World Book Day
We were very impressed by the range of costumes for the end of our World Book Day week of celebrating reading.
Ideas for learning today
If you are stuck for ideas to occupy your children today, Mr Hirst suggests: Reading in a favourite place (den etc) Maths o KS1 add two numbers together, the bigger the better. Put your teddies into height order. Look around where you live and see where numbers are and why they are important. As part […]
World Book Day (week!)
Next week we are celebrating World Book Day across the whole week to focus on how important reading is in our school. The theme for World Book Day this year is ‘You Are a Reader’. We want our children to know that whether they read a recipe, a football annual, a Top Trump card or […]
SCPS choir at Young Voices
On Monday 9th January our choir headed to the Resorts World Arena at the Birmingham NEC to take part in the national Young Voices event. After months of commitment and practice, the children took part in a long day of travel, rehearsals and, finally, the performance which included singing with Heather Small from M People. […]
Safer Internet Day Tuesday 7th February
Ahead of Tuesday’s Safer internet Day, we thought you might like to be reminded of the resources we have on our website to help parents and carers navigate the ever more complex world of keeping your children safe when using the internet. You can find links to many organisations via our page : SCPS Internet […]
New resources for parents and carers
At SCPS, we want to help our parents and carers understand their children’s behaviour better. There are a number of free resources we recommend for parents and carers: My Family Coach is a free website written by behaviour experts with 20 years’ experience working with over 5,000 schools. My Family Coach can support you through […]
Oxfordshire Libraries eBook short story competition 2023
Oxfordshire Libraries announce that their 9th writing competition launched on 3 January 2023. This year children aged 7-11 are invited to write a short story (up to 3000 words), other categories are available for 12-17 year olds and 18+. It is a perfect activity for the new year, inviting children to build on the creative […]
Welcome Back
It was lovely to see all the happy smiling faces back to school this week, staff and pupils alike were happy to be back catching up with friends. It’s great to have everyone back across the whole school, and we look forward to another fun-packed term full of inspiration and learning. On Thursday afternoon Mr […]
Merry Christmas from SCPS
As is traditional for the end of term, here is our Christmas video. We hope you enjoy watching it, and we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you back in school on Thursday 5th January 2023.
“Big Thank You”
At the start of the academic year, we introduced a new initiative called our ‘Big Thank You’. We felt that it was important to acknowledge and reward members of our team that have gone above and beyond the expectations of their role and so, each month, all SCPS staff have been able to nominate a […]
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