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Saturday 28 June 2025 Sun Shines for Skyswood Sports Day The weather was perfect for this year's Sports Day and our children enjoyed a fabulous 'carousel' of activities in the morning, followed by a range of athletics activities and sprint races (including relays) in the afternoon. Everybody gave their absolute best and Dolphin were the overall winners in a really close finish. Falcon accumulated the most points for the carousel activities in the morning, and won the Carousel Trophy, with Dolphin a close second. Lion shone in the afternoon; gaining most points for the races, relays and athletics activities, and Wolf won the Sportsmanship Trophy. The boys relay team defeated the staff team in the relay and there were some fantastic moments throughout the course of the day; including a great finish to the girls' long distance race, where Iris and Catherine came in together. As always, there was a tremendous level of support from parents and a great number of mums and dads who also showed great speed in their respective races. Well done to all
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Friday 20 June 2025 Year 1 Inter School Sports Competition 20th June 2025
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Thursday 19 June 2025 Year 2's Microhabitat Pictograms! Our summer term science lessons have begun with lots of outdoor learning! We've been exploring microhabitats and the minibeasts that live in them. We visited two areas of the school: the environmental area and the stick area and observed what we could find. The children completed tally charts to record how many minibeasts they spotted in each microhabitat and luckily, they're already tally chart experts thanks to our current maths unit on statistics!
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Thursday 19 June 2025 Nadia Finer Author Visit The school enjoyed a special visit from the author Nadia Finer in today's assembly (Thursday 19th June). Nadia is on a softly spoken mission to support shy people (as she was extremely shy when she was at school, and in adulthood). Her wonderful book, Quiet Riot, showcases the stories of many famous people who happened to also be very shy... and there were a few surprises! Beyonce, Lionel Messi, Albert Einstein and Ed Sheeran all overcame their shyness to achieve great success in their fields. The children thoroughly enjoyed the assembly, listened carefully and asked some thoughtful questions. Many of the children have also bought signed copies of Nadia's book!
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Thursday 19 June 2025 Skyswood win District Sports Athletics Championship Our Skyswood athletics team can be truly proud of themselves after winning the District Sports Athletics Championship at Westminster Lodge. The girls' team also won the Girls' Trophy in an exciting finish where only two points separated the top three teams.
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Thursday 19 June 2025 Matilda Day raises around £400 for DS Achieve! A big thank you to everybody who made, donated, or bought cakes at our Bruce Bogtrotter Cake Sale on Wednesday, we have made around £400 for the D S Achieve charity, which supports children with Down Syndrome.
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Monday 16 June 2025 Year 5 - Avis de recherché
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Friday 13 June 2025 Star of the Week- week ending Friday 13th June Nursery: Sofia
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Friday 13 June 2025 Year 3 Explore the Ver Chalk Stream Our Year 3 children enjoyed a fantastic trip to explore the chalk stream in the River Ver. This was part of their geography topic on Rivers and, thanks to volunteers from the River Ver Society, they had the opportunity to identify several invertebrates found through kick sampling, as well as having a very informative walk to focus on key features of the river and its surrounding environment. In the afternoon, the class enjoyed a short wade in a shallow stretch of chalk stream and will now create some water-colour paintings of river landscapes as part of the follow-up from a wonderfully exciting day out!
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Wednesday 11 June 2025 Wizard of Oz Tickets now on Sale Tickets for our summer production of the Wizard of Oz are now available via the Sandpit Theatre Website https://sandpittheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows
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Wednesday 11 June 2025 Year 6 - Spiderwick Chronicles We have been using The Spiderwick Chronicles as a basis for writing our own non-chronological report. We built up several skills to create our report, such as use of hyphenated words, precise vocabulary, formal tone, the passive voice and subordinate clauses. Here are some excerpts.
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Monday 9 June 2025 Year 2's Vegetable Patch! Last term, Year 2's science lessons were all about plants! The children learnt what a plant needs to begin germinating and to continue to grow strong and healthy. To put our knowledge to the test, we planted some vegetables out in the flower beds and ... it was a success!
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Monday 9 June 2025 Year 3 Recorder Assembly Just before half term, Year 3 impressed the school with their recorder skills during an assembly.
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Friday 6 June 2025 Our Trip to Ashridge! Ashridge
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Thursday 5 June 2025 Year 6 Bounce and Zip! Our final day before returning to Skyswood tomorrow has been absolutely brilliant!
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Wednesday 4 June 2025 Year 6 crack the Miner's Track! Year 6 had an amazing day today as they ventured up the Miner's Track to the third lake. The weather was better than all previous forecasts had suggested; not a drop of rain (although windy at times) with some wonderful sunny spells. The children all made it comfortably to the third lake, where they ate lunch and admired the spectacular views.
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Tuesday 3 June 2025 Year 6 enjoy Activity Day at Plas-y-Brenin Our Year 6 pupils enjoyed a fabulous day at Plas-y-Brenin today. Unfortunately, due to wind and water levels, it was not safe to do the paddleboarding. However, the contingency activity of orienteering proved extremely popular and, alongside their abseiling and climbing, ensured a fabulous day for all. We were fortunate to enjoy dry weather for the vast majority of the day, and pleasant spells of sunshine. The children were fantastic, with many coming out of their comfort zones to really excel on the climbing walls and abseil tower. here are a few photos capturing the activities of the day;
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Monday 2 June 2025 Year 6 arrive on schedule in Llandudno! Our Year 6 children (along with staff!) have arrived on schedule in Llandudno. The children enjoyed their time at Alton Towers, the coach journey was bang on time, and they're all excitedly settling into their rooms. The sun is shining at present so we plan to visit the beach after tea (which is in about ten minutes time). We'll post more pictures when we're back from our beach visit! Lots of happy faces, and looking forward now to fish and chips!
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Monday 2 June 2025 Year 6 have fun on the Beach! Our Year 6 class, having arrived in Llandudno, enjoyed their evening trip to the beach. it's been a fantastic start to our week in Wales and we're all looking forward to our activity day at Plas-y-Brenin tomorrow.
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Friday 23 May 2025 Stars of the Week- Week ending Friday 23rd May Nursery- Theo
