£800 Raised for Children in Need! We had a variety of different fundraising events including everyone coming in adorned with very colourful spotty clothes. We were lucky enough to have lots of delicious cakes to sell and we raised a lot of money through our bake sale. Our ‘Design a Pudsey’ competition was a great success with many unique and imaginative designs for a new costume for Pudsey, a huge well done to the winners from each class the designs have been sent to the BBC! The raffle for the giant Pudsey bear was a huge success with over 500 tickets sold! Due to this there were many envious faces when Lucas Powell of 2MG was drawn out as the lucky winner. Through all of these amazing efforts, we managed to raise just over £800. This is an astounding figure, and it is has been confirmed as our highest ever fundraising effort. Can I take this opportunity to thank all parents and guardians for your support of the fundraising and also the children for their immense generosity and impeccable behaviour on Friday, it really was a lovely day to be at Lickey Hills Primary School and Nursery.

Thank you to everyone who contributed early Christmas gifts for Operation Christmas Child in Zambia. It’s good to see our values of friendship and kindness going beyond our school gates.

YOUNGSTERS from Lickey Hills Primary School have been inspired to help give children less fortunate a better Christmas, thanks to a local visitor.

Rosemary Aveyard who is co-ordinating Barnt Green’s Operation Christmas Child gave a presentation to years one to six during a school assembly.

She talked about her visit to Zambia where she saw the impact the boxes full of toys and gifts had on their recipients and showed them a Powerpoint presentation relating to the scheme.

Year five teacher Sarah Brooks said the children loved Rosemary’s visit and finding out about Operation Christmas Child.

“They were really inspired and now want to do something for the children less fortunate than themselves.

“So hopefully we’ll get lots of boxes.”

Tomorrow between 10am and 4pm at Barnt Green Parish Centre it will be Super Shoe Box Saturday where volunteers will be tasked with packing the gifts into boxes and tea, coffee and cake will be available to raise funds for transporting the boxes.

Last year St Andrew’s Church and St Andrew’s School sent more than 300 boxes between them.

Gifts for the boxes throughout the year but more will be welcome tomorrow.

Year 6 start their first day at PGL today. I’m sure each and every one of them will enjoy the experience, learn new skills and put our school values into action. I’m looking forward to joining them for the rest of the week where I know I’ll see resilience, perseverance and cooperation from our super Year 6 role models. 

How lovely to see Year 6 teaching Year 4 a different approach to their maths learning this week. Teamwork and collaboration showing how you succeed by helping others. 

This week Harrison (Year 3) decided to do his homelearning as a news reporter. Dressed as a journalist and reading from his script Harrison shared the news of the Ancient Egyptian treasure. The photograph shows a screenshot from the video of the mummy covered in ancient treasures. What a creative way to share your learning Harrison!  

Parent Questionnaire letter 2017

LHPSN Governor questions for parents – 2017

On my walk around school this week I discovered this super piece of aboriginal inspired Artwork by Ashleigh in Year 6. I was particularly impressed with her colour choices and the care she has taken to produce such a striking picture. Well done Ashleigh, what an excellent effort and well deserving of a Headteacher Award and Golden Book entry.

Everyone has made a super effort in their learning and friendships in this new academic year. The children are full of energy and ideas and the teachers and support assistants have ensured everywhere is ready for a super start in new classes. I was delighted to enter Lilly 1AP in the new Headteacher’s Golden Book for her super maths working out. I’m sure there will be many more entries this term. 

As well as welcoming lots of visitors into our school this week, the children have also been participating in lots of learning out of the classroom.

Year 1 visited Smite Farm to see how seed is turned into bread for their theme work.

Nursery have been to Wonderland finding out more about traditional tales, there are some super photographs on their blog pages.

Some key stage two children took part in the Bell-Boating Regatta this week coming 8th out of 36 schools.

Once again I hear many comments from the public, parents helpers and staff about the excellent behaviour of our children and how much everyone enjoyed their ‘out of school’ memorable learning experiences. 

What a staggeringly super performance of ‘Miniature Heroes’ by our Year 6 children this week.

Singing, dancing, anti-gravity pants and evil laughter filled the hall for three great performances of the show with lots of talent shining through in so many ways.

It was lovely to see the interaction between the children and the great encouragement they gave each other throughout the shows.

Thank you Year 4 for providing the soundtrack with your lovely singing too, your voices were appreciated. Many thanks to everyone who came along and for the lovely comments shared with me about our children and staff . There are plenty of photographs to share and they will follow on the Year 6 page shortly.

Thank you again to everyone involved in the production of ‘Miniature Heroes.’