A huge thanks to all who visited the  PTA Christmas Fayre this weekend and to all PTA members for their great organisation and support for our IT fund raising. As soon as we know how much was raised we’ll let you know.

Thank you 2FT for sharing your wonderful,creative poetry with me this week. I’ve really enjoyed reading your lovely words and I’m especially impressed with the extra description you’ve put in. I’m looking forward to hearing some of you read the poems to me too as I know you’re working hard on your expressive reading voices. Thank you 🙂 

Well done to everyone in 3RB for your very informative assembly this morning,what a lot of learning you shared with us. I really enjoyed seeing how the Egyptians worked as a team work to build the pyramids and hearing about their clothing. It was lovely to see our new microphones and screen being used – thank you PTA. 

Thank you to those of you who attended our ‘Phonics Workshop for Parents’ on Monday 26th September. For those of you who were not able to join us the materials are now on the year group pages for YR, Y1 and Y2.  Please have a look and see how we teach our letters and sounds and how you can help your child with their early reading skills. 

Well done Year 3 and 4 for getting LHPSN off to a great sporting start this year. Read all about the Football team achievements on the PE page of our site. 

Last year I was contacted by the team at ‘The Parliamentary Review’ and asked to write an article celebrating best practice at Lickey Hills Primary School. LHPSN had come to their attention because of our consistently strong results and the super Ofsted report which highlighted our creative curriculum and increasingly innovative approach. 

I thoroughly enjoyed writing the article – what a great opportunity to tell everyone about our fantastic school and the families we serve! The hardest part was undoubtedly trying to keep to 1,000 words, I’m sure I could have written a whole book about our teaching and learning at Lickey. After several drafts and some difficult decisions about what not to include, I finally submitted the finished article in August. 

Towards the end of August I received an invitation for myself and our Chair of Governors, Mario Claydon, to attend an evening at the Houses of Parliament representing Lickey Hills Primary school. On Friday 23rd September we attended the Parliamentary Review Gala evening along with a small number of other schools from the Midlands area and received the final published document. We will shortly receive copies in school to share with you. It was a pleasure to represent Lickey Hills Primary School, I am so proud of our achievements here.

I very much look forward to another year working in partnership with governors, our dedicated staff and wonderful children to ensure education at LHPSN is memorable and accessible for all. Thank you everyone for your input into our super school we are definitely dreaming, believing and achieving our goals together. 

Well done to everyone involved in the Family Fundraiser Day on Saturday – you raised a fantastic £1,769.12 for Katy’s Breast Cancer Fund. 

Thank you to everyone involved in the event for giving time, energy and donations with special thanks to Clare Millward and Toni-Anne Farnell for their hard work in behind the scenes with risk assessments and licences! 

HUGE thanks to the families for running stalls : 

Woods, Smith, Croft, Berry, Ford-James, Davis, Lawton, McManus, Best, Joyce, Regan, Forman, Ellard, Black Haynes, Burnett and Atherley. 

Thank you also to :

Emily Pampered Ponies , Spirals Dancers, The Irish Dancers, Chris Foster Ice-Cream Van , JW Catering and Miss Cook , Mrs Reading, Mrs Hayes and Miss Troth. 

Your goodwill and thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated. 

Applications for a reception place at Lickey Hills Primary school are now open. Information and application forms can be found at www.worcestershire.gov.uk/schoolsadmissions. If you do not have internet access please call 01905 822700 for assistance in obtaining information and applying. The closing date for applications closes 15th January 2017. If you do not live in Worcestershire but would like a Worcestershire school you must make an application through your home local authority (e.g. Birmingham). You will be notified of the outcome on 16th April 2017.

It’s wonderful to see everyone back in school full of energy and enthusiasm for their learning. We have been reminding ourselves of our three school rules this week in assembly.

Follow instructions

Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself 

Use positive language and actions

We understand that if we all follow these simple rules everyone will be safe and happy in our brilliant school. I look forward to seeing you all around school and giving out lots of golden headteacher stickers for excellent behaviour, manners and super effort in your learning. 

A super start everyone, well done. 

Miss Salisbury 

We look forward to welcoming everyone back to Lickey Hills Primary and Nursery School from Monday 5th September.