Wow! What a great week in school... I'll start with the RE Debate that we take part in every year. This is where children from different schools (not just church schools) come together to take part in a debate that they have prepared on an agreed topic-ours was 'computer games and whether they lead to violence in young people'. We argued 'against' the topic; as a church school we presented the argument that children should be able to make their own moral decisions. Suffice to say we continued our winning streak as we have never lost an RE debate in the time that I've been here. Congratulations to all the Year 6 children and staff involved-they were all a credit to the school. Thursday was also very exciting as the children were immersed in World Book Day activities. It was one of those days when you could really feel a buzz around the school-even at lunchtime where children volunteered to come into a special reading room with candles and an open fire (on a screen). Today we continued our World Book Day theme-the children spent all morning doing speaking and listening activities which involved no writing at all!

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We are moving towards producing less paper communication and more online.

We will continue to use the text message service but need to make you aware that this is limited as each message can only be 160 letters long. It is also your responsibility to make sure phone numbers are kept up-to-date.

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We all really enjoyed World Book Day. It started with us all chilling out listening to "The Smartest Giant in Town" on a story CD in assembly. We went on a trail around school to find quotes from books. We had to guess the title of the book and author. It was really close but in 1st place was Year 4, Joint 2nd place was Year 2 and Year 6 and 3rd was Year 5. We also enjoyed reading at dinner time in a dark room with dens, bean bags, candle light and torches! We all took home a book quiz. Three entries were selected from the ones handed in- the winners, who will get to go to Halesowen to buy a book will be announced on the school website. Finally, today children have taken part in a book swap.

To the children who took part in and won the RE debate this week:

Shahla, Georgie, Bilal, Sumayyah, Alexandru and Chloe

All parents are invited to our Star of the Week assembly on Wednesday to watch them receive their certificates.