Things are getting spooky at The Hive this week...our holiday club children have been busy decorating and crafting! Happy Halloween for tomorrow to those who celebrate, we hope you have fun!

Happy half-term everyone! It has been a very long term, and an incredibly busy one. We are so proud of how well our new Nursery and Reception children have settled in, and what a fantastic start to the year the rest of the school have had in their new year groups. We hope adults and children alike are able to find time to rest and reset this week, and come back feeling refreshed on Monday 4th November!

Two weeks ago we celebrated Hello Yellow Day at TPS. Thank you to everyone for making the school yellow and bright - your kind donations both online and in cash raised the fantastic total of £298.61 for the mental health charity YoungMinds. Thank you for all your support! We hope you enjoy looking through some photos of how the children spent the day at school; from Reception exploring how physical activity makes us feel happier; to Year 2 getting out in the sunshine; and positive mindset and happy "doodles" from both KS1 and KS2

This month we are celebrating one year of being part of the Brooke Weston Trust family. It has been a brilliant opportunity to reflect on everything we have achieved as a school over the past 12 months; the support the school has gained to continue to thrive and progress; and the new learning and opportunities the children have had. We are so proud of how hard our staff have worked throughout this transition and we are looking forward to what is still to come! For more thoughts and reflections from members of staff, click the link below #AmbitionForAll #TicketsForLife #GrowingTogether #AYearInReview https://www.brookewestontrust.org/news/?pid=9&nid=22&storyid=1759&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR25qP04RZ_UtH5AeL9rD-ICBA6oYxLM9IiYxGzu66echLOQDUgtkJ7R9Y0_aem_3lhWQt5saKFxf9IvD7xiVg

Over the summer this year we had a total renovation of one of the oldest parts of our school building. The purpose of this was to extend our incredible SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) Unit here at TPS, better known as "The Nest". We now have 29 children across 4 classes learning everyday in this purpose-built provision, and we are so proud to be able to provide this environment for them. We wanted to give you a little look at our two new classrooms, as well as some of the new additions the children have received to their outside area. Finally, we wanted to say thank you to our neighbours on Market Road who had to endure a few days of noisy building works whilst the roof was re-done. We really appreciated your patience and understanding during this time!

Happening tomorrow: Hello Yellow Day! TPS will be joining thousands of schools across the UK and taking part in Hello Yellow in support of YoungMinds on Thursday 10th October (World Mental Health Day), where we'll be holding a non-school uniform day and asking everyone to wear something yellow. We have taken part in #HelloYellow for a number of years now – it's always been a special and successful day, as our school community embraces raising awareness of mental health and supporting the charity YoungMinds. To take part, we are encouraging children and staff to wear something yellow to school, and we'd like to ask parents and carers to consider donating to help YoungMinds keep fighting for young people's mental health. Our JustGiving page can be found here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/thrapston-primary-school-thrapston-1725523683212 Cash donations will also be accepted on the day. Finally, YoungMinds have resources for parents and carers to find help and advice, if you're ever concerned about a child or young person – you can find this on their website: www.youngminds.org.uk/parent Whether you choose a subtle spot of yellow colour, or dress like sunshine from head to toe, together we can show young people they are not alone with their mental health. We are really looking forward to seeing our school community dressed in a sea of yellow again and thank you for your ongoing support.

Harvest Festival! We want to say a huge well done to our fabulous Year 5 children for their harvest festival assembly this morning! They spoke so clearly about harvest; how hard farmers work to gather crops in for everyone; and how lucky we are to have access to food. They also performed three songs for us all! A big thank you to our wonderful school community for providing all of these amazing harvest boxes which we will be donating to Thrapston FoodBank. It is so lovely to see the TPS tradition of decorating the harvest boxes being continued. We really enjoyed looking at them all and we appreciate your generosity!