Sonning Common Primary School

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Teaching Assistant of the Year: Mrs Conway

We are delighted to announce that Mrs Conway, our wonderful teaching assistant, has been named ‘Teaching Assistant of the Year’ by the Community Education Awards! Mrs Conway was unknowingly nominated for the award by staff who value her hard work in the classroom. As well as being a dedicated teaching assistant, Mrs Conway is also a […]

PTA Colour Run – taster

PTA Colour Run Event Come and witness a taster of our Colour Run event with some of SCPS staff tomorrow (Friday 12th July) at 3pm in the KS2 playground.  The PTA will be  selling tickets for the Colour Run – our new family event which will be held on Saturday 28th September 3-6pm.   All tickets […]

School Council charity events

The School Council have decided to run some events for their chosen charity Helen and Douglas House. Tomorrow (Friday) there will be a penalty shoot out competition on the field against the school goalkeeper (20p a go or 3 for 50p) and on Wednesday (17th) there will be a welly wanging competition on the school […]

County Cricket Finals

Wednesday saw our Y5/6 cricket team compete against 20 other teams in the Oxfordshire Kwik Cricket Finals. The event was held at an extremely hot Kidlington Cricket Club. Many teams had qualified through several rounds to reach the finals day, so were clearly amongst the best in the County. Our team were absolutely brilliant on […]

Swimming gala success

After making it through the first two rounds of competition, eight of our Year 6 swimmers travelled to Radley College to compete in the Oxfordshire final on Wednesday 3rd July. Competition was stiff with the girls competing against eight other teams and the boys competing against nine others. Throughout the competition, our pupils demonstrated excellent sportsmanship by […]

Sports Day

Tomorrow is Sports Day for all SCPS children, the forecast is for drizzle before 9am, then a cloudy but warm day.  Please make sure your child comes to school with a full water bottle (water only) and that you have applied sunscreen.  Children can arrive in their PE kit, please also make sure they have […]

Summer Fair success

What a fantastic summer fair, even the sun came out for us.  We want to say a massive thank you to the PTA, all the volunteer helpers, the children who entertained us and everyone who came to support the day. It was great to see so many people having a good time and we raised […]

Spanish Day

On Thursday the children and staff really enjoyed being Spanish for a day.  Thank you to Senora Baillie for organising the event.  Everyone took part in a flamenco dancing workshop (thank you to Anita and Ramon) and then worked hard making and decorating their giant cardboard heads ready for the “Las Gigantes” parade.  We enjoyed eating […]

School Games Gold Mark Award

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2018/19 academic year. The School Games Mark is a Government led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the […]

Jazz and Recycling in Peppard

The Year Six Jazz Band excelled themselves this morning at the annual Peppard War Memorial Hall Fete. A slightly cut-down line-up featured Toby, Devon, Amelia and Charlotte on vocal duties, Ben W on piano, Alice on drums, Joe on guitar and vocals, Ben H on cornet and vocals, and a horn section of Freddie (trumpet), […]