Wider Curriculum

Curriculum

Our Head Boy & Head Girl

Our Head Boys and Head Girls are very important positions in school. As role models, they need to follow the school values at all times. In September, they must deliver a speech to the school to tell everyone why they would make an excellent Head Boy or Girl, and everyone in the school has a vote. We are proud of celebrating the British Value of Democracy at our school. This year, our Head Boy is Felix, Deputy is Joel, Head Girl is Percy and Deputy is Ivie.

Special Projects 2019-20

World Book Day – 5th March 2020

In the afternoon, we invited parents to come in and share stories with the children.  Our assembly focus was on poetry this year, and children and staff enjoyed performing their favourite poems.

Year 5/6 science

A focus on working together to understand concepts in investigative science

Year 1/2 STEM project

Designing paper airplanes

Emerald Class tested their airplanes today to see which ones would go furthest.  They adapted their planes to try to make them fly further.

Year 5 Maths Challenge at Queen Elizabeth High School

13th February 2020

We sent a year 5 team to the maths challenge.  Lois said: “It was difficult and scary to start with, but it was fine once we got going.”

Foundation trip to 2excel at Robin Hood Airport

12th February 2020

Molly wrote: “I liked going on top of the fire engine and I liked going on an airplane.”

Foundation and Key Stage 1 Nativity

Well done to all of the children who performed a wonderful nativity to parents.

Christingle Service

On 9th December, we invited parents to our Christingle Service.  Everyone thought it was lovely.  Finty and Chloe said, “At the end it was really magical when we lit all of the candles.”  So far, we have raised £138 for the Children’s Society.

Planetarium Visit

Cross Country Inter-School Competition

Construction Day at Lincoln Showground

Year 6 pupils

Harvest Festival at St Margaret’s Church

Art Projects 2018-19

December 2018

We ran an art and design club

Children designed a decoration for a Christmas cake and then they made their own decorations.  Here are some of the results.

craft club

Children designed and made their own bunting and they also made photo frames.

Autumn Term

Plastic pollution

As part of this project, we invited an artist into school to work with us on creating a sculpture to raise awareness of the issue.  Every child in the school was involved in the project.  We were all thrilled with the final sculpture.

Recycled poppy

We all recycled plastic bottles to make a poppy.  The poppies were put together into our own remembrance wall of poppies.

Summer Term 2019

Ruby Class are studying the Romans

They have done some Roman mosaics, which also links to their work on Islamic patterns.  Here is a quick preview of what they’ve produced so far.  These still need grouting and they will be on show soon.

P.E. Activities 2018-19

Professional Coaching

This year, children in Ruby Class have been able to take part in archery classes with a professional coach.  Sapphire class will be doing archery in the Summer Term.

Hockey Coaching

We had a coach to teach us hockey in the Autumn Term.  Pupils in Sapphire and Ruby classes learned lots of new skills and had great fun learning to play hockey.

Bikeability

In order to stay safe on the roads, our pupils took part in the Bikeability scheme.

Rainforest dance routine

As part of their Rainforests topic, Ruby Class created a dance routine that they performed to parents, where they also demonstrated their new drumming skills.

Witham Hill Gymnasium

In the Summer Term, all children from Reception to Year 6 had the opportunity to do a series of lessons at Witham Hill Gymnasium with trained coaches in a state-of-the-art gymnasium.  Here are some KS2 photos.

Centurion Sports Day

Summer Term 2019

Along with the other schools in the partnership, we took part in the Centurion Sports Day.  Our children had great fun working with children in other schools.

STEM 2018-19

We were lucky enough to have a STEM Ambassdor into our school from Rolls-Royce.  Laura worked with children across the school.  In Emerald and Sapphire Classes, children made air-powered cars, which they designed, made, tested and evaluated.  Some of the cars travelled a long way!  In Ruby Class, they children learned more about electrical circuits.

Ruby Class working on electrical circuits.

Designing, making and testing in Emerald Class

Testing the cars in Sapphire Class

We investigated ways of sieving and filtering

Awards

Lincolnshire Carbon Ambassador

2013

Ashden Sustainable School Award

2015

Better Energy Awards

2017 Northern Region Winners

RHS 5 Star gardening award

International Partnerships

Partner Schools

We have partner schools in Fair Isle, Tangshan in China, Guadaloupe and Poland.

International School Award

Winner 2017

Charity

Each year we raise money for the British Legion, we give our Harvest Gifts to the Salvation Army and we raise money for Macmillan and other causes locally.

Heritage

We have created a 5km heritage trail with information boards around our village.

Children’s views

And anything else that makes our school, and the world around us, a great place to live, learn and play!

2015 Winner’s Video