Sport Relief 2020

Last week we celebrated Sport Relief as a whole school. A great day was had by all – running and taking part in fun games organised by Year 5 children. We raised over £400 for charity and staff members surpassed their target of 100 miles and cycled 171 miles! A big thank you to Miss Lewis […]

World Book Day!

The children and staff today have enjoyed a fantastic World Book Day filled with various activities. Our Nursery and Reception children enjoyed story time at the city library. Years 1 to 6 enjoyed story telling in the school library with the schools’ librarians (Year 4 and 6 children) who read and set a competitions for […]

Animal Encounters

Last week, Year 5 had a very exciting visit from Animal Encounters. Every child had the opportunity to hold the rainforest animals, from a Giant African Bull Frog to a Bull Python and even a curly-haired tarantula! They learnt lots of interesting facts and thoroughly enjoyed the visit.

World Book Day in Reception

To celebrate World Book Day Reception children went to the library dressed up as their favourite book characters. Whilst there we listened to some stories, looked at lots of books and learnt about the way library system works. We’re all looking forward to signing up to get our own library cards!  

Born Sleeping Appeal

Tonight members of the eco team and Mrs Steele visited The Courtyard who currently have a herd of recycling bulls on display in the foyer. They dropped off cans, bottle tops, 1000 crisp packets and sweet and chocolate wrappers that they had collected and sorted at school. The eco team work incredibly hard and are […]

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

As part of our topic ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, Reception children were invited to bring their teddy bears in for a day at school. Our teddy bears got to join in with all of our usual activities, including a teddy bears picnic at snack time!

People Who Help Us

We had some special visitors come to see us in Reception as part of our topic of ‘People Who Help Us’. Several fire fighters came to show us around their fire engine. Paramedic Gemma brought her ambulance for us to have a look at and PC Colcombe brought her police car. They talked to us […]

Postgraduate Teacher Training

Is it time for a career change? Are you interested in training to become a teacher? Book at place on our open day to find out more. 27th Feb- 9:30am #getintoteaching

Chinese New Year in Nursery

Nursery have really enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year this week.  We have learnt about the Chinese Zodiac story (the great animal race) and how the Chinese community prepare for and celebrate this special occasion. We’ve also particularly focused on developing fine motor skills by using chopsticks, copying Chinese symbols and writing Chinese numerals in rice.

Year 5 bring balance to the force

Last term our Year 5’s made life seeking Mars rovers and  pulling robots as part of their STEM project ‘Journey to Mars’. As you can see, they modified the code in their computer programs and adapted their models to improve the power and friction to make the best possible robot for tug of war.   […]