Author: Cara Turner

It has been wonderful to welcome the families of our Kindergarten, Reception and Year 1 children into the school this week to enjoy the children’s nativity performances. The children performed with confidence and there was also a great sense of fun throughout.

The children enjoyed taking part in our Inter-House Football tournament during their Games lessons this week. Mr Barton and the staff team were impressed with the children’s skill, determination and teamwork.

What a pleasure it was to welcome so many current, past and prospective families to the school this morning for The Friends of The Rowans Christmas Fair. The children enjoyed performing some of their favourite Christmas songs throughout the morning and our Year Twos did a great job running The Rowans’ stall, selling hand-painted decorations …

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There was further excitement on Wednesday as works began on replacing our playground boat. A welcome upgrade to our beloved and well-travelled vessel which was sadly no longer seaworthy! Our enormous thanks to The Friends and parents both past and present who have contributed to fundraising which made this purchase possible.

Next week will bring some extra sparkle to our School as our preparations for Christmas will be well underway. We of course have the Christmas Fair on Friday morning, 29th November organised by our wonderful Friends of the Rowans parents. We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you to all the children for taking part and the grown-ups for sponsoring their laps around the Sports Court. We really appreciate that you all took part!   We are very pleased that everyone had lots of fun. It is amazing how many laps the children did.

Year One benefitted from a fabulous Aboriginal Workshop this week. Linked to their topic work on Australia, they learned many facts about Australian animals and aboriginal culture and traditional tales, before experimenting with creating their own aboriginal-inspired artwork.

It was wonderful to see the children sporting their spotty items today in support of Children in Need and we know that many chose to support the charity by purchasing their Pudsey merchandise for the occasion. It made for a wonderfully colourful assembly as the whole school came together to celebrate our achievements and ‘wow …

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Year One gave a very moving performance during their Remembrance Assembly, sharing poems and songs with their parents with impressive maturity and poise. Thank you to all who have supported The Poppy Appeal this year. The children have certainly enjoyed wearing their poppies with pride.

This week Year 2 visited Hampton Court Palace. The children explored life at the Tudor Court and made comparisons with their own lives. As young historians, they handled replica objects from the Tudor era which elicited questions and fact sharing. They even put their music lessons to practise by performing a Tudor dance that was …

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