Headteachers Update 4th March 2022

World Book Day 2022… you did not disappoint! The children and staff of HMO pulled out all the stops and we had a wonderful (hour long!) whole school   assembly in the hall today. It was brilliant! To hear the children sing and sign our assembly songs, welcome them to the front to showcase their class outfit themes, to celebrate the successes of individual golden leaf awards and to of course see our school community as one was FABULOUS!

You can see from the photographs attached, the standard of competition was very high! Hayley and Julie (from our Admin team) had a tough decision to make. The winners overall were in 1st place—Seedlings, for a fantastic performance of pulling the enormous turnip out from the soil! 2nd place – Catkins, for celebrating themselves as individuals and travelling on their Magic Train Ride and in 3rd place—Oak Trees for a very high standard of dress up for The Scarecrow’s Wedding!

Then to top it off, we all watched the final reveal of our Masked Reader. A big thank you to our Masked Readers—Janet, Ian, Jen, Ciaran and Richard and to the very talented James Wright for creating such high quality videos for our children to interact with.

Thank you for your contribution to our World Book Day. Your children looked  amazing today!

Don’t forget our wellbeing team will be hosting our Community Hub Meeting on Tuesday. It’s a get together for parents to gather, have a brew and catch up. If you have little ones, they are welcome to join you. We can provide some toys and a safe space to entertain them! I will pop in to say hello as always.

Have a good weekend and remember it is a training day on Friday 11th March. The majority of staff will be receiving training on our new phonics & reading scheme. A small group of staff will be training in a rebound intervention called ‘Flexi Bounce’.