School life blog

Today we welcomed Rachael from St. John’s Hospice into school to present her with a cheque for £783. We raised this money from our “Readathon” which actually took place before lockdown. At last we have been able to invite her into school to find out what the money will be spent on. She explained…

It is lovely to be enjoying time outside together again and Year 5 are doing a great job acting as Reading Buddies to the younger children. They are available each lunchtime play to help the infants choose and read books from the outdoor “book shed”.

The newly appointed House Captains took our collection of food from the Harvest Festival to the Olive Branch food bank today. They found out about the work of the charity then stayed a while to help sort some of the many donations they had received today. It was amazing to think that every tin or…

So everyone in school could join together with Rev. Rebecca to celebrate harvest, we “zoomed” this afternoon. Each class was challenged to make smaller words from the letters of HARVEST. Amongst the words we found were HAVE, EAT and SHARE. Rev. Rebecca reminded us that all we have comes from God’s…

We have been delighted to be able to welcome both Debbie and Diana from NISCU back into school this week. We have seen them (and Diana’s dog) on their video “disassembles” each week, but it was extra special to be able to invite them into class in real life! Diana spent time with Year 6 looking at…

Year 6 have begun putting their playleader training into action this week as they support the KS1 children during lunchtime play. Three Year 6 playleaders will be on duty each lunchtime to organise group games in the playleader zone on the bottom playground. 

In our first zoom worship of the new school year we thought about all the things that have changed since we were last in school: Mrs Aylott has retired, Miss Huddleston is leading school this term, we all have a different teacher and we no longer have to stay in our class bubbles, to name just a…

Today we said goodbye to Mrs Aylott, who has been our headteacher for the last 18 years. We surprised her with a special assembly in her honour. We welcomed her onto the top playground with a trumpet fanfare (courtesy of Theo and Joshua in Year 6) before each class presented a musical or poetic…

Year 6 enjoyed a leavers’ party with a difference on Friday evening, Due to coved restrictions we were unable to hold our usual leavers’ event, so the teachers hosted a party in school. The children enjoyed a bouncy castle, photo booth, nail painting, hair braiding and the extremely popular water…

We have all been enjoying the weekly NISCU “disassembles” in our class worship times. Today Year 6 enjoyed an actual, rather than virtual, visit from Debbie and Johnny. They looked at the story of Joseph and the many changes and challenges he faced in his life, before thinking about changes in our…

Year 6 enjoyed an afternoon of crown green bowling with Coach Dan today. We had fun learning how to hold the bowls, the best technique to use and how to ‘read’ the green. We all improved our skills by the end of the session and some of us really surprised ourselves with how accurate we could be.…

The weather may not have been so good today, but it didn’t dampen our spirits. We have enjoyed another day of exciting activities including rock climbing, bushcraft and archery. Some of us also had our first experience of ghyll  scrambling. Unfortunately we couldn’t take photos during this…