Adapted from Matthew 3:13-17
The Baptism of the Lord, Year A
Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. John tried to dissuade him. “It is I who need baptism from you,” he said, “and yet you come to me!” But Jesus replied, “Leave it like this for the time being; it is fitting that we should, in this way, do all that righteousness demands.” At this, John gave in to him. As soon as Jesus was baptised he came up from the water, and suddenly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And a voice spoke from heaven, “This is my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.”
Attendance Award – Year 5 – 97.5% – Well done!
Whole School Attendance – 93.4 %
Superstars of the Week!
YR – Freyja for settling into school so well and being a valued new member of our class!
Y1 -Violet for trying super hard in Maths this week and challenging herself.
Y2 – Pippy for settling really well into Year 2 this week.
Y3 – Arlo for returning back after Christmas with a really positive attitude and his participation in lessons!
Y4 – Marco for his enthusiasm, good humour and contributions to the Common Good.
Y5 – Flynn for his excellent attitude in his English learning. Keep it up!
Y6 – Tilly for excellent enthusiasm and participation in class discussions and confidently contributing ideas, especially in English.
Proud Work: 09/01/2026
YR – Lily for demonstrating resilience and perseverance when making her dragon mask. It still isn’t ‘finished’!
Y1 -Daisie for trying super hard with her reading!
Y2 – For her participation in English this week. Jovi stayed on task to identify different sentence types.
Y3 – Daniel for a great participation to our R.. lesson. Daniel could read the scripture of Matthew and get in role of one of the Magi. During a hot seating activity, Daniel was able to answer questions thoughtfully reflecting on the scripture.
Y4 – Aurora for her insightful and well presented reflections on why Jesus was given the titles ‘Christ’ and ‘Messiah’.
Y5 – Nellie for her illustration based on ‘blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth’.
Y6 – Anthonia for a thoughtful explanation of the key learnings that John wanted to convey about Jesus in John 1 : 1-5
Bronze Reader
YR -Charlotte, Oliver, Oliver
Y1 – Joselle, Sophie, Jovi
Y3 -Olivia W
Y4 – Vinnie, Heevan
Y5 – Noah
Silver Reader
YR – Nate, Jonah, Ella
Y2 – Layla, Sofiia
Y3 -Wilfred, Connay
Y4 – Evie Rose, Harry, Kathryn
Y5 – Charlotte, Santiago, Olive, Adam, Kian, Charles
Y6 – Samuel
Numbots
Copper: Leo VH y2, Sofia H y6
¡Hola!
This half term our focus language is Español as we have many Spanish speakers in the school. The children will be learning how to answer the register in Spanish and maybe a few phrases and numbers too. We will be asking our Spanish Young Interpreters and any Spanish speakers to help their classes. If any Spanish speaking parents or children would like to bring in souvenirs, photos etc to show their class, then please contact Mrs Curtis via the office. Muchas gracias!
Senora Curtis
Update on School Communication
Further to receiving feedback on the roll-out of the parent’s comms system, we are trying to streamline our process on how we communicate to parents via announcements and email style messages to make it more user-friendly. We are moving to a new approach, where all communications that are informative, but not urgent, will be sent in message format (mainly from teachers so please do monitor at your convenience). For more pressing messages, we will use announcements, which we believe sends a notification to your phone. We hope this makes the app easier to navigate and ensure you don’t miss any important updates.
Welcome back to Mrs Charlton
We are very pleased to welcome back Emma Charlton into the office after her maternity leave. She will be returning from next Friday and will job share with Mrs Brewster. Mrs Charlton will work Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Mrs Brewster will work on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning. We look forward to her settling back in with us.
2026 Term Dates!
Monday 2 February: Child Mental Health Day – non school uniform day (wear green or yellow)
Friday 13 February: INSET day
Monday 16 – Friday 20 February: half term
Monday 23 February: INSET day
Monday 2 March: Rags 2 Riches collection day
Friday 27 March: break up for Easter
Monday 13 April: children return to school
To keep up to date with future school events, please visit the school calendar which can be found on the parents page on our website.
Mass and new Archbishop
We celebrated Mass on Tuesday for the Feast of the Epiphany. It was a lovely way to start the new term. The children helped to prepare the Mass, read and take part in different aspects of the celebration.
