News About Our School
Gold Award
The JRSOs have achieved the Gold award again following this years hard work. the JRSOs were asked to send their scrapbook via email. The scrapbook informs others of what they had done over the school year to encourage and promote road safety within school. Great work...
Computing Programming Bee Bots
This week the children have been exploring the unit Programming Bee Bots in Computing. The children were given three challenges - build a bridge out of bricks for Bee Bot to drive through, make the Bee Bot turn all the way round in a circle without moving off the...
Kingfishers Class Assembly
The Kingfishers performed their last assembly of the school year. The children were confident to stand up and perform to the audience. The children told the audience about what they enjoy learning at school, read Kingfisher’s Class ABC poem and sang ‘Oh I do like to...
Forest Fun in the Woods
The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark, Mrs Martin and Miss Cousins. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. They accessed some areas of the wildlife area and then headed over to the local...
Netball County Final
On Wednesday 21st June, a group of children represented our school in the netball county final. They played really well demonstrating good team spirit and skill. Thank you to Mrs Wyncoll and Mrs Allum for coaching and accompanying them to the tournaments. [gallery...
Letter From The King
Kingfishers Class were very excited as they had received a very important letter. Mrs Clark opened the envelope and read the letter from Thomas Claridge (Head of Royal Correspondence) who was writing on behalf of the King. The letter was thanking the children for...
Investigating the Heart
In Science we dissected a heart. The children had been learning about the heart in previous lessons so this really helped embed the learning. Some of them were really brave and used scalpels to cut into the chambers! ...
Woodpeckers Class Assembly
Tuesday 27th June was the turn of the Woodpeckers to share their learning with the rest of the school and parents. The children shared their writing based around 'The Day The Crayons Quit' where they had to write letters to the chairs who had gone on strike! The...
Clean Air Day
On Thursday 15th June, the children took part in Clean Air Day. The children were encouraged to walk to school and leave the car at home. Miss Jones also told the children about Clean Air Day in assembly. The children learned about the source, affect and solution for...
Stag Beetles
The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Mrs Martin. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. The children were joined by the September 2023 Reception children and they accessed all areas of...
MySmile Oral Health Award
In January, we were given the opportunity to work towards the My Smile Quality Mark. We felt this was an exciting opportunity as oral health is now part of the EYFS framework. My Smile is a quality mark awarded to settings which fully implement the four My Smile steps...
Bikeability
The children in Years 5 & 6 had the opportunity to take part in some Bikeability sessions. These sessions, which were delivered by John and Penny, taught the children some skills so they know how to keep themselves safe whilst out on their bikes on the road. All...
The Stolen Generation
The Swans have been learning about 'The Stolen Generation'. They wrote an explanation text about this; and one child was asked to read her work to the class. The standard of their writing has been exceptional. The children have learnt about the effects of colonisation...
Science Club
In the recent after school science club, the children experimented with different material to see which was the most effective to make 'skittles'. Great fun was had by all.
Science – Rachel Carson
Last week, the children became Scientists. This half term the focus of their Science is a Scientist Study looking at the Essential Question - Why do scientists need to look after our seas?. The children thought about the question - What is a Marine Biologist? Who is...
Forest Fun – Bees
The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Mrs Martin. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. The children were joined by the September 2023 Reception children and they accessed all areas of...
Potatoes
The children were very excited about digging up the potatoes and seeing how many they got. The children dug through the soil with their hands collecting the potatoes. The children had to look carefully to make sure they hadn’t left any. The children listened to...
World Ocean Day
The children in Kingfishers Class celebrated World Ocean Day on Thursday 8th June. The children found the ocean in the classroom with lots of sea creatures and lots of rubbish. The children found out all about World Ocean Day and discussed how they could protect the...
Landscapes using different media – The Seaside
The Year One children became ‘artists’ and started a new unit of work called Landscapes using different Media - The Seaside. The children thought about the question - Can we identify the key features of a landscape? The children were asked to look at the seaside...
Forest Fun
The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Mrs Martin. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. They went on a bug hunt, looking under logs, in the grass and on the leaves ticking off the bug...
Genome Research Campus Visit
The Swans visited the Genome research campus in Cambridge today and learnt about DNA and sequencing. This was an amazing opportunity to visit a world famous research lab and discuss the scientific research that goes on there. Hopefully it has inspired some of them to...
Aboriginal Art
The Swans enjoyed their ‘Immersion Day’ learning about aboriginal art. They created dot paintings to decorate the class in preparation for their new Geography topic on Australia.
Sporting Successes
Over the last half term, we have been involved in many sporting tournaments. These have included U11 netball - where the team came second; U7 dodgeball; skiing competition and a virtual gymnastics tournament where our u11 team came first; our U9 A came first and our...
Red, White and Blue
The children came to school dressed to red, white and blue clothes ready to celebrate King Charles III’s coronation. The children took part in activities focusing on the King’s Coronation. Miss Jones read the children the Little People Big Ideas - King Charles III...