Measurement maths outside in Year Two

This week, Year Two have taken advantage of the warm weather and completed their maths outside. The children have been learning about centimetres and metres and were challenged to measure the lines on the playground. They even had a go at measuring each other! All the staff were impressed with how accurate they were able […]

Digestion in Year Four

Year Four have had an exciting but messy afternoon, exploring what happens to food as it travels through our digestive system. We used a banana and a biscuit for the journey from mouth to…erm…the end. Some of us loved it, but some found the whole experience pretty gross!😊 Ask them about it, I’m sure they’d […]

Year One’s Fire of London Fact Finding

Year One are enjoying finding out more about the Great Fire of London this week. They’ve used the computers to explore an online game, pulling down buildings and putting out fires as well as considering the historical sources we use to find out about events that happened long ago. They’ve sorted pictures in to old […]

Meet Sparkle and Shine! 

Nursery had a very exciting delivery of 2 chicks yesterday (unfortunately not the ones that we had in the incubator!). We had a busy afternoon getting them settled in the classroom, thinking of special rules and how we need to do to look after them and having a vote to pick their names! We are […]

Headteacher Awards – Friday 23rd April 2021

Congratulations to the children who received a Headteacher’s Award on Friday. You have all displayed our school values and impressed your class teacher – well done! You are all superstars. 🌟

Earth Day, Light and Tales of Mr Hollow – Year Six.

Year Six had a busy week last week. We started our new science unit, ‘light’, by investigating how light travels. We made models of how this happens by using string, a torch and an object. Children were then challenged to consider, and model, how we see an object through a mirror by showing the direction […]

Earth Day in Year Five

This week we celebrated Earth day in Year Five. We considered a range of different ways in which pollution is caused alongside some of the impacts. We also explored the range of possibilities regarding how we recycle and introduced the idea of up-cycling, where we innovatively use products which have already expired into something completely […]

Nursery’s Very Egg-citing news! 

Nursery have had some chick eggs delivered this week, they are very excited to see what might happen on Monday! Here is a little picture showing them ready for their final weekend of incubation. Fingers crossed for an update on Monday!

Stay Well Mental Health Service

Mental health is of the utmost importance and the Stay Well service in Stoke-On-Trent has a wealth of resources for parents to access to support children. There are services for children who are doing okay but need some support to cope with changes or things happening in their lives, as well as further support to […]

Reading Rocket

Huge congratulations to Amelia, Sam and May who were drawn out of the hat and received the Reading Rocket prizes of an Amazon voucher! We were amazed that 100 children achieved the Reading Rocket during the spring term- congratulations to all of them for showing such dedication to reading. We hope they enjoyed their extra break, biscuits and […]