Launching Space Week!

Today we launched the commemoration of 50 years since the first lunar landing with a visit from the Star Dome Planetarium and a special space picnic! 

Let us know what you thought of it by commenting below:

Thank you to our wonderful PTFA for funding this experience for all of our children today.

Can't wait to see what else we learn in Space Week - enjoy everyone!

To infinity and beyond!

Our Sports Day 2019

What a wonderful day - great sportsmanship, determination, teamwork, fun and sunshine!

So lovely to see so many parents, grandparents

and carers - thank you.

Well done everyone - a Super Sports Day 2019!

D-Day 75th anniversary - We will remember them

We have been learning that today marks 75 years since the D-Day landings, which took place on 6 June 1944 during World War Two.

Have a look at this link to share what we have learnt today;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48456573

We will remember them.

Letters and Sounds phase 6

This week we are looking at how to use the apostrophe:

Can you type a comment using an apostrophe for contraction and possession to earn a prize?

Gardening!

Team Smalley enjoyed an after school session of gardening to look after our school environment. Each staff member chose a child to come and help with lots of jobs including weeding the raised beds, planting new bedding plants, planting potatoes, watering and tidying and repotting Hannah’s garden. All of the children had a drink and a biscuit after they had worked really hard! It was a lovely outdoor session, thank you children for helping!

Who needs Groundforce when you have Team Smalley?!

House of the half term treat!

Egg box competition

It was a tricky decision with lots of brilliant entries from all year groups! Well done and thank you to all who entered. 

Here are the winning designs. Well done Ava and Phoebe! Your designs will be used on the egg boxes on the eggs for sale at the school summer fair. 😊🐣

Meeting Dave!

We were lucky enough to meet Noah’s Barn Owlet on Friday. Thank you Mr H for bringing her in and answering all of the children’s great questions. We can’t wait to meet her again when she’s grown a bit more. Truly fluffy, truly cute, lucky us. Thank you. 

Keeping Safe - Road Safety

Thank you to our visiting PCSO officers (Police Community Support Officer) for reinforcing the importance of crossing the road safety.

The officers delivered 3 sessions to EYFS, Key Stage 1, Lower Key Stage 2 and Upper Key Stage 2;  they taught the children about how roads are for the cars and the pavement is for the pedestrians and how we must STOP, LOOK, LISTEN and THINK before crossing the road.  The children spotted hidden dangers and how to be very careful around parked cars.  The children explored the importance of bright or fluorescent clothing when walking and how BEING BRIGHT helps us to BE SEEN.  The children looked at the different types of crossing and how we know it is safe to cross.

Thank you children for listening so carefully to this important life skill.  Please remember always STOP, LOOK, LISTEN and THINK.

COMPETITION TIME

Before leaving the school, the PCSO officers set a competition for all pupils.  The competition is to design a road safety poster to help all children and adults in our community to stay safe near the roads.  Three winners will be chosen and then their poster will be turned into a banner, to be displayed outside school.  Please get your thinking caps on and start designing.  The closing date for this is on Wednesday, 10th April 2019.  Please bring any entries to your class teacher, complete with your name and class on the back.

GOOD LUCK!

Happy World Poetry Day 2019

What's your favourite poem?

Red Nose Day 2019

What a fun day we had supporting Red Nose Day!  Thank you for your kind donations a grand total will be announced next week.

Book Fair Voucher Winners

Well done to Nathan in Class 4, Liam in Class 6, Jess in Class 2, Kieran in Class 1 and Harrison in Class R who have all won a £5 book voucher in the book fair raffle today.  Thank you to everyone who has visited our Book fair so far, it is the last day today.

Book Week 2019

It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm throughout school towards reading last week. We ended the week with an opportunity for teachers to share some of their favourite reads and a visit from a self-published author! Remember reading doesn't stop with reading week. 

"A Book is a dream that you hold in your hand"

Book week begins!

What a great start to Book week! Class R bookworms started their week by choosing a book when they arrived in school on Monday morning then Mr Redmond led a whole school assembly to tell the children about events and special visitors that will be visiting during the week.

