Rugby Tots and Playball coming to Micklefield! This week both Rugby Tots and Playball will be running FREE taster sessions for Preparatory and Lower School children. These will be held in the Gym and will run from 8.00-8.30am. Places for Rugby Tots are limited to 16 Year 1 and 2 children for the taster session.…
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This week Year One experienced what school life was like in Victorian times. The class learned ‘Reading’, ‘Writing’ and ‘Arithmetic’ in true formal Victorian style alongside still life and elocution lessons. The foreboding Mr. Baguley also visited the classroom to check they were all behaving themselves and they took part in a ‘Drill’ instead of…
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It has been a great week for sport at Micklefield with good progress made and impressive teamwork. Special mention this week goes to both the A and B U11 netball teams who played in a versatility tournament at Aberdour. This is where everyone switches positions after every game. The B team worked hard and finished…
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For Grandparents Day the children celebrated by surprising their grandparents with a song and poem they had prepared. The children enjoyed sharing their work on display and in their learning journeys with their grandparents. They also gave them a tour of Belton House and took part in lots of activities. For example, every child worked…
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Year 5 visited Hampton Court Palace this week as part of their History topic on ‘The Tudors’. The pupils enjoyed walking in the footsteps of King Henry VIII himself! Our workshop coordinator, Aaron, was complimentary about the children’s reading, processing and presentation skills. In groups, pupils read information about King Henry VIII and then had…
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Wow our Year 5s put on an amazing ‘Seed Dispersal’ Exhibition today! They had obviously worked really hard to come up with some ingenious ideas for how their invented plants would disperse seeds via air, wind, water, animals and explosions! Well done everyone for creating such fantastic Science projects and presenting them so eloquently to…
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Thank you parents for all of your Harvest Festival donations to Loveworks food banks. They were gratefully received and will go to provide emergency help to local people in need.
We really appreciate your generosity and hope you enjoy the Lower and Upper School Harvest celebrations today.
Did you know that you can blow up a balloon with a mixture of yeast and sugar?
Our Year 6s had great fun with a yeast experiment in Science this week. They learned about how yeast releases carbon dioxide as it eats the sugar. They also tested the ideal conditions for speeding up the experiment.
Thanks to all our parents for their support at the latest Friends of Micklefield (FOM) quiz and curry night. As a result of recent FOM funds we were able to invite the author Maz Evans in to the school and purchase a 3D printer for the Art Studio. Your continued support is much appreciated. Big…
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