This week in addition to Safer Internet Day Tuesday it was also Children's Mental Health Week. This year the theme was 'My voice matters'.

We started the week with an informative Collective Worship led by Mrs Towers and continued this in your class with lovely activitities which taught us more about how and why we should express ourselves and listen to each other. Some of us played the Whisper Game, a circle game which taught us about listening carefully and that when listening to someone else we use more than just our ears. Others found reasons they could feel proud of themselves recently and about why we should take time to celebrate ourselves and puff out our chests with pride but also why we should take time to celebrate others.

Some class groups talked about how they learn best and what gets in the way of their learning. The children and adults worked as a class team to make sure their classroom is the best place to learn.

If you would like more infromation on Children's Mental Health Week or family resources for the themed week they are available on the Place2Be website.

To celebrate our love of reading we have a number of activities for our very own Book Week, for more information please read the email sent home this week.

To celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 7th March Kingswood Catering have a special Gruffalo based menu. To order your World Book Day meal please ensure your order is placed by the cut-off date of midnight on Wednesday 28th February.

Kingswood meals are available to book up until the Easter break, please log in now and order your child's meals as far in advance as possible.

Meals for after half-term need to be ordered by midnight on Wednesday 21st February.

Scholastic Book Fair

Our Book Fair continues on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th February 3:30-4:00pm in the School Hall.  Your child has been given their World Book Day voucher this week in case they would like to redeem it against a book of £2.99 or above at our Book Fair.

Every book you purchase helps us earn new books for our school library. Thank you to everyone who has supported.

Congratulations to Lacie-Mae who correctly guessed there were 55 'bookworms in the jar! Congratulations also go to Cerys, Orla-Mae, Alice and Charlie who were the closest with their entry to the competition 'Guess how many bookworms are in the jar'. Each of them won the prize of a £5 voucher to spend at the Book Fair.

Key Stage 2 Knitting Club

The original group of knitters have begun to master the basic steps so Mrs Brock is pleased to be able to open up four more spaces on the Knitting Club next half-term.

The spaces are open to all children in Years 3-5, the club is held on Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm. This is a free club but places must be booked on ParentMail to ensure we have the necessary parental consent in place. If you would like to book a space, please apply on ParentMail before midnight on Friday 16th February.  Spaces are first come, first served and subject to availability.