21st November 2025
School News
Sheila Mellor, Deputy Headteacher of Dunnington CofE Primary writes:
“Throughout the day on Tuesday 11st November, each year group walked to Dunnington Baptist church and took part in a range of activities based on our school’s Christian Vision ‘Encourage one another and build each other up’.
Our wonderful staff and volunteers planned and organised practical and reflective experiences that helped the children understand the theology of our vision, why it has been chosen for our school and how they can live it in their daily lives at home, at school and in the various communities of which they are a part.
During the day, the children:
- explored a map of our Diocese to help them visualise their place in our Christian community
- listened to Revd. Helen read from the Bible so that they could learn about Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians in which he urged the members of the young Christian church to encourage one another and build each other up
- wrote letters of encouragement to a person of their choice
- in our reflective space, considered the ‘wows’ of God’s creation and
- suggested ways in which they could live our Christian vision
- undertook challenges as teams so that they could bring our vision to life by transporting ‘people’ from the back pew of church to the front using a range of equipment
We are grateful to members of our whole community who helped make our Christian Vision Event such a fantastic day. Our children thoroughly enjoyed it. Emily-May said “I love this space. It makes me feel calm and I can learn here.” Freddie said “I love walking to the church. It is a fun place to visit.” Noah said “Learning at church is brilliant!”
SIAMS
Congratulations to staff and governors at Coughton CofE Primary who had their SIAMS inspection last month. They were found to be living up to their foundation as a Church school, enabling pupils and adults to flourish. You can read the report here.
Headteacher and Parish Partners’ Conference on Tuesday
Thank you to those school leaders and parish partners who were able to join us at Ardencote Manor on Tuesday for a fantastic day of inspiration around the theme of ‘Faith, Hope and Justice’.
Over 100 adults and children were part of the day which started off with a powerful keynote from the awesome Diana Osagie. Children from St John’s CofE Primary showed us their reconcilitation skills in a session on Cross of Nails Schools with Emma Griffiths and then pupils from Walsgrave CofE Academy led worship with iSingPOP. The afternoon saw the launch of ‘Difference for Primary’ with colleagues Alaysia-Lara Ayonrinde and Rita Yoe from Lambeth Palace.
All CofE schools in Coventry Diocese will be given a free copy of ‘Heroes of Hope’ – a beautifully illustrated book to celebrate diverse representation. Some were given out at the conference, but if you’ve not had your copy, don’t worry, we’ll be dropping them off or posting them over the next couple of weeks.
This is just some of the feedback we received about the conference…
“Thank you for such a great event, it was inspiring!.”
“A really lovely and well needed day. Thank you.”
“Diana Osagie was so inspiring – can’t wait to read her books.”
“Great to see members of the church ‘family’”
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