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Dear Parents / Carers,

What a wonderful and busy week we have had at Kirk Fenton this week!

We started the week with a visit from Polar Preet Chandi who talked to the children about her solo expedition on foot to the South pole and across Antarctica. She explained that she is far from what people imagine a polar explorer to be. The children had lots of great questions and even had a go at pulling her training tyres across the playground to see how heavy they were and how strong she had to be. She was a super speaker and was able to present one of our pupils, Clara Murray, with a certificate, photo and a test tube of Antarctic ice water as a prize for designing a logo for her sledge on the expedition. What an inspiring way to start the week!

Also on Monday, we had our open classrooms after school. Thank you to all the parents that came into school to see their children's work and classrooms. The children enjoy showing you the work they are proud of doing.

Wednesday saw Coehlo and Hughes classes go out on their trip to the Castle Museum in York. They had a fantastic day and the museum contacted me to say how wonderful and knowledgeable they had been which is always great to hear. Thank you to the parents that helped out for the day and well done to all those children for representing our school so well.

Today we are celebrating Pride in diversity at Kirk Fenton with the children coming in their own clothes to show how unique each of our pupils is. We were visited by an RAF nurse who spoke to children about her role in the RAF focussing on gender equality . Again the children asked lots of interesting questions and learnt that their gender should not hold them back in achieving their goals.

We will end the week with our Friends of Kirk Fenton Summer Fair which is sure to be a wonderful gathering - fingers crossed that it stays dry. Many thanks to the Friends for organising this event and thank you to you for coming to support our school.

Have a lovely weekend,

Karen Williams

Head Teacher

This week's certificates were awarded to the following children:

Donaldson - Jacob and Skye

Hughes - Harry and Blake

Coelho - Harry and Tom

Rosen - Tom and Sophie

Milligan - Evie and Albert

Zephaniah - Oliver G and Oliver H

Shakespeare - Sadie and Eloise

Angelou - Lola and Lucie-Mae

Well done to the following who earned the hot chocolate award:

Donaldson - Matthew

Hughes - Elin

Coelho - Bobbie

Rosen - Erin

Milligan - Harvey

Zephaniah - Skyla

Shakespeare - Elspeth

Angelou - Joe

Congratulations to this week's winners the Green Gladiators and their team captains Alex and Olivia P.

This week has been very busy and full of activities. Firstly, we've had 2 non-uniform days, one where we brought in generous donations for the chocolate tombola and the other to celebrate the diversity in our school. To add to this, the year 6 class had a bake-off where we were challenged to create the best sweet treat. To finish off the brilliant week, tonight it’s the summer fair! Have a lovely weekend and we will see you ready and refreshed next week!

Head Pupil certificates went to Tilly B and Lucie-Mae.

Niamh and Lillie

Some of the Y6 bake-off delights!

This is now only on Thursday 6th July and pupils should come in to Kirk Fenton school as normal on Wednesday 5th July.

This year, our KS2 children have been working hard every week with Mrs Moulds, developing their skills on their musical instruments. Parents and carers of children in year 3, 4, 5 and 6 are warmly invited to a musical performance, so they can share the pieces they have been learning, on the following dates:

Parents of children in year 5 and 6: Tuesday 4th July at 2.45pm - 3.15pm

Parents of children in year 3 and 4: Wednesday 5th July at 2.45pm - 3.15pm

This is a special Y6 leavers' lunch and will now be pepperoni pizza followed by cinnamon roll. Please select on ParentPay for your child to have this meal.

Musical Performance

Tuesday 4th July, 2.45pm Y5 & Y6

Wednesday 5th July, 2.45pm Y3 & Y4

Moving Up Days

Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th July

Y6 TGS & SHS Transition Day

Thursday 6th July

New Starters EYFS Transition Morning

Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th July, 9-11.30am

New Starters EYFS Parents Meeting

Thursday 6th July, 4-5pm

Usborne Book Fair

Wednesday 12th July, 3-4pm

Rosen Class Trip

Thursday 13th July

Y5 Sleepover

Thursday 13th July

Milligan & Zephaniah Class Trip

Tuesday 18th July

Y5/6 Leavers' Production

Tuesday 18th July, 6.30pm

Wednesday 19th July, 2pm

Y4 Onsite Camp

Thursday 20th - Friday 21st

Donaldson Class Trip

Friday 21st July

Y6 Leavers' Lunch

Tuesday 25th July

Y6 Leavers' Service in Church

Tuesday 25th July, 2.15pm

Term Ends

Tuesday 25th July

If anyone would like to say thank you to or has any positive comments for a member of staff then please complete and submit the form below.

Thank you to everyone for your help, donations and support for our summer fair. Despite the rain there was a lot of people enjoying the games, tombola, raffle, bbq, cake and drinks.

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