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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…

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…

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…

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!

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…

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

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!

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

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…

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…

What a brilliant day we have had at the zoo! The children took part in a workshop called ‘Grubs up’ which complimented our school learning perfectly! The children enjoyed visiting all of the animals in the zoo and the sun shone for us all day! Well done to all of class 2 for being such wonderful…

Class 4 visited the Memorial Arboretum to celebrate Anne Frank day recently.  They took part in workshops about The Holocaust and also looked at some fascinating artefacts.  The day finished with the children having an opportunity to take part in a wreath laying ceremony at Anne Frank's memorial…