School News
The new term has started well and all of the children have new topics they are
learning about. The children in Mercury and Mars Class have the topic title,
'Eureka!' They are going to be looking at Inventors and Inventions from the
past 100 years. They started off the term with a visit from Denny Abbey, where
they learned all about Washdays 100 years ago. They all agreed that it is much
easier now! Saturn and Neptune Class are studying, 'Glad to be Me!' As part
of our involvement in the Cambridgeshire Safer Routes to Schools programme,
they started off their project with a visit from the Road Safety Team who
challenged them to use the Carbometer to see whether walking or driving to
school was better for them and the environment.
There are lots of sporting activities taking place this half term. The Year 4 children have taken part in a Racket Festival at Bottisham Village College and the Year 5/6 boys did extremely well at the Football Festival. We are also working with Cambridge United Football Club at the moment, they are coming in to give the Year 5/6 girls extra football lessons. We have a Tag Rugby specialist working with Saturn Class as well. Our very popular High 5s (netball) team are taking part in some league matches later this month, so we wish them well for that.
We have definitely got a date for the installation of the new swimming pool; it
is going to be put in at Easter. We would not have been able to have the pool
put in so early without the hard work of FoSPS and the generous nature of the
local community, so thank you once again. We were also very pleased to have our
application for a lottery Awards For All grant accepted at the end of last
year. This means we will be able to offer swimming lessons to those children
from more disadvantaged backgrounds and also pay for a lifeguard to enable the
pool to be used more by the local community on selected weekends.
As it is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin this year, we will be celebrating with a Darwin day in the Summer term. We have it on good authority that he used to come looking for samples on Swaffham Prior Fen when he was a student at the University. If anyone has any information about Charles Darwin and his connection to Swaffham Prior we would love to hear from you.
The CC Cafe continues to be held at the school once every half term. All members of the local community are very welcome to come and join us for a coffee and slice of homemade cake. The next two dates are: Friday 23rd January and Friday 20th March from 2.30-3.30pm. We look forward to seeing you there.