Advent is upon us and there are signs of Christmas preparations popping up around the school. The children in KS1 are busy learning their lines for the Christmas nativity.  In KS2, carols are being rehearsed ahead of our annual carol service.  Whilst the excitement of Christmas is in the air, and there will be lots of fun to be had, the focus on learning is still very much the priority of every day, and will be right up until we break for the Christmas holidays.  Routine, high expectations and structure are essential for our young people to manage this exciting period so please help us by maintaining high expectations, including with uniform and punctuality.  We appreciate your support.

We look forward to seeing you all at the PTA Christmas warmer, this Friday (straight after school).    Mrs Woollven

On Monday 29th September, we were joined by many past and present staff, governors, friends of the school and Rt Revd. Michael Beasley, Bishop of Bath and Wells, for a special service of rededication. This event was the start of a year of celebrations, marking the 200^th anniversary of Churchill Church of England Primary School.  The children learnt about some of the history of our school, including how the land on which the school was originally built was donated by George Henry, the then Bishop of Bath and Wells, but the money to build the school was generously provided by William Perry.  Over this year, the children will get to learn more about what it was like to attend our school, 200 years ago.  We look forward to sharing more information with you.                                         

It was lovely to see so many happy faces coming into school last week.  The first few days back are always quite special as we all embrace that golden opportunity to be the very best version of ourselves.  Establishing high expectations for behaviour, punctuality, uniform and approach to learning, is the key task for the next few weeks.  All of the classes are working on their learning charters and these will be shared with families during the meet the teacher meetings (a reminder of dates and times is included below).

The end of the school year is in sight and with just 2 school days to go, we are focusing our attention on celebration services and wishing our super Year 6 pupils a fond farewell and good luck for the future.

Firstly, apologies for the slightly shorter than normal newsletter.  We are experiencing some technical problems with our IT server so I have not been able to access a lot of the information.  As soon as the system is back up and running, the office team will send out a slightly updated version with our clubs and community news included.

Welcome back, I hope you had a relaxing Easter break. 

Term 5 is a short term but nevertheless a busy one, with school trips, spring music concert (see information below), bikeability for Year 5, Year 6 SATs and our Year 1 class service and Tea @ 3.