All the news and information that parents and carers of children at our school need can be found in this area of our website.
News Flow
A stream of information from all school departments, the latest at the top, can be seen below.
A fantastic STEM week 🎖🎖
The Year 1 pupils have all made us so proud this week. They have completed 4 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) challenges over the week and shown incredible determination and resilience with the problems they have faced! We have been so impressed with their inquisitive minds and are sure we have some budding engineers in our class!
Headlice in school
Dear Parents/Carers,
We need to inform you that we have reported cases of Headlice in school, particularly in Year 3. If members of the team spot either live lice or eggs they will inform you so that treatment can begin immediately to avoid them spreading across to other children.
It is really important that you treat your children and continue to check for re-infestations. We know that it is only special treatment, tying hair back and time spent combing that will help. For more information, please see the following guideline from the NHS website.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/head-lice-and-nits/ There are pictures to help you to identify what nits look like and great advice to help you to treat your child.
We do have a small collection of nit combs that we are happy to let parents have free of charge and we are happy to supply you with the number for the school nursing team should you wish to talk to them directly. Please ask Mrs Powell or Mrs Huda about either of these offers.
Miss Cook
Headteacher
Bridge Blunder
As part of the technology part of STEM week, year 5 helped Star Bridges create a bridge which wouldn’t bend and sway. They used their knowledge from our design and technology unit, where we have looked at a range of different bridges and their features, to design sturdy bridges of their own! They tested the strength of the bridges using weights.
Outdoor gym
We designed our own fitness routines for STEM week.
Update for Miss Broadhurst’s class
17.6.21
Dear Parents/Carers of Miss Broadhurst’s class,
We have just been informed of another positive case in this class. The symptoms being a cough and a sore throat.
It is clear that this particular virus strain is highly transmissible. Luckily our ‘bubble’ system has contained it to just this class, but we are asking you to stick rigidly to the isolation rules which we are sure you are. The only time you are permitted to leave the house is to get a test.
If you are unsure as to what to do should your child begin to show symptoms, this information should be useful – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/if-youre-told-to-self-isolate-by-nhs-test-and-trace-or-the-covid-19-app/
Fingers crossed no one else becomes ill.
Take care
Miss Cook
Headteacher
How to make a sand castle
The children were challenged to make the best sandcastle for our STEM challenge today. We firstly talked about what we needed and then what order we made it in. We tried dry sand initially and the children decided that it fell down and made a very poor castle. They then suggested that we added water to make the sand stick together. We mixed some water into the sand and the children thought it looked brown and sticky. They decided that wet sand worked much better to make a sandcastle. One child decided that it would be even better if we added more water to the mix, we tried this and we found that really wet sand worked well too. We then added our flags that we made using scissors, glue and sticky tape.
STEM week
We have lots of daily science, technology, engineering and maths activities. Children learn about forces all around them by playing on swings, trikes and cars on ramps. They find out about seasonal changes, growth, life cycles and changes in materials by playing in the mud kitchen and garden. In addition we learn the basics of engineering by building and using construction materials and tools.
Exciting news
Dear Parents and Carers,
We have some exciting news to share with you. Towards the end of term and over the Summer holiday, work will be completed at school to significantly improve our outside areas. Currently, the field is unusable for most of the year as it remains waterlogged, and we really want our children to be able to use it more frequently. An artificial surface (astroturf) is being laid on a section of the field to enable our children to use it all year around. We are also re-surfacing one side of the top playground and putting in another artificial surface in the fenced part of the top playground. This will make our playground area second to none when looking at sporting fixtures and will also mean it can be used all year round by more children. In addition, we will be opening up a big chunk of our Forest School area for general playtime usage, so that children can spread out more freely.
With work of this kind, there will be a significant amount of disruption. No one will be allowed outside near the building works throughout the entire summer. Unfortunately this does mean that we are unable to offer any holiday club provision. We have explored the possibility of our own staff running some indoor provision, but as we need a minimum of two staff on site at any time, we cannot make this work: staff have other commitments and are looking forward to their own break after a very difficult year. We are still exploring alternative indoor sports provision. I know it is difficult for parents who work all year round to manage child care and so we will do our best to signpost you to other options.
Kind regards, Miss Cook
