Reception

Please join us 9;30 – 11:30 am on Nov 6th for our Open Day.  Families are welcome to see our school in action and join us to explore our school. Tours throughput the school will take place each half hour.

Our first Governors meeting took place recently beginning the year following a very successful year. The Governors have looked at our school Improvement Plan for the forthcoming year and are preparing for another productive year.

  Congratulations to Freya and James who have become our new Head Boy and Head Girl. Congratulations to Beth and Marley who are now Deputy Head Girl and Boy also. All of the children who took part in the presentations were very confident, producing powerpoints, films and superb speeches. Well done!

We have had a lovely and positive start to the new academic year.  We are looking forward to welcoming our spring and summer born children in Reception over the next week.  A special welcome to children starting in the juniors who are new to our school.

Well done to all of our children who took part in sports day this week. The weather was good and the children really demonstrated our school values today.

Mrs Gladwinfield will be spending the next four weeks in Kenya. She will be working in a primary school near Gilgil along with Mrs Highton. They have already been working in the school with classes of 60 children many of whom walk 10Km to attend the school.

To continue our African topic, on Forest Friday we looked at pictures of African homes. We noticed that most were made from mud, had straw roofs and were a circular shape. We gathered our gardening tools and set off to find the muddiest patch of our school field! We carried mud to the forest by […]

Reception read the story of Handa’s Surprise. They named all the animals but hadn’t heard of some of the fruits so they tried them. They prepared them for the fruit kebabs (lots of peeling, slicing and even some scraping). They were delicious! Mangoes and pineapples were their favourites. This made them curious about lots of […]

We had half an hour of snow fun this morning before returning to the normal timetable of lessons! What a super day for enjoying the snow at lunchtime.

Reception visited the Post Office to change or £1 coins into 1p, 5p and 10p. After that, we went to the newsagents to spend our 10p. Some of us had ten 1ps, some had two 5p and some had a 10p coin. We went to the park to eat our sweets and used the equipment. […]