19th December 2024
Wriggly Nativity
Our Reception, Year 1 and 2 children performed a Wriggly Nativity. The Year 2 children took the roles of narrators as well as being main characters from the story.
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12th December 2024
Year 1 Writing Workshop
In Year 1, the children have been using the story "I want my hat back" by Jon Klassen as a stimulus for their writing. For their final piece, the children wrote and illustrated their very own sequel called "I want my friend back".
12th December 2024
Firefighter Visit
On Wednesday 4th December the Reception children had a visit from Dereham Firefighters. They taught the children about Fire Safety including 'STOP, DROP, ROLL!'
5th December 2024
Road Safety Awareness week 18th - 22nd November
Our annual needs assessment for Life Skills continues to tell us that Road safety is of high importance for our school.
3rd December 2024
Reading Café
On 12th November Years 1-6 hosted a whole school reading café. Parents/carers were invited to come into school to think and talk about their reading identity with their children.
18th November 2024
Exploring the story of local hero, Edith Cavell
On November 7th the Year 2 children went to Norwich Cathedral to explore the story of our local hero, Edith Cavell. Edith told her story while navigating the children through the beautiful Cathedral.
8th November 2024
Reception Reading Workshop
Reception Class welcomed their parents in for a Reading Workshop.
4th November 2024
Talk Through Stories Visit
We are grateful to have received a bundle of books from Rotary BookAid to support ‘Talk Through Stories’, an initiative which will extend and deepen our youngest children’s vocabulary.
22nd October 2024
Year 3 visit Gressenhall Museum
On 22nd October our Year 3 children went to Gressenhall Museum to learn about Neolithic Britain.
10th October 2024
Reading Buddies
Our Year 5 children are spending time with our Reception and Year 1 children once a week to share a love of reading.
3rd October 2024
Developing the children's roles and responsibilities
Our School Council have been meeting to focus on our current 'Life Skills' curriculum, finding out what the children think they need to learn to keep them happy, healthy and safe.
16th September 2024
New Intake 2024
Our new Reception children have settled in really well. They have been exploring the school environment and making new friends.
16th July 2024
'The Wrong Way Round' Production
Our Year 6's have been working hard in recent weeks to put together their leavers performance of 'The Wrong Way Round'.
15th July 2024
Library Fundraising Event
The classes have been busy completing fundraising events to raise money to purchase books for their class libraries.
5th July 2024
Roman Day
Our Year 3 children participated in a 'Roman Day'. The children were invited to dress up in Roman style costume. They did lots of crafts including creating mosaics, shields and coiled pottery using clay.
1st July 2024
Year 5 and 6 visit Bawdsey Manor
A group of Year 5 and 6 children went on a residential educational visit to Bawdsey Manor, Suffolk
21st June 2024
RNLI Visit for Water Safety Week
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution visited the school for water safety week to deliver a presentation to all the children.
18th June 2024
Science Fortnight
We have had some more visitors in to support our Science fortnight. We had a marine biologist who worked with the Year 5 and 6 children and gave an interesting presentation about life under water.
14th June 2024
Solar for Schools Visit
On Friday 7th June we had a visit from Danielle who works for Solar for Schools.
5th June 2024
Sports Day 2024
On Friday 24th May we had a whole school Sports Day. The children had the opportunity to participate in a sprint and an obstacle race. This was rounded off with a family picnic lunch and some fundraising stalls. A great day was had by all.
4th June 2024
Year 6 at the Breckland Crucial Crew safety education event
The children learnt valuable life skills that would help prepare them as they become more independent with their transition to high school.
24th May 2024
The Year 3 children visit the Time and Tide Museum
The Year 3 children visited the Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth on Thursday. This supported their learning in History on the Roman Empire. The children found themselves at the heart of a rebellion as they plotted to help the local Iceni tribe rise up against the Romans.
15th May 2024
Visit from Bishop of Norwich
The Bishop of Norwich came and visited our school on Tuesday 14th May.
26th April 2024
The Spring Term winners of our House Cup are Newton. Well done!
23rd April 2024
Holkham Beach Visit
Our Year 1 children had an educational visit to Holkham Beach.
19th April 2024
Reading Workshop
The Reception Parent/Carers were invited in to come and learning alongside their children at a reading workshop this week.
18th April 2024
Stanley's Stick by John Hegley
Our Year 1 children wrote their own innovated versions of Stanley's Stick by John Hegley.
25th March 2024
Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse
On Thursday 21st March our Reception children visited Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse.
22nd March 2024
'The West Norwich & Dereham School Sports Partnership' annual dance
Our wonderful Year 2 children participated in the 'The West Norwich & Dereham School Sports Partnership' annual dance show at The Space in Norwich on Friday 15th March
8th March 2024
World Book Day 2024
The children were invited to dress up as their favourite book characters and share their favourite books with their peers.
15th February 2024
Year 4 Reading and Writing Success
Children in Year 4 loved reading their class book: Winter’s Child by Angela McAllister. They took great pride in writing and publishing a sequel story and spending some time sharing their own books with the Year 1 children.
2nd February 2024
NSPCC Number Day
Today we supported the NSPCC Number Day. Children came to school wearing something number related. They also completed some fun number activities in class.
19th January 2024
House Cup Winners!
The Autumn Term winners of our House Cup are Austen
19th January 2024
Spaceship Investigation...
Year 1 children were shocked to find a spaceship had crashed into a tree on our playground.