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Our school librarian Mrs Hughes is a voracious reader who loves to welcome children and parents into our school library. Click the tabs on the right for her video series, with the first episodes introducing our school library and a focus on classic texts and picture books.

It’s been a fantastic celebration of reading this week with a special author visit and class workshops from Jess Butterworth – author of our current Y4 class text ‘When the Mountains Roared’. It was fabulous to hear the inspiration and context behind the story, as well some fabulous tips for…

All classes have thoroughly enjoyed swapping with their peers in different year groups and enjoying the chance to both read and listen to other children – a thoroughly rewarding experience for all!

Please click on the tab to the right to read Mr Beardshaw-Brown’s writing club’s match reports of the Year 6 football team’s game against Churchdown Primary School. The students watched the game before making notes, drafting, editing and then publishing their work. The children’s Spring / Summer term project will…

Y4 enjoyed sharing their published ‘Explanation Texts’ with Year 3. The children carefully considered their audience as they drafted each section, considering the use of key features and their vocabulary choices carefully – great job!

On Tuesday, we were visited by a planetarium to bring space to life amongst the stars! The children learnt about the order of the planets, where they are located in our galaxy and what space looks like.

Congratulations to our winning children from each year group who designed a new front cover and wrote their own blurb for their favourite book – winning gift vouchers to spend at our book fair! The book fair will still be available after school on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th February…

As part of Mental Health Fortnight and Internet Safety Day, we had a visit from our local police officer – PC Kim. Both lower and upper school had an assembly focusing on the risks of using the internet and how our digital footprint is created. In addition to this, all…

As part of our Mental Health Fortnight, we were delighted to welcome explorer, rock climber and adventurer Ben Heason who gave an incredible assembly showing how he conquered Angel Falls in Venezuela – we were blown away by his achievements!

Congratulations to this week’s star readers – keep on reading!