Great excitement in Little Owls today, as four chicks have hatched over night. Tomorrow they will be transferred to the brooder. The children said: "3 are yellow and 1 is speckled black, yellow and grey." "They are fluffy and cute." "They look quite big outside their eggs.' "3 haven't hatched yet. There were 7 [...]
David Walliams books provided the inspiration for the Junior children's World Book Day fancy dress characters. From Gangsta Gran to Demon Dentist, every truly terrifying character was represented in a spectacular display of fiction brought to life. Books were celebrated, stories listened to, illustrations enjoyed. Many children were inspired to seek out a new [...]
To celebrate World Book Day this year, we challenged our budding authors to write a story based on a theme of their own choice. Every story was a joy to read and with the standard being so high across the entries, the judges had a difficult task choosing winners for each year group. After [...]
With the theme of 'Julia Donaldson', the Infant children had great fun dressing up for this year's celebration of books for World Book day. Some fabulous costumes included: Gruffalos, Highway Rats, Ladybirds, mermaids, the Snail and the Whale and characters from Room on the Broom. We even had a life size whale, The Smartest [...]
We celebrated Chinese New Year before half term. We looked at the story of how the years were named and why and found out which year the children were born in. We looked at Dragon boat racing, lighting lanterns, Dragon dancing and the food the Chinese eat to celebrate. We also learned about the [...]
All the children enjoyed the annual Barnabas visit this week. The Infants enjoyed story telling, with some special actors from Year 2 playing 'Herbert'. Whilst the Junior assembly focused on 'What price for Peace?' with many children involved in acting out the war between the Jews and Philistines. Later in the day the Junior [...]
On Thursday 8th February 2018, a selection of sports leaders travelled to a sports conference in Stoke Mandeville Stadium sports hall. We played a variety of many different sporting activities such as: Volley Ball, which we all thoroughly enjoyed; different Tag Rugby games, including hunt and chase; as well as many other games. During [...]
A presenter from Aylesbury radio station Mix 96 visited Year 3 to find their opinions on a variety of topics. Their conversations were recorded for a broadcast being made on breakfast show on 21st May at 7:50, with a repeat in the afternoon at 3:10. If you miss this the podcast will be available [...]
On Wednesday 31st January the whole school enjoyed a performance of Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. The production was lively and entertaining. We were surprised by how glamours Granda was in her sparkly trainers! She did, however, live up to her reputation of grumpiness and was horrid to George. The [...]
