Whole school news and updates

Grandparents' Afternoon Tea
We held our annual grandparents' afternoon tea on Friday 10th November. It is always a lovely event and this year was no exception. All of the grandparents enjoyed the opportunity to spend time with their grandchildren in school. Thanks as always to Lidia, our school cook, who made all of the food - after already making all of the school lunches! 
Remembrance
During collective worship sessions in the week beginning 6th November, children learned about the significance of the poppy to commemorate Remembrance each year. 
On Friday 10th, we had a special assembly where we thought about peace and reconciliation around the world, linked with our Cross of Nails status and held a silence at 11am. Many of the children photographed also participated in local parades on Remembrance Sunday. 
Harvest Festival

On Friday 14th October All Saints classes took turns to sing a Harvest themed song. We sang other songs as well in including “Imagine” which is about God’s wonderful creation and “Never Give Up” which encourages us to stand up for justice and hope. Year 6 children had written prayers and Mrs Sutherland thanked parents for providing food items which the church will donate to the Foodbank.

Leaver Church Service
On Friday 21st July, we held our Leavers service in church. Each year group performed a specially re-worded song - these were so cleverly done and enjoyed by all. Y6 children shared some of their memories from their time at All Saints', shared a prayer and also sang a song. It was a really lovely service, including saying goodbye to Mrs Cossins as she starts her retirement, with exciting times ahead for her. We love singing together so we ended the service with the Leavers Song, and even some of the parents then joined in to sing 'Reach for the Stars!' 
SIAMS Celebration
On Monday 10th July,  we held a celebration in school which was attended by Bishop John, the Bishop of Warwick, accompanied by Jen Jenkins from the DBE. The visit was to celebrate our 'Excellent' SIAMS judgement but was also Bishop John's final school visit before retiring. We had a lovely assembly sharing children's work for the Spirited Arts competition, then everyone enjoyed some cake! 
 
 

Warwickshire Junior Book Award 2023 – Award Ceremony

We love taking part in this reading challenge each year; 12 children in Y5 read the four short-listed books then vote for their favourite. This year, the award ceremony was held in the Benn Hall in Rugby and all four of the short-listed authors were able to attend. Our children really enjoyed the ceremony, hearing from the authors about their creative writing process. The winning book this year was ‘The Unmorrow Curse’ by Jasmine Richards; this was also the favourite of our children. Other children in school can look forward to reading these books, which have now been added to our library.

Friends of Bo assembly

While our visitors from Bo in Sierra Leone were visiting, Mrs Garrett and the children in our Friends of Bo club led an assembly to update the whole school about the linked projects being completed. Ms Elizabeth Allie, who works in our link school – New Gerihun Road Upper – was also part of the assembly. She sang the National anthem of Sierra Leone and explained that people salute while singing it, then we sang some other songs together. It was a very special assembly!

Father’s Day breakfast

We held our annual Father’s Day breakfast on Friday 16th June. As always, it was a great success, and lovely to see so many dads with their children.

West End in Schools

Coronation Celebrations

On the day before the Coronation, we held a picnic on our field with all of the children from Emscote Infants and the parents from both schools. The children came dressed in red, white and blue for the day; they carried out various related activities during the morning and at the end of the picnic, they sang a song which had been composed for the occasion. We were also very lucky that the weather held out for the picnic as heavy rain had been forecast. As always, it was very special being able to bring our school community together.

Marionette After School Club
 
Message from Course Instructor -
Isaac, Celie and Elaine are absolute legends, bursting with creativity, imagination and enthusiasm and it was my absolute pleasure to work with them. It's quite amazing what they managed to achieve in just 6 hours! 
World Book Day 2023
PTA Valentine Bake Off
Severn Trent Assembly and Workshops
On the 7th February, Severn Trent came in to talk about the importance water. 
 
In the workshop, the children measured the amount of water that was needed for different activities- having a four minute shower or having a bath. Then, they discussed different solutions on how we can all save in everyday life. 
Royal Institute of Science Day
We had an amazing day in school on 18th January when we were visited by Zane from the Royal institute of Science. The day started with a whole school assembly and then Years 5 and 6 had a workshop in the morning, with years 3 and 4 having their workshop in the afternoon. Later that afternoon, Zane led a community Science show for our parents and children; we had around 100 people attending, and it was an exciting event with lots of amazing demonstrations, bangs and fire, as you can see in the photos! 
 
