Next week’s value is Faith

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in faith and in purity”.  2 Timothy 4:12

Dear parents/carers

This week kicked off with all of us still basking in the glory of the performances of the pupils at the Children in Need show held at Woolmer Hill last Friday evening.  Our Key Stage One entry won best act in their age category, well done to Mya, Imogen, Grace and Pippa, (you will be able to see them perform next year at the Haslemere Fringe Festival); Darcey and Sam were our Key Stage Two representatives and both performed with confidence and style! The school choir sang with the other confederation schools, which sounded magnificent.  We could not have been prouder of all of the children who took part, you did yourself, St. Mary’s and Chiddingfold proud!  A special thank you to our music co-ordinator Miss Griffiths for all your hard work leading to this event. St Mary’s also raised £215.40 which is a great effort.

Myself and Mrs Evans have been carrying out lesson observations this week as part of our termly monitoring procedures and we also met for our half termly governing body meeting.

This morning Year 3 impressed us with a fabulous performance as they took us on a journey through prehistory from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.  Set against a backdrop of the children’s prehistoric artwork, they spoke and sang out beautifully, and it was wonderful to see the enjoyment on their faces as they took part in their class assembly. Well done and thank you to Mrs Ryder and Mrs Balchin for their hardwork and support with numerous costume changes!

Mrs Creswell completes her final day of ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) training and will soon start working with individual and groups of children as part of our mental health and resilience initative.

On Friday morning myself and Miss Clark will be attending our mastery embedding meeting.  This will allow us to build upon the mastery maths within the school and share good practice across the confederation.  Miss Clark will soon be hosting the participating schools where in she has the opportunity to showcase St. Mary’s excellent maths teaching and learning.

Please may I alert you to the signs put up on School Lane requesting that you refrain from parking there; emergency services would be unable to access the Lane if required.  Thank you in advance for supporting us with this request.

 Have a wonderful weekend!

Sheila Buckley

Deputy Headteacher