KS1: Wednesday

20th May 2025Carly Schon

Tomorrow is going to be a very exciting day for the children in Key Stage 1.

Tomorrow we have a visitor in school. We will be visiting the Space Dome to find out all about space! The last time the Space Dome visited school the children absolutely loved it. It was lovely to see the awe and wonder on their faces! If you haven’t paid for the visitor yet please support us by paying £4 through your parent pay account to ensure we can continue to offer these experiences for the children.

Tomorrow all children in Key Stage 1 need to bring their PE kit and trainers to school as we will be practising our Sports Day events. This will replace Year 1 Thursday PE session so PE kits are needed on Wednesday only this week please.

Tomorrow is also the school disco. Children come to school in their uniform as normal but can bring some Disco clothes in their backpack. Children will change in their classes and will be taken to the hall by their teachers. Children can be collected form the normal home time doors at 3:45pm. Entry to the Disco is £2 but there will also be some sweets for sale for children who bring additional money.

Ice Pops! All children who have paid for ice pops today will receive their ice pop tomorrow. As we missed out today KS1 will be having ice pops on Wednesday AND Thursday.

As there is so much going on in school tomorrow if children could please bring any money for ice/pops disco in a bag/envelope with a written list of what the money is for we would greatly appreciate it e.g.

Child’s Name

Ice pop wed 50p

Ice pop thur 50p

Disco £2

Sweets £2

Stay Cool Class 6!

17th May 2025Jayne Rodgers

In keeping with our latest case study of astronauts and following our wonderful family learning event, I decided to give class 6 a treat for being so awesome last week by staying super quiet in the corridors while year 6 completed their SATs. We all enjoyed ROCKET ice-lollies in the quad on Friday afternoon.

Well done class 6!

Awesome Family Learning in Year 1

16th May 2025Jayne Rodgers

A great big thanks as usual to our parents and carers for a super fun and successful family learning event today. We used our crafting skills to make rockets just like the ones that the three astronauts we are learning about in our expedition might have used for their exciting journeys into space. It was wonderful to see the support and friendly competitiveness between both the children and their grown ups!

We know that the children love to work alongside their grown ups in school and we cannot thank you all enough for your unwavering support.

We hope you had a ‘blast’ (off)…see what I did there?

Miss Rodgers and Miss Schon

KS1 Phonics

13th May 2025Carly Schon

In Miss Rodgers and Mrs Clays groups this week the children have been learning ‘dge’.

In Miss Schon’s group we are continuing to learn the split digraph sounds in more depth. This week we have been developing our fluency by reading the book Yig’s Trombone and practising answering comprehension questions. Next we will be moving on to the split digraph u-e sound.

In Miss Coopers group we have been learning /ue/

Proud Teacher Moment at the VE Day Service

8th May 2025Jayne Rodgers

Today was one of those days when you remember why you became a teacher!

Paisley, Erin, Myla, George, Olivia, Willow, Willow, Macky, Reeva and Gabby were invited to read a poem at the VE Day Memorial service in Thorne Park this morning and I was so proud of the children and the way that even the very youngest of them seemed to understand that although it was a celebration of the end of the war, it was also a solemn occasion which they were attending to show respect.

Winston Churchill once said  – “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it’ – so the chance to attend events such as these where they can begin to understand the devastating effects of war will hopefully ingrain in them the importance of peace.

You were a credit to yourselves, your families and our school.

You were all awesome!