 
Young Voices at the Genting Arena
On Wednesday 25th January 2023, our school choir performed at Young Voices concert at the Resorts World arena. It was a fantastic event with hundreds of schools and 6240 children attending! It was a once in a life time experience for all of the children involved, who represented our school with great pride and  enthusiasm. Chances are they might not remember what they did yesterday but they will definitely remember when they did Young Voices! Congratulations!  
Santa Dash
'Warwick a Singing Town'
We are delighted to be in our second year of being a Singing School as part of 'Warwick a Singing Town', an amazing initiative which has the following aim and motto: Happiness and Health in Harmony. All of our children receive specialist tuition in singing from Jeremy Dibb, (Research and Delivery Lead for the project) who visits every Thursday for the whole afternoon. The children love his sessions and engage with great enthusiasm. For more information, follow this link:
 
 
Children learning the violin performed to the whole school and did so brilliantly. It takes a lot of courage to perform for an audience - well done to all those involved! 

Houses of Parliament Trip

On Thursday 29th September, our school council had the amazing opportunity of visiting the Houses of Parliament in London.

The children (and grown-ups) were fantastic on the trip, and for most children it was their first visit to London. We were guided around both chambers and everyone took part in a debate to create a new law – To Ban Homework. Our guide said our children were the youngest that he had seen visit, and they were a pleasure to tour around.

My highlights were Kitty’s debating skills, Thomas’s sheer quantity of curious questions, Florence and Molly championing the cause of KEEPING homework when others wanted it to be banned,  Zoe looking after Matilda on the bus, and children fist bumping the long arm of the law outside Parliament. And that is not to mention the courage it took for all the children to go without their normal teacher and having no routines at all!

I should also report that only a few children believed me that when we looked the Thames they could see France! I will try harder next time.

The children asked great questions, had impeccable behaviour and were a credit to the school. I was very proud of them all. A fabulous day was had by all.
End of Year Church Service
World Ocean Day
Jubilee Bake Off
Jubilee Celebration
Shakespeare Week In School
Mother's Day Afternoon Tea

Holocaust Memorial Day event, Church Street, Warwick

In a local tradition that stretches over the last twenty years Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January was marked at the Warwick War Memorial in Church Street with a special open air service of prayers and poetry readings. Children and teachers from five local schools joined together with members of the wider public and civic dignitaries from the Town, District and County Councils led by the Mayor of Warwick. In doing this Warwick joins towns, cities and schools all over the world in spending some moments remembering the victims and horror of genocides and holocausts over the last century. The prayers were led by Father Patrick Mileham. The pieces that were read were very moving reminding us all of the terrible things that can happen when understanding and tolerance are replaced by persecution and victimisation.

Pupils from All Saints and Coten End primary schools joined students from Aylesford, Myton, Warwick and Kings High schools to read and listen to poems and readings about the holocaust in WW2 and subsequent genocides. Back in the schools over the last week there have been special assemblies and projects.

The Mayor of Warwick, Cllr Richard Edgington, laid a wreath of white flowers. Then the moving ceremony concluded with the two minutes’ silence, the Memorial Prayer for the Victims of the Shoah, and the Blessing.

Jaya won 2nd prize in the Kissing It Better Poetry competition and was in the courier. Please follow the link to see the full article Kissing It Better Competition
Paintings for Castle Brook Care Home
The children in school today painted pictures to send to the residents of Castle Brook.
Shakespeare in School Day
We were lucky to be visited by 'West End in Schools' this week. They sent Jess to work with year 4, year 5 and year 6 on the play Romeo and Juliet. We all had our parts to play and had great fun acting them out. At the end of the day we performed the whole play to Year 3. 
Lights of Love Service
The choir represented All Saints' and Emscote brilliantly at the Lights of Love Service this weekend in Warwick Town. Each and every one of them were singing their little hearts out. I am extremely proud of them. Lucia Hart
Advent Service of the Mothers' Union in the Coventry Diocese
 
This was the annual Advent Service of the Mothers' Union in the Coventry Diocese.  One of their main gatherings in the year. 
This year we were delighted to be hosting it at All Saints Church Emscote.  150+ members of the Mothers' Union came.  20 children from Emscote Voices.
The President of the Mothers' Union in the Diocese Jane Hill sent her thanks:
The  children's choir was a very special addition - so appropriate in many ways and they really added a sense of joy to the service. I don't think we've ever had a children's choir participate in any of our previous MU diocesan services, so it was very special.
From its website:
Mothers’ Union is a global Christian movement working with people of all faiths and none to develop communities, strengthen families and advocate for change.
There are 4 million members in 84 countries across the globe. 
 

