On Friday 28th September, the emergency services were extremely busy with the accident on the M40 and M42 which caused delays in and around the West Midlands and Warwickshire. Many of our pupils took twice as long to get to school. But it was worth it, when the firefighters returned to the station they had to clean the engine. As usual the pupils were watching but this time they were invited to help!

This is Helena our Guide Dog with her bags packed ready to go to the next stage of her training on 19th March
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Helena is over 10 months old and nearing the end of the time that she will be spending with her Puppy Walkers, Robin and Catherine. At this stage Catherine is mostly working on fine-tuning all of the skills that Helena has learnt so far to help prepare her as much as possible before she hopefully makes the move to one of the national training schools or Mobility Teams to begin her formal training in a few months’ time.

Catherine says that when Helena is on a training walk she does pull a bit too much at times when she’s keen to explore new places, but hopefully with continued practise, and as she matures, this will improve. Helena is wearing a collar which should also reduce this behaviour as well.

Helena continues to travel well on a variety of forms of transport and is great when travelling by train where she will happily relax and go to sleep. When she’s in the car, she is well behaved most of the time, but as soon as they pull into the car park where Helena has her puppy classes, she gets very excited as she loves to socialise with her fellow guide dog pups. Although she doesn’t get spooked by anything when she’s out and about, she does have an aversion to the vacuum cleaner when she’s at home and will bark at it when it comes out!

Helena has come so far during the time that she’s been with her Puppy Walkers and they await the date to be set for her move to big school and to meet her Guide Dog Trainer.

Watch this space!

On Friday 22nd December, both nursery and school pupils with their parents joined in singing at our local Co-op store in Henley in Arden. It was thoroughly enjoyed by one and all.

Congratulations to Daisy! She was awarded “Highly Commended” for her poem based around the theme “While Shepherds Watched” a competition run by the Henley Community Library and Henley Methodist Church.

Today, Mrs Rulon-Miller talked to the nursery and school about Thanksgiving Day. She brought in many artifacts that she had as a child in America.