Today, we have spent a wonderful day thinking about our school Vision and the Christian values that underpin everything we do.

We began the day with a worship time to reflect and learn together, thanking God for always believing in us and talking about how He helps us to be our best. The children said things like: “we know he’s always with us”, “God helps us feel brave”, “I know he loves all of us”, “Jesus is all around us and inside us”.

Despite the rain, we also gathered in St Lawrence Church to share prayers and some reflective work the classes completed today. The children showed an amazing understanding of Matthew 19:26 and the Bible stories that are the foundation of our 6 school values- Thankfulness, Respect, Honesty, Forgiveness, Courage and Compassion.

Well done everyone- God has been at work today in hearts and minds.

We are back to school and everyone has settled in brilliantly. The new Reception children are already shining stars, and we have all enjoyed getting to know new pupils. The school is full of activity, laughter, and energy and we can’t wait to share it with you at open classrooms and in class events.

Being the best we can be with God- our Vision is certainly ringing true as everyone is working hard and trying their best, learning new things and achieving every day.

We are very proud to be officially launching our nurture provision at St Lawrence from September. You can read more about this below, but we will also send information out on the newsletter and are busy behind the scenes creating a special nurture page on the website.

We are delighted to share that we have earned the @superkind_org #SocialImpactSchoolsAward this year.

This is a testament to the wonderful social action work that our students have put in this year to make a positive impact on our local community and wider world. This has been through things such as World Refugee Day, raising money for charities, and writing letters to try to bring about change, as well as the work of the Eco Team.

We are thrilled to have earned this recognition and are looking forward to having even more social impact next year! #superkind

With new rules coming into force around absence from school, we would like to share the following visual to help explain the changes:

We are looking forward to our sports day today at St Lawrence and hoping the sun keeps shining!

Mr Mullinder and his crew of helpers have been busily setting equipment up this morning, and the children have enjoyed a run through so they know what to expect this afternoon.

This promises to be the biggest sports day yet, with some famous faces in goal for one of the events!

We hope to see lots of you at school, but for those of you who can’t make it don’t worry- we will cheer all the children on and share some photographs next week.

Today we mark World Refugee Day in school by wearing own clothes in exchange for a donation to go to Sanctuary Foundation who support refugee camps across the world.

We took part in a live assembly with 350 other schools, where we heard from Job, a teenage refugee living in Bidi Bidi, one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Uganda.

If you would like to take a look at the great work the foundation does, have a look at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaArlMOcqY

Thank you for your support.

Today is National Empathy Day.