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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!

 

Monday 2nd March, 2026

Recorder Festival Y6

This week, Year 6 travelled to the Anstice in Madeley to take part in the Telford and Wrekin Recorder Festival. The children have been working hard in their music lessons to perfect these songs ready for an audience – and what a show they put on! The children did a fantastic job and did the school, and their music teachers, proud! Well done Y6!

Please enjoy these recordings from the day and the photos we took.

Thursday 26th February, 2026

Year 5 Spelling Bee Competition!

On Thursday 26th February, 8 lucky Year 5 students were invited along to take part in the Haberdashers’ Adams annual Spelling Bee Competition!

Children took part in 6 rounds, all based on Spelling Rules that they have learnt throughout their time in Years 3 -5!

Round 1: Spelling Bee – Our Captain Webb Spelling Bees were tasked with correctly spelling 30 tricky words!

Round 2: The Beehive – A quick 8 minute round where children needed to find as many words as possible ensuring that they used the middle letter in all their words!

Round 3: Crossword – The teams were given clues to uncover words that were needed to fill in the crossword gaps… and ensure they spelt them correctly too!

Round 4: Anagrams – A difficult challenge but not for our spelling superstars! They needed to unscramble the letters to work out the answer to one-lined clues.

Round 5: Guess the word – Children read the challenging riddles to guess the mystery word.

Final Round: Escape room – The Spelling Detectives were asked to crack the 10 digit code by answering word related clues that were all to do with spelling.

The children had so much fun and Mrs Cottrell is so proud of their determination and effort! Well done!!

 

Wednesday 25th February, 2026

Chinese New Year

Our Reception children have had a wonderful time celebrating Chinese New Year! We enjoyed dancing to festive music, making colourful dragons, creating beautiful lanterns and painting our very own dragon pictures. The children loved learning about the traditions and sharing in the celebrations together.

 

In Maths, we have been learning all about the number 9. We have been busy sorting objects into groups that show 9 and not 9, helping us to recognise and understand the number in different ways. We are so proud of all the hard work and enthusiasm the children have shown!