Rotary Junior Community Award

We were delighted to welcome the Mayor of Sutton Coldfield to our school last week. He presented awards for all of the children who completed the Rotary award. We are very proud of you all. What an achievement! Photographs are available on our website under news/special events.

Learning Trust for Excellence receives award for working together to deliver excellence in safeguarding practices across schools

We are delighted to announce that, as part of the Learning Trust for Excellence (LTE), we have been awarded a Leading Aspect Award for excellence in our safeguarding work which ensures our children are safe, secure and happy in everything they do. The Leading Aspect Award is a national award that identifies and celebrates leading practice in education.

Safeguarding is of paramount importance to schools and runs across all aspects of school life. The award recognises the quality of policies, practice and commitment to safeguarding shown by all involved in the Learning Trust for Excellence and acknowledges the significant impact of collaborative working on our schools. A range of people including teachers, parents, governors, pupils and Head teachers were interviewed as part of the verification process required in order to achieve the award.


Thank you to everybody who has been a part of this. We are so proud that the work we have done with the other schools and partners has had such a positive impact on us all, and most importantly our children.
The Learning Trust for Excellence has lots of exciting plans for 2018 so watch this space.

Modeshift Stars Bronze Award

We are delighted that we have been awarded the Modeshift Stars Bronze Award. We are now working towards achieving the Silver Award.  @ModeshiftSTARS

Indoor Athletics at Bishop Vesey

Year 2 came 2nd in the indoor athletics at Bishop Vesey last night.
Fantastic effort by everyone !

Class 2 Awards!

Yesterday afternoon we had a special 'Class 2 Award Ceremony' in our class.  I have uploaded photographs to our section of the school website. Class 2 are fabulous!!  I will really miss you next year.

Wildlife Action Award

Today in assembly 12 children received their Silver Wildlife Action Award.
There is  PowerPoint presentation that explains what the children have done to achieve this award which we will upload as soon as possible.
Well done to all the children that achieved the award.

Rotary Junior Community Awards

Well done to all of the children in Y6 who completed the Rotary Junior Community Award. They were presented their certificates at Sutton Town Hall on Tuesday evening (14th July). Thank you to Mrs Curwen for inspiring so many children. Photographs have been added under special events.

Class 2 Awards!

We have had a lovely afternoon today here in Class 2 with our own version of the Oscar's!  Children received certificates for qualities that they have shown this year.  Some children even gave very entertaining acceptance speeches!  I have uploaded photographs on to our class section of the website.

Bikeability

Year 5 pupils were given the opportunity to participate in a Bikeability course, the course enabled children to learn about road safety and they had to apply this knowledge to cycling around the local area under the supervision of trained instructors. Children completed a 4-day course and at the end of the course they were assessed by the instructors and told if they had passed the programme. The majority of the children did! Therefore, today in assembly Mr Steggall handed out bikability certificates to every child in Class 5 because each pupil had got involved with the course. Well done Year 5 this is a super achievement and the instructors were very impressed with you. What a great scheme to be part of!

Rotary Community Award 8th July

Congratulations to all of the Y6 children who completed the Junior Rotary Community award. We are all very proud of you. Special thanks to Mrs Curwen for leading and inspiring the children.

Big Schools' Birdwatch!

On the 1st February this year, Class 4, along with Mrs Glare and RSPB visitor Martin Fisher took part in the Big Schools' Birdwatch. This meant that they spent one hour watching out for birds on our school site, and counting the number that visited us.

It is interesting to see how many of each species visited us during that hour. Our results break down as follows (click for a bigger picture): 

We have submitted these results to the RSPB and have received an official Big Schools' Birdwatch certificate and the official RSPB status of 'Bird Friendly School'.

If you would like more information on the Big Schools' Birdwatch, and to see the whole countries most spotted birds, please visit the RSBP Schoolswatch website.

R.S.P.B. Bronze Wildlife Award

Over the past weeks Mrs. Glare's 'Bird Club' have been working towards their RSPB Wildlife Awards, making bird food, hedgehog boxes, raising funds, visiting a reserve, recycling and collecting litter.

The first stage awards are Bronze: well done to all the children who have achieved this Award. In assembly today Mr.Martin Fisher from the RSPB. presented their certificates along with stickers and a badge.We are very proud of our achievements. Kate achieved the award too - we're sorry she missed the assembly.

Bird food collection bottle

Last year the 'Bird Club' created a 'Wildlife Garden' as part of their RSPB gold award.
The garden is thriving and attracting a large selection of birds and our feeders are fully in use! To help us keep up with the demand, please donate any loose change into the 'bird food collection bottle' in the entrance hall. Any money donated will be used to buy food for our birds. Thank you.

Bird Sale

Last Monday the Bird Club held a sale to raise money for wildlife. As part of our bronze RSPB Wildlife Award, we have to raise awareness and involve others to help our local community.

We had made bookmarks, masks and finger puppets. We had a fun time selling and made £32! We are giving £15 to RSPB Middleton Lakes and keeping the rest for bird food for our wildlife garden.

Well done Bird Club!

Bronze Wildlife Action Award

Several children from Bird Club have been awarded the Bronze Wildlife Action Award, recognising them for "carrying out special tasks to improve the environment for birds, wildlife and people".

In the picture above we can see Martin Fisher from the RSPB, alongside all the children who won the award, in an assembly where they were presented their certificates.

A big congratulations to these children for achieving this award. Everyone at school is extremely proud of you - especially Mrs Glare!

(click images for larger versions!)

Moor Hall Wins "Outstanding Primary School of the Year" Award!

On Friday 21st January 2011, Moor Hall was presented with the 'Clewer Trophy' for "Outstanding Primary School of the Year" in Sutton Coldfield. This was in recognition of our achievements in PE, the delivery of the curriculum and the range of opportunities for children at the school.

Mr Steggall said "we are absolutely delighted to have received this award. Our provision in PE is a key strength of the school".

The award was presented to Mr Steggall by Mrs Clewer, who had been given the honour of having an award in her name due to all the outstanding work she has done not only at Moor Hall but for Sutton Coldfield Sports generally.