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• Friday 6 June 2025 Reception Forest School Knot tying In reception we have been learning how to tie some knots and then found as many different places to tie a knot! The determination and achievement of the children was amazing! Well done Reception!
• Friday 6 June 2025 Dickens Week 2025 As part of our Charles Dickens Week, Lichfield Garrick Theatre have been in school doing some workshops with all of our children based on the works of Dickens. All the children from Reception to Year 6 will take part in a workshop to really bring the words of Dickens to life! A huge thank you to the Garrick and all their staff for supporting our week. The children have really enjoyed the experience and we definitely have some budding actors!
• Wednesday 4 June 2025 Nursery Forest schools trail making Today in forest schools we looked at making trails using the things we could find in forest schools. We used twigs, stones, leaves and flowers. The children were very inventive and enjoyed the challenge of the task. There was lots of great team work happening as well. Then when we came back inside some of the children transferred their learning and continued to make their own trails with items they could mind inside. Well done Nursery.
• Wednesday 4 June 2025 Homunculi Project Year 2 Today we have started our Homunculi project with Mr Smith from Primitas. This will run for the rest of this term. In the sessions we will be exploring our emotions and gaining a better understanding of what our emotions are, how they can affect us and how we can start to deal/cope with them. What a great session! Thank you Mr Smith.
• Tuesday 3 June 2025 Reception Yoga Reception class had their first yoga lesson this week! They learnt some of the basic yoga poses and put them together in a little sequence. They especially liked the mediation part of the lesson and some of them nearly fell asleep! Well done Reception!
• Monday 2 June 2025 The Book Bus 2025 The Book Bus visited our school this week at the start of our Charles Dickens Week! Throughout the day every class visited the bus and got to look at all the amazing books in it. Then after school they could visit with their parents if they wanted to purchase any books. It was an incredible turn out and over £1000 was spent which meant we were able to buy over £160 of books for school! Thank you so much for supporting the start of our Dickens week!
• Wednesday 28 May 2025 Future Aspirations Week! We had our first Future Aspirations Week during the last week of the spring term and what a super week it was! We had so many people come in to speak to the children from a doctor to a scientist to an Army chef to a pilot to a policeman! We had such a range of people it really was amazing! All the children were involved from Reception to Year 6.
• Friday 23 May 2025 Year 1 Forest Schools
• Thursday 22 May 2025 DT Bread testing in Year 3/4 We have been tasting different types of breads today, we tasted wraps, bagels, pitta bread, tiger bread, brown bread and naan. We had to describe the taste, texture and the appearance of the different breads in partners on to our tables within our books. We had lots of fun as some of the different types of bread some of us had never tried before.
• Wednesday 21 May 2025 Spudman visits Holly Grove! We had a special visitor to Holly Grove today! Spudman! He came to deliver some of his potato growing kits! If you don't know who Spudman is - Where have you been??? He is an internet star who has over 1 million visitors! He is only down the road in Tamworth and does lots for charity! We will update you on our potato growing!!!
• Tuesday 20 May 2025 Year 2 Science Growing Plants This afternoon as part of our work on growing plants we looked inside a kidney bean to see the seed coat, food source and the baby plant. The children really enjoyed it and could not believe a whole plant could grow from these small parts!
• Friday 16 May 2025 Lichfield District Council Art competition Winners We were very excited to see our children's art competition winners displayed in Lichfield town centre! They are on the boards surrounding the new building of the cinema (the old Debenhams store). You can find them by the side of the Ryman's shop by the steps downing up to the road.
• Thursday 15 May 2025 End of SATs Week 2025 Yes!!! Year 6 have just finished their last SAT test and are really happy! We are extremely proud of how hard they have all worked this week, they have definitely all done the best they could possible do. Well done Year 6
• Friday 9 May 2025 VE Day 2025 We had a lovely day remembering Victory in Europe day 80 year anniversary today and yesterday! We had a special assembly on Thursday and the children who were members of the scouts, cubs, brownies, rainbows and squirrels all came into school wearing their uniforms with pride! Then on Friday we had a non uniform day were we wore red, white and blue or 40's outfits. We had a special British lunch of fish and chips! In the afternoon we took advantage of the lovely sunny day and had games on the field. We had a real mixture of things and it was lovely to see our older children leading and mentoring the younger ones. What a lovely week it has been.
