All the latest news from School!

• MindUp update

  Fri 27 Apr 2018

  Claire Farrell, our MindUp advisor, visited the school on Tuesday and spoke to staff and children. We are now ready to launch the 3^rd and 4^th part of the scheme over the course of this term.

  Part 3 is all about positive psychology. There are 3 accompanying lessons to this:

  1. Perspective taking (looking at situations form different points of view)
  2. Choosing optimism (being a glass half-full rather than a half-empty person)
  3. Appreciating happy experiences – developing positive habits, learning to be grateful and focussing more on the positive things that happen than the negative.

  Your children will be having these lessons over the next few weeks.

  Please find below two links to videos that you may find useful for you and your children about how the brain learns and grows.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWSZ1DKjNzY

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLYkV689s4

• LOtC Silver Award features in the 'Hiya Bucks' magazine

  Fri 27 Apr 2018
  We are so proud of our Silver mark award ... 

  

• Football victory for Holtspur!

  Fri 20 Apr 2018

  Football Match - Holtspur School VS St Mary’s

  Our victorious game started with Aaron in goal, Ben and Dan in defence. Tom, Casper and Nathan in midfield George just in front and then we had Leo in strike position. Our coach Charlotte gave us a motivating talk and before we knew it we were on the pitch.

  Within a few minutes Casper had already scored an amazing goal. George crossed it into the box and Casper scored a half volley. Not much else happened the rest of the first half.

  Once the second half started we had changed our line-up: George was put in goal, Dan was in defence with Alex, Tom remained in midfield with Aaron and Casper and Leo and Nathan were strikers. St Mary’s had a lot of chances on goal in the second half but luckily Daniel, Alex and George put up a great defence. After they took their shots, we caught them on the break and managed to counter attack. Aaron, the great runner he is, ran with the ball and crossed it to Casper once again and Casper missed his first but his second shot managed to find the back of the net, thus taking us to 2 – 0. After we had scored they were getting angry and careless with the ball and most of their shots were off target. This led us to win the match. After the game, Casper was awarded Man of the Match for his two goals and outstanding effort he put into the match.

  Written by Dan and Ben

  

• Sports Relief - donations total!

  Sat 14 Apr 2018
  We have now counted all the money you donated, either to come dressed in red or by purchasing cakes on Fun Food Friday - thank you so much we raised a massive £332.05!