This term we have our specialist music teacher Rachel Wilkes delivering to the children on Tuesday afternoons. They will be following the Charanga Music School system which is an award-winning primary music education programme. Charanga are passionate about children’s music learning and its potential to help them grow up as kind, curious, and open-minded young … Read More
Cookery Club
Cookery Club takes place each Monday after school and they are getting better and better! Having started with making Cheesy Twists, week two saw them shaking like crazy to make their own butter! After lots of fun and giggles (and tired arms!) Katie labelled up all the individual pats of butter to store them in … Read More
Lent Pause afternoon
This afternoon the children and staff went to St Giles’ Church for an afternoon focusing on the upcoming period of Lent. The afternoon focused on four main areas: · Listening – Lent is for hearing God · Lengthening – Preparing for Christian living · Letting go – A focus on Shrove Tuesday · Keeping going … Read More
A visit from Bemma Akyeampong
On Tuesday 30th of January 2024 Class 1 had a visit in school from an author we have worked with before, called Bemma Akyeampong. Bemma has previously visited the school for African dance workshops and during Covid we had the opportunity, via video call, for her to read to us her story of Ayuda’s messy … Read More
Doodlebug Class 1
On Friday the 26th of January 2024 the school were visited by Ian Brealey from Doodlebug. He delivered a workshop to support the mental health and well being of the pupils and this was linked to The Growth Mindset. The workshop involved everyone, both children and adults, creating a picture of a cartoon character using … Read More
Creative writing week & Author visit
This week in school, children in class 1 have been joined by local author Linda Woodruffe. This is to support and help develop the children’s creative writing skills and work towards producing their own book with characters and setting imagined by themselves. The visit has been hugely successful and the children have approached the tasks … Read More
Community Lunch & Retirement of beloved member of staff
During the final week of term, the children enjoyed a visit to the pantomime of Cinderella performed at the Opera House in Buxton. This is a tradition both pupils and staff enjoy and it was wonderful to see how animated they all were during the performance. Then later on the final day of the autumn … Read More









