Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Seasonal Greetings to all of our school community.

I hope you are having a peaceful time this holiday period. Teaching staff are busy at work today, making sure you have a fantastic start to Term 3. See you all on Tuesday 6th January.

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

Inspired by wildlife

I was very pleased to see some very enthusiastic reading by two of our Year 6 pupils this morning. Carlton and Haruun have been very inspired by their learning about wildlife. I am looking forward to seeing their factual report writing about Peregrine Falcons and their other favourite animals.

Mr Burton

Christmas Play

Thank you to everyone who came to see our Christmas Play. It was a great success. Once again your children showed that as well as being excellent learners they are also great singers, dancers and performers.  The photograph below was in The Bristol Post's Christmas Play Special.

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

Christmas Dinner

Hats, Crackers, Music and all in our Sparkly Clothes! What a festive and yummy Christmas Dinner we had today.

Mr Burton

Attendance

Our attendance figure so far this academic year is 96.5%. This is significantly higher than this time last year and will help us achieve our end of year target of 95.5%.

Thank you for all your support in making sure your children come to school as frequently as they can and avoid booking holidays or appointments during school term time. We all know, the more children attend, the more they will learn.

Mr Burton

Carnival Award

We had some very special guests join with us today in our Singing Assembly. Cleo, the chair of the St Paul's Carnival Committee, and Barbara, a participant in the very first St Paul's Carnival over 50 years ago came to present us with our award for coming FIRST PLACE in this year's procession. Our beautiful award will very soon take pride of place in our entrance foyer.

Mr Burton

Performance at Temple Meads

Commuters were treated to a selection of festive songs performed by our Key Stage 1 pupils and accompanied by our Steel Pan band on Monday night. Many passengers joined in with our singing while they waited for their trains. Some of the songs came from our forthcoming Christmas Play which parents are invited to attend on Tuesday 16th December at 9.15 in our school hall.

Once again children were very well supported at an out of school hours event by our dedicated teaching staff. Thank you Miss Thompson, Miss Wilkins, Miss Adie, Miss Gundy, Miss Johnson, Miss Heppner, Miss Pearce, Miss Davies and Miss Hunter for your ongoing support for Cabot pupils.

Mr Burton

Christmas Festivities

Advent is here and our hall is looking very festive. We invite our whole community to share with us in this season of Peace and Goodwill.

Mr Burton

Writing Workshop Tomorrow

Dear All,

Please remember Miss Hunter will be running a writing workshop for parents and carers tomorrow morning. It will start at 9 am in our Studio Room. The purpose of the workshop is to share with you how we are teaching writing at Cabot and give you ideas about how you can support your child at home.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

Sunday Performance at St George's Hall Brandon Hill

Tonight's audience at St George's Hall has just been treated to a fantastic performance by Bristol Reggae Orchestra, accompanied by our very own Cabot pupils. Children sang and danced with support from a full orchestra of strings, brass, woodwind and percussion sections. There were especially composed pieces alongside orchestral versions of some reggae classics, including Bob Marley's Three Little Birds. Everyone in the audience rose to their feet and danced along.

Well done Cabot pupils. We are very proud of you. Thank you Miss Heppner for once again making sure our wonderful pupils are sharing their talents across the city. Thank you also to Mrs Redwood, Miss Hunter, Miss Huish and Mirs Cartlidge for ensuring the pupils got there safely and did their best.

Mr Burton

That's us in the red at the back looking really smart!

School Disco!

We had a great time showing our best moves on the Dance Floor last night. Thank you very much to our DJ Mr Copely, our MCs Miss Pearce and Miss Hunter and of course to Claire Humphreys (Lucas and Owen's mum!) and the rest of the PTFA for organising this fantastic event.

Mr Burton

Pupil Progress Coffee Morning

Thank you for coming to the meeting this morning. It was great to see so many of you there to share in the positive news about the school's continued progress and and our key areas for development. I am glad you feel as positive as I do about the school's continued improvement journey. A summary of the School's performance data can be found on the school website:

http://www.cabot.bristol.sch.uk/index.php/policies-reports/school-data

If you would like to give your own feedback about the school then remember, as well as speaking to us directly, you can use the Ofsted Parent View website.

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/parent-view-results

Best Wishes,

Mr Burton

Mama Africa

Our Year 6 Cabot pupils put on a fantastic performance at City Academy School on Friday night. Their poetry and dance work reflected their talents and the effort they put in to all the practise sessions. Pupils were well supported by teachers from across the school. Well done Year 6, we are very proud of you.

