Reaching out and connecting within our school and local community in 2024-2025

Reaching out within our school

It has been a difficult few years, and we know lots of our families personal circumstances have changed, lots of families are facing challenges and difficulties that are new to them and cause worry. You are not on your own. Please come and talk to us, or send us a message, if you need help. There is never a need to feel embarrassed or worried about asking for help-we are a Christian school and live out our Christian values without judgment.

There are lots of ways we can support if you are struggling, through our work and links with a  large number of organisations/charities. There would never be any judgment from us at school-just support and a genuine offer of help (and a cup of tea or coffee!)

Lots of you will know Wendy, our home school liaison officer, and will know just how resourceful Wendy is! 

We have our termly coffee mornings where a wide range of external agencies come along and are ready to offer you support, advice or just an ear to listen! Mrs Huddy and I (Mrs SC) are also always at the coffee mornings. 

This year, we are delighted to have the very talented team from ELCAS, led by Kathryn Chapman, running the Incredible Years parenting course on site at All Saints'. The first round will begin with welcome sessions and one to one meetings in September 2024, running until January 2025. The second round will begin as above in March 2025, running until July 2025. To find out more, please see the Incredible Years website using the link below. The course is open to anyone who feels it would be of benefit. Just contact Mrs SC or Mrs Huddy at school if you are interested. 

Evidence-based Parenting Programs | Incredible Years

Don't ever struggle, or worry, always ask when help is needed and know that you will be supported with love. 

Reaching out within our community

Helping local charity - The Cancer Bank - February 2025

We have continued to work with a local charity, The Cancer Bank. We have been collecting items in school that people who are suffering from cancer need. We also had a non-uniform day and the proceeds from this were given to The Cancer Bank to help those people who are currently suffering with cancer. Some children in Year 6 also spent time baking cookies and holding a bake sale to add to the funds for this charity. Altogether we raised £242 and gave this to Dan Theobald when he came and led KS2 in an assembly to thank us for our previous fundraiser and to explain how the money and items we donate help people who are poorly with cancer.

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Year 5 led Christmas Afternoon Tea - December 2024

Our Year 5 children spent the afternoon hosting an afternoon tea for people in the local community. It was lovely to see our children spending time with members of the community and playing games and having conversations. 

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Making Christmas cards for local residents - December 2024

As a school, we spent time making Christmas cards for local residents in the area. We then delivered these Christmas cards and showed the local community that we were thinking of them at Christmas time and to help them remember that we are all part of one big community. 

Harvest Festival- October 2024

As a school, we celebrated and lived out our half termly value focus of generosity by donating lots of food for the Harvest Festival. We donated non-perishable food items for the local foodbanks and also gave donations of money for the Bishop's Harvest Appeal. All of these donations will make such a huge difference to people in our local community and to those supported by the Bishop's Harvest Appeal, The Women's Literacy Project in Multan, Central Pakistan. 

Year 5 Community Summer Community Afternoon Tea-July 2024

Our year 5 children led the final community afternoon tea of the school year, once again enjoyed by all. Chess, Uno and snakes and ladders were played whilst tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits were enjoyed. The children sang beautifully to entertain our visitors. Well done year 5 and thank you to all who joined the afternoon tea. 

Helping local charity - The Cancer Bank - May 2024

All Saints' children and parents have worked hard this half term to provide much needed support for a new local charity called The Cancer Bank.  As the school value this half term had been Service, children were tasked with doing things to help at home in order to raise money to help others.  Some children helped out with chores at home whilst others chose to organise their own sponsored events such as bike rides.  Families then had the opportunity to donate money raised directly to the charity or to use it to buy much needed items to support those suffering with cancer.  A great number of items were collected and a donation of £585.83 was handed to the founder of the charity Dan Theobald's when he came to lead an assembly for KS 2 raising awareness of cancer.

EYFS visited some local care homes to sing Nursery Rhymes - May 2024

The children in EYFS had a wonderful time visiting local nursing homes recently.  They enjoyed singing a range of Nursery Rhymes to the residents and even got an older rendition of Humpty Dumpty from a gentleman on one visit.  The children also loved having the opportunity to chat with the elderly people - "I spoke to one lady and she was 104!!"  We have been assured that the feeling was mutual as we have been invited to return on a regular basis.  The EYFS children behaved superbly, letting their light shine at all times.

Year 4 Community Afternoon Tea- 3rd May 2024

We had a lovely afternoon with some of the community. We enjoyed playing some chess and dominoes and the people who attended shared with us some of their wisdom and tricks of how to win at dominoes. We provided hot drinks, biscuits and cakes and we really enjoyed having the opportunity to share this time with different members of our local community. We are definitely going to hold more of these afternoons and continue building these relationships. It was lovely to hear how many members of the community commented on how many of us truly did 'Let our lights shine!'

Year 5 Christmas Community Afternoon Tea-15th December 2023

What a great afternoon once again! It was really lovely to welcome members of the various community groups and residents from local residential homes into school to share afternoon tea and Christmas carols with our year 5 children. It was really lovely to see that the children were remembered by many and the beginnings of cross generation friendships most definitely forming!