Dear Parents and Carers

We are pleased to share that our school will be recognising World Mental Health Week from Monday 11th to Friday 15th May.

Throughout the week, children will take part in a range of age-appropriate activities designed to promote positive wellbeing, encourage open conversations and help them to understand the importance of looking after their mental health.

To mark the end of the week, we will be holding a non-uniform day on Friday 15th May. On this day, we invite all children to come to school wearing green – this could be a small item, a splash of green, or even head to toe in green, if they wish.

Please note that no donations are required for this event. The focus is on raising awareness and showing support for mental health in a positive and inclusive way.

We look forward to a meaningful week across the school,
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Kind Regards,
Sara Turner

Wednesday 28th January is a busy day in school and we just wanted to remind you of the events taking place on this day:

​Thank you so much to all of our parents who have been collecting items from our bingo boards for our OPAL project. Please could your child bring these items into school on Wednesday 28th January. If you have any larger donations that may be difficult for your child to carry, please drop these off at the junior gate that leads onto the junior playground. Mrs Adnett will be there to support with this. We really do appreciate your support with this project – it will make such a difference to playtime provision.

Year 6 – Quarry Bank Mill: The children will be leaving promptly at 9.00am so it is important that the children arrive at school for 8.45am to ensure they are ready to leave
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Year 4 – Stockport Air Raid Shelter: The children will be leaving school at 9.30am and will return to school by the end of the day.

Children are required to wear school uniform for both trips.

​These workshops are to support you in terms of helping your child with the basic skills of phonics, reading, spelling and number facts.  This will follow the format of our September Meet the Teacher event with two sessions available for you to attend.  The first one will be at 5:15 pm and the second session will be at 6 pm.  Teachers will repeat the content in both sessions so that parents with more than one child can attend more than one year group presentation.  The sessions will give you some ideas about how you can help at home as we know what a great impact this can make for our learners.

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are pleased to let you know that on Friday 10th October, our school will be supporting Mental Health Awareness day, with a focus on Young Minds.

This is a special day to help children understand the importance of looking after their mental health and to encourage positive well-being. We will be having age-appropriate discussions and activities in school to raise awareness and support emotional wellbeing.

To mark the occasion, we are inviting all pupils to come to school in full school uniform, but with a touch of yellow - this could be an accessory like a hairband, socks, a badge or even a yellow t-shirt under their school jumper. Yellow is the colour chosen by Young Minds to symbolise hope, happiness, and support for mental health awareness.

Please note: There is no donation required.

Here are some useful links where you can find further information regarding Mental Health Awareness Day and ways to support your child/children:
World Mental Health Day 2025 | Mental Health Foundation
YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People | YoungMinds

Thank you for your continued support, in helping our children grow in confidence, resilience and kindness.
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Kind Regards,
Sara Turner
Mental Health Lead 

Entrance is via the Junior gate at the front of the school.

Each class will perform three times – 1:30 pm, 2 pm and 2:30 pm.  Between performances you will be able to purchase the Enterprise products the children have made.  We can only take cash as payment.

2:50 pm – please congregate on the Junior field facing the Junior playground as the children have a special performance for you.

Following this, we will take the children back into the building and dismiss them as we usually would.
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Arrangements are slightly different for Nursery with one performance at 2 pm. 
​Mrs Robinson has sent details to Nursery parents.

​Book Fortnight has been a great success in school. The children enjoyed the usual excitement of dressing up as their favourite book character and we had some amazing entries for the competition. The reading den, Charlie Bucket’s house leading into the chocolate factory, allowed classes to come together in a cosy and calm environment for them to share a class read. The den always supports the overall theme for book fortnight and encourages a great deal of discussion around the chosen focus story which this year was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Read dating allows the children the opportunity to share books that they have enjoyed with their peers and learn about new books that may appeal to them.

​The children also enjoyed texts exploring the themes of hunger and the use of food banks. These texts allowed the children to develop their skills of empathy – putting themselves in the shoes of others. There was also great excitement around preparing food related to the themes in the books they were reading such as creating fruit lollipops, soups and pasta dishes. Key skills for food preparation were learnt and the children certainly loved the end products!  The children also learnt about the importance of food composting and how we can then use the compost in the summer term to support our outdoor learning projects.

The launch of Stockport Book Awards has now created a buzz around reading and the children are already discussing this year’s texts and bringing in art pieces that they have created in response to their reading. We look forward to this continuing over the coming weeks.
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Thanks to all the parents and carers who support Book Fortnight by providing costumes, support home learning competitions and spend time reading with your children on a regular basis – it does all really help to ensure our children develop a love of reading.

The Year 2 children thoroughly enjoyed celebrating the Holi festival on Friday afternoon.

What is Holi?

Holi is the festival of colours. It is a fun Indian festival that marks the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Holi is about happiness and togetherness. It marks the victory of good over evil.

Throughout the story of Holi, there was a bad king named Hiranyakashipu. His son Prahlad was a good boy and loved Lord Vishnu. The king’s sister Holika tried to harm Prahlad, but she got burnt instead. 

The night before Holi, a fire is lit to remember the story of Holika. The next day colours are thrown onto each other!  Special coloured powders called gulaal are used for this and there is lots of dancing and singing. Sweet and savoury foods are also enjoyed such as gujiyas and chaats.