You may recall that two of our Year 6 children Ashae Millwood and Stanley Lorraine, were announced winners of a competition to design a sustainability mural through the Cross River Partnership. This reflects our love of nature and some of our very favourite feathered visitors alongside our urban location. We are absolutely thrilled to come back after the Easter holidays to see the finished mural which was created by @aspireartwork. The children are delighted with the bold design and we particularly love all the different angles you can view from around the school. We have further developed this front to our school with some cherry laurel planting and will continue to add to the biodiversity we are already achieving. What an amazing legacy for Stanley and Ashae – thank you both.

Year 4 explored the new Spike kits this morning. The challenges were to make a fan and to create a robot that moved without using wheels. We had to use coding and sensors to programme our robots.

On International Women’s Day 2022, we consider some of the amazing artwork produced by female artists from Ukraine. Which is your favourite?

It was an encouraging turnout for our parent coffee morning on Wednesday and we are so grateful to Shaymaa and Tracy for organising it and putting so much effort in. One of the losses during the pandemic was opportunities for parents and carers to get together with one another and build those lovely networks and friendships. Shaymaa and Tracy are really trying to do something about that and hoping to build some new Middle Park connections.

What would you wear on a ‘Dress to Express’ day?? Some of us have dressed up, some of us have dressed down. Some have gone big, some have gone small. We’re all comfortable in different ways and more than ever, today we are celebrating our differences and enjoying all our looks. #dresstoexpress

We had photograph day this week and all got to practise our very best smiles. Thank you to our wonderful Year 6 helpers who kept the troops entertained and kept things moving.