am” poems. The poems represent who we are as individuals and were created by using lots of mixed media.
International Day of Languages saw classes really immerse themselves into different cultures and languages from around the globe.
Reception celebrated Welsh, Irish, Thai, French, Latin, Russian and even Greek! And of course learnt to speak a little Irish “Dia Duit” (Jay-a Ditch) with our very our Miss Mc Connell! A huge thank you to all the families who contributed sending in videos. From Y2’s Frere Jaques singing in French, to Y3’s Spanish dancing and counting and even those home learning in Y5 hearing from Miss Foster’s mum teaching them to count to 10 in Cantonese, it really was a wonderful day of world celebrations across the school!
Isn’t the world a wonderful place!
From The ‘Awe and Wonder Team’ – Mrs. Daniels and Mrs. Noble
Chester Diocese are coming to film some children in our school!!
Not only have we recently been visited by two bishops but the Educational Team from the Chester Diocese have asked Mrs Gaynor if they can film some of our children while they have a conversation with them about respect and dignity.
This will take place on 13th October. Look out for further news.
See previous articles in the Education Bulletins
https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/5f20800211eb6/content/pages/documents/dbe-schools-bulletin-june-2021.pdf = page 8
https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/5f20800211eb6/content/pages/documents/dbe-schools-bulletin-school-news-edition-june-2021.pdf = p12-17
Our fantastic annual Book Fair will be arriving in school this Thursday 30th September! The Book Fair is a great opportunity to get the children excited about reading and to involve them in choosing their own books. In addition, the more books we sell, the more free books we will receive for our school library. See the Tapestry post for the date for each class.
Being a Parent Together workshops this autumn
Virtual Bitesize 90 minute Taster Session - 4th October 10.30am
Virtual evening workshop (2 hours for 9 weeks, Term time only) Starting 12th October
For co-parents of children aged 2 - 11 years who attend together, are living together / in a relationship or not
For more information TEL: 0161 406 9558 Email: admin.epec@stockport.gov.uk
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear Wonderful School Family,
Thank you again for the many people who have expressed how thrilled they are with their child’s 2021-2022 Teaching Team. The staff are equally as excited to be achieving many more goals and making memories with your special children.
On Wednesday 30th June, we will be officially celebrating being awarded the Church School Partnership Award. Sarah Holton has been extremely busy organising the special service which will be hosted from All Saints’ church with a few church and community members. Each class will be zooming into the celebration and will be taking part in the service. We are honoured to be welcoming Chris Penn, our Diocese Director of Education and Jen McIlveen, our Diocese CPD officer who will be expressing how impressed they are that we took a risk in the middle of a pandemic to evidence our partnership and complete the application process. We are the only school to have done so during this time and are the first school in the Chester Diocese to have achieved this award. Chris Penn has a special surprise for our school which he will share with us on the day. Mrs Morton will also be at the church joining in with the service. She’s so excited and very proud of our whole school family.
Following the service, Chris and Jen will be visiting our school to be taken on a tour by Mrs Gaynor and Alan Bailey who is our Chair of Governors. Not only will the children be encouraged to continue with their exciting learning but they will also receive a personal word of praise and thanks from Chris Penn and Alan Bailey.
Please see the June Diocese Bulletin http://www.chester.anglican.org/content/pages/documents/dbe-schools-bulletin-school-news-edition-june-2021.pdf where we have been featured and we hope to get an article in one of the local newspapers.
As a brief update, when Mrs Morton returns, she will be working from Wednesday to Friday.
The All Saints' Team
WELCOME MRS KING
After a rigorous recruitment process, we are delighted to announce that Mrs King will be joining our wonderful team and will be the Yr1 teacher from September 2021. She has a wide range of experiences including EYFS and KS1 and we are sure she will enhance All Saints’ further. A huge thank you to Mr Bailey and Mrs Woodgate; the Chair of Governors and Resources Chair who dedicated their time, support and wealth of knowledge to support Mrs Noble and I in this process.
