Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• We are all stuck in to our Art Festival Week

  Thu 27 May 2021 Ms Rogers

  Our Art Festival week has been amazing so far and our children have surpassed all of our expectations - the quality of art, poetry and music has been phenomenal. The Lost Words book has really inspired them all and it is great hearing conversations about ensuring we try to call plants and animals by their proper name.  

  It is disappointing that we can not hold our art exhibition as normal however Mrs Harvey is kindly putting together a montage of photos and videos from throughout the school to share with you all after half term. We will also make our traditional photo album as well. 

  Hope you enjoy the photographs below - many more to come!

  

• Year 5 Author Talk

  Thu 20 May 2021 Mrs Osborne

  Today Year 5 had a fantastic talk and question and answer session from Janina Ramirez, the author of their whole class text ‘Riddle of the Runes’. Janina spoke to them all about what inspired her to become a writer and gave the children some top tips about editing their own writing. Janina is a Viking expert and was so impressed at the children’s knowledge and their responses to her questions. 

   

  Year 5 only have a couple more chapters to go before they reach the end of Riddle of the Runes and lots are now desperate to read the sequel- ‘Way of the Waves’.

   

  

• Art Festival Week is Fast Approaching

  Sat 15 May 2021 Mrs Harvey

  We have some great news to share with you. Our Art Festival week is approaching soon and the school staff have been busy preparing and resourcing this week for you all. I wanted to inform you that this year the theme is ' The Lost Words.' I hope you are as excited as us that we are able to hold this event this year and you can now start to chat with your family and friends about this theme and start to look forward to it.

  Have a great weekend everyone!

  

• Year 1 Secret Garden Day

  Thu 13 May 2021

  Once again, Year One is coming to the end of another brilliant topic - The Secret Garden. This topic has given us the chance to really use our imaginations to create unique and special versions of our own secret gardens and Narnia-style lands. We have spent a lot of time outside enjoying our school grounds and to celebrate the end of this topic, we had a Secret Garden Day. The children took part in various activities such as creating Kandinsky styled flowers, decorating their own flower pot, creating their own Secret Garden and planting cress. Unfortunately, our outside activity was postponed due to the weather. Luckily, we were able to do this on Friday! We explored our woodlands and had our very own treasure hunt! The children had lots of challenges to face in these activities but had so much fun completing them. The Year One team were really impressed with their creative and engaged attitude to their learning. What a wonderful day! Have a look at the photos to see what we got up to. 

  

• Year 2 Seaside design technology day

  Mon 10 May 2021

  Today Y2 had a design technology day. We were thinking about what food items we would take with us for a picnic on the seaside. We had to think carefully about our ideas and we based them on a seaside theme. We begun our day by making savoury wraps. We used cheese spread, ham, lettuce and sweetcorn to create seaside pictures on our wraps. Next we made edible cake decorations for cupcakes. We thought carefully about what designs we could have. There were a wide range of unique designs - from fish made with orange segments to beach umbrellas made from skittles! In the afternoon we then had a go at making fruit sculptures where we used fruit to make seaside pictures. Once again designs were all very impressive! Overall the children all had a great day exploring and enjoyed being creative with a seaside picnic. 

  

• Year 5/6 Try To Beat Their Personal Bests On Their New Fitness Trail

  Wed 05 May 2021 Ms Rogers

  Our new Year 5/6 Fitness Trail behind Year 5 and 6 classrooms is now complete and the children have been enjoying using the different pieces of equipment today. Challenges to improve their core and upper arm strength were set and they soon got the idea of trying to beat their own personal bests. The children certainly showed resilience on the monkey bars and when scaling across the climbing wall. 

  We feel it is important for our children across the different phases of primary to have access to good quality fitness equipment. Primarily to keep them fit and active on a regular basis throughout the school week but to also develop good fitness habits so these are ingrained by the time they leave us in Year 6.