Thank you everyone for your patience and understanding again this week. I really appreciate how reasonable all of our parents and carers have been during the last week given the disruption to your own lives and work as well as your children's education. 

Hopefully by now you have all seen the letter from Neil Blundell, CEO of Cathedral Schools Trust (CST) with the good news that an agreement in principle has been reached between CST, National Education Union (NEU) and Unison. As a result, the unions have agreed to cease all proposed strike action (see letter below).  

This means that school will operate as usual next week and be open to all of our children. 

Exactly how we all want it to be.

I am looking forward to seeing everybody back together in school next week.

Mr Gunner

Values Certificate Winners

Our value of the week has been Respect. The following children were awarded values certificates in our Celebration Assembly today: Rory, Charlie, Omar, Moqades, Eliza, Matilda, Danny, Daithi, Luke, Haroun, Jacob, and Jafar. Well done all of you.

 Anti-Bullying Week

This week in assembly we celebrated Odd Sock Day and spoke about Anti-Bullying Week.  Lots of children and staff wore their odd socks to school with pride.  We discussed the theme of "Power for Good" and how we can use our powers to spread kindness and happiness throughout our school.  The children came up with some great examples of how they can use their powers to help when they see children feeling sad or left out.   We talked about what bullying is and how we can work together to stop it from happening.  We ended the assembly by watching Andy and the Odd Socks new song written especially for Anti-Bullying week.  It is quite a catchy tune, have a watch below!

Odd Sock Day

Thank you to everyone who wore odd socks to school on Monday for Odd Sock Day.  The children (and staff) looked great.  This is a fantastic way to celebrate our differences and it was lovely to see the children engaging with this.  

Children in Need

Today we celebrated Children in Need by wearing our Pudsey and spotty clothes to school.  We had some great outfits worn by both children and staff today and it certainly made the school look colourful.  Thank you for your donations towards this worthy charity.  If you haven't done so already, there is still time to donate to our school fundraiser via the School Gateway app.

Gromit Unleashed Writing Competition

You may recall that during the summer Barcan and Kirby ran a competition for children to submit a short story based on the Norbot sculpture, Spellbound.  Today Lucy and Anna from Barcan and Kirby came in to school to present the children who submitted entries to the competition with their own published book containing their story alongside all the other entries.  Amazingly, the winning entry also came from our school and they were presented with a hamper of goodies alongside 4 other children who were also presented with runner up prizes.  Well done to all those who entered the competition.  A copy of the book will be available in our school library for anyone who wishes to read it.

Year 5 Green Schools Project

We are really excited to share that Year 5 will be taking part in the Green Schools Project 'Zero Carbon Schools' initiative this year. They will have lessons each week which will include:

• Learning more about climate change and feeling empowered to take action in their school community
• Developing leadership, communication, problem solving and teamwork skills
• Calculating an estimate of their school’s carbon emissions
• Leading meaningful projects to reduce the school’s carbon footprint

We are looking forward to seeing what they discover and what they decide to take action on in school.

To find out more, see the attached pdf or go to https://www.greenschoolsproject.org.uk/

Nature Nurture Group Trip to Wraxall

Attendance and Punctuality

Despite there only being two school days where children were able to attend school last week, we are still celebrating the classes who had the highest attendance.  When there are days missed, it is even more important that children are in school on the days when school is open.

The classes with the no children late to school last week were:

Here are last term's winning classes receiving their prize money...

Important Dates for Term 2

• Wednesday 26th November Parents' Evening - TO BE CONFIRMED
• Thursday 27th November Parents' Evening - TO BECONFIRMED
• Saturday 6th December Winter Fair
• Friday 19th December Christmas Lunch
• Friday 19th December Last day of term

Join the Festive Holiday Fun at Southville!

We have loved seeing so many children come along to Shine Holiday Clubs and look forward to welcoming more of you.

For children in years Reception – Year 6, days run from 09:00-15:30 with late stay hours available if you need them. There are loads of different activities running including Cracking Creative, Merry Mash Up as well as a New Years party!

Book now using the code: Early Booker for 20% off your Holiday Club activities!

Shine are Ofsted Registered so you can pay via Childcare Vouchers and the Tax-Free Childcare Scheme. 

Click Shine Holiday Clubs | Sports and creative activities to see what’s on. 

See you at Shine!

Fun Science December Holiday Clubs

Ashton Park December Holiday Activity Programme

Free Event & Festive Sessions at Children's Scrapstore