Thank you to our Kingfishers families for joining us yesterday to celebrate their achievements in Rock It Music so far this year. The children wowed everybody with their keyboard skills, playing a range of pieces from a waltz to a rock medley. They also shared a song that they had composed using the Anker Valley values. Well done Kingfishers!

Since the start of the year, Mrs Williams and Kingfishers have implemented Our Time To Enjoy Reading (O-T-T-E-R) and from this half term we are rolling this reading for pleasure initiative out to all year groups. Each week a child from the class will be selected to bring home a reading journal and companion (a chosen soft toy for each class). Over the week, the child can take the soft toy on adventures and introduce them to family and friends but most importantly share a book with them and complete a page in the journal to show what they have been up to and what they have read together. The soft toy and journal need to be returned to class by the following Friday ready to share in class before the next child gets to take it home. We hope you enjoy your time together reading at home.

Today, the children in Kestrels have prepared the ingredients, cooked and sampled Jollof rice. This was definitely more popular than the cinnamon and honey flavoured yoghurt last week! The recipe will be shared on Arbor in case you’d like to have a go at cooking it together at home.

Well done to all our superstars in Kingfishers this week!

It has been a busy day at Anker Valley today...even Year 1 have been out and about in the local area carrying out some map work. They had aerial views of the estate so they could find where they were standing in relation to the school. Astro was also very happy to be joining them on their walk.

In assembly this morning, we found out about different pancake traditions for the four countries of the UK as well as our annual pancake race the children in Kestrels have had a go at flipping them too.