The Battle of the Somme

Last Wednesday, when the school was closed as we had no water, one of our pupils, Nancy in Y4, decided to write a poem called Wonderful Nature. Nancy was inspired to write her poem following Mr Lindop's sharing of a poem with the class on Tuesday. The poem was called Looking up by Diana Hendry. You may like see the collection of prose and poems written about Lockdown that the poem came...

Across school, the children have been and will be creating artwork based on self-portraiture. Frido Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh and Hans Holbein have inspired three of our classes. Enjoy some of the art work produced so far. If you want to learn more, read about the B3 and B5's work in the attached...

I received and opened a letter this morning with some very interesting and equally exciting contents from Hannah Wardman. Beatrix's mum. The envelope contained copies of the 1901 census, vaccination record and a lovely postcard dating from 8/10/1903 addressed to Miss G. Griffiths (see photos of postcard). This is some of the information Hannah has been able to share with me and why she felt...