It has been a fabulous week in school. It started with the Foundation
stage and Key Stage one performing their shows and everyone who watched them thought that all the
children were amazing. The Foundation children sang some Christmas songs for us
and did so with ‘great gusto’ and then KS1 performed ‘Born in a Barn’ which is
based on the nativity story. It contained songs, dance and acting and the
children did so well it was hard to believe that they are only six and seven –
the older children in the school certainly have a lot to live up to when they
put their performances on later in the year. I would also like to thank all my
staff who were involved in these shows for all their efforts in putting the
performances together. One of the reasons that these shows were so good is
because of all the work the staff put in behind the scenes and I think it is
important to recognise that.
Yesterday we had our annual Christmas dinner which all the
children love as the staff serve them their food and they get an extended lunch
time with music in the playground followed by a movie in the hall. It went
really well this year and I would like to thank all the parents who volunteered
to look after the children in the playground. I would also like to thank our
kitchen staff for the wonderful meals that they provide for the staff and
children all year long and not just at Christmas time.
Today was another exciting day for the children as it was
‘Christmas Jumper Day’. All the children looked great in their festive wear but
the good thing is that they were doing it for a very worthy charity which is
‘Save the Children’. I will let you know how much money we raised next week. All the money raised across the UK
goes towards trying to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the UK
and across the world.
Next week we still have lots to look forward to. On Monday we
have one of our Sharing Assemblies and if your child is involved you will have
received the letter informing you about it. On Tuesday KS1 have got their
Christmas party in the afternoon and, apparently, a special visitor may be
dropping in to see them. KS2 have their party on Wednesday afternoon but before
that the whole school will be watching a pantomime. This has now become an
annual tradition at Little Heath and this year the children are watching
Rapunzel.
With all that happening we will certainly be ready to break
up for our holiday. Please remember that the school finishes at 2.00pm on Friday.