Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Newark Christmas tree Festival

  Thu 07 Dec 2017
  The annual Christmas tree Festival is at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Newark and runs from 2nd - 10th December. It features trees decorated by local schools and businesses. Here are some pictures of our beautiful tree.

  

• Cool Choirs 2017

  Wed 29 Nov 2017
  Here is a snapshot of our wonderful choir at the Cool Choirs 2017 event in Mansfield last week.

  

• Enablers Day -‘Perseverance’ and ‘Independence’

  Thu 23 Nov 2017

  Monday 21^st November was our second Enablers Day.  We explored the key skills of ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Independence’.  Each class completed a variety of activities using these skills and presented their learning in an assembly at the end of the day.  Great fun was had by all!

   

  Mrs Tansley

  

• Schools Games Certificate

  Tue 24 Oct 2017
  We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Bronze School Games Certificate.

  

• Enablers Day photos

  Fri 20 Oct 2017

  Enablers Day 16 October 2017

  Today the children carried out several tasks that would employ the Enabling skills of questioning and creativity.

  Foundation worked hard to create wardrobes for Super Girl who was visiting a hot country and Iron Man who was travelling to a colder climate. Also, they were tasked with building a bridge using crates so that Mrs Gibson could cross the playground without getting her shoes dirty!

  Class One were in teams working out how to cross the hall on lily pads. They were not allowed to touch the floor, and they only had 3 lily pads!

  Class Two were tasked with designing and building a new chair for Freddy Fox. The only resources allowed were paper, paperclips and Sellotape. They worked in teams to determine what shapes would provide a strong structure. The winning design consisted of several rolled paper tubes covered in paper.

  Class Three questioned the origin of some Egyptian artefacts, what they could have been and whether they could be put to a different use.  Also, in teams, they were given a budget of £5 to ‘buy’ resources from the design store. Working out how to spend their money on materials that would build a shelter for a family whose house had been mistakenly destroyed by The Iron Man. Various materials were on sale, from cardboard to bin liners. They had to decide how to spend their money wisely.

  Class Four made mirrored patterns in blocks, working out how to use single and multiple colours to create symmetrical patterns. Also they were tasked with finding out about Roman artefacts, utilising a system of questioning that would determine how it was made and its potential use.

  Class Five where divided into teams and challenged with making a tower of paper that involved no glue to hold it together. The boy’s team won, however the girls were commended as every time their design failed to stand they adapted the design to improve it. Following on from this was constructing a bridge across the gap between two tables. Utilising the skills learn from the towers they found out whether the same structure would hold equally well when horizontal.

  Class Six were given some bizarre materials with which to build a bomb shelter. With only spaghetti and marshmallows the results were ingenious! From delicate elemental structures to more robust fortresses.

   

   

  

• Our Old 'Wildlife' Garden

  Fri 08 Sep 2017
  At the end of the Summer term we were fortunate to have the help of a group of school leavers to revamp the old Wildlife garden. The overgrown garden has been transformed into an accessible space that the children can enjoy, especially during the summer months when it will provide much needed shade. Take a look at our photos of the before and afters!

  

• Something Fishy!

  Thu 15 Jun 2017
  Fishing club had a great time last week. Take a look at these photos!

  

• School Garden

  Mon 12 Jun 2017

  Thank you so much to the parents and children who gave their time to help with the school sensory garden on Thursday evening.  After a quiet start, we had a great turn-out and were able to achieve much more than we anticipated.  Everyone brought along their spades, forks, shovels, drills and wheelbarrows and got stuck in.  As you can see, we have moved the hut, cleared away slabs and odd bits of wood, and dug over the whole patch.  We found some interesting surfaces and oddments underneath the top layers so Mr Ford's skip came in handy.

   

  Our volunteer design team is now getting to grips with the next stage of planning.  We are looking forward to sharing the designs with you and enlisting some more help in phase 2.  Thanks again everyone - you were great!

  Mrs Clarke

  

• Election

  Mon 12 Jun 2017
  We held our own election in school last week with the result being very close, just like the real event! The candidates from Year 6 formed the Red, Blue and Yellow parties and campaigned in the run up by putting posters up around school. The Reds won by two votes followed by the Blues then the Yellows. The results were announced to the school in assembly on Friday.

  

• Head Teacher's Award

  Mon 05 Jun 2017
  Well done to those who received a Head Teacher's Award at the end of the last half term. Keep up the good work!