Niki Jones

On Friday 8th October our Year 4 adventurers had a day at Oxenwood outdoor education centre. The day started at 9:00am and finished at 9:00pm and it was certainly a day packed full of activity. Everyone (including Mrs Pattenden and Mrs Crocker) went home tired but happy! Throughout the day the children experienced a range …

On Thursday 4th November Sycamore Class went to Marlborough College, as part of our block of learning about Space, to see the Museum of the Moon. We went into the chapel and there was a 7m diameter moon. It was made of the same material as hot air balloons and was hung up from the ceiling. The teacher who was talking to us, Mr Barclay, told us all about Apollo 11 and the …

On Friday 5th November Richard Parsons from the Trussel Trust and Foundation for Social Inclusion came to collect the Christmas Boxes that our families have been busy putting together over half term. He collect 70 Boxes in total. We are excited to hear about these being delivered to brighten the lives of children and adults …

On the 15th of October, Sycamore (year five and six) went to The Science Museum in London.   When we arrived, we first went to the Wonder Lab, which contains a lot of hands-on experiments to try with your body and mind including friction slides, a spinning pole, demonstration of water vapours, building bridges and the shadow room – that only scratches the surface of …

We were visited today; Wednesday 29th September, by Kelly Simm a member of the Great British gymnastics team working to promote sport in schools and inspire children to get active and find a sport that they love! As part of her visit everyone took part in a fitness challenge. The children have been sponsored by …

This September (2021) our Key Stage 2 learners are enjoying a six week block of paddle tennis, an opportunity brought to us by coaches with the LTA. The children are really enjoying the sessions and really developing some early tennis skills.

Despite everyone currently learning from home we are managing to have our weekly Celebration Worship on a Friday afternoon. This week in recognition of Children’s Mental Health Week we celebrated inside out day. We wore an item of clothing, inside out, to Celebration Worship and some of us made badges with the the text ‘be …

We celebrated ‘Odd Sock Day’ on Friday 20th November. We wore odd socks to school in support of anti-bullying week. We have been thinking about all the wonderful ways that we are different and that our differences are a reason for celebration. We talked about how lucky we are to live in a diverse country …

Thanks to the wonderful generosity of our school community we collected a staggering 75 boxes in support of the FSCI (the foundation for social change and inclusion). Our previous record was 60 boxes – from a school of just 105 pupils (some of whom are siblings) that is a very respectful total but this year …

Mrs Pattenden is teaching violin to the whole of Chestnut Class. Having loaned 30 violins from the Wiltshire Music Service we are able to offer violin teaching to the whole class this year. This is a wonderful opportunity for all children in year 3 and 4 to have an experience of learning an instrument that …

Lily, a pupil at St Katharine’s Primary School, decided that she would like to raise some money for the ‘miles for refugees’ fundraiser, organised by the British Red Cross. Lily was really keen to help especially because she knew winter was a particularly difficult time for people who have had to leave their countries and …

We have been busy building our collection of foods in support of the Devizes Food Bank. Despite not being able to hold our usual Harvest Festival in church our community have given with great generosity to this collection. Our discussion with the children has been around the struggles faced by many families, at this time …