Happy Book Week!

Online Safety regarding MOMO

End of term fun

This term the children in Class 1 have been learning about the United Kingdom. They have worked very hard, locating each of the four countries on a map, listening to the national anthems, finding out lots of facts and sharing their own personal experiences.

To celebrate the end of this topic we have been doing lots of fun things. We have listened to traditional music and had a go at Morris dancing and highland dancing - we all decided that it is much more difficult than it looks but lots of fun! The children particularly enjoyed watching highlights from last year’s Scottish Highland Games whilst eating a piece of shortbread - they got so excited when one contestant managed to flip the caber right over! We have also tried Welsh cakes, Irish soda bread and English scones with jam and cream. To finish the week we will be playing some traditional games from each country.

Although this is the end of our topic on the United Kingdom, we would still like the children to tell us about the places they visit in the UK during the holidays and at weekends so that we can find them on the map. Photographs and postcards would also be much appreciated to add to our display.

Blessed with talent

Thank you so much - you made me smile as I came through the hall at the end of assembly today.  How lucky we are to hear such lovely talent - thank you.

Boogie Beats with Year 1

Today, some of our Year 1 children went to Smalley Hall to enjoy their last Boogie Beat session.  The children in Class 1 have been enjoying these sessions since their time in Class R.  We would like to thank Boogie Beats and Smalley Hall for inviting us to these sessions.  The children have really enjoyed them.

In the new year, children in Class R will continue our intergeneration sessions with Becky and Boogie Beats.

The Snowman at The Riverside Centre

Class R, 1 and 2 enjoyed their visit to see 'The Snowman' this afternoon - we had a super adventure!

Thank you to all of our parent and friend helpers today.

Christmas fayre this Friday!

A beautiful Christingle Service

What a beautiful occasion this evening!  

Our SING group sang beautifully at Smalley's annual Christingle Service - what a special moment when all the candles were lit and we sang together.

Thank you to all of our families and friends for their support.

Special Visitors

Last week we welcomed special visitors into school. Members of our “Smalley Old Boys” and representatives from the Richardson Foundation came to school to enjoy lunch in Class 6.  They then met children from Year 5 and 6 and enjoyed a presentation, by the children, of our Remembrance service, which was then aired on the BBC news the very next day. 

It is always a privilege to watch the children and adults sing ‘Abide with me’ together in our school hall.  Welcoming our wider community into school always gives our children a valuable experience and it is greatly appreciated by all of our visitors too. 

Let's Go Fly A Kite!

This term in science class 1 are being meteorologists. In our lesson today we were investigating wind speed. We all made kites and had a great time testing them outside.

Children in Need

Thank you for supporting Children In Need on Friday and wearing all of those snazzy socks!

Our school raised £212.50 for this important charity.

Thank you so very much for your kind donations, thank you to our School Council and Mrs Bounds for counting all of those pennies and pounds.

Buckets full of fun in Class 1

This week in Class 1 we have spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to be a good friend. The children particularly enjoyed listening to the story 'Have You Filled A Bucket Today?' by Carol McCloud. This book explains how everyone carries an invisible bucket of happiness around with them all of the time. To fill your bucket you need to be a kind, respectful person who says and does nice things to make others feel special. During circle time we all managed to think of something kind we had done that day for our families and friends. In history the children worked in friendship groups to build a model of a castle. As well as observing great teamwork within groups, it was lovely to see groups helping each other when they encountered difficulties. Well done Class 1 - keep filling those buckets!

We Will Remember

November 9th 2018

Today, our children continued to make us so very proud.  Our Remembrance Service, led by Year 6, and supported by Key Stage 2 children was just beautiful.  The children were so very respectful as they reflected on the soldiers who have lost their lives fighting for the freedom that we have today.

Smalley's Remembrance Service is always a special event in our school year and this was captured by the BBC news team today, who came to film the pride that we have in our past and the hope we have for our future.

