After today's Cyclathon at school, the children still had enough energy for tonight's Cycling Club and after practising a few skills, they participated in a number of grass-track events on the school field. 

Thanks Nathan for your help and coaching. 

A perfect end to a perfect day.

Well done to the boys in Year 4 after an unbeaten performance in last night's Amber Valley Sports Partnership Lower School Football Tournament at Belper School.

The team, wearing their new kit, drew one game and won 3, taking them comfortably through to the finals in July.

A great team performance.

Today, our lower school children were treated to a workshop provided by National Grid.  Highlights included holding real examples of power cables, insulators and spacers that are used to power our homes.  They also enjoyed designing, making and testing their own pylons.  You can view a selection of images by selecting the image below.

Gosh…the rain and hail on Monday!  It was so loud on the roof of the fire circle it was impossible to be heard – the children thought it was incredible though!  When was the last time you were under a tarp / tent in a downpour?

Lower School children have had their genuine (ish) cave painting experience this week…both ends of the tunnel have been blanked off with timber and blackout curtains making it pitch-black…the walls have been covered in paper and images of stone-age cave-art…spooky cave sounds have been playing on a Bluetooth speaker.

The brave children armed themselves with appropriately coloured paint, a horse-hair paint brush, some charcoal and a little piece of sponge…they then entered the cave by the light of a small, flickering candle, settled themselves and then added their stone-age artwork to the walls of the cave! 

There have been some incredible pieces produced and the children have told us how amazing they found the experience to be.  Some said they wanted it to be even scarier…so we’re thinking of getting Mr Hull dressed as a cave bear next time!

When not down the cave, the children also made representations of Stone Age memorials or learned about and made Stone Age barrows, into which they entombed real bones!

Upper School Children have started their sessions with a leaf ID challenge, before moving onto Greek pottery, Rota board manufacture and the sewing of the clothing for their Odyssey puppets. 

After a busy week of SATs assessments, our year 6 children have spent the day at Drum Hill at the Amber Valley School Sports Partnership's wellbeing day. Here the children met with other year 6 children from the local area and experienced some fantatsic activities to celebrate all their hard work. They all represented the school brilliantly and had a fantastic- but tiring- day.