Month: April 2022

The children’s corner in the church is up and ready for the Easter celebrations and services. Its title of ‘New life, New Beginings, New hope’ reflects not only the Easter Story but the emergence from the pandemic. The Church is now able to open its doors for friends and families to meet and the children … Read More

  The Easter Bunny made his annual trip to the school, hiding eggs all around the grounds for the children to find. Thankfully the sun shone but luckily all the eggs were found before they melted. Following the Easter Egg hunt the children went to St Giles Church to deliver their Easter service to parents, … Read More

Thursday 7th April the whole school underwent a ‘Water Safety’ presentation by Melanie Flude the Active Communities Manager for Derbyshire Dales.  This involved teaching them the dangers of open water and life skills, in time for the summer, to help keep them safe around water. This is particularly important and relevant for the children as … Read More

Monday 4th April saw the long awaited reunion of the ‘Silver Sports’ with their ‘Active Buddies’ for tea, cake and chat, face to face in school. It was lovely to see the children interacting with their Silver Sports discussing how and what they did to keep fit during the lock down nd since they had … Read More

Thursday 31st March we welcomed an old friend, virtually through ‘Teams’ into school. Bemma Akyeampong had been into school many years ago teaching African art and dance which resulted in a very flamboyant performance. She has now become a children’s author and shared with class one, her first book called ‘Ayuda’s messy rescue’. The session … Read More