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The World’s Tallest Basketball Player

Viking Experience

Changes to the way OFSTED inspects schools

Viking Invasion

Royal Albert Hall

Live Music

Maths of the Day

Cooking with Kingfishers

The Magic of the Cup

Christmas in Chaffinch

Chaffinch Investigate Gravitational Force

Science Talk at St Edwards School

Chaffinch Trampoline Session

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Gala Awards Ceremony

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February 2019 - School News

4th February 2019

The World’s Tallest Basketball Player

Paul Sturgess, the World’s Tallest Basketball Player, came into school last week to share his story of being the tallest person to play professional basketball. 

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4th February 2019

Viking Experience 

Our Upper Key Stage 2 classes are learning about the Vikings this term. To bring this topic to life we invited a role play Viking into school to talk about village life and some of the Gods they worshiped.

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January 2019 - School News

28th January 2019

Changes to the way OFSTED inspects schools

A message from our CEO, Mr Ian Barker

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22nd January 2019

Upper classes experienced a Viking Raid on Tuesday 22nd January. Fortunately all survived, including Mrs McClimont after an epic sword fight.

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17th January 2019

Live Music

In one of our weekly assemblies we have a child choose the music to start and end the assembly. A few weeks back, Aiden from The Nest asked if we could play the music of Nick Cope during the assembly. Well, not only was his wish granted but we also arranged for Nick to come into school to perform live.

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15th January 2019

Maths of the Day

Red Kite Class have enjoyed making use of a resource called 'Maths of the Day'. 'Maths of the Day' is an online resource that provides hundreds of ideas on how to deliver the maths curriculum through physical activity. Here the pupils were using the resource to explore fractions of shapes.  

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15th January 2019

Cooking with Kingfishers

Kingfisher class have been developing their independence in cooking lessons. They all worked hard to follow a recipe to make their own gingerbread. The children were very creative with the shapes they made.

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5th January 2019

The Magic of the Cup

A small group of Northern House pupils were lucky enough to be invited to Old Trafford to witness Manchester United defeat Reading 2-0.

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December 2018 - School News

Youth Prom at the Royal Albert Hall

Following a run of rehearsals and bouts of serious butterflies, seven lucky pupils from Years 4, 5 and 6 enjoyed a once in a lifetime opportunity to perform on stage at the Royal Albert Hall. An audience of 5,000 people leapt to their feet in rapturous applause as the last note of the mass choir the children were a part of rang out.

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