There has been lots of exploring happening at Nursery this week. We have had great fun climbing, building, drawing and fossil hunting. We have been particularly fascinated by the butterflies and have really enjoyed some bird watching. Babies The butterflies have been a great source of interest this past week since they have emerged. Our…
Dear Parents At last! Summer is here! How wonderful to see the children on the fields this week playing against other schools as well as visiting other schools for fixtures. And how lovely to see some of you here on site, supporting. It is beginning to feel a little more like summer term at Holmwood. Our…
We are very excited for our Eco Theme week next week. In addition to the lessons based around the theme, we have a number of whole school activities taking place including an inter-class collage/sculpture made from recycled materials competition and the photography competition which was launched before half term (closing date Wednesday 16 June). During…
A huge thank you to everyone who supported the Air Charity Day. By dressing up in yellow and purple, guessing the number of sweets in a jar and sponsoring the Baked Bean Shower, we have raised a colossal £1,100 for the Bumblebee Children’s Charity.
Babies Babies have loved exploring movement and shadows this week. One activity was ball rolling using paint to make pictures by having to manoeuvre the trays to roll the balls. We then moved outdoors where we watched our shadows and looked at the different colours our sun catchers made on the ground. Bluebells This week…
Dear Parents As we come to the end of a busy half term, I was reminded of the amazing job our support staff do to make our school flow so smoothly. The front office staff are, as you may already know, amazing! They turn their hands to anything at the drop of a hat and are…
Huge congratulations to ten of our pupils who entered the UK Mathematics Trust Under 13 Maths Challenge, run by the University of Leeds. All pupils in Year 5-8 sat internal qualifying papers and ten pupils were chosen to represent Holmwood in the competition. All of them were placed in the top 40% of participants from across…
Year 8 have been learning about the Loci (marking the area which satisfies certain conditions). We took their learning outside and made the theory come to life by solving the real-world examples on the field and in the yard using a measuring tape and chalk. Here is one of the questions they had to solve:…
Pre-Prep Golden Awards Reception Proud Clouds Sebastian W and Maya M Year 1 Golden Awards Joe P and Gabrielle J Year 2 Golden Awards Isaac L and Imogen B Year 3 Golden Awards Oliver W and Stanley J Pre-Prep 5Rs Awards Resilient Rhino Anna K, Eivissa M and Cody T Responsible Reindeer Yashvardhan P, Flora…
Congratulations to Katie B in Year 5 who was the winner of the Design an Element Shield competition for Land Charity Day last term. Her winning design was then very creatively made into an impressive full size shield by Harry S and Zara M and will now be used by Land in their assemblies.
