Bench of Glory - Mathematics I have been so thrilled this week to present seven fantastically hardworking mathematicians with their well-earned ‘Bench of Glory’ certificates. The reasons for their selection share a similar theme: an enjoyment of mathematics and the pursuit of further knowledge in this wonderful subject area. As stated by Professor Marcus [...]
Welcome Back I hope that you’ve had a wonderful and restful Christmas holiday and enjoyed your (nearly) two-week break. Firstly, may I thank you all for the wonderfully kind gifts you gave – they were sincerely appreciated. Over Christmas, I’ve been busy spending time with my family; we visited Santa’s Grotto and went to [...]
Class R put on our wellies this week and headed out on a special job for Percy the Park Keeper. Some of his animal friends had got lost, and we had to go and hunt for them. We talked about the kind of wild animals that might live in the local area and the [...]
Class R had a great time designing and making their Super Veggies! Inspired by the Supertato stories and different superhero costumes, we gave them masks, capes, belts and logos. Some had wings and even a hover board!
Happy New Year! Welcome back. I hope that the festive break was as good as it could be. It seems that Santa has been very generous indeed. When I was a young lad (in a time where Amazon meant a rainforest and the Argos catalogue was a thing of wonder), I remember that Christmas [...]
Our Reception children have finished off their fairytales topic with a fantastic finale at Goldilocks’ birthday party! Since they started school in September, the children have ventured to imaginary far away lands, they have been up the giants’ beanstalk and have flown towards the second star to the right. We have been visited by [...]
We had only been back at school for three days when we set off on our first trip of the year - to watch the Tour of Britain cycle race. An excited class of year six children walked down past the village hall to a nice elevated vantage point on the recreation ground. There was [...]
Congratulations to our year six class who proudly graduated from their DAaRT course. DAaRT is the course that was formerly known as DARE and prepares our oldest children for their teenage years ahead. Here they are looking rather pleased with themselves and wearing their graduation t-shirts. [...]
It was a real treat for me to take two delightful children on a Friday afternoon trip to County Hall’s debating chamber for our most recent pupil parliament meeting. Two representatives from every primary school in Rushcliffe were in attendance and brought with them notes from discussions that had happened back in their classrooms. [...]
Class 2 have explored what schools of the future might be like using AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality). We used AR to find out about the lifecycle of a butterfly, and VR to inspire our vocabulary work. Everyone really enjoyed using these technologies, and imagining how they might develop in schools of [...]
