News

• Year 1 Botwell Library Visit

  Fri 17 May 2024

  Our Year 1 children visited Botwell Library where Emma explained the rules of the library and how it works. Did you know you can now borrow up to 14 books! We spoke about our favourite characters and looked around the library.

  

• Year 2 Fire Safety Workshops

  Thu 16 May 2024

  Year 2 had fire safety workshops delivered by the London Fire Brigade today. They learnt how firefighters prepare and train what to do in an emergency. The children now know that they should always crawl in the event of a fire and touch the door handle with the back of their hand to see if it safe to exit a room. Thank you London Fire Brigade!

  

• Scooter Safety Training

  Thu 16 May 2024

  Children in Key Stage One completed scooter safety training sessions. The training sessions included:

  - A safety check of children's scooters

  - Safe scooter control games

  - Pavement etiquette with pedestrians 

  - Identifying scootering hazards such as cars reversing from driveways

  - Finding a safe place to cross the road and crossing with a scooter. 

   

  The children really enjoyed the sessions and developed some important skills to help them safely use their scooter. 

  

• International Day

  Sun 12 May 2024

  Tuesday 14th May is International Day in school. 

   

  Here is what is happening:

  - Each class will complete activities based on the country their class is named after.

  - KS1 children will be presenting their learning to parents/ carers. The Year 2 presentations for parents/ carers will be at 8.50am and at 2.40pm for Year 1 parents/ carers.

  - There will be assemblies for KS1 children about International Day.

  - It will be a non-uniform day. Children and staff can come into school wearing clothes from their own culture. 

  - There will be dance workshops for all classes.

  - Parents/ carers will be coming into school to talk to children about their own cultures to classes. 

   

  We are really looking forward to learning about many of the world's different cultures/ 

  

• Mobile Farm Visit

  Fri 10 May 2024

  What a lovely visit from the farm Nursery had this week as part of their Farm Topic Hook. Children saw lots of different animals, learnt about their offspring, held some guinea pigs, rabbits and chicks and even had a go at feeding some lambs and a donkey. Nursery children behaved fantastically around the animals and the nursery team were very proud!

  

• Year 2 OPAL Playday

  Fri 03 May 2024

  It was so wonderful to have so many parent/carers join us for our Year 2 OPAL Playday and experience the fun children can have even during a wet weather. Please do remember to bring waterproof clothing for your child to use it when it is raining. The children can also leave their waterproof gear in their classes.