School News

This term we had our first Outdoor Day of the year, to coincide with National Outdoor classroom day which promotes getting children out...

Thank you to all the families who attended our Family OPAL event today. It was fantastic to see so many of you and the children really...

We are over halfway through our first year of our exciting project to make our play times even better, in conjunction with OPAL...

On Thursday morning, Squirrels and Owls classes joined the ‘Tiny Forest’ project in Monkton Park, helping to plant trees. It was a...

Otters put theri measuring skills to use in the wildlife area They wrote down the length/height in centimetres for flower pots, sticks,...

OPAL update: we now have tyres filled with sand and gravel for the children to play in and a larger sand-pit is now in place on KS2...

Outdoor fun at Monkton Park

It's a beautiful boat! All ready and installed for the children to use at playtime, part of our OPAL Playtimes @OPAL_CIC

Lovely to see our outdoor classroom in action this week. We have Zac Newham from https://natural-art.uk working with all our children...

Our tadpole nursery is busy this afternoon!

We have had a fabulous day despite the strong winds + rain! We've held a scavenger hunt, explored parts of the school's grounds we've not...

Foxes charcoal sketches today in the great outdoors!

Our natural Easter eggs. We had a lovely time cr eating these

Our wildflower meadow is looking great. The bees think so too!

We're hoping to announce a date soon to celebrate the opening of our outdoor classroom. We're delighted to have the structure available...

Our Outdoor classroom is growing quickly.......

Thursday saw the whole school outside and busy on our Outdoor Learning Day. Raised beds were cleared and the wildflower meadow prepared...

Planting, growing, cooking, eating. Our harvest of courgettes and butternut squash has made a lovely soup! Enjoyed by our year 3s in the...

The sunshine and showers over the summer holidays helped our magnificent wildflower meadow to flourish! Thanks @MeadowInGarden for...

Amazing scenes at the Otters’ end of year produce sale! Thanks to everyone for their support, we have raised a massive £233 to put toward...