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Thursday 12th March, 2026

Year 1 Exotic Zoo Visit

As part of our ‘Paws, Claws and Whiskers’ topic we have been learning all about animal classification. We visited Exotic Zoo and had the opportunity to hold a mammal, bird, amphibian and reptile. The children loved the day and were surprised at how soft the skunk was!

Thursday 12th March, 2026

🌿 Reception Update: Food Tasting & Forest School Adventures! 🐦

Reception have had a busy and exciting time recently!

The children took part in a tasting session for our new school menu, where they had the opportunity to try a range of different foods. Everyone was very brave and gave the new dishes a go, sharing their thoughts about what they liked best. It was wonderful to see the children exploring new flavours and talking about healthy choices.

 

Reception also enjoyed their Forest School session with Amanda. The children explored the outdoor area while learning about birds and their habitats. They looked closely at different types of birds and then worked together to create their own bird nests using natural materials they found around the forest area.

It was a fantastic session full of creativity, teamwork, and outdoor discovery. Well done, Reception!

Thursday 12th March, 2026

Reception – Starbooks

Mrs Brannon’s class started off our exciting Star books session in the hall. We enjoyed having you join us and share books with your children. Thank you all.

Tuesday 10th March, 2026

EKO Art Project Y6

At the beginning of the year, Y6 had the opportunity to visit Weston Park for a day working with EKO (Educating Kids Outdoors) as part of a creative arts project in connection with the Rose Patterson art gallery. The funding obtained from the Telford and Wrekin arts society allowed 5 schools to have this opportunity, and we were lucky enough to be chosen.

We spent the day making sculptures inspired by Salvador Dali’s paintings of dream-like elephants. We looked at the local bird life in Telford and then made our own sculptures in the abstract style of Dali, which were then displayed as part of the Rose Patterson Art Gallery ‘Halls Young Artist’ competition (on exhibition at Weston Park). There were 240 birds altogether that have delighted many members of the public since their creation! Well done to all involved in this project!

Thursday 5th March, 2026

Reception World Book Day

This week in Reception we had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day! The children came to school dressed as their favourite book characters and loved sharing who they had chosen and why. It was fantastic to see so many imaginative costumes inspired by their favourite stories.

As part of the celebrations, the children enjoyed spending time reading and sharing books with our Year 6 buddies. The older pupils helped bring the stories to life and it was lovely to see the children listening carefully, joining in with the stories and talking about their favourite parts.

The children also got creative by making puppets of their favourite book characters. They had lots of fun designing and decorating their puppets and then using them to retell parts of their favourite stories.

It has been a fantastic week full of stories, creativity and a love of reading!

Thursday 5th March, 2026

World Book Day – Year 2!

We have had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day in Year 2.

We focused on the book ‘The Detective Dog’ by Julia Donaldson and like Dell the Detective Dog, we were tasked with solving some crimes!

We looked at the clues to work out what story books had been taken and where they had been hidden! Have a look at the photos below to see us reading the clues and finding the missing story books!

   

   

 

Here are some of our costumes:

   

Thursday 5th March, 2026

World Book Day – Year 6

What a fantastic World Book Day! In Year 6, we focused on ‘Graphic Novels’, looking specifically at the story ‘Amulet’ by Kazu Kibuishi. We had a great day of performances, reading to the Reception classes in EYFS and letting our creativity soar!

Thursday 5th March, 2026

Y1 World Book Day

For World Book Day we read the story ‘Jonty Gentoo’ by Julia Donaldson. We used this book to help us learn how to draw a penguin and design a new front cover. We also created a map using a key to show where Jonty travelled in the story. One of our favourite activities was finding all of the rhyming words. Here are some of our costumes for World Book day 2026!