• Thursday 1 May 2025 Reading Suitcases come out of storage! This afternoon we have been able to get our Reading Suitcases out of winter storage! It was brilliant being able to sit in the sun and enjoy some new books! The children loved talking about the books and being able to sit on the field and enjoy a story together! Fingers crossed the weather stays good!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Lent Charity - The Max and George Dog Trust Thank you for all the amazing donations to our Lent charity the Max and George Dog Trust! We collected a huge car full of food, blankets, toys, bedding and so much more! The trust were really grateful for all your donations especially as they were moving sites to a new home for the dogs, so a lot of their funds had to go on new kennels and getting the site ready for the dogs. So your donations of food etc really helped them. Well done Holly Grove!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Easter parade 2025 Well the spring term ended with our traditional parade around the boundaries of the school! Lots of parents came out to support us! Which was lovely. The older children mentored the younger ones and made sure they were all safe and happy on the walk about the local roads! Lots of lovely hats and bonnets were worn by the children some lovely creative designs. What a lovely way to end our term.
• Friday 11 April 2025 Easter Party Table winners! Reception class were the Easter Party Table winners! They had a lovely lunch and really enjoyed all the party items in their pizza party! Well done Reception!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Rotary Child for the Spring Term Congratulations and well done to our Rotary child for the Spring term! Seth is a true role model who always tries his very best in all he does! He displays all of our Torch values and is also a very kind and caring child. He gives up his own time to volunteer being a sports ambassador and has represented the school in numerous sporting events. Well deserved Seth! We are all very proud of you.
• Thursday 10 April 2025 Year 4 Sports Event at EDA Year 4 had a super day trying our new sports with some of the other Primitas Primary Academies at EDA today. We even tried out Cornball and Tchoukball. It was lovely to see some of our former pupils who are now at EDA being Sports Leaders and leading the events. Fantastic day thank you EDA.
• Thursday 10 April 2025 KS1 Easter Chick Hunt What a super afternoon we had on our Easter Chick Hunt! Mrs Fellows made 77 knitted chicks and we had to find them!!! There was one for every child in KS1 so there was lots of fun and lots of laughter looking all over the school field, forest schools and the playgrounds for the hidden chicks! What a lovely afternoon we had.
• Thursday 10 April 2025 Easter disco 2025 Our Easter discos were a great success again! The children all looked wonderful in their "disco" clothes! Lots of fun and dancing! The children had a fantastic time!
• Wednesday 9 April 2025 Year 1/2 Easter Craft morning 2025 An Eggcelent parent and child Easter craft with year 1/2 this morning! The children wanted to start off with a Brain break of Danny Go and so all the parents had to join in too!!! There was lots of dancing and laughter!! They wanted the parents to dance so they could "concentrate" on the lesson! Fabulous dancing and crafting! Thank you to everyone who came today! The children and adults all really enjoyed themselves!
• Tuesday 8 April 2025 Year 2 Maths Measuring Lesson In year 2 maths today we have been deciding what to use to measure different objects around school so we can compare their lengths from shortest to longest. We found that the metre stick was very good for measuring tall and long objects and the ruler was good for shorter objects. Great maths work year 2!
• Tuesday 8 April 2025 Primitas Book basket donations This morning the Year 3/4 competition winners went to Burntwood Library. Here they met the winners from the other Primates Primary schools. Together we had a tour of the library, completed a book treasure hunt and had a delicious afternoon style tea provided for by the Friends of Burntwood Library. They also met the representatives from Malachi, Spark and Pathways. The children gifted a basket of books to each group to show our thanks for their support in our community. Hopefully the children in their groups will like the books we have picked. Well done to all the children involved.
• Friday 4 April 2025 Year 2 Art Yayoi Kusama Sculptures We had an amazing time creating our own Yayoi Kusama inspired flower sculptures. Lots of messy hands but well worth it! The flower sculptures are beautiful. We are now ready to paint them when they are dried out.
• Wednesday 2 April 2025 Lent Charity Collection For our Easter Lent Charity we will be collecting for "The Max and George Trust Dog Rescue"
• Tuesday 1 April 2025 Year 6 trip to London - visit to Parliament What an amazing visit we had! We went on the fast train to Euston and then had the fun of rush hour on the tube! Off we went to Parliament to be met by our MP Dave Robinson! He gave us a great tour of the House of Commons and answered loads of questions! Thank you Dave.
• Friday 28 March 2025 Special Delivery from the Coop! We had a special delivery this afternoon from the Coop! Lots of squishy fruit toys! Thank you so much to James from the Coop for helping us to promote healthy eating to the children! You will see lots of them hanging from the ceiling near the school kitchen as well as in lots of the book corners around school! We are also looking forward to the food and nutrition workshops that James is running for us in the summer term!
• Wednesday 26 March 2025 Holly Berries Talent Show 2025 We hosted our very first Talent show last night and what a super show it was! Wow are children are really talented! We had beautiful singing, dancing, a puppet shark, musical instruments, magic tricks and comedians! Amazing fun was had by all the children as well as the staff!

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