Mr Burton

Children in Need

We are celebrating Children in Need at Cabot today. As always, staff have joined in just as enthusiastically as the children. We will have more photos on our school events page later so you can see how our date went.

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

Dance studio and Music room

Our new music room and dance studio are busy places on Wednesday lunchtimes. We have our Steel Pan and Dance Clubs both running. I look forward to inviting you to some performances later by these groups later in the year.

Mr Burton

Mama Africa! Performance at City Academy this Friday, 6.30 pm

Dear All,

We were treated to a dress rehearsal of our Mama Africa poetry and dance performance this morning. Our Year 6 pupils will be performing at City Academy this Friday, along with several other Bristol schools. Pupils have been learning about African Art, Culture, Poetry and and using our new studio room to choreograph and practise a dance. We are so proud of our talented pupils.

Remembrance Sunday

Lest we forget.

Building Progress

Over the half term break the builders were busy working on the rendering outside the Year 2,3 and 4 classes. I am sure you'll agree it is a very smart finish.

More work has been done inside the building too. We are expecting to have our Art/DT room and music room finished very soon.

This is all good progress towards ensuring we have the very best building and resources from which we can provide the very best teaching for our children.

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

Pupil Progress - Coffee Morning 18th November

Dear Parents,

Our data pack from Ofsted has arrived and I am very pleased to tell you that it shows our Year 2 pupils did very well in their end of year assessments in June.  It also show that our Year 6 pupils made very good progress since  Year 2. I would like to share this data and more with you in further detail and explain how we will use it to inform planning for further school improvement.

I have booked the new studio room for Tuesday 18th November at 9.00 am for a Parent Group meeting. I look forward to seeing you there.

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

New Website Sections

Dear Parents,

We have made several updates to the school website. There are now new sections with information about:

French
PE
The 2014 Curriculum

We also have a special section dedicated to Reading, our School Improvement Priority area for this year. This section also links to the Library. Your child can access our Junior Librarian progamme from here and review their library account.

My favourite update to the website is our link to a recording of our new Cabot Anthem. You can find it in the Performing Arts events section, or by clicking the link below.

http://www.cabot.bristol.sch.uk/index.php/learning/performing-arts/performing-arts-events/item/124-music-week-2014

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

PE Kits

Dear Parents,

I am pleased to share with you that we will be introducing a school PE kit. We will issue each child with their own PE kit and bag for them to keep it all in. The bags are colour coded for each class and pupils will be able to keep their bags as they move up the school. Look out for the letter this afternoon with further details.

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

Music Week

Music week is going fantastically well. On Monday pupils worked with a group of musicians to to write and perform our own School Anthem. It sounds great! We will try to get a recording of it on the school website as soon as possible. This morning we have the Bristol Reggae Orchestra coming to support our singing assembly. Miss Heppner has done a fantastic job of organising some excellent music activities this week.

Mr Burton

Parent Meetings

Dear Parents,

We have scheduled parent teacher meetings for Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th of November. Sign up sheets will be in classrooms from this Wednesday. Please sign up for an appointment time with your child's teacher. More details of how to access the building for the meetings will follow soon. The new building layout means there will be some changes from previous meeting nights.

Mr Burton

Letters from authors

Dear Parents,

Several famous authors have written to us to help celebrate our new library. We are grateful to them for joining us in our celebration of this fantastic resource.

Mr Burton

Coffee Morning 2nd October 2014

Parent Coffee Morning

Time - 8:50am Thursday 2^nd October 2014

Venue – Studio Room

Agenda  - 2014 Curriculum Assessment

   

Library Opening

Our Library is officially open!

Children gave a spectacular performance to our visiting dignitaries, including our MP and the deputy mayor.

The Bristol Post covered the event in the article below.

Best Wishes

Mr Burton

PUPILS at Cabot Primary School are celebrating the opening of their new library.

The school in St Pauls has so far been without a dedicated library space, but now they have a new £35,000 facility housing story books, textbooks and iPads.

Gemma Davies, a reading recovery teacher, said: "This is a fantasticresource and opportunity for the children.

"Before we had the library, we had books in classrooms but no space for the children to go and read and research. It is brilliant to see it open.

"It has got brand new furniture, computers, places to sit and books for them, it's an amazing space. We are grateful to have it."

Around 190 children attend the school, which put aside part of its budget to turn the building into a library.

The school also has Reading Recovery teaching, an intervention scheme for children with reading difficulties.

Specially-trained teachers work with six-year-olds who are in the bottom 20 per cent of their class in terms of reading.

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Read more: http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/New-chapter-St-Pauls-pupils-