What an exciting healthy living week we have had in Primary and Early Years. Ms Gurung has organised mini sports day and team building activities for all year groups and they have developed their collaboration skills whilst keeping healthy through exercise.

We have also been lucky enough to have some of our secondary teachers with us this week, Ms Philips & Ms Mirza have been teaching us about healthy living, what constitutes a healthy diet and how to fuel our bodies effectively to stay healthy. We will be sending out further information on healthy lunch boxes next week.

Our young learners have also very much enjoyed working collaboratively during reading and library lessons. Our students have thoroughly enjoyed hearing Mr Piaf reading Roald Dahl stories and exploring the language with him. The feedback from our secondary colleagues was that our Primary students’ behaviour for learning is exceptional; they listened intently and interacted well with the story. They were able to predict what might happen next and retell the events.

Key Stage 1 and Early Years students have been developing fire safety skills at Forest School. They were also looking at pulley systems, attaching a bucket to a rope and hanging it over to create the system to fetch water when needed.

They have also linked their literacy topic of Stick Man with their learning at forest school.

Here you can see Mr Piaf balancing the pooh stick on his chin, he didn’t realise it was Stick Man, but the children let him know!

This week has been an exciting one for our secondary school students and staff, with them all being out on Expedition Week.  Trips have been sent out to 7 different locations, ranging from Sisaut in the south, Chitwan, Bandipur and The Last Resort on the Tibetan border to the north east.  Students have had an amazing time with lots of photographs flooding the school’s social media.  Our pupils have been engaging in a vast range of activities such as Duke of Edinburgh expeditions, river rafting, rock climbing and abseiling.  I am sure students will be sharing stories from their excursions for years to come!

A big thank you to all the families who handed in Christmas gift bags for the students of our Community Partners! The Primary Community Ambassadors collected 197 Christmas Bags so far. If you still want to fill a Christmas bag, please do so by Tuesday. The Secondary Community Prefects and Ambassadors will be collecting gift bags early next week. Gifting presents is a great way to spread some Christmas spirit, and we hope that you will all join us in celebrating and reaching our goal to make Christmas more enjoyable for other Community students.

The Primary and Secondary Community Ambassadors and Prefects