Dear Parents and Carers,
Thank you for all your efforts with World Book Day this week! The children looked amazing, and it was great to share their favourite books and stories with them. Photographs from yesterday should be appearing on the class pages of the school website soon!
Class 4 visitors
Class 4 are really enjoying their 'Sow, Grow, Farm' topic and over recent weeks, we have been lucky enough to welcome several local experts from the estate to come in and talk to the children about various aspects of farming. Ted's dad joined us to talk about sheep farming, Violet's dad came in to talk to us about farming in Kenya and this week, Charlotte and Emily's dad arrived on his tractor to talk to the children about arable farming! The tractor was a huge hit across all the classes!! Holly and James' dad is also coming in to see us next week to talk to the children about forestry which we're all looking forward to.
Science week!
Tom's mum has very kindly offered to come in and work with each class, in her capacity as a secondary science teacher, to run some activities as part of science week! The infants have had their session today and have been busy making seed bombs this afternoon as part of their growing topic this term! You can keep up to date with what's been happening via the class pages on the school website.
We're also delighted to be welcoming a teacher from Oundle School on Thursday 24th April who is coming in to run a STEM workshop for Y4, Y5 and Y6. This arrangement is in partnership with St.Anselms school in Bakewell and we are very grateful to have this opportunity once again this year. We have also invited Y5 and Y6 pupils from Baslow school to join us for the workshop too.
Chatsworth estate annual litter pick
We have been asked to join in again with the annual litter pick on the estate which is taking place on Wednesday 26th March. Representatives from our ECO Team will be sent some further information and permission slips next week.
Easter service
On our last day of term, Friday 4th April, we will be having our annual Easter service down at St.Peter's church in Edensor at 2pm. You are most welcome to join us for this. The service will last approximately 45mins so please make arrangements to collect your child from church at 2.45pm if you aren't able to come. Class 4 will be selling items from their Enterprise project after the service so you can pick up an Easter treat or two!
Wishing you a lovely weekend,
Mrs E Bond
Headteacher