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What a wonderful end to the week with International Day. All the children seem to have enjoyed a focus on a different country and expanded their knowledge of food, places of interest, art forms and music.

Our after school clubs have now started. Year 6 children are progressing well with their cycling awareness course. Year 5 commenced their swimming tuition this week and all tried hard to improve their swimming. Year 5 have also worked with Matt Bramhall on a project called ‘Cov Kool Kids’. The project focuses on ‘Peace and Reconciliation’ and will finish with a musical performance in December 2009. Year 6 also started to learn to play African drums this week.

We had a fire drill this week. All the children and staff left the building in an orderly way. Congratulations to our Foundation Stage for being so sensible and leaving the building so well.

We have new staff to welcome to Leigh School. Mrs J Knott has joined us to work with Years 1 and 2 on a special project called Reading Recovery and will also be working with all other classes while based in our Library. Miss S Rehman has also joined us as a teaching assistant in Year 3. Our new cleaner is Mrs Walker. We warmly welcome them all to our school and hope they have a rewarding time working at our school.

Next week Year 6 parents are invited to a pre-SATs meeting on Monday 28th September between 6pm-7pm. This is an important meeting and we would appreciate it if at least one parent for each Year 6 child can attend.

On Tuesday 29th September we will be saying farewell to Father Brian from St. Oswald’s Church who will be retiring on the same day. All parents are welcome to come to our assembly at 8:55am to say goodbye.

On Friday our class assemblies start. Year 1 will be leading assembly on 2nd October. Please come along and support the children if you can.  I hope the weather stays fine for this weekend.

Dear Parents,

This week has been an exciting and eventful one. Our Foundation children completed their first full day at Leigh on Thursday and have already been busy learning their letters and sounds. The children are settling in well and are excited to share what they have learned.

Sadly we are losing some of our valued governors due to personal circumstances. All the staff would like to say a big thank you to: Lesley Abbott, Ben Drew, Dave Batten, Sarah Gamble and Hazel Thomas for all their hard work and commitment over the years to support the school. If any parents would be interested in joining the governing body at Leigh' please see the office staff or myself for more details.

Children thoroughly enjoyed a performance called 'Digging The Dirt' by Artefact. All year groups have begun with a history topic this term and the production focused on the importance of using artefacts found by archaeologists to help us to understand the past and link them to historical facts.


We are delighted with the attendance figures so far. To help support us in achieving excellent attendance, could I please remind parents that children need to be on time and in school by 8:50am.

Could I just ask parents to remind their children that they do need to bring their P.E. kit in to school if they haven't already, as some children have forgotten them.

As some of you may be aware, we hold our weekly celebration assemblies on Fridays. Parents are welcome to attend and they begin at 9:00am. From October 2nd, each class will take turns to perform their class assembly and we would like to encourage as many parents as possible to participate and support their children.

Have a great weekend.

Miss Mailer ~ Deputy Head Teacher

POSH NOSH ~ LUNCHTIME SUPERVISOR AWARD

Each week one child from each class will be awarded with ‘Posh Nosh’ for good manners and general good behaviour at lunchtime.

Their reward is to be served their dinner and sit at a table, with tablecloth, posh glasses and their very own name card, with Mr Steward and another member of staff.

The children are chosen every Friday and have the reward on the following Tuesday.

Posh Nosh
15th September

La-Sian Gault
Lucy Gamble
Christian Osborne
Reace Dixon
Shannon Richardson
Eden Robinson

Posh Nosh
22nd September

Elice Griffin-Bridge
Alex Davies
Demi Quinlivan
Kitti Swift
Megan Atkinson
Peter Sweeney
Alix Twigg

HEALTHY TUCK

A big thank you to Mrs Morris who has taken over the Healthy Tuck Shop every morning.

Year 1 and Year 2 are now buying their tuck in the morning before registration. If any child arrives late, unfortunately they will not receive tuck that day.

SCHOOL COUNCIL 2009/2010

This week, children have been preparing speeches to put themselves forward as a School Councillor for their school. Once they had read their speech in class, the rest of the class then voted for who they wanted as their school councillor.

The results are as follows:-

Year 2
Jacob Drew
Hollie Simpson

Year 3
Rosie Andreassen
Ethan Davies

Year 4
Kieton Pratt
Lydia Drew

Year 5
Amy Ratcliffe
Jack Hughes

Year 6
Alix Twigg
Courtney Kemp
Bradley Williams
Joe Whinnery

Congratulations to you all, we hope you come up with some good ideas to improve our school.