CAKE BAKING!
Christmas Cake Baking for our Christmas Fayre
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Christmas Cake Baking for our Christmas Fayre
Children from across the Federation sang Carols at Byrkley Garden Centre whilst shoppers awaited the arrival of Santa and his reindeer. Whilst it was cold singing outside, we all had a great time singing along with Christmas spirit.
Children across the Federation attended a Music Share event at St Paul’s Church in Burton. It was a magical event where children sang beautifully, completed bible readings and their behaviour was impeccable. They even got to listen to some live opera. The have had this opportunity, practicing for many weeks, with thanks to The Cathedral school staff, led by Cathy Lamb and linked with the Staffordshire music hub. We are proud of their achievements
On the 17th November we took part as a federated team for the John Taylor Indoor Athletics. For this we had a mixture of Rangemore and Needwood team which worked really well as they have formed good friendships as a result of going on residential together. For this event we took part in field and track events. Our running events went really well and we managed to win most of these. We came 2nd overall with 45 points. Well done to all the children and thank you to the parents for your support.
On Friday 13th 2015 Reverend Les came to attend our Friday Worship to bless the shoeboxes our family collected. There were a huge amount and we are so thankful to our families for preparing them. Rev Les and Wendy Rees will let us know where our boxes are going to! View our Gallery for more photos!
What a fabulous fun day we had on Friday 13th November 2015 raising funds for Children in Need. We dressed in our PJS, collected pennies on a huge Pudsey, adopted teddies and all sorts of other wonderful activities. How wonderful. See our gallery for more photos!
We held a beautiful service of remembrance today on 11th November at 11am remembering and worshiping with a silence, hymns and prayers, readings and poetry. It was a beautiful and all classes were involved in readings, laying wreaths and singing. Thank you to Wendy Rees for the Christian club’s involvement and to all who attended. Please view more photos in our gallery.
I have enjoyed working with our house captains, exploring our new mission statement and aims and looking at the wording behind it. Part of our exploration was what a lifelong learner is and their considerations were excellent. The quote this week signifies the culmination of these discussions; a motivation to learn and a love of learning at all stages in our life. The children have been so motivated to put together the information about our Federation mission statement, aims, slogan and values in an accessible format for all during Friday worship and I think you will agree that they did a really good job. It was nice to see our Chair of Governors along with some other Governors and so many parents in both schools enjoying their delivery and it was special to have tea and biscuits with families to celebrate this next important step. View more photos in our gallery.
Class 4 were privileged to have a visit from 3 of our parish councillors this week to enable them to experience democracy in action as part of our continuing study of British values.
The class learnt about how parish councils work and were organised into a council, with an elected chair and vice chair. With the experience of the real councillors, they were able to appreciate first-hand how to organise a meeting and all got to learn valuable debating, listening and speaking and listening skills. The councillors were impressed with our children’s knowledge about local issues and their passion, not only for their school, but its surrounding locality.
Future plans to work together again are afoot, with 6 junior parish councillors from school due to join part of a full parish council meeting later in the month. Maybe a future politician or prime minister is amongst us!
Four children from across the Federation were chosen to represent their schools at the John Taylor Community afternoon tea. The children spoke to some of the residents of Barton under Needwood who attended the event and taked about sport and played some sporting games with them.
Children had a fabulous time at our PTA Autumn disco! Children ressed up as all soerts of characters from those traditioally worn at this time of year to super heroes, mermaids, angels, princesses, gentlemen and casual! Do view the photos in our gallery.