National Poetry Day is celebrated on the first Thursday of October every year. This year, National Poetry Day takes place today (Thursday 1 October 2026). This year's theme is wonder. Aiming to inspire a love of poetry, this annual event provides a fantastic opportunity to explore and celebrate poetry. From engaging with familiar poems we love, to the creative fulfilment of crafting new works. This year Beech and Maple classes participated in National Poetry Day by joining in

This year our pupils and staff had a brilliant time dressing up as characters from their favourite books for World Book Day.

Following on from National Storytelling Week, which took place from Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th February, Chestnut and Pine classes were very happy to welcome local children's author, J-J Murray, into class.

Elm class are currently reading 'Bob - No ordinary Cat' by James Bowen. They have researched different types of poetry and wrote their own poems based on concepts in the book they have read about so far.

Elm class have to their creativity to build their own Roz the Robots from the book 'The Wild Robot'.

Everyone in Hazel class has been busy with their learning this half term.

Cedar class have been exploring the woods and looking at the natural world around them.