Swalecliffe Community Primary School

Our 'Golden Welly Award' winners. This award has been introduced alongside our new OPAL play programme. The award is an opportunity to celebrate the children and their amazing play. Our children can achieve this award by demonstrating our school values, being respectful, showing curiosity, responsibility and positivity during play. We look forward to announcing two new recipients next week! Well done Issac and Tommy! We are so proud of you!

The 'Book Elf' visited over the holidays again and delivered books for classrooms and libraries. They couldn't have made their deliveries to welcome our children back tomorrow without the £550 raised at the Book Fair this year. Thank you Swalecliffe families!! Here are just some of the books that will be enjoyed.

Wow, what a great turnout for the 'Easter Hat Parade'! Our children and families are amazing!! Thank you to our brilliant PFA for organising today's event.

A reminder from our PFA: Today is the day to get your bake on! Any cakes or treats, small or large, will be much appreciated! Obviously, we would love home baked items for those that can - but otherwise we will also be very grateful for shop bought treats. We'll be collecting outside the infant library/ hall tomorrow morning before school. The Easter Event is tomorrow straight after school. Please pick up your children as usual and the event will be on the playground. Hat parade for those who want to (£1 voluntary donation) with chocolate rewards. There will be Easter treats, soft drinks and pre-loved uniform for sale ... possible visit from long eared friend too . If possible please bring the hats after school.

OPAL is starting to grow at Swalecliffe and is a project that our PFA are supporting. Our children are loving having music on the playground, creative activities, more social spaces and Freedom Friday has been a huge success! Look out for our first OPAL newsletter that will be coming home before the Easter holidays. There will be information about our OPAL donations class bingo!

Come along and support our brilliant PFA! If you can't make it then could you support us by baking some Easter treats. Nut-free of course. Thank you. We hope to see you there.

What an amazing experience for our Year 6 children - The British Museum, London.

Year 6 have arrived at the British Museum!

Happy World Book Day from all at Swalecliffe!!!

Just a reminder that classrooms will be open to parents at drop-off to kick-off World Book Day with a chance to share some reading activities with your children. We look forward to seeing you and gates shut at 9.10.

What an absolutely brilliant day of getting ready for World Book Day tomorrow. Some of our children had the chance to go to an author event with the Tamara Macfarlane and the hilarious Gilbert. The children loved it and we hope to involve many more in the future. This evening, Miss Garton, Mrs Hughes and Miss Smith attended an evening of picture book training with Lillie McCotter from the Reading Room. They were joined by the absolutely amazing Anthony Browne CBE and have some wonderful ideas to bring back to school. These were free events which is just fantastic! Tickets are still available for the Children's Reading Festival this Saturday and can be purchased at: https://www.talesonmoonlane.co.uk

Now for some Forest School wonderfulness! Fire lighting was a firm favourite in Term 3 in Forest School and we saw some amazing resilience, collaboration and peer teaching from our children to get their fires lit despite the January weather! An amazing quote from a child in 3G, having spent the whole session trying (and finally succeeding): 'It's easy to get a spark but you've got to work hard to turn a spark into a fire'. Well done!!!

Wow, Mrs Back has been busy!!! Our phonics grab-bags are nearly ready!!! These will be used to support our children in small groups or 1:1. They will help to practise blending, recognition of tricky / common exception words and recognition of GPCs (grapheme-phoneme correspondence).