Blog Author: Mrs Carragher

Back in November, our school made a pledge to create wild spaces to help improve the state of butterflies and moths in the UK. We have since been made aware of the Butterfly Recording Survey. 

If you would like to help by recording and logging the butterflies that you see, please read the…

This week saw the launch of Chess Club! Over the next few weeks, they are going to be learning notation to write down moves and record the progress of a game, as well as exploring different openings and strategies to win.  This week, they looked at how to set up a game, the moves that different…

This term, the children in Reception have been finding out about the famous characters in their books.

Here are some of the bridges that were constructed at home with the help of parents for the story of the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff'.

One of our Year 5 pupils got creative and completed a special craft mosaic. 

Well done and what a lovely way to celebrate Easter!

"Congratulations to our winners of the Easter Garden Competition! Amazing effort from you all! Each garden is very special and unique interpretation of the Easter Story.  Judged by the RE Monitors they were very impressed with all of these and loved the variety of materials, imagination and…

Throughout Lent, the children have been working hard to complete as many steps as possible for the 'Big Lent Walk'. All year groups have been walking regularly in our playgrounds and putting their 'faith into action'! Together we are hoping to walk 200km and raise vital funds for CAFOD to improve…

Last week Reception were reading all about Jack and the beanstalk.  They decided to plant and grow their own beanstalks but hopefully they don't find a giant at the top!  After planting the beans the children wrote about their favourite part of the story and also about when they planted the…

Pastoral care is a provision schools make to ensure the physical and emotional welfare of their pupils.  We all go through periods of difficulty in life, but sometimes these rough times are experienced at a young age when we do not yet have the experience to deal with them alone. Pastoral care can…

This week was British Science Week, where once a year we celebrate science, technology, engineering and maths.  It was a fantastic opportunity for the children to get involved in some really practical science activities and of course to dress up!  Here are a few examples.

Today we had a visit from Miles the Mole and Friends Theatre Company.  They performed an interactive Air Pollution Workshop to Year 5 who learnt what we can do to improve the quality of the air locally and how, by taking simple preventative steps, we can can all reduce our exposure to polluted…

Year 5 did a Live lesson in science yesterday.  They linked with some scientists and discovered about the sea life along the British coast.  They learnt about animal adaptations, asked questions and then created their ultimate sea creature. Here's an example produced by one pupil from St Thomas'…

We had a great day on Friday 3rd March celebrating World Book Day.  Too many great photo's to share but here a few of my favourites!