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3 July 2026

Wild Weather Topic in Forest School

We have had so much fun in forest school this afternoon. We brought our topic learning on extreme weathers into the forest creating turmeric sun paintings and summer wind sticks. What a fab afternoon.

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3 July 2026

Sports Day 2026

Wow! 
What a fantastic morning for our Sports Day event. 

We are so proud of all of our children who represented each team brilliantly. We were wowed by the sportsmanship, teamwork and resilience shown in each event.  

Well done to our winning team Earth!

The school dance performance was…

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3 July 2026

Transition day fun!

This week we have held our transition day. We were sad to loose our wonderful year 2 children but we were very excited to meet our new friends who will be joining us in class 2 in September. To get ready for our first topic, traditional tales, the children began by guessing what our topic would be…

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3 July 2026

Coding wonders!

Class 2 are reaching the end of their coding unit of work and their skills are impressive! Using scratch jr they can make images come to life with wonderful animations. They have learnt how to changed backgrounds, sprites (the characters), code individual sprites and add it altogether to create…

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30 June 2026

Super Spellers!

We are absolutely thrilled to share some incredible news from the recent MAT Spelling Bee Final held at Richard Crosse! 

The Howard was brilliantly represented by a formidable team of word wizards: four talented pupils from Key Stage 1 and eight superb spellers from Key Stage 2. Competing…

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26 June 2026

A visit from the Ice Cream Van

What a treat!

The whole school enjoyed a delicious ice cream, which really helped us cool down in this weather.

A massive thank you to our wonderful PTA for providing this yummy treat!

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26 June 2026

Save our Planet

We have been studying oceans in Class 1 and this week we were looking at global warming. We used duplo to create mini islands and then added water and ice to see what happens to the sea level when the ice melts. The children loved exploring this concept and the added bonus of the ice kept us…

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26 June 2026

Keeping Cool in Class 1

We enjoyed rescuing our trapped icy animals this morning. Playing with the ice definitely helped cool us down.

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19 June 2026

PTA Colour Run

What a fantastic afternoon for our PTFA colour run! 

Thank you to all involved in the set up and running of the event, it was an amazing event enjoyed by all!

 

 

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19 June 2026

Doubles

We enjoyed exploring doubles in the outside area today playing our caterpillar games.

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17 June 2026

Tamworth small schools athletic competition June 2026

Our key stage two athletics team competed in the Tamworth small schools athletics competition. They showed excellent determination and sportsmanship with both their team and other schools. We are incredibly proud of them all. Out of 8 schools, we came 2nd! Amazing! Well done to everyone who took…

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17 June 2026

Exploring Seas, Oceans and watching our class caterpillar’s grow

What a lovely time we have had so far in Class 1 this week! We have been learning all about how important our seas and oceans are, how we can take care of the environment and how the oceans are different all over the world. Here are a few photons of our week so far. 
 

We have also loved…

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