Thank you to everyone for your support and dedication, as our community marks 100 years since the end of The First World War.

We will remember them.

Boogie Beats, Boogie Beats, clap your hands and stamp your feet!

It's Boogie Beats time!  

Thank you Becky and Smalley Hall.

Smalley Remembrance Display

What a wonderful display of our school coming together to create a memorial to mark 100 years since the end of World War One. 

House Team of the half term winner is.....

This afternoon, to celebrate their team success, the GOLDEN EAGLES enjoyed an Autumn treat of hot chocolate and biscuits, with a play on the outdoor equipment.  

Well done for super team work this half term.

Pumpkin Parade 2018

Wow! What a fantastic turn out for our first ever Smalley school Pumpkin Parade. We enjoyed seeing the amazing pumpkin creations and drinking yummy hot chocolate after school. A wonderful event for everyone- thank you to the PTFA for organising! Here is a video for your enjoyment 😊🎃🎃🎃

Bottles of Remembrance

Thank you for all of the empty 2 litre plastic bottles that have been sent into school so far, for our whole school Remembrance Memorial.

We'll be recycling your bottles in two ways:

1 - Creating a whole school memorial marking 100 years after the end of the First World War

2 - Class 1 will be using the parts that we cut off in a project later in the year.

If you have any more bottles to bring in, please do so.  If you have any spare, please bring those in too - we want to create a beautifully fitting tribute in our playground.

Thank you

PTFA Pumpkin Parade - This Thursday

Our Harvest Festival 2018

Friday saw the last part of our two week Harvest Celebrations at Smalley School.  We started with our visit to the chapel, then our Harvest assembly and finally our sharing of the Harvest gifts.

Thank you to everyone for their generosity.

Wishing you all a safe and happy Autumn time.

Please enjoy our Harvest 2018 video:

Gold September's Grand Total!

We're very proud to announce that our

school community raised an amazing

£716

for the Gold September charity.

Thank you again for your kindness.

I SPY READING!

I do love Smalley School;  I love it when I'm surprised by children and adults in our school!  I love it when there's a buzz in the air.

At lunch time today, I looked through Class 5's classroom door and the room was in total darkness.......I was intrigued....what was happening?  As I opened the door to peer inside - this is what I saw......

Mr Redmond reading by lamp light, children listening so carefully to the story.  I later found out that these were spooky stories and the dark room was setting the scene.  How wonderful... thank you for the excitement Mr Redmond and Class 5 and thank you for inviting me to come and share a story another week....keeeeeep reading.

After the story time, children were invited to read their own books.......here they are enjoying them:

Boogie Beats at Smalley Hall

A beautiful Autumn walk in the sunshine, collecting leaves, conkers and twigs all the way to

Smalley Hall and then a great Boogie Beats session with Becky and the residents.

Thank you children.  

Beautiful singing, super listening, great movement and terrific behaviour - what a pleasure to take you out of school.

 Thank you for making us proud.

Happy National Poetry Day 2018!

Happy National Poetry Day children!

How will you celebrate yours?

Gold September - a huge, heartfelt thank you

We are absolutely overwhelmed with all of the support and generosity for Gold September - a charity so very close to our hearts; thank you so so much from the bottom of our hearts.

Thank you for all of the amazing, generous cake donations, thank you for your time, thank you for your kind words of support, thank you for coming to the coffee morning, thank you for all the superhero costumes, thank you for all of the donations for wearing a superhero costume, thank you for all the money for the children to buy the cakes, thank you for delivering the cakes to all the children in school, thank you for buying cakes after school, thank you for buying Gold September badges all through the month, thank you for your help in setting up, flower arranging, music, buying supplies, making tea and coffee.......the list is endless - thank you so very very much.

Our community came together and has done so much good.

World Religion Day 2018

Thank you to all the children and staff for a beautiful World Religion Day 2018.  The atmosphere in our sharing assembly at the end of the day was one of pride, tolerance and intrigue.  Thank you all for your enthusiasm, wonder, respect and interest.