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YR Class letter September 2018. Dear Parents/Carers,   Welcome to a new term at Bishop Pursglove School and to Class One. I hope that you have had an enjoyable summer break and are looking forward to the new term. This letter contains important information about what your child will be learning over the term and…

Things to do in the summer- YR. Don’t forget there’s still lots of lovely things to learn over the summer which can happen at home- you don’t have to be at school to learn! Use Bug Club and read the lovely e-books available to you and play the games too! Visit the library and find…

Class R trip to Chatsworth summer 2018! We did so much in our trip! We visited the kitchen gardens and had a workshop linked to our topic- What can you see in the summer? We found things to eat, things that grow and we were pollinators! We explored the gardens, visiting the cascade, fountain, coal…

This week, Tideswell Village has been celebrating its annual Wakes Week!   We have been busy designing and creating our school Wells Dressing, based around the theme of: ‘Bees’, using flower petals.  Wells across Derbyshire are dressed at this time of year to give thanks for the water they provide in our town and village…

As part of our RE unit on Islam, Derby Open Centre visited school and we took part in some fantastic workshops run by Samantha, the Derby Open Centre Manager, where we learnt about Islamic Wedding Ceremonies and cooked Chana Curry using chickpeas.   As part of the Islamic Wedding Workshop, we got to dress up in…

What Can You See in Summer? Class YR Lots of lovely Learning in the summer sun! And indoors as well! Ice cream shop-yum, yum! Summer sports! Sand castle building competition! How many watermelon seeds can you collect? Making mustard sandwiches for the seagulls!!! Summer flowers are beautiful!

Class R trip letter summer 2018 Dear Parents/Carers, We have organised a trip for Class R to visit Chatsworth Farmyard, gardens and stick yard with a special Kitchen garden workshop which has been produced especially for our school on Thursday 5th July. The coach will leave at 9.30 a.m. As the Infant children are entitled…

In Maths, as part of our unit on 3D Shape, Year 4 have been using their problem solving skills to identify patterns in the number of faces found on sets of cubes.   After we had put the cubes on our desk, we had to observe the number of faces we could see, and reason whether…

Classes 1 and 2 went to Manchester for a trip linked to our RE curriculum. Here are some photographs of our visit. We looked at the different stained glass window and listened to the stories behind them. We looked at the Easter story, shown in these carvings around the entrance gate. There was an unexpected…