Unfortunately, choir has been cancelled this week. Please collect your child at the end of the day as usual or book Night Owls at https://www.westerings.com/. We apologise for any inconvenience. Friday 3.20pm - 4.00pm Choir Year 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 Small hall

CONNECTING WITH YOUR CHILD'S TEACHER JUST GOT EASIER... Dear Families, We are always looking for ways to strengthen communication between home and school, ensuring that any questions or concerns you may have are addressed quickly, clearly, and effectively. With the significant rise in of the use of emails, and increasingly AI generated content, we are finding that our ability to effectively process and respond to parents is slower than we would like, and certainly less person

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Year 6 Leavers' Hoodies have arrived and your child will receive theirs at the end of the day today! A couple of expectations/rules around these, which have also been explained to the children: The hoodies can be worn to and from school, and during break and lunchtimes if children wish - this includes in the dining hall, essentially in place of a coat. The hoodies are not standard school-uniform, and as such cannot be worn in class, assemblies, etc. Kind regards, The Year 6 T

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Dear parents and carers, Please find below details about next week. Spellings Spellings for next week are words originating from other countries: easel veranda origin hoist gymkhana bungalow pyjamas ballet blizzard restaurant Homework, Reads and Revision Thank you for all your support over Easter in helping your children prepare for their upcoming SATs by continuing homework, reads and beginning some targeted revision. As a reminder for those getting back into it: Weekly home

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Dear parents and carers, With Easter holidays approaching, please see below for some key Year 6 information particularly around revision ahead of SATs in May. Spellings When we return after Easter break, the first week's spelling test will be 20 spellings taken from the Year 5/6 statutory word list: aggressive bargain competition definite environment familiar guarantee hindrance individual interrupt language marvellous neighbour occupy physical relevant rhythm sincere thoroug

Year 6 are on their way back and should be arriving before the end of the school day. We will update you if they encounter any delays.

Year 6 have arrived safely.

Dear parents and carers, Just a reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday 25th March, we are undertaking our Braintree Museum trip. Children need to be in school normal time of 8:40 for register and a prompt 8:50 departure time. We are due back normal school end time (around 3:20), however please be aware children with usual permission to walk home do not have permission to walk home from the coach (in case of later return time due to traffic etc.) and will need to be collected by yo

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A polite reminder of the minimum payment schedule below. Including the initial deposit of £50.00, a total of £537.50 should have been paid by 27th February. Please ensure that your payments are up to date. The final payment of £97.50 is due by Friday 1st May 2026 via Arbor. Thank you for your attention to this. £97.50 by Friday 28th February 2025 £97.50 by Friday 30th May 2025 £97.50 by Friday 5th September 2025 £97.50 by Friday 28th November 2025 £97.50 by Friday 27t

Dear parents and carers, Our final mock SATs week is done! As always, your children have truly showed their resilience, tenacity and academic best this week, and have achieved exceptionally well. We will be sharing all results with children next week, and before the Easter holidays they will be able to bring home their papers as brilliant revision resources in the lead up to the real thing in May. Spellings This weeks spellings are: disappointed unsure impatient unnecessary o

A reminder that Mr Bird's football has been cancelled on the morning of Friday 20th March. The last week will be Friday 27th March. The club will not be running in the Summer term.

Dear parents and carers, Another phenomenal week for Year 6, with great writing showcased in our suspense story English unit so far, grappling with coordinates and interior angles in triangles and quadrilaterals in Maths, studying the Blitz of World War 2 in and its effect on Britain in History and much more. Some notes and reminders for next week: Mock SATs Week Next week is our third and final mock SATs week. Many children have shown a keen interest in some light revision o

Please note that Mr Bird's football has been cancelled on the morning of Friday 20th March. The last week will be Friday 27th March. The club will not be running in the Summer term.

Please see details for the Academic Year 2025-2026 Height and weight checks for children in Year 6. Please note that these will now take place in school on Tuesday 17th March 2026. For all enquiries, please see details within the letter. Please do not contact the school office as they will be unable to help you. National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) team.

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Dear parents and carers, Another great week this week, with the peak undoubtedly being World Book Day! We've begun studying suspense stories in English, cracked coordinates in Maths, looked at food intolerance, allergies and hygiene in DT, WW2 evacuation in History, and much more. Spellings This week's spellings are a tricky mix of Year 5/6 Statutory spellings - don't forget every week we set these as an assignment on Spelling Shed, which children can access to practise. nuis