OUTGROWN UNIFORM
You will know that Outgrown Uniform has served our families exceptionally well over the years. Sarah Taylor who has managed this for a number of years will now not be able to continue with it after this academic year.
We have very much appreciated her innovative ideas, time, commitment and dedication. She has been absolutely amazing and this resource has been so valuable to our school. An enormous THANK YOU for everything she has done over the years and for managing Outgrown Uniform with such enthusiasm.
Please read Sarah’s message below:
“Hello uniform fans, I am looking for volunteers! This will be my last school year running the Outgrown Uniform scheme. So please get in touch if you have a little spare time (it doesn’t take much), if you have some storage space and would like to get involved.
Until the end of term I will keep selling the uniform I’ve got in stock but I won’t be taking in any more donations for the time being.”
If anyone is at all interested, please get in touch with Sarah Taylor.
A HUGE THANK YOU to all of you for supporting this charity. We have raised £207.40.!!
As part of our celebrations for Brenda Beardwood, the Ethos Group researched about a charity close to Brenda’s heart- Potter’s Village in Uganda, Africa. All children in school heard about the wonderful work that Potter’s Village charity does to help babies and orphaned children in crisis who have no other chance of survival. Potter’s Village seeks to provide a home where God’s love is lived out within a Christian context. For further information, please see their website; https://www.pottersvillage.org.uk/
VEGPOWER
Taylor Shaw have signed up to be part of the national vegpower scheme.
Each week, Veg Power are asking school caterers to lay out tasty sample dishes of each weeks’ veg. There are stickers to reward the children who give them a try.
GOVERNORS OF THE WEEK – ALI HOLMES & DARYL McSHANE
ALI HOLMES
MY GOVERNOR ROLE::
As a Co-opted Governor, All Saints Primary School has been a huge part of my life for 9 years now with both my children attending the school. My youngest left 2 years ago, moving on to Marple Hall School, and I was fortunate enough to remain as a co-opted governor when my parent governor term ended in Dec 2019.
A RECENT VISIT:
I was lucky enough to visit the school during Active week and what a great experience that was! The energy and enthusiasm from all pupils, staff and visitors was amazing! I could clearly see the ‘bubbles’ working to meet with Covid restrictions, but more importantly the feeling around the school was electric! It was great to see so many children enjoying the new running track and experiencing lots of different activities - truly uplifting.
ENCOURAGING WORDS:
As we slowly and safely come out of national and local restrictions, I look forward to seeing All Saints pupils active in the community again; making the most of the beautiful area we live in. Onwards and upwards!
DARYL McSHANE
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
I decided to join the Governing body initially to see behind the scenes, to be a voice for the school staff and also to support the Headteacher. As the years have passed I think I am still doing that but now have a much greater appreciation of how a collective unit works to ensure that our school functions well.
I am a Co-opted Governor and member of the Resources Committee and have been since 2019. In my role I have been involved in the recruitment of many staff, presented various policies and helped to steer the direction of our wonderful school.
It is vitally important to me that we get the balance right in school, for instance making memories v academic rigour, and it is encouraging that our Governing body have a shared value for education, a place where everyone is encouraged to be the best that they can be, and a place where children can grow and develop. The wellbeing of all is carefully considered and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of all is fostered within a Christian environment.
I enjoy listening to and learning from the expertise we have on our Governing body; for which we are very lucky. I work in the classroom every day and to see things from altered viewpoints, be it different school settings, the Church, parents and many other voices of reason is fascinating and challenges your own thinking.
ENCOURAGING WORDS:
The journey of a school is never straight forward; we are constantly faced with challenge, change and sometimes we have to be creative in our problem solving. The past two years have been like no other. To cope with the Covid pandemic without a blueprint to follow was difficult, but everybody in our school family has pulled together and we will come out stronger from this. I can’t wait to have all the children back in our school hall together for Collective Worship, to invite parents on site to share our learning and to have a celebration together again up at Church – it will happen!
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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EVENT |
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| Thursday 1st July |
MHS Transition Day and All Saints’ Transition Time in the morning. |
| 9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor