Blog Author: Sue Wardell

The biggest highlight in Larwood Class this week - aside from settling in and making new friends - has been a scientific visit from Illumina. Using a mixture of chemicals and scientific equipment, children were able to extract strands of DNA from strawberries! We also learned how DNA works and…

It has been lovely to welcome the new children into school this week. I have been impressed with the level of responsibility shown by those in Year 1, supporting the new starters, showing them around the classroom, and setting up resources for them. The new play builder set has been popular and…

Your winners, ladies & gentleman – if you can work out who they are…book voucher courtesy of Book Club for the winners

Class Logo Competition 2024: 19^th July 2024

Six years ago, we decided to run our first class logo competition.  Back then, a different theme for classes was chosen: animals, artists, trees – for example…and then last year happened: in order to raise the profile of reading, we chose authors and…

Book of the Year 2024: 19^th July 2024

Our reading curriculum has been deliberately designed to contain a wide-variety of great (many award-winning) books, spanning genres and themes of interest for all ages – for children in Year R to Year 6 over a two year cycle.  There’s something for…

This week, Sid the Cygnet said goodbye... (Pool Party for Leavers)

This week, Sid the Cygnet found out that we were 44^th (out of 208 schools) in Cambridgeshire - for attendance so far in- year

What a fantastic time all the children had. So many experiences!

This week, Sid the Cygnet has mostly been celebrating his 4th Birthday by travelling with Matthew on the sponsored walk...

...then looking at all the beautiful Birthday cards from the children.

With friends from Jeffers…and their friends from home!  Happy Birthday, Sid.

This week, Sid the Cygnet mostly celebrated getting the pool open for Day 1...

...shortly after, he fell in!

...Luckily, Sid knew how to perform self safe-rescue and was surrounded by his friends, who were also competent swimmers and could help Sid out...

....Feathers ruffled,…

This week, Sid the Cygnet has mostly been celebrating the efforts of everybody!  (Jeffers Team Collage: George & The Dragon)