The gates are down!! Amid great excitement, we set foot on our new playground for the first time today. Even the rain and wind couldn’t dampen our spirits. We look forward to much fun and games in our wonderful new facility
We are celebrating World Book Day in Fanore with lots of fun activities; reading partners, story time, dress up and even some toilet roll art depicting favourite book characters. Well done everyone for some fabulous costumes!
WILDFLOWERS OF SPRINGTIME AND THE MUSIC OF THE PLANTS 
Today we had a lovely workshop with Marina from Heritage in School which covered topics from biodiversity and native plants, to plant lore and stories, arts and music. See the videos below to hear some flower songs
The children have been learning all about the Aztecs this year. Here are some of the projects presented by them this month.
Our most recent calendar reveals included no uniform day, Christmas Art Attack, christmas quiz and our end of year Christmas party and movie.
Well done to Sean and his victorious team who won by the narrowest of margins.
Well done to the children for creating their team hope boxes this year, both physically and online. Team Hope’s Christmas Shoebox Appeal is an annual campaign that delivers gifts straight into the hands of children affected by poverty.
The children in the senior room have been working on a poem per month. So far, they have studied Blackberry Picking (September) and Postscript (October). Below is an example of one of the activities which they worked on based on their poems, quote art.
This week was maths week at school so the children were busy with lots of games and activities
The senior room have been learning all about ancient Egypt this month including making their own hieroglyphics from clay
Well done to all our children who took part in the North Clare Cross Country competition in Lees Road this week. A special congratulations to Suzie, Zoe and Freddie who have made it to the finals
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