15 Jul

Disco!

Children in middle school all tremendously enjoyed their wonderful disco on Thursday night. It was wonderful to see so many children dressed up and looking fancy and fantastic to enjoy the wonderful entertainer that came for them. As with last year, we had an amazing show and the children had a…

14 Jul

School Disco

It’s always a pleasure to be entertained by Taz at the school disco! He kept everyone entertained, dancing and laughing for the whole hour! He even got Mrs Humphries up to the front and sent her off with a ‘bang’! 

14 Jul

KS2 Musical Concert

What a fantastic afternoon we had today when Middle School and Upper School came together to perform a musical concert for the parents! 
The children have all worked hard to learn several songs and to play instrumental accompaniments on glockenspiels and ukuleles. The audience were also treated…

14 Jul

Author Visit -Andrew Michael Hurley

We had a visit from an award winning author this morning (and also husband of Mrs Hurley)!

It was a real treat to meet Andrew Michael Hurley who has written the award winning novel, The Loney and more recently, Starve Acre which has been turned into a BBC Film. 
Mr Hurley talked to the class…

13 Jul

Year 6 Activity morning

This morning, Year 6 have had a fun time lead by Coach Gunn. After dodgeball, tug of war and archery, the Year 6s enjoyed a fabulous cake made by Iain’s mum. Thank you! 
Next came zorbing and nerf wars! The Year 6s are certainly having a busy week!

 

12 Jul

Year 6’s visit to Humblescough Farm

Year 6 have had a fabulous day in the woods at Humblescough Farm today. Following an all important safety talk, we headed down to the woods, where we based ourselves for the day. We began our activities by fire striking, which for some took a little effort! Building the fire up, took our…

11 Jul

Hothersall Lodge Year 6 Part 2

More pictures from our adventure!

11 Jul

Hothersall Lodge -Year 6

Year 6 had an amazing day at Hothersall Lodge! We began the day on canoes in lovely warm sunshine and enjoyed learning to paddle, to work together and competed in fun canoeing games. After that there was only one thing to do…jump in the lake and cool off! 
After our yummy packed lunches were…

11 Jul

Minibeast Collages

Our art project this half term has been to create some collages of minibeasts. I chose minibeasts for the children to create as they have studied them throughout two of their science topics this year most recently last half term when looking at living things and their habitats. Take a look back at…

10 Jul

Garden Makeover

We had an exciting afternoon on Friday when the builders from the site building new houses next to our school very kindly brought us some soil for our mud pit and lots of gravel to level out an area that has been used for a lot of digging over the past year! 

Thank you so much to Sam Swaine the…

10 Jul

Which materials can we recycle?

Building upon our knowledge of everyday materials and how we use them, this week the children have been investigating how to recycle, reduce and reuse materials. They thought about all the different types of objects that we use daily at home and in school and learnt which of the materials can be…

9 Jul

Our New Reception Children 2022

We had a lovely day on Monday when all of our new for September Reception children came to visit us for the day. 

We welcomed Matilda, Jasmine, Lily, Ethan, Luca, Theo and Alfred. The children settled brilliantly, they enjoyed playing, chatting and eating lunch. We can’t wait to see you again…