Thank you to everyone that dressed up and made a donation for Children In need today. We are still counting up the money and will let you know when we have a total.

Thank you to everyone that came to meet their child's class teacher last night. There were many  parents and children who were proud of their achievements. If you haven't yet seen your child's teacher please contact school to make an appointment as soon as possible.

Our Choir, 'Woodgate Voices' have delivered two wonderful performances this week. Yesterday they led our Remembrance Afternoon with poetry and songs. The event was well attended and enjoyed by parents, grandparents and Governors. It was a thought provoking and moving performance.

Today they have been to Bartley Green Social Club to perform to a group of local residents. A great time was had by all including a sing a long of many old war songs including 'Pack up your Troubles', 'We'll Meet Again' and 'White Cliffs of Dover'. The children looked wonderful in their new Choir T shirts with their own logo. We are very proud of them.

If your child brought home one of these certificates today you should be very proud of them. It means that they have been on Green or Gold on the Behaviour Zone board at least 90% of the time this half term. Well done to everyone that achieved this.  Lots of children have been on Green or Gold every single day!

Whole school attendance is improved on this last time last year. We are currently 96.4% which is in line with national figures. Well done to everyone for really trying to improve attendance this term. The children are talking about attendance and want to win the class trophy and the cakes each Friday. They also love getting their 100% attendance gold sticker each week. Keep up the fantastic start!

The Halloween disco was huge success last night. We sold all 250 tickets and lots of children had a wonderful time. The costumes get better and better every year. After expenses, we raised over £600 for school fund. This will be used to fund an end of year theatre Production of The Jungle Book for the whole school.

We had a wonderful trail of marching elephants in the school grounds on Tuesday. The reception children, parents and staff completed the sponsored walk in aid of the Happy Days Charity. Thank you to everyone that has sent in sponsor money. We have raised over £200 for the charity so far.

Well done to Year 4 staff and pupils. They performed a wonderful Harvest Festival which was jam packed with information, songs, readings and acting. The clear confident voices were heard throughout the hall and the singing was beautiful, with a good mixture of new songs and old favourites. The Harvest food that has been collected will be donated to the Food bank at St. Michael's Church for local families in need.

If you know anyone that may benefit from a food parcel please call into school for a confidential referral form.

Parents of Reception children are invited to drop in on Tuesday afternoons and join their children with whatever learning activity is taking place. Last week it was name writing and yesterday was sharing a story book. We are pleased to see so many parents joining us. The reception staff will be sharing photos of these events on the class web pages.

We had a wonderful turn out yesterday for parents' lunch.

The children really enjoyed having an adult with them to enjoy the roast dinner.

Parents particularly enjoyed the chocolate concrete and pink custard, telling us that it reminded them of their own school days.

A big thank you to the cooks for preparing these extra meals.

Watch out for more parents' lunches throughout the year.