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

• Jaguars - Junior Citizen

  Thu 20 Oct 2022

  On Tuesday, year 6 attended the Junior Citizen Event at Lingfield Race Course.  This is what some of the children had to say about the morning.

  “Year 6 went on a school trip to Lingfield Racecourse.  We learnt about health and safety and the phone numbers for different emergencies.  My favourite was the train service because I learnt that when the train hits the brakes it takes 20 football pitches to stop”  Isla-Rose

  “We went to Lingfield Racecourse for a Junior Citizen talk for how to be a responsible kid. We met lots of different people with lots of different jobs, all with talks for us too.  One of my favourites was the transport police.  They asked us lots of questions, it was lots of fun”  Amber

  “On Tuesday we went to Lingfield Racecourse for the morning and learnt about our safety.  We split ourselves into two groups and went around the rooms to learn how to keep safe at the beach, when you see a fire or on the train tracks.  We finished the morning with a quiz about what we had learnt”  Nevaeh

  “This week we went to Lingfield Racecourse to do health and safety junior citizen course with people such as the RNLI, railway safety team, the gas works and electrical safety—they were my favourite.  We learnt a lot and we will certainly be more safe in certain scenarios”  Finley S

   

  

• Monkeys Class - Animal Encounters

  Thu 20 Oct 2022

  Monkeys class enjoyed a visit from some reptiles on Wednesday afternoon. We learnt about a bearded dragon, crested gecko and a ball python. We also saw and leant about a giant African land snail and two rats. We really enjoyed being able to hold or stroke some of the animals brought in. Some facts we learnt were:

  A crested gecko has sticky pads on its feet.

  A bearded dragon is terrestrial - it stays on the ground. 

  The ball python only eats once a week and curls into a ball if it is scared. 

  Thank you, Alyssa, for bringing in your animals to share with us! 

   

  

• Macaws Ancient Egyptian Workshop

  Fri 14 Oct 2022

  Yesterday, Macaws Class had a fabulous day learning all about ancient Egypt and dressed as ancient Egyptians. We were visited by an incredibly knowledgeable expert, called Cleopatra (her favourite food was: bread, fish and wine), who taught us lots about ancient Egypt. It was so much fun! We learnt how to mummify a body; we played ancient Egyptian board games; we wrote in hieroglyphics, on papyrus paper, with ancient Egyptian reed ink pens; we handled and investigated lots of ancient Egyptian artefacts and learnt all about them; we learnt how to build an ancient Egyptian city as pharaohs (it was a competition and Alexandria won!) and we asked LOTS of questions and learnt LOTS of fascinating facts! We all had a blast and loved our ancient Egyptian day! We love history!

   

  

• Toucans Netball Festival

  Fri 14 Oct 2022

  Toucans Netball Festival

  On Wednesday this week a group of 12 year 4 children attended a netball festival at the East Grinstead sports club.  We took part in a lot of activities like catching and throwing the ball to help us learn about the footwork.  We played three matches and met children from lots of local schools.

  “It was fantastic” Lena 

  “It was exciting because the games were intense” Jackson

  “It was really good because you couldn’t run with the ball so it was a bit tricky” Harry

  “It made my day” Darcie

   

  

• Cross Country Races

  Fri 07 Oct 2022

  The children all did amazingly well at last Sunday’s cross country races and all ran fantastic races.  As always the children were a credit to the school.

  A huge well done to 

  Evie (4), Seb (4), Jenson (4), Thomas (4), Zack (4), Harry (4), Ayla (5), Christopher (6) and Fletcher (6)