Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Be A Hero For Children In Need!

  Mon 17 Nov 2014

  St. Francis Primary School welcomed hundreds of superhero’s on Friday morning in aid of Children In Need.

   

  Spiderman and Batman aka Harry Bird and Shemaiah Campbell from Reception!

   

  A Nursery full of Superhero’s ready to save the world!

   

  Year 2’s coin collection. Can you see who it is?

   

  A ‘super’ picture Y3!

   

  Y4 creativity!

  A huge thank you for all of your donations! We have raised nearly £400 so far.

   

  Mr Scrimshire alone raised £220 for his efforts as a very convincing Elsa from frozen!

  Check out our facebook page for his video 

  https://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Francis-CE-Primary-School-and-Nursery/572899829406042

  and continue the fundraising www.justgiving.com/elsagoestoschool

  

• Prayer Week

  Sun 09 Nov 2014

  Ewan and Sophia working with our Worhsip Council at lunchtime during Prayer Week.

   

  Prayer Week began on Monday 13th October with a visit from Mrs Stolberg, who told the story of Samuel hearing God’s voice with help from some of our children!

   

  Throughout the week many people visited us. Paul Northem talked to Y1 about prayer and monastic life and taught them a new song!

   

  Rev. Susannah met with Y4 to help them reflect on creating a new world.

   

  Sam Gibson shared his experience and understanding of prayer with Y2.

   

  Canon John Oakes explored different types of prayer and meditation with Y6.

   

  Every day we looked at a different theme with our children; being thankful, being still, being sorry, being forgiven and letting go. We explored the themes through practical creative activies, through stories and through prayer and reflection.

  Every lunchtime our Worship Council ran a lunchtime club for all year groups. Here they are building community jenga. As soon as one person from the community is removed, the tower soon

   

  Some of the prayers made during a lunchtime session run by the Worhsip Council.

   

  Faith, Evie and Alba with their prayer chatterboxes made with the Worhsip Council.

  

• Harvest Royalty!

  Mon 20 Oct 2014

  Mrs Hadley, Ella, Jeannie and Sam having a chat with HRH Duchess of Cornwall.

   

  Year 5 were invited to Birmingham Cathedral to continue celebrating Harvest. The Love British Food’s Campaign challenged schools and youth groups to create a Harvest box celebrating local foods. Each year group had been busy during ‘Food Fortnight’ looking at local produce and making a variety of dishes: fruit faces, vegetable soup, Eton Mess, apple crumble……the list goes on! Photos of each activity were in our box ready to take to the Cathedral. We were the only school in Birmingham to attend the event, specifically chosen by the Diocese! There were a host of celebrities attending the event and of course HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.

  

• Harvest

  Thu 02 Oct 2014

  We celebrated Harvest on Wednesday with a fantastic service at St. Francis church!Thank you to every one who came to share our celebration. Year 4 children led us in thoughtful prayer whilst Y5 and Y1 decorated the church with their colourful food alphabet.

   

  As you know, we are mid way through ‘Food Fortnight’ which has helped us to focus on the importance of food. The huge quantity of donations that came to church shows what a generous community we are part of. All food will be going to the B30 Food Bank.

  

• New lunchtime equipment!

  Thu 25 Sep 2014
  A huge ‘Thank You’ to Friends who raised the funds for our new lunchtime play equipment.

  

• Bishop Brighton Malasa visits St.Francis Primary School!

  Mon 22 Sep 2014

  We were delighted to welcome Bishop Brighton Malasa from Malawi this morning, along with reverend Tucker from the Birmingham Diocese.

  It was fascinating to hear about life in Malawi and to see photographs of his country ‘The Warm Heart Of Africa’. During his tour of the school, he spent time in each class talking to the children about their learning and our High 5 values.

   

  We presented Bishop Brighton with a handmade card from all of the children, a book illustrating St.Francis’s prayer, some Cadbury’s chocolate and a High 5 badge! We feel extremely honoured that Bishop Brighton has chosen to make links with our school and look forward to hearing from him again soon!

   

  

• Macmillan Coffee Afternoon!

  Thu 18 Sep 2014

  We will be holding a coffee afternoon on Friday 26th September!

  We would love to see as many faces as possible to help raise money for the Macmillan Nurses – our chosen Ice Bucket Challenge charity!!

  We need volunteers to serve tea and coffee and cake donations ready to sell. Please contact the office if you can help.

  

• A Splash Into The New Year!

  Mon 08 Sep 2014

  The Senior Leadership Team accepted their Ice Bucket Challenge during the very first school Assembly and nominated all the parents and carers at St Francis School…

   

  We would like all the parents/carers to support St Francis Primary School with their Coffee morning, raising funds for the fantastic work  of Macmillan Cancer Support. The Coffee Morning will be held on Friday 26th September 2014 3pm-4pm.

  

• 2014 – 2015 Term Begins 2nd September

  Fri 29 Aug 2014

  We look forward to welcoming our families back to school on Tuesday 2nd September. Gates open at 8.40am and bell goes at 8.50am.

   

  We hope you have all had a fantastic holiday and are looking forward to the start of term. It has been a busy holiday with lots of changes around school. The staff are all excited to be back and continuing learning journeys withe the pupils.

  

• Goodbye class of 2007!

  Fri 18 Jul 2014

  Another amazing awards service was held this afternoon. The class of 2007 have smashed progress records because of their hard work and commitment. They have made us incredibly proud and we wish them every success of the next few years.