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News from Totternhoe Academy

Our Mission Statement

We, at Totternhoe CE Academy, strive for excellence in education by providing a safe, secure, caring family environment, where all are valued and respected as individuals, enabling them to reach their full potential, whilst growing in their love and understanding of the Christian Faith.

 

Our Value this half term is Respect. We can show respect by:
  • Speaking politely to others
  • Listening when others are talking
  • Treating property with respect
We are now back in the final half of the summer term. The year has certainly flashed by, and we have much to look forward to this half term.
We were delighted to welcome Mr Stewart Seymour from the Leighton Linslade Schools Sports Partnership, to open the newly refurbished trim-trail. A HUGE thank you to all contributors: the PA (£9000 was put forward by them from the Co-op community fund), the School Trust Fund (£1000 donation), Mr Brown, a parent, £300 raised by a charity bike ride. The rest of the money was funded by a sugar tax grant and our PE sports funding money. Mr Seymour and Mr Brown had the honour of cutting the ribbon. The children really appreciate this wonderful addition to the playground, encouraging even more active playtimes. We are extremely grateful to everyone for this major project.
We have welcomed parents in to school for ‘Watch Me Learn’ sessions in all classes. Year 1 parents had a wonderful time participating in the Year 1 music lesson, and have had their appetites whetted for the end of term Year 2 concert.
Year 4 have begun their Forest school sessions, bravely facing huge rain downpours during their first session! They showed off their fire-lighting skills to their parents, who were also keen to have a go!
We look forward to our annual Artsweek, later in June, this year with a focus on developing skills in Design and Technology.
Each class had opportunity to develop their musical theatre skills, taking part in musical theatre workshops run by Premier Education, running throughout the day on Thursday 2nd May.
The theme of ‘The Greatest Showman’ proved very popular and the enjoyment and fun was evident on each child’s face!
They each took part in some warm up activities such as moving around the room in different ways and then learnt a small piece of choreography to one of the songs from ‘The Greatest Showman’, and of course they were allowed to sing!
Preparations are in hand for our own end of year musical production, ‘Peace Child’, and singing practices are well under way!
Our children are all preparing for the changes ahead with children moving to new classes, with new teachers, and some of our Years 4s moving on to new schools. We are very excited about those Year 4s continuing their learning journey with us at Totternhoe, as our first Year 5 cohort!
The calendar is full with visits and many activities: inter-house, whole school and inter-school sporting events (we are praying for some fine weather!); Cherry class visit planned to Ashridge, linked to their topic of explorers; and Year 4s are looking forward to their residential visit to Dell Farm at the beginning of July.
The Leavers’ service at St Giles’ on 19th July will be an occasion for our Year 4 leavers to celebrate their time at Totternhoe and for us to wish them every success as they move on to middle schools.
We hope that all our children, families and staff enjoy a restful and relaxing summer break, and we look forward to a brand new start in September!
Happy holidays, all!
For further information about the school and to keep up to date with what’s going on, please have a look at our website:
http://www.totternhoe.beds.sch.uk
If you are interested in having a closer association with the school as it continues on its journey as part of the Diocese of St Albans Multi-Academy Trust, we would very much like to hear from you! We currently have vacancies for Academy Council members (formerly ‘Governors’) with a keen interest in supporting the work of the school and championing its cause in the community. Please do get in touch if this is an area that interests you.
D Mitchelmore/O Bates