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Dear parents and carers.

We have had a great week in school, full of exciting learning. Our new chrome books have been well used this week, with Luther King class using them to create branching databases, Seacole creating some great digital music, and Barnardo doing some online maths activities. Elsewhere, there has been some great tennis being played on the playground, Rashford class have created some lovely 'bog babies' and Attenborough class have spent time in the sunshine investigating minibeasts.

Yesterday, some of our worship leaders met with the young leaders from the other church schools in our MAT to talk about what they do in their roles. It was a lovely opportunity for them to hear from other children and to share their ideas. We have so many children in our school who are keen to be leaders, and I am so proud of children for putting themselves forward to make a difference, even when they might find it takes them out of their comfort zone.

Our next Forest Schools week is not too far away, and as you know we have been working to develop our Forest School site. We were delighted to have been approached a few weeks ago by the Transpennine Route Upgrade, TRU East Alliance, who are going to support our work with this. My Symes and I met with them today to discuss our hopes for the site, and they are keen to do as much as they can to transform the area, so that it has everything we would like to provide children with to create a fantastic outdoor space. This is going to make a big difference to the school for many years to come, so we are hugely grateful for their support. The engineer we met with today is now busy putting together a design for the site, and we will share this when we have it.

Have a lovely weekend.

Becca Cameron

Headteacher

This week's certificates were awarded to the following children:

Attenborough - Sonny and Arthur

Rashford - Eden and Molly

Thunberg - Ben and Elyssia

Seacole - Emilia and Paul

Luther King - Raven and Huey

Jean King - James and Aoibhe

Pankhurst - Niamh and Oliver G

Barnardo - James, Ella and Freddie

Well done to the following who earned the hot chocolate award:

Attenborough - Rory

Rashford - Theo

Thunberg - Oliver

Seacole - Zara

Luther King - Hamish

Jean King - Lenny

Pankhurst - Darcey

Barnardo - George

Well done to Seacole class for having the tidiest cloakroom this week.

Thank you to Toma (Y6), Jacob (Y1) and Willow (Y3) for helping us all to enjoy our lunchtime in the dinner hall.

Congratulations to Rupert, Alexa and their team the Purple Typhoons for their victory this week.

This week has been a pretty quiet week. On Thursday afternoon, pupils from year 5 and 6 travelled to Brayton Primary School to meet with children from other primary schools. They discussed how they could be effective worship leaders in their schools and brainstormed ideas of how to make their worship more interactive. Mrs Mawson was extremely impressed with how well the children represented the school.

Head pupil awards go to Evie (Y2) and Sophie (Y3)

Freddie & Ella

Well done to everyone who has practised their maths skills at home this week. Our Rockstars of the week are Seb E, Howie G, Toby M, Aidan H, Charlie W and Will G. This week's Numbots Superstars are Elin C, Jack B, Holly SW and Clara RS. Well done everyone!

Don't forget to practise your KIRFS at home too, they can be found on our website or you can ask your class teacher.

Parents' Evenings

YR Attenborough Class & Y5 Pankhurst Class

Tuesday 30th April

Y3 Luther King Class Assembly

Friday 3rd May, 9.05am

Bank Holiday (school closed)

Monday 6th May

Y2 Seacole Class Assembly

Friday 17th May, 9.05am

Y4 Onsite Camp

Thursday 16th/Friday 17th May

Forest School Week

Thursday 16th May - Y4 Jean King

Monday 20th May AM - YR Attenborough

Monday 20th May PM - Y2 Seacole

Tuesday 21st May AM - Y1 Rashford

Tuesday 21st May PM - Y1/2 Thunberg

Wednesday 22nd May - Y6 Barnardo

Thursday 23rd May - Y3 Luther King

Friday 24th May - Y5 Pankhurst

YR Attenborough Class Trip

Tuesday 21st May

YR Attenborough Class Assembly

Friday 24th May, 9.05am

Half Term

Monday 27th to Friday 31st May

Class Photos

Monday 10th June

Non-Uniform Day - donations of chocolate for chocolate tombola

Friday 14th June

Kirk Fenton does Pride - dress in colourful clothes

Friday 28th June

Friends Summer Fair

Saturday 29th June, 11am - 2pm

If anyone would like to say thank you to or has any positive comments for a member of staff then please complete and submit the form below.

**Save the date**

We're excited to be getting started planning this years summer fair! We'll share more information over the coming weeks, for now - we can share the date - Saturday 29th June, 11am - 2pm.

As ever we'll be grateful for as many helpers as possible before and on the day, so please let us know if you can help in any way.

friends@kf.starmat.uk

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