Alsager Highfields Primary School: : News items

Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 7:50pm

We are always so proud of our children who persevere and do their very best every week, here are a few from Friday's assembly. Well done!

Harvest Celebration, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 6:44pm

Today we shared our annual Harvest celebration at Alsager Highfields. Pete Howard from the Community Church came in to share our celebrations and to give thanks, we sang our Harvest Samba for him and he was very impressed with our singing! Our School Council children took our Harvest donations to the Alsager Food Bank today where they found out a little bit about how they support our families in Alsager and the surrounding areas. The children represented themselves brilliantly, they were polite and asked great questions. We would like to say a HUGE thank you to all of our families who were able to donate to such an important service in our area - thank you.

Free Online Level 2 Accredited Courses, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 5th Oct 2022 @ 3:58pm

We have been contacted by The AIM Group who deliver Free Online Level 2 Accredited Courses to parents to help better understand some key issues around young people's mental health and wellbeing, along with a range of other qualifications that may help with developing your own careers.

Here's some of the most popular subjects available:

Children and Young Peoples Mental Health
Understanding Autism
Specific Learning Difficulties
Behaviour That Challenges in Children
Bullying in Children and Young People
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Nutrition and Health
Allergy Awareness

These are just the popular qualifications, but they have over 40 available!

The qualifications are completed within a 6–12 week period in your own leisure. They are equivalent to a GCSE Grade C. You can do as many as you like, however you can only do one at a time.

The only criteria you must meet to be eligible, is:

Aged 19 or over on or before 31st August 2022

Have lived in the UK/EU for 3+ years

Not already on a Government funded course

If you are interested in undertaking one of these free online courses or would like further information, then please complete the following link ASAP. This will then allow The AIM Group to contact you to discuss and get you started on your chosen course: https://theaimgroup.co.uk/booking-form/0014J00000qCWTz

If you have any questions prior to expressing interest, call Shane Cooke on 0203 900 3091 extension 249 or drop him an email at [email protected]

SEND Parent/Carer Coffee afternoon, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 4th Oct 2022 @ 10:28am

Dear Parents/Carers

We have our next coffee afternoon on Wednesday 9^th November at 2pm. We will have Lucie Ferneyhough attending who works across Cheshire east for the council, she is working to improve outcomes for children and families with a focus on the cost of living crisis and mental health and wellbeing support. If your child has special educational needs or you feel your child may have and you would like more advice please come along to the session. They are friendly and informal with an opportunity to sit, chat and have a cuppa with other familes. Please email Mrs Henshall at [email protected] to book your space.

School Council and Junior Safeguarding Team News, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 4th Oct 2022 @ 10:11am

Yesterday our Junior Safeguarding Team and School Council representatives met with Lucie Ferneyhough,

Community Development Officer from the Cheshire East Council. Our children have important roles in shaping our school and being the voice for their peer groups to ensure everyone has the opportunity to contribute towards important decisions about our school community. Lucy explained her role working across Cheshire East with many organisations to help to improve outcomes for children and families, especially around mental health and wellbeing and the cost of living crisis. She finished our session by asking the children, 'How can I help?'. Over this term our representatives will be speaking to their classes to find out what we can do to improve our school and we will feed this back to Lucy around funding/grants we can apply for and what we would like for our school to be the best it can be. It was a fabulous session and the children asked great questions and listened well, representing themselves brilliantly as always.

Peace Poems, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 1st Oct 2022 @ 6:46pm

Congratulations to Sophie and Violet in Year 3 who won prizes at Alsager's One World Festival for their Peace poems. Their poems were read out on stage and can be seen in Alsager Library this week. Well done to all Year 3s who entered...your poems were really beautiful.

One World Festival, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 1st Oct 2022 @ 6:28pm

Well done to our wonderful Year 5s who performed at Alsager's One World Festival this morning. The have only been playing for 3 weeks and they were amazing.

Bullying Prevention, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 8:05pm

As part of our ongoing work around bullying prevention and in partnership with the Diana Award and the Nationwide Building Society, we will be sharing the 2022 Big Assembly video in assembly on Tuesday to encourage young people to Stand Up to and Speak Out About Bullying. All of our children have signed the No Bystander pledge, it is in every classroom and is signed by all adults and children. We have pledged to never stand by and watch someone be unkind or bully. We discuss things we can do to challenge this if we see it and through PSHE we continue to develop our understanding of positive relationships and how we can encourage these in all aspects of our life.

