Welcome back! We hope you have all had a restful half-term break. Our children returned full of energy this week and are all excited about the half-term ahead. As we continue to see our Enrichment Program evolve, children look forward to upcoming trips, visits and visitors. Please keep up to date with our Key Dates list available on the newsletter.
We all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!
Thank you to FOSA and all of our families for your continued support. It was smashing to see so much colour including pink and red in school in support our Valentines themed non uniform day!
We’re excited about our World Book Day celebrations on Thursday 6th March. We have a full themed day planned which motivates reading for pleasure with fun activities to share stories together in new and interactive ways.
Under the theme of Transport from Around the World, was cable cars.
Following our Maths Subject Showcase to parents' classes were immersed in maths for the whole day, completing activities directly linked to their classes' professions.
Mrs Marsters, our Mathematics Lead at Upwell led an excellent maths-themed day which parents and children were able to enjoy.
This week Mrs Marsters held a parent/carers KS2 SATs Workshop for parents and carers to support their child through the Year 6 SATS assessment process.
As part of Year 3 DT Food Technology, they have been exploring pizzas, discovering what a variety of toppings and bases look like, taste like and feel like. They had the challenge of designing and making their pizza to meet a design brief.
This week our build was 'rickshaws' from India., under the theme of transport from around the world.
Celebrating Chinese New Year in Cygnet Class has been an exciting experience! Our home corner has transformed into a Chinese takeaway, where the children have been integrating writing by taking customer orders.
Attendance so far in 2025 has been very mixed for many of our pupils, we do understand that we are now well into the winter bugs hitting our households.
Our Year 6 pupils and staff spent the day examining the location where the very first Spitfires took flight in the late 1930s.