Shakespeare Workshop
As part of our Shakespeare Week celebrations this week, Classes 3 and 4 had the privilege of working with the company, ‘Finding the Will’. During their workshop, pupils used a variety of visualisation and drama techniques to act out key scenes from the play Macbeth. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience […]
Sublime Science
For Science Week we welcomed Lesley Lightning from ‘Sublime Science’ for a series of workshops across the school. The children took part in a range of experiments and demonstrations, including slime making, forces investigations and ‘climate chaos’ experiments. They finished off the day with an amazing rocket show on the […]
World Book Day
We also celebrated World Book Day in March and this year we were extremely impressed with the variety of book characters. The whole school worked in small groups to create a ‘Once Upon a … Fairytale’ and co-wrote and illustrated their own adventure story.
Sutton Courtenay Environment Education Centre (SCEEC)
Class 1 & 2 pupils visited SCEEC, a 19 acre nature reserve with woodland, meadow and ponds which is a haven for wildlife even in the depths of winter. A skilled education team led our day, engaging our pupils’ heads, hearts and hands as they learnt respect for the natural […]
K’Nex Workshop
Class 3 & 4 pupils were given an introduction to the exciting world of engineering by using K’Nex to produce a solution for a given problem. Mr Dorey led the workshop and the pupils experimented with structures, gears and other mechanisms while modelling their design. The pupils were also introduced […]
Stand by me
We are excited to now have a link to Bethany School in Ethiopia. Throughout the year we will be exchanging communications with Bethany School and fundraising for them. We have installed a sign-post on the field to direct our attention to the local area and to represent important people in […]
Safer Internet Day
SAFER INTERNET DAY This year’s global theme was Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and changes online It focuses on smaller changes that can happen online and on devices every day, such as a screen pop-up, a familiar character looking different or a video clip change. We will be […]
STEM Week
We celebrated STEM Week (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in January. Within their mixed age family groups, the whole school took part in a number of practical activities and challenges using many different STEM skills whilst also focusing on our values for the week ‘Patience and Tolerance.’ […]
Take One Picture
Our school has entered The National Gallery’s Take One Picture programme. Primary schools
nationwide have been invited to complete cross-curricular projects based on Henri Rousseau’s
‘Surprised!’ The National Gallery selects a number of these projects for an exhibition at the gallery
which we hope to be visiting as a whole school in the […]