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A huge well done to our two boys from Rosen Class who represented us at the New Age Curling event today at Devizes School!
Competing against primary and secondary school pupils up to Year 10, they showed fantastic determination, skill, and teamwork throughout the morning. We’re incredibly proud to share that they made it all the way to the semi-finals and finished an amazing 4th out of 17 teams! What a brilliant achievement—well done boys!
We were delighted to welcome a special visitor from Marie Curie for a whole school assembly. Tom spoke to the children about the incredible work the charity does to support people living with serious illness and their families. This charity was put forward by two children in Rosen Class, and subsequently won the vote by the whole school, to be our chosen charity to support this year. We are now selling daffodil pins in school, which can be purchased for a small donation, and all proceeds will go towards helping this wonderful cause. There will be more fundraising events to follow.
Our Year 4’s have spent an absolutely jam packed few days at Grittleton House on their residential! Activities included archery, frisbee golf, Jacob’s ladder (they showed incredible courage climbing so high!), a quiz night and axe-throwing! The children showed incredible team spirit, encouraging and helping one another through challenges and cheering each other on. They all demonstrated amazing resilience and perseverance with the challenges and, for some of them, being away from home for the first time. They had an amazing time and were an absolute delight - they really have done themselves and Rushall proud
A huge well done to all our pupils for the fantastic effort they put into their World Book Day costumes today! From magical characters to brave heroes and brilliant storybook favourites, it was wonderful to see so many books brought to life around the school. Reading is such an important part of learning and growing. It helps children build their imagination, develop new vocabulary and understand the world around them. Every book opened is a new adventure waiting to happen. Thank you to our families for helping make today such a success. We hope everyone continues to enjoy reading together at home and discovering new stories!
Bikeability
Congratulations to all of our fantastic children who have successfully completed their Bikeability training! Throughout the course, the children have learnt how to take care of their bikes, developed essential cycling skills and learned how to stay safe on the roads.
A huge well done to our amazing group of girls who took part in the Dance Festival today at Dauntsey's School! They represented our school with such confidence, energy and big smiles from start to finish. We are so proud of their hard work, teamwork and fantastic performance on stage. A huge thank you to them for being wonderful ambassadors for our school. What a brilliant achievement!
Festival of Friends
We are delighted to be a part of Wiltshire Festival of Friends this year; a year-long model of collaborative, peer-supported activity for supporting Service children across an area, in association with Bath University, Bath Spa University and Winchester University and supported by Wiltshire Local Authority. The project is funded through the Armed Forces Education Trust and aims to develop and share good practice, upskill teaching staff, and encourage Service children (and their parents) to consider the benefits that Further and Higher Education can have post-16.
We took three of our Y6 children this week to a Pupil Voice day in Winchester University, giving them a chance to meet lots of other service children from all over Wiltshire. They represented the Service children at Rushall brilliantly and enjoyed a day of poetry and creativity.
On Monday 19th January at The Civic Centre in Trowbridge, our wonderful choir joined other schools in the trust for the annual Equamead music festival. It was a wonderful day, full of singing, dancing and working with the other schools to perform collaborative pieces. They then took to the stage to perform individually and sang 'Sing'. Despite being nervous, as they were singing in front of 500 people, the children were amazing! Their attitude to the day and behaviour was, as always, a credit to Rushall School. We are very proud of them.
What a fantastic evening of netball! Congratulations to our Year 6 team on a brilliant 6–3 win. Excellent teamwork and determination on display! Well done to our Year 4/5 team. Although they lost 3–0, they played with great effort, perseverance and teamwork throughout. We’re so proud of you all! A big thank you to our players and supporters for representing our school so positively.
What a busy few days we have had!
On Wednesday we shared a party lunch and were visited by two of Santa's Elves, who delivered gifts to all children. On Thursday parents and carers were invited in to take part in craft activities with their children and then to visit the Christmas Grotto and Fayre.
Thank you to everyone who has come along to support these events, contributed with donations and helped set up and run them, particulary our wonderful PTFA, who do such an amazing job.
Worship Council have been busy packing and wrapping boxes for the Christmas Box Appeal, co-ordinated by The House of Opportunity. There were a wide variety of items from toothpaste to colouring pencils for the children to choose from and to select who they would like to receive a gift this Christmas. Thank you to the parents who kindly donated the items for the children to pack - they will definitely bring joy to a person in need this Christmas.
Mrs Hunter accompanied two netball teams to take part in their first match of the season. First on were the year 6 team, who have improved incredibly from last year, marking and passing with accuracy. It was a very close game, with a great goal from Rushall in the final quarter, taking the final score to 3-1. Year 4 and 5 pupils took to the court next for their first ever game. Despite being against older children, they made some great interceptions, super passes and had some attempts at goals. They had a narrow defeat of 5-0. The children showed great sportsmanship, enthusiasm and effort. Well done to all players! Also well done to Ethan and Stan who were chosen as player of the match by the other team.
They also spent time on the beaches, skimming stones, building stone towers, playing games, toasting marshmallows, drinking hot chocolate, stargazing and telling stories around the camp fire. They have walked for miles!
The children have been absolutely amazing, demonstrating all of our school values of courage, perseverance, togetherness, kindness and respect. The activities themselves were sometimes physically demanding and mentally challenging, yet they all threw themselves into each activity with great attitudes and really encouraged each other to push themselves to their own limits.
For some children, this was their first time staying away from home so that in itself was a big personal challenge. They all represented Rushall School beautifully and we could not be prouder of them.
To celebrate the start of the new school year and our value of ‘togetherness’, the whole school took part in a Three Churches Walk. Years 1-6 walked to St Peter’s Church in Charlton St Peter where we had some quiet reflection time and discussed what ‘togetherness’ means to us. We then walked back to school where we had a quick refreshment break before heading off to St Mary’s Church in Upavon. Reverend Mark led us in another moment of reflection, invited the children to explore the church interior and answered the many questions they had. We then made our way back to Rushall where we stopped at the cricket pavilion to have a picnic lunch, joined by the Reception children and their families, before walking over to St Matthew’s Church for our Welcome Service. Children in Reception and the children who have joined our school since our last Welcome Service received a Bible to take home. Listening to the children talking to each other about their surroundings and enjoying being outside with each other during the walks, and watching them listening intently inside the churches and asking thoughtful questions was truly delightful.
