Dear Parents and Carers
We say this every Newsletter, but at the risk of sounding like a broken record, we have had another busy couple of weeks!
Visits to Think Tank on the train for Owls, Lower Drayton Farm on the minibuses for EYFS (see News items below), visits by a literacy advisor and an EYFS advisor, a Trust Student Council meeting at Manor, Science Week activities (see news item below), and on top of all that, assessment week for the end of term. It's lucky there isn't much planned for next week... oh, hang on (see posters etc below!)!
Each of these things went well and, along with the beautiful weather, it has been a great two weeks. The literacy and EYFS advisors went away happy and impressed with what we are doing in these areas led by Mrs Armstrong. They were very supportive and offered some good ideas for our next steps.
The Trust Student Council was composed of children from each of our ten partner Fierté schools across Tamworth and Burton. We had a full turn out from each school (Bayleigh and Zachary represented Manor) and the children were delightful. They received 'Student Leader' badges and lanyards and discussed ideas for ways to bring children together across the Trust. They came up with three main actions:
1. Continue with the 'pen pals' letters and cards sent between schools,
2. organise a poster campaign for saving energy in support of the Trust's aims to reduce our carbon footprint.
3. to organise Teams meet-ups between classes to see and say hello to the children they have been writing to and to compete in things like spelling bees or times tables competitions against each other.
We will see how well we can manage to get these things off the ground but collaboration and a sense of belonging to the family of Fierté is slowly growing among the children, as it already has with staff who work closely with colleagues across Fierté.
