Head’s Blog – 6th November 2020 What a first week back after half term! We have had an OFSTED visit, the announcement of National Lockdown 2.0 and ITV in to record years 3 and 4 learn about Equality and what it means. I spend over 3 hours with OFSTED telling them all about how we…
Head’s Blog – 16th October Our last full week before half term and everyone is exhausted! The children have been working so hard and seemed to have enjoyed being back at school, even if it was a shock to the system. They have all made fantastic progress in a whole range of ways. We are…
Head’s Blog – 2nd October 2020 What wet and wild weather whenever we have tried to have our adventures this week! The rain didn’t stop us on Welly Walk when we all put on our waterproofs to go on a leaf scavenger hunt. We didn’t stay out very long but we did manage to collect…
This is all rather surreal as this will be my last blog post for a while. It is a challenging time for every single one of us. When we heard that schools were closing and social distancing is taking place we made the conscious decision to make the last few days of our children’s education…
Lots of exciting things have been happening this week at school. I have completed my renewal of my Safeguarding qualification and two more Teaching Assistants have commenced their ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) training. This means that by the end of this academic year, all of the teaching assistants will be qualified ELSAs. This shows…
As we start the new decade, we at a Clearwell have so much to offer the adults and that work here and the children that learn here. The first week back is always a mixed blessing, it is so difficult for everyone to get back into a routine, feeling exhausted is there for everyone however,…
We have made it to the end of a very long term. I am so grateful to the wonderful team (staff, governors and parents) at Clearwell who have worked so hard in supporting children to make progress as well as the extra things that make things just happen. Miss Hale has spent weeks organising and…
What a busy week we have had. The castle hosted our annual Christmas party. We started the afternoon singing to the villagers, who absolutely loved Millie’s Christmas song. We were very grateful as they bought a number of raffle tickets from us. Next we had the amazing food followed by a couple of games. When…
This week we were fortunate to welcome Roger Pickett, Fire Officer and Dementia Awareness ambassador, came to Clearwell to educate us about Dementia. We learn to what it is, how to recognise symptoms and how to support people with dementia. It was so interesting and some of the key things that we learnt were: Some…
We have had a busy first week back at school with more children going to gymnastics at the Forest of Dean gymnastics centre, welly walk and learning brass to name a few activities. On Wednesday, Mr Paul McMahon from the British Legion came to talk to Willow class about the role of the British Legion…