It’s been a busy Friday, starting with a Trust-wide Head’s meeting at WPA this morning. As well as Bridge Schools working together throughout the year, we also have regular meetings at each other’s schools.

The day started with a tour, expertly led by our House Captains who were “wonderful ambassadors for the school.” Additional feedback included, “Everyone spoke so positively about what they saw around the school. Engaged and focused children at this time of the year can be challenging. The children were delightful.” 

We then met to discuss a range of items, including furthering our use of IT across the Trust to continually develop teaching and learning; joint training initiatives; the Trust Alternative Sports Day next year at Looe Primary, and current Ofsted updates.   

Alongside this today, Year 5 had their Egyptian WOW Day; the Choir sang at St Breock Care Home and we held our final Celebration Assembly of 2024!

Next week promises to be an exciting mix of teaching, learning and other end of term events. Here’s to another successful week ahead.    

Winter Fayre
A huge thank you for raising £1062 in just an hour and a half at our Winter Fayre last Friday. Not only was it an amazing fundraising event, it was an opportunity to come together as a community. There was a fantastic buzz around the school – thank you for your support and to everyone’s involvement in making it such a success.    

Family Carols at Egloshayle
On a cold Tuesday evening, we held our Family Carol Service at Egloshayle Church. Thank you all for coming and making it a very special evening. Well done to all the children involved: our choir, readers and performers. A special thanks to Claire Charlton and the team at Egloshayle Church for making us so welcome.    

WPA Christmas Fun Run 2024
Thank you to everyone that donated! Online donations, plus change given and gift aid has resulted in us raising over £1000 for Children’s Hospice South West. All children, from Nursery to Year 6 ran brilliantly, and when they started to tire, the sports leaders cheered them on (along with some questionable singing of Christmas songs from Mr O'Dwyer and his megaphone ).     

House Points
Congratulations to this week’s winners, Puffins. Well done to all children earning points for their House this term. The overall winning House this term is Swans. As their reward, all children in Swans get to have a non-uniform day on Friday 10th January 2025.  

Swans – 3546
Choughs – 3434
Cormorants – 3088
Puffins – 2901  

Gardening at Wadebridge
Last week, we went up to the polytunnel on our school field. We did lots of digging, raking, weeding, painting plant pots and much more. We planted winter vegetables which everyone enjoyed. My group have been looking forward to what we could do next to upgrade and make our polytunnel a better place for wildlife and plants to thrive.
From members of the Eco Council    

Coffee Morning – Friday 20th December 08:45 (Reception Playground)
Our final coffee morning of the term takes place next Friday 20th December after drop off (outdoors!) in the Reception playground. Wrap up warm for some al fresco tea, coffee and Christmas tunes!   

Dates coming up  
Monday 16th Dec
09:00 KS2 Cinema Trip
14:00 Big Nursery & Reception Christmas Singalong with Parents and Buddies

Tuesday 17th Dec
15:00-16:00 Inter-schools Netball Competition

Wednesday 18th Dec
09:00 & 14:00 KS1 Nativity

Thursday 19th Dec
09:00 Reception & KS1 Cinema Trip

Friday 20th Dec
(am) Staff Pantomime for the children
Class Christmas Parties (unless notified on a different date from your class teacher)
Children can wear a Christmas jumper to school
School finishes for Term 1: 12:30 Nursery collection; 13:20 Reception-KS1 collection;  13:30 KS2 collection

21st Dec-6th Jan
Christmas holiday

Tuesday 7th Jan
Back to school

Friday 10th Jan
Swans - Non-Uniform Day

Monday 13th Jan
08:45 Coffee Morning
14:00-15:00 KS2 Cross Country
Term 2 ECAs begin