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Evalina celebrates success in Libby’s Cake design Competition

16th December 2022

Congratulations to Evalina in Year 4 who is celebrating being the latest winner of the Libby’s Bread and Wine ‘Design a Christmas Treat’ cake competition. Our favourite Marple Bridge bakery &…

Autumn Term Performing Arts

15th December 2022

Throughout our Autumn term, the children have been learning a variety of music skills and terminology through our Performing Arts sessions. We have listened and responded to a variety of…

Autumn Term Sporting Highlights

15th December 2022

What a wonderful term of sport it has been; learning about gymnastics, hockey and handball during lessons. As a school, we have entered numerous competitions and been successful. The highlights…

Our House Is On Fire!

15th December 2022

This half term, Year 6 have been using Greta Thunberg’s ‘Our House is on Fire’ speech, which she gave at the World Economic Forum in January 2019, to analyse features…

St Andrew’s Day in Year 6

15th December 2022

On 30th November, St Andrew’s Day, Year 6 discovered the joy (and complexity) of Scottish Country Dancing. They learned a few basic steps before piecing together a full set dance,…

Persuasive Letters

15th December 2022

In our English lessons during the latter half of this term, we have been learning how to write fantastically persuasive letters. We learned what makes something persuasive and even tried…

Mapping Skills

15th December 2022

During our Geography lessons this term, we wanted to learn more about our local community. We greatly enjoyed talking about all of our favourite places in Marple and the surrounding…

Creative Writing

15th December 2022

Year 4 enjoyed reading the story of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. This text inspired our creative writing pieces, with the focus being on building excitement and tension as Charlie…

Glorious Greeks!

15th December 2022

History this term focused on Ancient Greece in Year 4. Following the Primary Knowledge Curriculum the children learned about City States, Athens and Democracy, Sparta, The Persian Wars, Alexander the…

Festive Forest School!

15th December 2022

This term Year 3 enjoyed an afternoon of festive Forest School activities with our friends in Year 4. Using our beautiful Forest School area in school grounds, the children were…