Growing In Faith and Learning
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It has been very busy in school this week, with Celebration Assemblies for Owls, Kestrels and Falcons. The children enjoyed the opportunity to show their Bangra dances and some of their work to their parents/carers. See previous news item for details of the awards given.
On Wednesday the Reception children enjoyed a morning at Polesworth Abbey where they took part in the 'Living Nativity' story.
Thursday was 'Dress as an elf' day and the children looked fantastic in their costumes. They even had a special visit from Santa and all received a present. In the afternoon it was great to welcome parents, carers and grandparents into school for our carol-sing-a-long on the playground.
Our Talent Show was a great success and proves once again that St Leonards School really does have talent. The children especially enjoyed the dance performance by the teachers and teaching assistants. Well done to everyone that took part and a special congratulations to our winners:
Robins: Lilly Hill and Archie Statham for singing.
Kingfishers: Cameron Hunter, Danny Powell, Noah Lowery & Gabriel Ward for singing.
Owls: Monty Gambrell & Beau Holder for singing and Jessica Wildes for dancing.
Kestrels: Holly Sutton, Jessica Byrne and Yasmin Turner for dancing together, and Conor Hopwood for dancing.
Falcons: Maddison Fernyhough & Nerys Moseley for playing the keyboard.
Friday afternoon the children really enjoyed going to the Castle Grounds to watch the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk. It was a lovely end to a very busy week.
Please have a look at the gallery page for lots of photos from the week.
It has been a very busy week, starting with Celebration Assemblies for Owls, Kestrels and Falcons. Well done to everyone who received a certificate.
Owls
Super Listener: Elsa Blackwood
English Award: Tabitha Blackwood
Super Scientist: Zac Goodwin
Super Organised: Grace Cooke
History Expert: Eliza Tall
Most Responsible: Freya Henderson
Excellent Homework: Emily Griffiths
Maths Award: Demi Bonnard
Head Teacher Award: Monty Gambrell
Osprey Awards: Breakfast club - Mazie Tedd, After school club - Laila Smith.
Kestrels
Super Organised: Neeve Finney
Never Gives Up: Alice Coats
History Expert: Vinny Fernyhough
Maths Magician: Harry Southall
Most Responsible: Evie Cover
Excellent Homework: Holly Sutton
MFL Expert: Conor Hopwood
Super Listener: Oscar Kinsella
English Award: Oliver Macey
Super Scientist: David Drew
Head Teacher Award: Jessica Byrne & Vinny Fernyhough
Osprey Awards: Breakfast club - Ruby Sadler, After school club - Conor Hopwood.
Falcons
Maths Magician: Shae Finney
English Award: Eve Boyle
Super Organised: Ellie-Beth Henderson
RE: Marcus Goodwin
Bookworm: Bethany Cooke
Marvellous Musician: Sophie Horton
Forest Schools: Jacob Bryan, Ben Wildes & Francis Luke.
Head Teacher Award: Bethany Cooke
Osprey Awards: Breakfast club - Jacob Bryan.
We also gave out Bronze Award certificates to those children that have kept all of their Golden Time for this half term.
It has been a very busy week in school with lots going on. Thank you to everyone who attended our KS2 carol service in church on Tuesday and our KS1 nativity performances on Wednesday. The children did an amazing job and looked great in their costumes.
As part of Kestrels Stone Age to Iron Age topic the children visited Sarehole Mill on Wednesday. They had a great day finding out lots of interesting facts and enjoyed creating their own artwork. Please take a look at the Gallery page for photos.
We took the choir to M & S at Ventura on Thursday morning where they entertained the shoppers with a selection of carols and Christmas songs. Thank you to all of the children that took part and also to the parents and grand parents that came along to show their support.
The hall was very busy on Thursday when all of the children sat together for their Christmas dinner. They all looked great wearing the hats they'd made earlier in the week. Photos will be added to the gallery soon.
Today was Christmas Maths Day for all of the classes. The children enjoyed a variety of Christmas themed activities, from creating parabolic curves and 3D crackers, to plotting coordinates, cracking codes, helping Santa out of a maze and using their estimation and prediction skills.
We have also held celebration assemblies for both Robins and Kingfishers class. Well done to everyone who received a certificate.
Robins
Mark Making & Grip Award: Edwin Silempa, Beau Smith, Finley Hunter, Archie Statham & Jacob Cooke.
Good Friend Award: Rosy Bird, Bryony Trower & Isla Costin.
Lovely Listening Award: Alfie Macbeth, Asher Weatherall, Sara Luke, James Flanagan & Joshua White.
Kindness Award: Delilah Cope-Hall, Lacey Morgan, Angel-Lea Warren, Adelaide Holder & Lilly Hill.
Reading Award: Grace Tregaskis & Maisie Stevens.
Forest Schools: Edwin Silempa.
Bookworm Award: Verity-Rose Osborne.
Handwriting Award: Lily Thomas.
Head Teacher Award: James Flanagan
Osprey Awards: Breakfast Club - Edwin Silempa, After school club - Joshua White.
All of the children that took part in the nativity performances received a special "Star Performance' Award for their great performances.
Kingfishers
History Expert: Leo Barkhouse
Super Scientist: Jason Weatherall
Super Listener: Hattie Hadley
Most Responsible: Ewan Tall
Never Gives Up: Emily Wainaina & Gabriel Ward
Star Performance Award: Cameron Hunter, Daniel Powell, Zeke Holder & Noah Lowery
English Award: Hattie Goodwin
Maths Award: Joshua Tarplin
Forest Schools: Leo Barkhouse, Isla Jones & Benjamin Daniels
Head Teacher Award: Ewan Tall
Osprey Awards: After school club - Joshua Tarplin & Kayden Willcock
Owls had a brilliant day at Birmingham Museum on Monday. Please take a look at the photos on our Gallery page.
St Leonard's Bake Off
Well done to everyone who entered the Bake Off competition. A special thank you to our judges, Mrs Baker and Mrs Stevens, who had the very difficult job of deciding the winners from the fantastic selection of cakes and biscuits. Congratulations to our winners: Rosy Bird, Finley Madge, Freya Henderson, Evie Cover and Naomi Trower. Prizes will be presented to the winners at our celebration assemblies.
FOSLS Christmas fayre took place on Friday and it was great to see so many of you there. Thank you to everyone that helped to raise around £1200.