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This week the primary children have been celebrating Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ poetry week alongside the UK’s national poetry day. The theme for the poetry day was ‘refuge’ and the children have been learning, exploring and rewriting a number of poems based on this theme.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Key Stage 1 and Lower Key Stage 2 were joined by students from their community partner schools in their PAWs lessons. All of the children played a variety of games and learnt and performed a number of different poems. There were lots of different actions and musical instruments involved.

The children also performed their poems to the rest of the school and their parents in assembly on Friday. Year 5 and 6 shared songs from their upcoming performances, which we are very excited about.

As secondary parents will have seen, all year groups have completed successful expeditions this week. Despite a wet start for some groups, students have shown great resilience and enthusiasm and have been developing crucial skills by getting stuck into a range of challenging tasks.

Sixth form highlights have included team raft building and competing to stay afloat as well as first aid skills.

In Year 11, students have also been developing water skills and enjoying time with community school partners.

Year 10 students have shown great courage abseiling and taking part in a challenging trek, as well as working on key map and first aid skills in preparation for their Duke of Edinburgh Award.

The Chitwan trip was more affected by the rain than most, but Year 9 thoroughly enjoyed their revised activities which included more wildlife with a bird watching walk led by Mr Grunwell, a visit to an elephant sanctuary and safari adventures.

Year 8 have also been hiking, problem solving, working with a local school and challenging themselves on the river, showing great courage rafting.

For their first secondary expedition, Year 7 have thrown themselves into a variety of challenges with enthusiasm, from hiking and cooking to canyoning and abseiling.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Owls shout out to all teachers for chaperoning our secondary children during the Expedition Week. A big thank you to Mr. Orr and Mr. Palmer for their tremendous efforts in organising the trips. Parents are so looking forward to hearing fantastic experiences from the children on their return.

We are pleased to announce the 4th Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Blood Drive in response to the need for blood products inÌýblood banks. We are appealing to eligible donors to be part of the blood donation drive takingÌýplace on 10th October, 2023 from 8:30 am – 1:30 pm in the new Secondary Staffroom.

A single blood donation can save lives and make a significant difference in the community. TheÌýevent is supported by Hamro LifeBank in coordination with Nepal Mediciti Hospital and isÌýconducted with high quality medical standards.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ now has a sensory room to support our learners. Sensory spaces can benefit all learners, especially those with ALN needs and are a place of comfort and calm. We are delighted to be able to offer this space as part of our provision.

The House Captains came up with the idea that they could begin running Inter House Competitions during lunch breaks to build team spirit and have a little fun! This week, they ran a very successful Table Tennis Tournament for KS2 students.

The winners in each tournament were:

Year 6: Dhaulagiri

Year 5: Makalu

Year 4: Annapurna

Year 3: Dhaulagiri

Well done to all the children who were ‘Risk-taking rhinos’ and participated. We look forward to having more student-initiated and led inter-house competitions throughout the year.

To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Mandarin and the Leading Linguists successfully hosted the Mooncake Charity Sale to raise money for our community partners. This year, we sold 300 mooncakes and broke last year’s record to raise Rs 64895 altogether from Primary and Secondary! Thank you so much for your kind participation.

The event saw the lovely interaction between Secondary and Primary students as the older ones sold mooncakes and taught Mandarin phrases to the younger ones. Special mention to Year 8 and 9 Mandarin students who helped with the setting up of the stalls, and the sales during Primary lunchtime. The following Leading Linguists also gave up their break to help with the Secondary lunchtime selling, with very creative marketing campaigns, including attracting an audience with the pomelo hats! Well done everyone!