Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Pied Piper

  Fri 22 Jun 2018 Mrs Ratley
  Yesterday saw the second of our 2 performances from the theatre - the Pied Piper puppet show.  This performance was for Owl, Robin and Fox classes.  It was a one-woman show, telling the story through a range of different types of puppets.  The workshops that followed enabled the children to have a go at making a puppet of their own.  Owl class in particular are now really keen to carry on making puppets themselves through their classroom activities and are writing about the show.  You could tell how engaged the children were from the hush in the hall and the fact that they sat for an hour's performance!

  

• Graffiti Classics Theatre Performance - Once Upon a Festival

  Thu 21 Jun 2018 Mrs Ratley

  We were very lucky to have Graffiti Classics performing in our school yesterday.  Squirrel, Badger, Hare and Osprey classes watched the show; which will be followed by a workshop for every class.  This was part of the Theatre's Once Upon a Festival initiative, which enables children to participate in a wide range of theatre performances, where the show comes to them.

   

  Graffiti Classics was a huge hit with our children, many of whom were jigging along to some well-known classical pieces.

  

• BMX Academy Day!

  Mon 18 Jun 2018 Mrs Ratley

  We are lucky to have Mike Mullen from http://www.bmxacademy.com/ visiting the school today.  He talked to the school about the importance of having a growth mindset as well as "flearning".  A lot of his principles and messages fit in with our 5 # values of #growth, #respect, #enjoy, #achieve, #team.

   

  Mike told the children about when he was at school: he was often shy and could sometimes have excuses about why he couldn't do things, until one day he got his first BMX, found a role-model and realised that in order to succeed at something you love, and be the "greatest" you can, it takes hard-work and an 'I can' attitude.  He explained the importance of learning from your failures, picking yourself up and trying again!

   

  He then asked for an adult volunteer to try out a trick and Mrs Boldero was brave enough to do so (showing an 'I can' attitude, rather than avoiding eye-contact and making excuses!).  Well done Mrs Boldero, you really deserved the cheers and round of applause at the end!

   

  We then moved out to the playground and were astounded by some of the tricks we saw Mike perform!  Mrs Boldero got to choose 6 'victims' for Mike to jump over in his finale!  The children were enthused and engaged throughout.

   

  Later in the morning and the afternoon, Mike ran workshops for Hare and Osprey classes where they had the opportunity to push themselves and try out something many of them have not had the opportunity of doing themselves.

   

  What a fun day, full of challenge and Flearning!