This week, the assembly focus was on Earth hour. We talked to  the children about the environmental issues they already knew  about and about what is happening to the planet. We also  discussed what we can do to try to limit our environmental impact.  We discussed the need to wor...

The children in year 6 were thoroughly enjoying their work in computing this week. The children were using Tinkercad to create their very own name labels. They were looking at different ways to manipulate the design and ultimately create these as key chains on a 3-d printer. A super effort and some...

The children in year 2 had a fantastic day trip to Beaumanor yesterday. It was so lovely to see so many of them dressed up for their pirate themed day. They took part in a pirate maths trail, a grog race, a memory game where they won some pirate treasure and some other pirate themed activities. A fa...

Mrs Hewitt has spent some time this week observing the PE delivered in school. It has been fantastic to hear how positive the learning has been and that the children have a wealth of knowledge and understanding in PE and know a lot of the key vocabulary. The staff have been employing the STEP approa...

Wow, what a fantastic day out for our year 1 children. The Yorkshire Wildlife Park has so much to offer and it was fascinating for the children to see some of the animals they have been learning about in real life. The children all walked around the whole park and there were some very tired faces by...

Each half term, two of our school council representatives attend a pupil parliament meeting where they debate and discuss topical issues. On Friday, two of our School Council Representatives participated in 'Pupil Parliament' at County Hall. We debated whether pupils should be able to g...