Message From Mrs Dance
Dear parents and carers,
I hope that this week has been a positive one for you all. My week has flown by! Once again, the school has been a hive of activity with a tremendous amount of learning taking place.
This week, my assemblies have been focussed on the school value: Open-mindedness “explore…there may be more!”
I linked our value to Remembrance day. We talked about how we, as a society and school community, can learn from the past. Paying tribute to our service community by being open to the views and opinions of others; remaining open-minded to each other and the world around us.
The Makaton sign for open-minded is:
This week, we welcomed lots of prospective new families to our school. It was a fabulous evening sharing what we offer at Vigo to our children and families.
You may have noticed some new additions to our playground provision. Mr. Dockree has been working with our Mid-Day Supervisors, to enhance the lunchtime provision across both KS1 and KS2 playgrounds. The children are loving the new additions, as are the lunchtime staff!
Miss Blake has trained our new Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO) this week. They are brimming with exciting ideas; the first two ideas are to develop a school JRSO display and to launch a road safety competition across the school. I look forward to introducing the team to you in next week’s newsletter and working with them this academic year.
I wanted to share with you some lovely feedback I received recently. While Year 6 were at Calshot for their residential trip last week Cllr Kirsty North, who was filling at the centre at the time, contacted me to commend our Vigo pupils. She said:
"the pupils were an absolute credit to your school. They were confident, engaging, honest and friendly as they talked to me about their stay this week. It was brilliant to watch all the pupils getting stuck into archery, skiing, cycling and climbing and hearing about some of the challenges a residential stay brings – getting some sleep, for example!"
Finally, on Monday, we held our second Parent Forum meeting for this academic year. The minutes and highlights document will be shared with you next week. Thank you to everyone who shared their views and suggestions with the reps; by working together our children will thrive and succeed.
Wishing you all a great weekend
Yours faithfully
Mrs Dance
Headteacher
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