A warm welcome to everyone at the beginning of the new school year, especially our new starters! 

We are Storytellers: is our new school wide theme. It's a humanities-based topic looking at people and places.

Meet & Greets: We warmly invite you to our Meet and Greet on September 18th at 4pm, to hear more about the changes at school including our outdoor learning, the eco garden and new greenhouse build.

Class changes: it's exciting to see the new starters settling in to school well. We are so pleased with how ready for school the new pixies are. The pixies, elves and griffins (year 2) are now in a new group named 'The Shire'. This will help to maintain friendships across the group, easing the transition from foundation to key stage 1 and ensuring the children are well-known to the staff. 

The Shire: are extremely happy with our new cooking facilities and looking forward to baking soon. With the topic of Beatrix Potter there are some really exciting creative builds upcoming and sock rabbits being made for the big film project. This term we will be visiting Cogges Manor Farm and looking at farming and land use.

Dragons: are looking at Viking myths and legends beginning with Norse myths in History and English. We welcome 2 new dragons this year. Next week is the residential in the Lake District where we'll be doing some geo investigation into rivers and the water cycle. 

Wizards: this week the wizards have decorated the letters for the 'we are storytellers' display. They looked at the 8 compass points in preparation for geography. We will be looking at the Anglo-Saxons, how they invaded and settled in Britain after the Romans left. We are looking forward to tennis sessions with Excel Tennis on Mondays and the brass sessions begin on Tuesday morning.

We have three new members of staff this term, Clem Raisbeck; Receptionist, Abi Roff; Communications Officer and Aimee Simson; Teaching Assistant in the Shire.