Welcome back everyone! 

It has been another busy week at school, with Stay and Play sessions, Diwali parties, attendance parties for 100% attendance last half-term amongst our usual day-to-day teaching and learning. And with today being World Kindness Day, we are celebrating with lots of positive messages being given to each other across the school. We hope you will join us in this!

Please take a few moments to celebrate this week's specific achievements below.

Headteacher's Awards
This week, the winners of the Headteacher's Awards have been given to the following children:
Y6P - Abu-Bakr D - For being really impressive during shared reading, answering lots of questions
Y6B - Noor H - Being a helpful member of the class and always contributing to discussions.
Y5H - Casey H - For being super hard working this week. I have been really impressed with your calm and kind nature and being ready at the right time.
Y5W - Sophie O - For being the Queen of Vocabulary due to amazing knowledge and ability to give clear definitions.
Y4AT - Thomas F - For a fantastic start to the half term, working hard and being focused.
Y4R - Celsie B - For your positive attitude to learning; you've had an amazing week in class!
Y3A - Burhan A - For his excellent attitude, you are always helpful in class and never give up.
Y3B - Harrison J - You have written a thoughtful biography in English - well done!
Y2C - Hadi M - For super perseverance all week with your work in class.
Y2F - Raina L - For your perseverance in maths this week, with some really tricky subtraction calculations.
Y1D - Santiago F - For showing fantastic effort and focus during our maths lessons this week; you worked hard to write number sentences and was determined to have a go independently.
Y1L - Bilal S - For settling in so well into a new classroom this week - well done!
YRHC - Mohamed A - For confidently recalling our key vocabulary and demonstrating a fantastic understanding by explaining each word.
YRHS - Yahya B - For your fantastic understanding of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and being able to retell the story with great vocabulary.

Attendance
Attendance at Devonshire Road is so important, and we rightly celebrate the classes with the highest attendance each week. The classes with the highest attendance for the week were:
1st - Y4R - 98.65%
2nd - YRHS - 98.33%
3rd - Y5W - 97.74%

Superhero Readers
In KS1, children work towards their Superhero Readers certificates based on the number of reads they have completed. This week, the following children have achieved a certificate this week:
Year 1
20 reads - Harriet, Mirha, Haleema
30 reads - Santiago, Aiden, Harriet, Haleema, Janey
40 reads - Janey, Hawa, Quinn, Aliya
50 reads - Janey, Hawa, Isa

Year 2
10 reads - Jasmine, Salar, Aisha, Helena, Lili, Chidubem, Zaynab
20 reads - Fraser, Aneesa, Helena, Shahzain, Yusuf M
30 reads - Abdulrahman, Ava, Haadiyah
40 reads - Wania, Rayaan, Aamena
 

Reading Challenges
Each week, we celebrate the reading challenges achieved by the children in KS2. The following children have achieved a certificate this week:
Nabeeha S - 5H - Gold

House Points
The weekly house points total for week beginning 09.11.2026 can be found below:
1st - Resilience - 213 
2nd - Ambition - 197
3rd - Inspire - 188
4th - Respect - 171
The running total of the weekly wins can be found on our House Points page.