Lego Club

Every Thursday Mrs Will runs a Lego club after school. The club is managed by a company called kids with bricks. www.kidswithbricks.com . They have a competition every week to win builder of the day and have their build put on the website. This half term the theme has been all about Vikings!! Log on and vote for us and we might win some prizes…

New ICT Suite
Our pupils and staff have been delighted with the new up-to-date computers now in place across the school.  Our ICT suite is buzzing as the children appreciate the updated (and much faster) equipment!

Heart Beat Award

Well done to our kitchen staff who have been awarded the Heart Beat Award for providing healthy food choices and maintaining very good standards of food hygiene within school by Warwickshire County Council.

Educaterers have also been awarded LACA Catering Business of the year for 2019

2018-2019
St Mary's Art Competition
 During June, All Saints' Art Club exhibited their work at St Mary's Church, Warwick. The theme was 'Sunflower Varieties'.
Our inspiration came from Van Gogh's bright and impressive studies of sunflowers, Georgia O'Keefe's simple yet large sunflower paintings and William Morris' beautiful and useful wallpaper designs.
One of our members received a prize, from the St Mary's Hall Trust, for her amazing sunflower collage, created using different textures and patterned paper.

Day of the African Child

On Thursday 13th June All Saints' was delighted to be the host school for the annual Day of the African Child. It was a magnificent success despite the rain!

This special event enabled all our children to take part in six African themed workshops throughout the day. 

After lunch all 550 pupils and staff marched round our field, with their school banners, in a parade to celebrate our school links with Bo in Sierra Leone. 

Our Bo teacher guests were John Sandi, Lucy Amara, Kula Fangawa and Francis Jusu.

Mrs Garrett, our International Coordinator, who also works with 'One World Link' was very grateful for the amazing teamwork from the All Saints' staff who all made the exciting day go smoothly.

Bishop John of Warwick was amongst many special guests towards the end of the day. They were invited to place a plant in our Ecobrick Planter, a culmination of work amongst many schools doing the Zero Waste project.

Save the Children Cyclone Idai Appeal - April 2019

Cyclone Idai, which swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, has left children and families extremely vulnerable. As hours and days go by, the number of children affected continues to rise and they urgently need our help. 

Due to the urgency of this appeal, the Federation of All Saints’ C of E Junior and Emscote Infant School in Warwick have set up a Just Giving Fundraising Page to make it as simple as possible for members of the community to donate. The pupils of All Saints’ Junior also decided to hold a Walk, Run or Skip for Cyclone Idai event in school to raise awareness and show their support.

If you would like to contribute to this cause, please visit the Just Giving page and give what you can:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/AllSaintsCEJuniorWarwick 

This page will be live until Wednesday 17th April.

 

Summer Schools Art Exhibition 2018

St Mary’s Church Warwick

Recognition Award Press Release – March 2019

Staff and pupils representing All Saints' CE Junior School in Warwick were honoured to be invited to the Local Authority's 'Excellence in Education’ awards ceremony to recognise the improvements judged by Ofsted in 2017-18. Year 6 pupils, Scarlett and Danny, wrote and delivered a heartfelt speech in which they explained why they thought their school was great.

Debi Cossins, Executive Headteacher of Emscote & All Saints' Federation, and Sandra Sutherland, Associate Headteacher of All Saints', expressed their delight that the Ofsted inspection recognised that the Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare at All Saints' is Outstanding. They were very proud of Scarlett and Danny, who represented the staff and pupils of the school so well.

World Book Day

We had an amazing selection of costumes this year and the children enjoyed some special book themed activities throughout the day.

Warwickshire Music Hub Assembly

On Tuesday 12th February, the children at All Saints Junior were lucky to have Mr. Dibb from Warwickshire Music Hub lead our assembly. We had great fun learning some songs and actions and combining the two along with singing 3 songs in a round: ‘We’re going to Sing’, ‘When the Saints’ and ‘Swing Low’

Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day
We all wore our festive knits for the Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day and raised £214.00
Harvest Festival