What an amazingly busy Autumn this has been, and so much has been squeezed in – Kent Test, Book Fair, Geography trip to West Malling, trip to the West End to watch Hercules, Cerebal Palsy Day, Mental Health Day, Harvest Festival, Pumpkins, Parent Evenings, School Photos, Fireworks Night, Governor Monitoring  Morning, Open Morning, Vision Day, Children in Need, Writers Workshop, Netball matches, SIAMS Inspection, Gymnastics competition, Balanceability, Prayer Activity morning, Santa Dash, Elfridges gift grotto, iRock Concert, pantomime trip, Christmas Dinner, Christmas Jumper Day, two performances of Superstar! and our carol service.  As well as all their normal learning and playing in school and at clubs and activities. It’s hardly surprising that the children (and staff) are all rather tired right now. 

 

I hope you all enjoyed watching your little ‘stars’ on stage on Tuesday. We are so proud of how the children have represented the school already this year, the feedback from our SIAMs Inspection was testament to this and thank you to the parents who took time to congratulate the school on our inspection outcomes, it always means so much to have your support.

 

You can join the village at St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Trottiscliffe at 3pm on Christmas Eve for the family Crib Service and at 11:30pm for Midnight Mass. On Christmas Day the Holy Communion service in Trottiscliffe is at 9:30am.

 

We hope all our families have a wonderful, restful break together and enjoy the Christmas festivities.  We will see you in the new year.

The whole school had a fantastic time on Wednesday when we set off en masse to enjoy Cinderella at Woodville Halls.  It is always delightful to see how the children of all ages enjoy this traditional theatre experience and, despite all the excitement, as always their behaviour was excellent and they were a credit to the school.  Huge thanks to our wonderful TSA for organising this every year and treating the school to interval ice creams too.

It is always lovely when our worship committee alongside Rev Helen and Rev Carol lead our activity mornings at the church and Monday’s Advent morning was no different.  Each of the committee led activities for the rest of the school to remind the children of why we celebrate Advent and what Christians are getting excited about at this time of year.