Category: News
The Big Plastic Count
The first meeting back after half-term saw Arun bring another load of batteries in for recycling. The Sustainability Council now affectionately refer to him as the “Battery Boy” as he has singlehandedly brought in over 600 batteries on his own. Quite an amazing effort! Aiden has also put together a collage showing how much his family…
Blown Away
During Monday’s Team Building & Problem Solving Prep activity, the children worked in teams to keep a balloon in the air by tapping it. Each child was only allowed to touch the balloon with one finger. Team work and problem solving skills were needed to fight against the wind! Although five balloons were lost over…
Your Voice Matters
The theme of Children’s Mental Health week is ‘Your Voice Matters.’ As part of RRS, it links to article 12, ‘You have the right to an opinion and for it to be listened to and taken seriously.’ This is something we are very passionate about at school and have fully embraced this week; promoting the…
Book Club Awards
This term’s Book Club children have achieved an award for attending at least 10 reading session at lunchtime with Mrs MacDonald. They have been awarded a poetry book for all their hard work and we hope they all enjoy reading this.
Sustainability Council Make Things Happen
The Sustainability Council gave an entertaining update in assembly on Friday of all the things they have been busy with over the last 2 months! We collected 6.5kiograms of rubbish during our Litter Pick at lunchtime We have already collected 800 batteries for recycling this year (a school record) and have bought a battery recycling…
ISA STEAM Competition
Over the Christmas break, children in the Prep were set a task to create a STEAM project in the hope of being selected to be put forward for the ISA competition. After viewing many entertaining entries (including soft toys being launched into the sides of houses and eggs being smashed) the winners were decided. Congratulations…
Can You Solve It?
One of our Tuesday’s club is called ‘Can You Solve It?’ Amongst many puzzles and problem solving scenarios, the children were asked to investigate how many interlocking cubes were needed to create a small structure from a given diagram. The children were asked to predict the number of cubes used and then check with their…
New School Hall Floor
Year 2 Herons made sure the School Hall floor repaint that took place over the Christmas holidays was up to scratch as they took part in their gymnastics lesson this morning. The children took part in various gymnastic techniques which worked on their balancing and coordination skills.
What’s Your Superpower?
Welcome back for the Spring Term! Our Early Years and Pre-Prep Departments start the term with a ‘WOW’ day to launch their new topic of the term. Year 2’s Wow day became the Year 2 Pow Day (thank you Niamh for the name!) for absorbing their new topic ‘What’s Your Superpower?’ The children started the…
£750 Raised for Shelter
A huge thank you to everyone who supported the Morris Charity Day and to the children who took part in the 50p challenge. We are extremely proud to announce we raised a whopping £750 for Shelter. We had some very original and creative ideas for the 50p challenge ranging from a 50 second plank (Ehsaan…
