2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Market Drayton Arts Festival calendar painting day

A huge thank you again to the team from the MD Arts Fest who came into school this week to paint with our children. The artists teach our children techniques and support them with ideas for painting. They are due back next week to work with the rest of our school.

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Christmas events

We had yet another magical Christmas time in school with visits from Santa and his main elf – both in person and in a helicopter! Thank you to Hawkstone Follies and RAF Shawbury for enabling these experiences. We enjoyed creating Christmas crafts and learning about the birth of baby Jesus. Classes R, 1&2 performed their Nativity beautifully and the whole school participated in the termly Church service. Our Christmas parties were a firm favourite with traditional games, quizzes, parachute games, disco and dancing activities and a whole lot of fun. We also enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch cooked onsite by our wonderful cooks. Thank you to everyone who made Christmas time for our children so special this year.

We have shown thoughtfulness and generosity to our local community through monetary donations to Shrewsbury Ark to support the homeless at Christmas and through our food collections for our local food bank in Market Drayton.

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Grand opening of our Storytelling Chair

To celebrate the hard work, support and dedication of Mr Derek Orton, who was a governor at our school for over 20 years, we had a Storytelling Chair and seating area commissioned, to be enjoyed by our school children for many years to come. Mr Bryan Howells, from BJH Grounds Maintenance ltd, designed and hand made the chair and benches, he also made our beautiful outdoor classroom. We enjoyed a grand opening with Mr and Mrs Orton and Mr Howells, where Mr Orton read the reception class a story in the new area and then attended our celebration assembly and read a beautiful poem to the whole school. Our children gave both men a well-deserved applause and we celebrated their success.

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Remembrance

Reception class and our KS2 School Council members walked to the war memorial in Hodnet to lay a handmade poppy wreath. We talked about the significance of poppies and all reception children wore a handmade poppy. We respectfully observed a two-minute silence before returning back to school. Many of our children were also involved in local parades and services supporting their church or community groups such as Brownies, Cubs and Scouts. In school we observed the two-minute silence at 11am as part of our remembrance assembly.

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Music Enrichment week

In the autumn term we held our enrichment week with a music focus. All children had the opportunity to complete a drumming workshop learning about rhythm and pitch, make musical instruments using junk modelling and recycled materials, play as part of an orchestra, perform to others, work within mixed age groups to compose music digitally, make instruments and large scale music areas outside in forest schools, analyse music and story composition, sing and learn to sing & sign and work as part of a team to celebrate achievements. We all had a wonderful week. The musicians who visited our school commented on our schools positive learning ethos and noted how well our children worked as a team and how our pupils’ love of learning and inquisitiveness was a pleasure to see. Another wonderful week, well done everyone.

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Sports games event and family picnic

Our annual sports games event was a huge success this year. It was wonderful to see so many parents back in school enjoying the celebrations with their children. The carousel of 8 events culminated in 3 long distance runs, this year we had an obstacle race, a bean bag throw, a standing jump, a relay race, a javelin throw, a sack race, an egg and spoon race and a bean bag relay. The children were all competing for their house, with the totals form each event being calculated and scores visible throughout. Congratulations to the Foxes who led from the start and won this year, turning the ribbons on our school trophy to green. Well done to everyone who tried their best – it was a great atmosphere with lots of friendly cheering and celebrations.

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Science Week

In our science week we are focussing on famous scientists and practical investigations. We have a science shop for children to enjoy purchasing science gadgets and toys.

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Shropshire Sings concert

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Our KS1 and KS2 choirs took part in the regional concert at the Showground in Shrewsbury. All children in school practised the songs over the previous term and worked very hard to learn the complex words and remember the many songs. We are very proud of them all. The concert was a very enjoyable afternoon and evening. All children were exemplary and deserve to feel very proud of themselves. Their hard work and commitment was recognised in achievement assembly where they all received certificates and a round of applause.

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Jubilee week

2 years ago
Posted on 14th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Celebrating British Difference through our Multi-Faith RE week

In Multi-Faith RE week each class studied the Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh religions. Each class visited places of worship and KS2 also has an Islamic faith leader visitor to school. We visited the Balaji Hindu Temple in Oldbury, a Sikh Gurdwara in Oakengates and St Luke’s Church in Hodnet. We worked in phases and groups to research religions, we used the topic artefact boxes to support our learning and enjoyed working with other classes to produce our videos to share our learning.