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Dear Parents and Carers,
I would like to take this opportunity to say a sincere thank you to the children, staff and governors at the Federation of Briar Hill Infants and St. Margaret’s CE Junior School, for warmly welcoming me into the family. I am delighted to take up my post as Executive Headteacher and look forward to getting to know you all over the coming weeks. I am so pleased to have met some of you already over the course of this first week.
The governors, staff and myself share a passionate commitment to retaining and protecting the distinctiveness of both schools, whilst building on their individual strengths. We will continue to place high importance on the existing excellence in behaviour, achievement and enrichment. The children and staff are already generating some wonderful possibilities for collaboration over the coming year.
If I am going to achieve my ambitious target of knowing the names of all staff and children by the end of this academic year, I will be spending equal amounts of time in both schools. I will be ably supported by Mrs Byrne at Briar Hill Infants and Mrs Anstee at St. Margaret’s Junior School who will support in leading each school.
In the near future we hope to involve parents, carers and pupils in creating our new vision for the federation, so we hope you will share your thoughts with us.
I look forward to an exciting future for the federation as we work together in collaboration and continue to deliver exciting and creative learning opportunities for the children in our school community.
Yours sincerely,
Sukie Owers
'Service of Welcome' at St. Margaret's Church 10 a.m. on Sunday 4th September.
All parents and children of St. Margaret's and Briar Hill Schools are invited to a Service of Welcome and Commissioning at St. Margaret's Church this Sunday morning to welcome our new Executive Head teacher, Mrs. Sukie Owers, into the church and school community. All welcome.
Nine book worms in year 5 have been reading the four books nominated for this year's Warwickshire Junior Book Award. On 12th July, the Award Ceremony was held at the Spa Centre and the winner of the children's votes for the best book was announced. The well-deserved winner was Mike Revell's 'Stonebird'.
Elspeth said: "It was full of magical description". Jasleen and Amy said that Daisy the dog was their favourite character and they too loved the magic in the story.
The pupils were a credit to the school and thoroughly enjoyed the morning. See the photos on our Home page and in our gallery.
This summer term, 10 pupils from Year 5 have been selected to take part in a Book Club with Mrs Atkins. Georgia, Emily, Daniel, Elspeth, Holly, Amy, Jamie, Grace, Alice and Jasleen have all read four books which have been shortlisted for the Warwickshire Junior Book Award (WJBA).
The books are:
'The Astounding Broccoli Boy' by Frank Cottrell Boyce
'The Accidental Prime Minister' by Tom McLaughlin
'Stonebird' by Mike Revell
'The Sound of Whales' by Kerr Thompson
Over the weeks, as well as enjoying the books they have entered competitions to design a new superhero; to draw their favourite character; decide what they would do if they were to become Prime Minister and to write a story inspired by characters in one of the books.
The ten pupils voted for their favourite book which was ... 'Stonebird' by Mike Revell.
Now we are looking forward to attending the WJBA ceremony on 12th July at the Royal Spa Centre, to meet the authors, find out the overall winner and discover if we have won any of the competitions.
Look out for an update including photos soon...
Wow Jenny! We are all so proud of you!
We are delighted to share our recent outstanding SIAMS report following an inspection by the National Society Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools.
The distinctiveness and effectiveness of St Margaret's’s Primary as a Church of England school are outstanding.