Well done to the boys and girls who received certificates and awards in today's Achievement Assembly. You have demonstrate the attitude and skill we expect from our pupils and have worked hard throughout the week.

Well done also to the boys receiving their first Sports Award of the year for representing the school three times in sports competitions.

Well done to the boys who represented the school in the AVSSP Boy's Futsal Tournament.

The team played incredibly well, keeping 3 clean sheets before reaching the final before finishing the tournament as Runners Up.

Teamwork, determination and skill were all in abundance along with great sportsmanship.

I will only whisper this...but there are some signs of Spring showing: catkins on the hazel trees and daffodil shoots appearing through the frozen ground. 

Hopefully, it won't be long now until there is a little warmth in the sun...but then I remember the words in the Don McLean song, American Pie: 'February made me shiver'...and I remember to temper my optimism...

Lower School started their sessions this week with a dialogue challenge - 13 Ghanian animals with speech bubbles - the children had to find all the pictures and turn the speech bubbles into correct dialogue...would they remember their punctuation, capital letters and synonyms for said?

Following this, they rotated round their challenges from last week: fire / hot chocolate making; arrow crafting; Ludus board completing; Ghanian mask creation.  

Upper School have started by exploring a range of charcoal drawings depicting winter scenes.  We tried to identify the different techniques the artists had used to add 'value'.  Following this, we had a go at our own picture which will be laminated and mounted in a hazel picture frame.  

After drawings were complete, and following a warming HC, we rotated round our challenges form last week: picture frame construction; sculpture crafting; plotting the journey of HMS Beagle; exploring food webs and animal adaptation.  

Yesterday, the children of Upper School had some very special visitors in school: Steve from the Dinosaur, Wildlife and Education Centre (DWAEC) brought in some very exotic friends of his to support the children's learning this term in science, geography and English. Some creatures flew, some slitered, some spun webs but all of them amazed the year 5 and 6 audience. What an amazing experience!

Click here to see the photos from the day!

Click on the image below to find out more about Steve and his animal friends at the DWAEC centre...

Our Yr 3 and 4 children had an amazing time today visiting Cadbury World in Birmingham. The children enjoyed learning about the rainforest, finding out about the history of chocolate, seeing how chocolate is made and of course tasting it too! 

Despite not seeing Willy Wonka or a single Oompa Loompa, the children were more than happy to settle for Freddo the frog and the Caramel Bunny instead. 

Please click here to view the photographs from our trip.