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

KS1 have been learning about the Great Fire of London this term. These Y1s chose to make a model of the fire in their 'challenge time' - they used wooden bricks to make the houses, and drew flames to add to represent the fire 🔥

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

The nursery children have really enjoyed exploring the Christmas decorations and decorating the nursery 🎄🎅🏻🦌 Doesn’t their tree look beautiful!? 😍🎄

Kingfisher class enjoyed learning drama techniques to develop understanding of traditional tales. They had so much fun acting out the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'🫘🌱

In RE Starling class have been learning the story of the Nativity 🌟

Kingfisher class had their turn to visit the library recently. The children loved their time there exploring and reading lots of beautiful books. Thank you to the the library staff and all the grown ups who helped the class walk down to the library 📚

Wren class enjoyed visiting the library recently. They all chose a book which will be kept in school for them to enjoy everyday 😀

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! 🍋