Our Playground Friends in Year 5 and 6 are also our Anti Bullying Ambassadors this year, they will be undertaking training provided by the Diana Award team. We will share more information with you throughout the year. If you ever have any concerns about bullying please speak to your child's class teacher or you can contact Mrs Henshall, our Pastoral Lead, at [email protected] .

Bullying Prevention Parents Guide.pdf

Therapy dogs, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 8:03pm

We have been really lucky this term to welcome a mini team of therapy dogs working with some of our children at Highfields.

We have Lottie and Teddy, both cockerpoos and Nancy, a Newfoundland, Jacob, a Cocker Spaniel and Olive, a Bassett Hound. They are trained to listen to the children read, to connect on a level that often humans cannot and to provide a therapeutic time for reading and connection. We are so very lucky to have them join us and hope to work with them throughout the year.

We will share more photos as we go through the year of our children reading and connecting with them. They are bringing their own doggy reading stickers to award the children when they read to them which will go in their diaries.

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School Council, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 7:59pm

Today was our first meeting for our School Council. Our children democratically elected 2 representatives from each class in year 2 through to year 6. Our children this year will be involved in shaping many decisions for our children, they will gather child voice from their classes and lead votes on important decisions. It is a very important role and they will make a real difference to our school.

Today our School Council met with our wonderful cook, Paula, who has worked at our school for a year this month! She wanted to seek their opinions on the school menu for the next half term. The children voted on their favourite meal options and their decisions were upheld. Their next step is to discuss with the children in their class further ideas for menus for the Autumn second half term. The children represented themselves brilliantly, and considered their class members thoughts and ideas and not just their own. The children also had the opportunity to ask questions to Paula about her role and the way she develops the menu for school, we discussed the importance of nutrition and also the training and experience she had to be able to do such a good job in her current role. One child, George, asked how she always made her dinners so delicious! It was a brilliant first council session and we are already planning our next one. Watch this space for further information ...

Assembly Celebration, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 7:52pm

Here are some of the photos of our children that we celebrated in our assembly today. They have all shown perseverance, resilience and focus to achieve their goals in reading, maths, sport and dance at school and at home too!

Well done children, we are all so proud of you and it was wonderful to celebrate your success with you today.

Young Carers Group, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 26th Sep 2022 @ 11:51am

The Alsager Highfields Young Carers Group is back on – please see schedule below for dates and details.

Young Carers Group

PFA meeting 28th September, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 26th Sep 2022 @ 11:26am

Harvest Festival, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 12:04pm

Dear Parents/Carers

We will be celebrating Harvest on Monday 3^rd October with Pete Howard from the Community Church who will be leading our assembly.

Every year we ask if you are able to make any donations of tinned/packet foods, toiletries etc which our children deliver to donate on your behalf to the Alsager Food Bank. The foodbank has such an important role in supporting members of our community and are there for anyone who needs their help. The cost of living is increasing and we are very mindful of this, so if you are unable to donate this year we completely understand. Anything that anyone is able to donate will be very gratefully received.

If you are able to donate this year then please send your donations into school with your child and they will be collected in the hall until the assembly on the 3^rd October.

Thank you

Year 1 Visit to the Post Office, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 9:43am

On Friday, Year 1 went to visit Alsager Post Office to post the letters that we have written. We walked really sensibly into the middle of town, crossed the road when the Green Man said we could and waited on the grass at Wesley Place until it was time to post our letters. After we'd posted our letters, we went into the Post Office to help Mr. Ellis to post his parcel and while we were in there the postman came to empty the post box so we saw him collect our letters! How lucky was that? Mrs. Lindblad asked him if he was 'The Jolly Postman' and he said that he was! This week we are going to write about our trip to the post office.

Parent/carer coffee afternoon, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 16th Sep 2022 @ 5:13pm

Dear parents/carers

A reminder that our parent/carer coffee afternoon is held at school on Tuesday 20th September at 2pm. Please email Mrs Henshall at: [email protected] to book your place

After School Clubs with Wesley Place, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 12th Sep 2022 @ 9:30am

Craft Club restarts Monday September 26th, 3-4pm.

