20 Mar

HT Blog, March 20th 2020

I am sitting here in a very quiet school building, only the sound of traffic outside keeping me company. Even that is not as noisy as it normally is just before 5 pm on a Friday afternoon.

This has been perhaps the most interesting and indeed challenging weeks I think I and my colleagues here…

22 Feb

February 2020

At our launch of the School Vision with parents we had a great discussion about what the vision means to the children (we shared a video some of them had made to let us know their thoughts) and in groups we talked about the three parts to our strapline, "Be blessed by God, be happy and aspire to…

8 Jan

January 2020

A very Happy New Year to everyone!

I think that I have managed to sort out how to write blogs so hopefully you should be seeing a few more in the future.

This post is to let you know a bit about our Vision Statement that we have worked on as a staff and with the children.  On our home page

25 Nov

Headteacher's Blog

I have been Headteacher of this lovely school for almost two terms now and have been made to feel incredibly welcome.  St Matthew's is a great place to be and I am really excited to have the privilege of leading this school on it's journey to becoming recognised not only as a good school by Ofsted…

10 Sep

Zubeyda, Y6

In our classes we have learnt about how you can trust someone and how easy it is to lose trust. We have created some trust poems and in P.E we have been learning in gymnastics about holding each other’s hands and leaning backwards. We relied on the other person to hold our body weight so we don’t…

10 Sep

Ameesha, Year 4

"In RE we have been learning about authority. There are many  people who have authority for example like policemen, teachers and head teachers. There are many more people who have authority. Jesus has a special authority named divine authority because he is the son of God. Jesus has shown…

10 Sep

Hassan, Year 6

In RE we have been doing about the Passover when Moses escaped from Egypt with the other slaves. We also learnt about the special meal that Jewish people eat on a special night when the sun sets. We also ate the special foods like Matzos and grape juice. It tasted like dry bread. We learnt about…