Home Page

Over two days, a group of our Year 6 pupils took part in Bikeability Level 1 and 2 training. The children completed a challenging ride from Shellingford to Stanford in the Vale, where they practised a range of on-road cycling skills and safety drills they had practiced on the playground beforehand. They learned how to signal, navigate junctions, and ride confidently in real traffic conditions. All the pupils showed fantastic focus, teamwork, and enthusiasm throughout the sessions.

Some of our Year 5’s also took part the Junior Active Leaders training this week. The programme is designed to develop leadership, teamwork, and confidence in leading playground games and activities for our younger pupils in the school.

What a wonderful week our pupils have had this year at their residential at Yenworthy Lodge, an outdoor activity centre set in six acres of woodland within the Exmoor National Park. They have embodied our school values, demonstrating perseverance, resilience, teamwork, curiosity and friendship.  During the week they have enjoyed surfing, rock pooling, beach art, coasteering and lots of challenges on site including the climbing wall and zipline.  We have been so impressed with their behaviour, manners and good humour as well as their willingness to work so well together and with the partner-school.  Mrs Sucksmith and Mrs Carter

As a church school our Christian vision is at the heart of our provision and steers all we do with our pupils and with one another.  We talk about having ‘roots and foundation in love’ (Ephesians 3:17) to help inspire and guide our hearts and minds.  In our Collective Worship and as part of daily activities and interactions we remind ourselves that the best roots we can have can be provided by our faith, our family and friends, and demonstrated by the way we show love for other people. We hope that this will become the foundation of our lives to enable us to grow into good people.

Our Summer Production was once again a block buster!  Congratulations to the children for two fantastic performances and to Mrs Sucksmith for directing the production.  £241.26 was raised for the charity ‘SeeSaw’ who provide support for children, young people and their families in Oxfordshire when they have been bereaved or when someone close to them is terminally ill.

On Monday 23rd June, our Year 6 pupils enjoyed a trampolining session at Jump Inc in Bicester to mark the end of their SATs and to have fun together before moving on to their respective secondary schools. Over the last few months, they have been working hard to raise the money needed to fund their trip, making and selling fairtrade fruit kebabs to our school community. Thank you for supporting them. The project gave them an important insight into the value of money, and they were all very proud to have raised the amount needed.                                       Mrs Sucksmith