What a wonderful gift to receive this week! It is lovely to learn about the different celebrations our families take part in ❤️

Congratulations to our KS1 winner of the World Book day toilet roll character activity! Well done to everyone who joined in with this activity, the characters look amazing!

Congratulations to our EYFS winners of the World Book day toilet roll character activity. They both worked so hard; we couldn't choose between them! Well done to everyone who joined in with this activity, the characters look amazing!

Well done to everyone who worked hard to create a toilet roll character for our World Book Day celebrations. It was very hard to choose winners, but myself and Miss Fretwell looked at them this afternoon and chose 1 from EYFS and 1 from KS1 📚 All the characters made are on display in school for everyone to view

These Y1s enjoyed looking at the world maps recently. They identified the oceans and continents that we have learnt in geography 🌎

Dear Parents and Carers, We are delighted to share some fantastic news with you! Last year we applied to the the Sounds-Write Schools accreditation programme, and have recently found out that we have been accredited with the Sounds-Write Silver Award. This is a significant achievement that demonstrates our commitment to ensuring that all students receive the highest quality phonics education, which is essential to their development as proficient readers and writers. The Sound

It was lovely to see art club concentrating so hard this afternoon, and enjoying creating their own creatures using paints

The children loved taking part in skipping workshops last week. It was great seeing children practising their skipping skills at break times following the workshops, enjoying the new skipping ropes that were purchased

We had a great assembly today delivered by Rotherham United Football Club. This season is their Centenary Year where they are celebrating 100 years of RUFC!

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Sporting Value Award for Autumn Term 2! Each half-term, our teachers select students who have demonstrated outstanding qualities in PE lessons, focusing on resilience, teamwork, positive attitudes, and respect. We are proud to recognise the following students for their achievements 😊 Congratulations to all the winners for their hard work! 🎉

I had a fantastic time this morning, playing in the snow with the nursery children!

Before Christmas, our Reception children visited the Finningley Lodge retirement housing complex to sing Christmas carols for the residents there. This annual visit is very much appreciated by all at Finningley Lodge, and we are proud of our children for performing so well in front of an audience.

Today was our festive KPI Christmas lunch! 🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻🎄 We all had a wonderful time and the food was delicious 😊 Thank you to the Dolce staff and all our KPI lunch staff for doing an amazing job of serving and organising everything 👏🏻👏🏻

Join us for our Christmas performances: Nursery children will be taking part in a sing-a-long in the school hall, on Tuesday 16th. Reception (F2) children will be performing a nativity in the school hall, on Thursday 18th. KS1 (Y1 and Y2) children will be perfoming a carol concert on the school playground, on Wednesday 17th. Parents/carers can request up to 2 tickets per child to watch the perfomances. Tickets are available for free on the Arbor shop. Thank you for your conti

Our KS1 classes had a great virtual author lesson recently with Tom Palmer and Carolina Rabei. They spoke about their book ‘War Dog’ which looks at a true story of a dog called Judy that helped soldiers in the war. The children then made drawings of Judy the dog in challenge time!

Our sports ambassadors had their first meeting recently. They had a chat through their roles and responsibilities and what they think would improve play and lunch times to make children more active. They came up with some great ideas so watch this space!!

Our new KS1 science club is really popular ☺️ At the first session the children learnt how to write secret messages using lemon juice! 🍋

Our brand new Science Club started their first session with an experiment you can try at home called Dancing Raisins! It really impressed the children! https://funlearningforkids.com/dancing-raisins-science-experiment-kids/

The Year 2s had a great interactive maths lesson in the hall this week. The children were looking at subtraction where the numbers cross a ten boundary eg. 12-4=

The KPI Christmas Raffle will be happening again this year. If you have any donations for prizes, we would be very grateful. All funds raised go directly back to school, helping us buy resources for the children and reduce the cost of school trips. We often have local businesses donating vouchers, hampers etc and we really appreciate these kind offers, so if you have any connections please let them know.