Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Reading Reward Easter Scavenger Hunt
Tue 26 Mar 2024An amazing 71 children, enjoyed an Easter Scavenger Hunt as a reward for reading 5 times a week this term. They worked in mixed year group teams, using a map and clues to reveal the Easter anagram. Well done, everyone!
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Rocksteady Concert
Fri 22 Mar 2024The Rocksteady Concert was a roaring, rocking success. There were more than 90 adults who attended. There were many stars that were born.
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World Poetry Day
Thu 21 Mar 2024To celebrate World Poetry Day, we explored different types of poems this week. Each class learnt and recited a poem in a Key Stage assembly.
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Science Day
Fri 15 Mar 2024We have had a very exciting Science Day, carrying out investigations and research, all centred around this year's theme, time. We made sand timers, water timers, tested our reaction times, investigated properties of materials, experimented with pendulums, acted as Scientific Advisors to the government and even created a time-travelling coding programme. At the end of the day, each class presented their work to the rest of the school
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Class 6 River Workshop and Visit
Thu 14 Mar 2024Today, Class 6 participated in a fantastic workshop provided by the Canal and River Trust. Our workshop involved consolidating our learning about why rivers flood, how it is managed and acted as engineers to consider ways to prevent flooding. After break, we ventured to the River Trent, where we completed observational map drawings of the river features. We identified flood areas, before investigating the speed of the current.
Our workshop provider was in awe of the children's knowledge during the workshop.
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World Book Day
Thu 07 Mar 2024Children dressed up as a character from their favourite book and enjoyed sharing the books they had brought in. During the day, in key stage 1 the children shared ‘Out of the blue’ by Robert Tregoning and considered the value of Individual Liberty within this text. In Key Stage 2 they explored ‘Here we are’ by Oliver Jeffers and discussed the valuable messages of belonging and respecting difference. In the afternoon, the younger children shared one of their favourite books with our older pupils. We all had a super day!
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Class 2 and Class 4 visit to Magna Science Museum
Mon 04 Mar 2024On Monday, Class 2 and Class 4 went to Magna Science Museum in Sheffield. Each class took part in a workshop related to their Science topic - Class 4 did Sound, which involved learning about pitch and soundwaves, as well as making their own instruments. Class 2 did Materials, which including lots of explosions! There was then time to explore the other areas around Magna - fire, water, Earth and air. All the children thoroughly enjoyed their hands on learning experience, and discovered lots of new things!
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Year 5 trip to the National Civil War Centre
Mon 05 Feb 2024Year 5 enjoyed their trip to the National Civil War Centre today. First, they learnt about the different types of armour and weapons the soldiers would have used during battles. Then, they looked at historic buildings around Newark town centre and considered what it would have been like during the third siege, in role as different residents.
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Upcoming Parents Evenings on the 4th and 6th March '24, 3.45-6pm and online parents evenings on the 5th March '24, 5-6pm
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Key Stage 2 SAT's
Tue 19 Dec 2023Our Super KS2 SAT’s Results
The SAT’s results have now been verified by the DfE. We are so proud of how well we achieved.
We are particularly proud of the fact that we have been ranked the 4th best school in Writing out of 252 schools in the Local Authority! We were also ranked 19th out of the 252 schools for our combined scores in English, Maths and Writing! Well done to all the children that sat the SAT’s in the summer of 2023.
