What a brilliant start to this term! The children have done extremely well in all our activities, especially Swimming. We have loved seeing them grow and develop into such confident, friendly children and they have all shown great determination with their independence. Over the last few weeks we have been engrossed in the change of…
It’s been an adventurous week this week at Nursery: Bluebells and Poppies have been to the moon and back, making rockets, learning about the planets and meeting some aliens along the way! Meanwhile the babies have been busy farmers, playing with the tractors and farm animals and making paintings with apples. We have all had…
The changing seasons have ignited lots of activities for us at Nursery this week. We’ve loved playing in the falling leaves and splashing in muddy puddles in the garden. We’ve also done some art and crafts based around autumn using leaves to make crowns and hedgehogs! Babies We have loved the garden time in babies…
It has been a busy start to the new term and it has been wonderful to welcome our friends new and old. We have been discovering your new interests and enjoying lots of much loved favourites such as arts and crafts, dinosaur adventures, dressing up, teddy bear tea parties, water play, bug hunts and much…
Dear Parents, Rehearsals are apace, rooms are being tidied out, kids are really excited about their holidays, trips are returning (with very tired children and a lot of washing). I will say this tomorrow, but thank you for making me feel so welcome this year. It has been a year of growth and understanding for…
Year 5 have been making sculptures based on Tony Cragg’s work. They initially made a collage based on an object and then identified the positive and negative spaces. Using the negative spaces from the collage they designed and created a sculpture. They then had to place their sculpture in a landscape and reflect on how…
Year 7 – “Au Café” This term, Year 7’s French topic has been “Au Café – manger et boire” and the children have been putting together sophisticated dialogues in French that they would use in a café. To make the experience a little more authentic, the children had to cook their own pizzas, describe and…
It has been a very creative couple of weeks at Nursery. The Babies have completed their 30 Days Wild Challenge and taken part in some fun activities exploring the natural world. Bluebells have loved creating towers with a variety of construction materials and measuring them, seeing differences in heights, whilst in Poppies the children have…
It was a 4am start last Saturday morning at Holmwood, for the bright eyed, bushy tailed Year 4s, keen and eager to embark on their Day Trip to France. Everyone enjoyed their breakfast en route and despite the staff keeping their fingers crossed – the children appeared not to need forty winks during our drive…
Dear Parents As the grass turns brown and the trips get ready to leave work carries on apace here. The Year 8s have been incredibly busy on their challenge week, I am not sure if they, or Mr Jeffries and Mr White were more excited about visiting nuclear races and the mud. We had a…
