On Friday 27th June, adults of Year 1 children joined us for our celebration assembly. Alongside the usual Year 6 Award, Grown-up of the Week Award, Achievement Certificates and Headteacher's Award, the Year 1 class shared their learning about Pirates and geography related to this topic. They spoke confidently, remembering their lines, and sang beautifully - what a treat!
On Friday's assembly, we celebrated the Fun Run! Reception class joined us to get their 'metals' (medals), which every child who had run more than 3 laps received. There were an incredible amount of children collecting certificates and medals. We celebrated our Year 6s who had run the most laps, with the three girls having tied with their number of laps.
Friday's assembly was led by Mrs Wright, as children were celebrated for their various achievements - from sport to music to academic. She was particularly proud to present the Headteacher's Award to Holly.
On Friday 6th June, amongst our usual celebration, children who had completed the Doodle Maths Spring Challenge were awarded their certificates and badges -well done to everyone for completing that challenge!
Our final celebration assembly of the term had the full range of celebrations - from achievement certificates across a range of subjects, to music and sporting accomplishments. Chloe received the Year 6 award and Guiseppe the Headteacher's Award.
On Friday 16th May, the Year 2 grown ups joined us for celebration assembly. We had our usual celebrations of 'good Samaritans', achievement certificates, 'Grown-up of the week' and 'Headteacher's Award' alongside quite a few music and sporting achievements. The special addition this week, was our Year 2 class sharing - through words, song and art - all their learning around minibeasts.
In our celebration assemblies, we like to celebrate when children have achieved something outside of school - this may be a sports competition, musical event or something else. We have celebrated football, triathlons, ice skating, swimming, chess and grades in musical instruments, to name but a few.
Last week's celebration assembly celebrated some incredible sporting achievements (triathlons and football) alongside our 'good Samaritans', Year 6 award of the week and achievement certificates.
On Friday 25th April, we were very privileged to have Dr James Balkwill present our Big Science winners with certificates. Dr Balkwill began by explaining his connections with the school (his own children had attended years ago) and his scientific background. He explained about how important it is to be curious, investigate and ask questions - books with all the Science we read about have only come into being from scientists, like our St Andrew's pupils, being investigated and often not getting the results they expected. Searching for truth is crucial and Science is one of the ways to do that; to gain knowledge and understanding is essential. He had seen a lot of the Big Science in St Andrew's School this year, either in process or at the end result, and with Ms Sian Davies (our Science lead) had decided on the 3rd, 2nd and 1st places for this year. After the 3rd, 2nd and 1st places were announced for each Key Stage 2 class, the overall winners - Prabal and Guiseppe (Year 6) - were presented with the Magnus Smyth trophy.
On Friday 28th March, Year 3 presented about this term's learning to their grown ups. It was fascinating for all the school to hear all about their Egyptian knowledge. The Year 3 class also won the Doodle Star this week, had one of their class receive a music certificate, another the pen license and another the Headteacher's Award - what a lot of celebrating for Year 3!
This Friday, instead of a celebration assembly, we had a skipping demonstration. All the classes, from Reception to Year 6, had had a skipping workshop during the day. At the end of the school day, children were able to demonstrate their learning - with some particularly impressive joint skipping with long ropes.
Each week, alongside two children in each class receiving an achievement certificate for their work in class, the Year 6 class nominate someone in the school who they feel has shown the school values. This 'Year 6 Award' is the pupils' voice equivalent of the Headteacher's Award, and is a wonderful way of the children celebrating the 'good Samaritans' in St Andrew's.