Sparkz (for years 2-6) Thursdays, 5.30-7pm

MAT Merger News Update, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 10:05am

Dear Parent / Carer

I hope you and your families enjoyed a relaxing summer break and you all feel ready for the year ahead. I just wanted to inform you that our application to merge and create ‘The Cornovii Trust’ was approved by the Department for Education on 1/9/22. We are therefore now a Multi Academy Trust of 5 schools, consisting of Alsager Highfields Primary, Alsager School, Audlem St James Church of England Primary, Brine Leas School and Weston Primary. The Headteachers, local governing bodies, Trustees and I are all very excited by the opportunities this larger, merged Trust will bring to our young people and staff. We all firmly believe that by collaborating across 5 institutions, we will be able to make our already great schools even better for the benefit of our young people and the local communities they serve.

I look forward to working with you.

Best wishes

Richard Middlebrook

CEO The Cornovii Trust

My Happy Mind, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 7th Aug 2022 @ 10:01pm

We are very excited for September when we will be working with the team from My Happy Mind. They have a very simple mission: to give today’s children the skills to thrive in tomorrow’s world. Their programmes give children the preventative strategies, skills and tools they need to thrive in the modern world teaching about mindfulness and strategies to support positive emotional wellbeing. Take a look at their website to find out more. https://myhappymind.org/

Summer of Sport, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 18th Jul 2022 @ 10:48pm

We are delighted to confirm that ASM Sports will be hosting Holiday Clubs at Alsager Highfields Primary School throughout the Summer Holidays. The club will be open to 4-11 year olds and provide children with an opportunity to remain active, develop new skills and experience a diverse range of activities within a safe and secure environment.

If your child is entitled to free school meals - not the universal reception to year 2 ones but the benefit related free school meals then you can click the link to book your child onto the club for free

Please see the attached flyer for more information.

Summer of Sport

Friends for Leisure - , by Mrs Muddy

Date: 18th Jul 2022 @ 10:07pm

Friends for Leisure promote everyday friendship and leisure opportunities for disabled children and young people.

Please see the file below for summer holiday activities 2022

Friends for Leisure Summer Flyer 2022

Bugsy Malone Production, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 9:29am

On Friday 8^th July, the children at Alsager Highfields preformed their summer production of Bugsy Malone to their friends and family at Alsager Civic Centre. The show was absolutely amazing and a great day and night was had by all. A big well done and thank you to all the key stage 2 children, staff and volunteers involved in the musical!

Summer Skerratt , by Mrs Muddy

Date: 14th Jul 2022 @ 11:41am

Summer Skerratt, in year 5 pupil at Alsager Highfields, was awarded the national Primary Premier League Stars Award for meeting and exceeding the four competencies: be connected, be ambitious, be fair and be inspiring. Her amazing attitude towards sport and learning in general has been recognised with this award. Lee Bell, Assistant Manager of Crewe Alex football team and previous pupil at Alsager Highfields visited the school to present the award to Summer today. Her parents attended and everyone was so very proud that she had been recognised for her fantastic attitude. Summer is an exceptional footballer, she plays football for an Alsager team as well as playing for the Crewe Alex girls development squad. Cameron Phelps, from Crewe Alex, nominated Summer for her contribution and hard work both in school and at Crewe Alex. Cameron said, 'Summer's confidence has really grown this year and helped her to overcome her doubt in herself, she is a great team player and is starting to believe in herself which is why I really enjoy working with Alsager Highfields.'

Wellbeing Workshops, by Mrs Muddy

Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 1:51pm

Visyon’s Family and Community Wellbeing Team are running a series of parenting workshops on a collection of topics throughout July. Please see posters below for details:

11/07/2022: Sleep workshop (Oak Tree children’s centre in Crewe)

12/07/2022: Sleep workshop (Visyon, Congleton)

13/07/2022: Supporting your child with additional needs workshop (Visyon, Congleton)

13/07/2022: Sleep workshop (Sandbach children’s centre)

18/07/2022: Self-harm and suicide awareness workshop (Oak Tree children’s centre, Crewe)

19/07/2022: Parental separation workshop (Visyon, Congleton)

20/07/2022: Self harm and suicide awareness workshop (Visyon, Congleton)

27/07/2022: Childhood development workshop (Visyon, Congleton)