Blog Author: Lesley Box

'Oh Sweet Child of Mine!'

Our Nursery graduation this week was absolutely fantastic! The children were so confident on that stage, inflatable guitars in hand, bandanas on, ready to graduate in true superstar style!!

I will add more photographs as we get them- well done everybody it was…

Just Wow!!!

What an incredible achievement Owls and a huge well done from us all at…

A great start to the week for our Year 6 pupils at the YMT Festival. Mrs Porter and I look forward to this day every year as much as the children! This year the theme linked to our Jubilee Year 'Pilgrims of Hope' and was a day full of fun, music, dance and prayer.

Our Year 5 children ended…

The Swifts have been very busy in Science developing comparative testing against light and the absence of light. They have planted potatoes outside in sunlight as well as potatoes inside with no access to sunlight and have been tracking and recording their data on a line graph to observe…

The choir had a wonderful evening at Carmel on Thursday when they joined in with the annual Festival of Choirs with other school across our Trust. It is wonderful to see the children embracing experiences like this and also supporting such a wonderful fundraiser.

Mrs Jennings and Mrs O'Byrne…

'Having a Splashing Time!'

The children in Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed celebrating the end of their SATs week starting the day with a 'Big Breakfast' and ending it with a water balloon fight this afternoon! Great Fun!

Thankyou to both Miss Bunford for the beautiful breakfast and to Miss…

VE Day Celebrations around school and in our local area too. What a wonderful day we have had in school marking the 80th VE Day Anniversary. It was lovely to be able to share the special day within our school community as well as in our local area. We enjoyed our visit to The Manor, listening to…

This week we have dedicated prayers to Pope Francis as we continue to be his Pilgroms of Hope inspired by his words in our everyday life.

Here is a short video that reflects the life and mission of Pope Francis as he reminds us ' we are a single family living in a common home.'

Here is a…

What a busy week we have had with Easter activities, our Spring term disco and the sponsored walk yesterday. It has been an incredibly busy but brilliant week with a wonderful sense of community- especially yesterday's walk.

Congratulations to our Easter Garden winners: Tilly, Fearne and also…

Another busy week across school.

We have Larks continuing with their Lenten pledges with their community litter pick. They didn't find much litter this time so that is good!  It was lovely to have some of our parent helpers join us too- always appreciated. We will continue our termly litter…

'Getting along nicely with numbers!'

The children enjoyed coming to school this week as part of National Numeracy Day. The children were excited to find out who was what number and we encouraged the children to talk about why that number was special to them.

Mrs Jennings designed her very…

'Springtime Art in EYFS'

'Every child an artist!' (Picasso) 

Our Little Wrens made the most of the Spring weather this week and took their artistic talents outside. The explored using paint with different medias to create observational drawings of daffodils. They were curious to see what it…