Coleshill C.E. Infant School

We are pleased to see the days getting longer and the first signs of Spring! Our Reception children have been wrapping up warm and attending Forest School weekly in our amazing Forest School area. This term, both Year 1 and Year 2 will have the opportunity to do Forest School as well. We always encourage the children to see the beauty of our surroundings and we are certainly very lucky in that regard being located in the stunning Chilterns.

We have had a busy term so far with lots of exciting events for the pupils including our Spirituality week with several visitors from different religions coming to talk to the children. We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday 5^th March and the children, staff and not to mention Pearl, one of our volunteers and a beloved WH villager, came into school in their pyjamas with their favourite book so they could cosy up and read. We also had a build a scarecrow competition, where the children made a scarecrow of their favourite book characters.

The children have enjoyed some inter-school sports festivals, such as the gymnastics, football and multi-skills which enrich the children’s experience at school. We also had an excellent whole school trip to the Roald Dahl gallery and museum, where we enjoyed workshops on The Enormous Crocodile and a Gallery Science adventure and we will be visiting Kew Gardens in June.

This year, we took part in a number day, focusing on numeracy and raising money for the Breast cancer charity, our Reception teacher, Mrs Dalston is doing a sponsored event and our families donated towards sponsoring her for this worthy cause. Children came into school in number-themed mufti and completed lots of number-based activities, making maths fun and engaging.

Our “Quack Snacks” duck feeding station is still going strong at the school. Duck food is available to purchase for 50p from the school porch which will be dropped into an honesty box. All proceeds go to the school.

During Lent, we encourage the children to think about how to behave towards others, to have good manners and to be particularly kind and caring towards one another. We had the Mothering Sunday service at All Saints Church in Coleshill in March when the children performed a poem and our end of term service at 11am on Friday 27^th March, to which all are warmly welcome.

Looking further ahead to hopefully warmer weather, our annual May Fayre will be held in the school garden, weather permitting, on Saturday 16^th May.  Please join us and come and support the school if you are free!

Sarah Hewat, Head Teacher