Open afternoon

Monday 18th July – 2.30pm – 4.30pm. Just a reminder of this opportunity! In the School hall will be a gallery of all the children’s work compiled through their work this week in school ‘Gambia week’. Also you are more than welcome to visit your current child’s class and look at their work and join in with this session. At 3.30pm you will then be able to go along and meet your child’s new teacher and discuss with them any questions that may have arisen. We look forward to seeing you Monday!

What do you think of Merlin?

How do you use it? What are your favourite tools? Are you batty about blogs?  Wild about wikis? Or dotty about discussions? As a pupil you are invited to tell SWGfL Merlin what you think of Merlin and in return for taking part they will put our school forward to win one of three amazing prizes! A year subscription to I am Learning for your school, the Merlin Team in your school for a day and a stunning digital photo frame. To take part in the survey please Click here. (You will need to sign in with your Merlin username and password).

An Olympian visits POW!

On Thursday 30th June we welcomed Sarah Ayton into school to talk to the children about what it is like to be an athlete who has successfully won an Olympic gold medal (or two!). Sarah spoke to the children about how when she was 6 yrs old she tried a few sports out and found that she particularly enjoyed sailing. Watching Sally Gunnell win an Olympic gold medal for hurdles was what drove her on to win her very own olypmic gold medal. She spoke about her boat, the sport itself, keeping fit and healthy and having goals and dreams. All the children and staff found her extremely inspirational .... and we all got to hold an Olympic gold medal - very exciting!

Comments Please

We have all been working hard on updating our Blogs at The Prince of Wales First School and have slowly been building momentum with this method of communication. We would now encourage you all to comment on our blog posts to support our work and encourage your child's class teacher and/or year team to keep blogging! To add a comment to any post simply click on the blog title which will load the chosen blog from www.blogspot.com.Next, click the 'comment' button below the post and enter your comment. You will need one of the supported accounts to post your comment, e.g. 'Google' and all comments will be moderated for content. Thank-you all for your continued support, Mr.
Spracklen

Exclusive Interview with World Champion

Lamb Cam has gained an exclusive interview with 5 time World Champion sheep shearer David Fagan. David Fagan is the world’s most successful shearer. He has set 10 world records and won the New Zealand Golden Shears contest a record 16 times. David has additionally won 5 world titles, 6 world team titles and 16 national titles. In total, David Fagan has won more than 600 open titles worldwide since 1983. Click Lamb Cam to see the exclusive interview now.

ParentMail

We are keen to streamline our communication with parents and reduce the amount of paper we use. We would like to encourage more parents to sign up to Parent Mail: collect a form from Kerry in the office! At the moment we have the following numbers of parents who have not signed up to Parent Mail in each class: Reception: 14, Year 1: 9, Year 2: 8, Year 3: 13, Year 4: 12.

Parent questionnaires

I would like to thank all the parents who returned our questionnaires. We are currently preparing our responses to your comments and we shall display the outcomes as usual in the school foyer. It is very pleasing that there is a universally positive view about what we are doing! Many thanks for all the lovely comments! I am about to start a similar process with the children as it is so important to see what their views of the school are as well!