School News
The school year has ended with a flourish. The fabulous performance of Robin
Hood really made the end of year special and the children really performed
well. The singing was fabulous and the acting splendid. We are already thinking
about what we will do next year!
The children in Years 5 and 6 had an action packed residential trip to the Mepal Outdoor Centre. They took part in a variety of activities including rock climbing, sailing, kayaking, snorkelling, archery and orienteering. The children managed to overcome their fears and get stuck into all of the activities with enthusiasm. They were certainly tired when they got home!
We have had a very sporting half term with all of the children being involved in a variety of sports. We had our Sports Day in June and it was a lovely day. We took the theme of the Beijing Olympics with many of the events having a Chinese theme. The Year 2 children took part in a Multiskills festival at Bottisham Village College, where they tried a variety of different games. All of Key Stage 2 went off to Ely to take part in the very first Youth Games. They competed against other schools in the sports of Hockey, Cricket, Tag Rugby and Netball. Finally we sent a team of year 5/6 children off to Netherhall School to compete in a Basket ball tournament. They did very well, coming 5th out of thirteen teams.
Raising money for our new swimming pool has gone extremely well this year, thank you very much for all of the village support. We are at the stage where we will hopefully be able to have the pool installed in February next year, ready for use next summer. The whole school took part in a sponsored swim event in June to help raise further funds. The children set themselves a swimming target and we took them all to Bottisham pool, where they were able to achieve their swimming goal. It was a really good morning.
The whole school went on a visit to Wisbech on Monday 7th July. We went to take part in a Children's Our World Festival to develop the children's understanding of the multi-cultural world we live in. They saw lots of exciting things including, Bhangra dancers, Indian story tellers, Samba dancers, Romany caravans and Polish dancing. Many of them have been trying out the moves at school!
We are continuing to work hard to achieve the targets set in our school Travel Plan. The bus service that the children use from Reach is certainly very popular and has definitely cut down on the number of cars being used in the mornings. Our Walk on a Wednesday scheme is very popular with nearly the whole school getting their achievement badge each month. We would still like to see more children walking on the other days of the week as well. When the children are asked, they would really like to be able to cycle to school more often. We need to look at our provision for cycle storage in order to enable this to happen. The area outside the school on Station Road can become very congested at the end of the school day, so we are still encouraging parents who drive to park in the village hall car park and walk through the path with their children.
Our school field is a great resource for the school and also the community. We don't mind people using the school field and playground out of school hours, but we do ask that the grounds and school equipment is respected. Recently we have found a lot of litter on the school field and some canes in the gardens have been broken. We have also found a lot of dog excrement on the filed and do ask that people do not allow their dogs onto the field.
The new Reception children who are starting school in September have really enjoyed their visits to the school, especially the seaside picnic. We are looking forward to welcoming them as permanent members of the school community on 4th September.