Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Official Opening of our Reading Sanctuary

  Fri 21 Nov 2014

  Our Reading for Pleasure Group were delighted when our Reading Sanctuary was officially opened earlier today. We were fortunate that our Book Wizard sent us a special guest in the form ofchildren's author Richie Smith to perform the official opening. He then read to children from a selection of his stories and amused them with some real magic!

   

  Later on in the day, the Book Wizard sent another helper Lesley Dennison from the Diocese of Liverpool to read to Y4 pupils. 

   

  The day was part of our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory activities, celebrating 50 years of Charlie.

   

  Our Reading Sanctuary offers an opportunity for children to enjoy reading alone and to one another during playtimes and lunchtimes.

  

• Charlie is 50 today!

  Fri 21 Nov 2014
  Today we celebrated the birthday of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is 50 years since Roald Dahl wrote this fantastic story which has become a classic amongst children and adults. Our day began with an assembly led by 2M followed by a day of activities and events, inspired by Charlie himself!

  

• Dads, Lads and Lasses Stay and Play in Nursery

  Wed 19 Nov 2014
  We had a wonderful morning together at our recent Stay and Play session in Nursery as we had fun together with our Dads and Grandads and some Mums. Many thanks for those of you who are able to join us, watch out for more sessions in the Spring Term!

  

• Y6 Residential Visit to Plas Caerdeon

  Tue 04 Nov 2014
  Year 6 had a wonderful time at their recent visit to Plas Caerdeon. They developed some brilliant team work and enhanced their listening skills as they worked together and supported each other with each new challenge. Check out the school blog to see how they got on!

• ECO Council

  Thu 02 Oct 2014
  We have launched our Eco Council. The school is will be applying for Eco status this year. Check out their blog for updates. Click Here!

• Harvest Time

  Thu 02 Oct 2014
  Today our gardening club went into our allotment to harvest our vegetables. We had a great time digging the vegetables up even so some were a real struggle! We are going to celebrate the harvest in school tomorrow with a service led by Reverend Andrew.

  

• Learning Together

  Wed 01 Oct 2014
  Many thanks to all of you who were able to join us for our Learning Together sessions over the last two weeks. We all had great fun and look forward to future sessions. If you missed out, don't forget to ask your child's class teacher for a leaflet to find out more about their learning and curriculum for the year ahead.

• Craig Bradley steals the show!

  Tue 17 Jun 2014

  Literacy week begin with a visit from our poet in residence, Craig Bradley. He made us sing, laugh, dance.... and we even wrote some poetry! He was great fun!

   

  We also had some paired reading with children from different year groups which was really enjoyable. 
  each child went for a story session in the tepee and listened to some traditional tales from our very own Hope Squaw!

   

  We had a number or DEAR sessions where we had to 'Drop everything and read!' We also had to guess the mystery book characters from clues that were read over the PA.

   

  Each class is going to visit the newly refurbished Central Library this week and next. If you have net already been, put it on your list of things to do. It's just amazing!

• Book Wizard sends a helper to Hope

  Wed 21 May 2014

  Children in Class 5N were thrilled today when a number of them found a special invitation hidden in their literacy books, inviting them to a story telling session with the Book Wizard.

   

  Children listened enthralled as the Book Wizards Helper read to them the story of Jolly Roger by Colin McNaughton.

   

  Rumour has it that another friend of the Book Wizard may be in school later this week so look out for your invitation!

  

• Mike Cunningham Residential Artist

  Mon 19 May 2014
  Today we welcomed Mike from Creative Roots, on his second visit to school, working on a project around our Mission Statement. He was able to work with groups of children through the school, exploring what our mission means to the children and how this can be transferred to a visual display. The children really enjoyed the day and came up with some great ideas. We look forward to he finished project.