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I'm Charmaine and I have recently joined the Board of Governors as a Local Authority Governor in Autumn Term 2018.

I knew I wanted to be a part of this wonderful School from the day I met with Mr Welsh.  He showed me around the School and I got chance to meet with some of the Staff and Pupils,…

Pupils in 10R got to work this term making Christmas items to sell around school and at Christmas Bingo, to help raise funds towards their Prom next year.  They covered all areas of running a small business, such as researching ideas for suitable things to make, costing out the materials and…

This week a very excited Rowan Class has been using Numicon to make Christmas Trees.  We started at the top using 2 x 1 pieces and doubled up until we got to 10. We covered our trees with snow (flour) then when we removed the shapes it left a beautiful effect which we all loved.
We asked everyone…

A great way to end a week! 

8R have been busy talking about how they can create a snowman using the ingredients in their bags. They then watched the film Frozen. 

I wonder how many snowmen ‘melt’ before they reach home.

It’s getting all Christmassy in our class now! We are…

Class 7R have been getting into the Christmas spirit this week! 

The children have taken part in lots of different arts and crafts activities and have had a brilliant week!

This morning, they made festive paper chains, glittery snowflakes and completed some Christmas colouring activities…

9G had a lovely time at the Christmas lunch. They enjoyed having a lovely roast dinner and had Santa ice cream for their pudding. We enjoyed listening to Christmas songs too. We had a lovely time and can’t wait for Christmas now! 

It was the Golden Ticket reward visits yesterday for both Primary and Secondary Phase.  

Our Primary pupils enjoyed a visit to Playpad in the morning, with lunch at McDonalds and Secondary pupils enjoyed an afternoon at Hollywood Bowl.

It is such a pleasure to be able to lead these visits…

Yesterday Mr Massey treated some of Chestnut Class to a Christmas themed forest school. We started off my finding all of Santa’s elves, then we worked together to decorate a Christmas tree and finished off by making very cute clay reindeers! 

Some of the pupils in Oak Class have had a visit from their family this afternoon, the pupils loved showing them around the classroom, decorating biscuits, colouring Christmas tree decorations and taking part in what's in the box. 

This week in Maths 8G have been learning all about pictograms, tally charts and bar graphs. We linked our data handling to Christmas, with pupils producing tally charts, pictograms and block graphs on favourite Christmas films, Christmas songs and Christmas food. We found out that the favourite…

On Wednesday 12th December 2018 8G had a Roman Banquet, with Mr Byrom-Jones, Mrs England and Miss Hugghill being the Roman slaves. Prior to the activity we researched and wrote our Roman menus. We found out that the Romans liked to eat snails, animal tongues and brains! as well as…

We went on a great trip to Botany Bay on Monday. This was our last trip of the half term and we had a fabulous time>

We went upstairs and had a look at the Christmas decorations and the different areas they had set up. One favourite was the polar bear. 

We then spent the rest of the…