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Children had a fantastic morning having a sports festival and interschool tournament with All Saints, Needwood and Thomas Russell Infant schools. Thank you to Mrs Pendleton, the Blessed Robert Sports partnership for helping organise it and to them and Burton Albion for leading many activities.
Children had 2 special days at the National Memorial Arboretum this week, KS1 on Monday and KS2 on Wednesday. Children had the opportunity to explore differing memorials, have an act of remembrance and explore the differing roles during the war. They were wonderful days and the team at the arboretum were complimentary about our children’s behaviour. An excellent day to add to the work we are doing to commemorate the anniversary of 100 years since the end of WW!.
Children had wonderful fun at the PTA disco this week, lots of dancing, tattoos, nail polish, food and drinks.
Children had a wonderful art session with thanks to the Burton Brewhouse team. All art created will be shown at The Brewhouse Arts Centre as part of the Town Trail on Saturday 10th November. The Trail is a guided tour around Bass House, Burton Library, St Modwen's Church, the town memorial, the Brewhouse Arts Centre and Confessions at Trinity to mark Remembrance Day and will include family activities and exhibitions. We thank them for this free opportunity to link with our WW1 and remembrance studies.
Children had an excellent time at the gifted and talented athletics sessions at Blessed Robert Sutton, the competed against 30 other children from across the area and we will know if they got through shortly! Well done to the children for an excellent event!
Children and staff have had a beautiful Holy Communion service and enjoyed the readings, prayers and singing. We thank Rev. Les and Wendy for such a lovely morning.
The PTA hosted a wonderful afternoon tea for children to enjoy with their Grandparents. A lovely afternoon was had by all and we thank the PTA for putting on the event.
Children enjoyed the service of giving by taking produce round the village!
We took food donations from across the federation to the local YMCA foodbank. We thank our families for their generous donations. It was great that children got to see where our donations went and to learn that they helped families in need.
On Friday we took part in the Dove Valley Tournament at the Pirelli Stadium. We were in a group with the A teams of the biggest Primary schools in Burton, William Shrewsbury and Thomas Russell. Our first team was against the TSS Mat which we won 2-0. Our next match was against William Shrewsbury who were stunned by the skills of some of our players, ending in 1-1 draw. Our final match was a tight game, but unfortunately were defeated by Thomas Russell. The team performed brilliantly and looked very professional in our brand new kit. Well done boys.
Harvest was really beautiful. We thank all of our families for their generous donations which will be distributed around the local elderly neighbours and YMCA food bank – four children from across the federation will have the opportunity to go with us to the YMCA to deliver the harvest gifts.
Class 3 have enjoyed a visit from Austin’s Grandparents who kindly came into school to create some bread masterpieces with the children for display in our Harvest service on Friday. We thank them very much for giving up their time and sharing their expertise.