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1 September 2025

Reception Place for September 2026

28 November 2025

History of the School

Recently Mr Bentley-Taylor met the Odd Down History Group where he talked about the school. At the meeting he met Roger Hillman, former pupil, who shared this great photo of the school football team of 1952.

28 November 2025

Enrichment - Scrabble

Today five games of Scrabble took place simultaneously! The children all enjoyed creating new words. Was Zog to be allowed? What about 'Dorent' - 'you'd better check in a dictionary' was the common refrai...

27 November 2025

Orienteering

Yesterday, Jane came in from Beechen Cliff to lead an Orienteering session with the Year 5 and 6 classes. They enjoyed racing around the school playground in teams, searching for signs on hidden posts. The first team to find...

21 November 2025

Kestrel's Electricity Topic

Kestrel Class have been building circuits with different components to investigate a variety of questions about electricity.

21 November 2025

Art in Kestrel Class

In art this term, we have delved into textiles. Having been inspired by Grayson Perry's tapestries and maps, we created our own hand-stitched maps which share special journeys. Some of us even managed to intricately...

19 November 2025

Dove Art

In Dove class we have been looking at Gustav Klimt's 'Tree of Life' painting. The children have created their own version of this artwork using golden paint, colour paints and black pen.

18 November 2025

Sewing a Map of Home in Owl Class

These past few weeks, Year 5 and 6 have been looking at the work of Grayson Perry in art, paying particular attention to his use of textiles. Inspired by his work 'Map of Days', we challenged the students to create their o...

17 November 2025

Making Clay Porridge Bowls in Robin Class

This term in Robin Class, we’ve been exploring the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears—so of course, we had to make porridge! We’ve also had lots of fun creating our own pinch pots out of clay. Once they&rsqu...

14 November 2025

Nightingale Construction

The children have been coming up with some fantastic construction ideas using straws and Kapla. We had staircases, bridges, garages and chairs created this week.

14 November 2025

Nightingale Art

Nightingale Class have been enjoying learning about the Austrian Painter Gustav Klimt and his work 'The Tree of Life'. We have been creating our own versions in stages.

13 November 2025

Girls' Football Festival

Today the girls made a valiant effort in the girl's football festival held at the Odd Down Sports Ground. On a rare sunny day, they got off to a great start. Alice scoring with a determined run and then finish to cap off...

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Calendar

05December

EYFS Nativity to Parents

09:30 - 10:00

15December

Christmas Service

14:00 - 15:00

18December

End of Term 2 for children

19December

Staff Training Day - No School for Children

05January

Start of Term 3

06January

Open Session for New Reception Parents for September 2026

10:00 - 11:00

13February

End of Term 3

23February

Staff Training Day - No School for Children

24February

Start of Term 4 for children

02April

End of Term 4 for children

20April

Start of Term 5

24April

Staff Training Day - No School for Children

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Reception Place for September 2026

History of the School

Enrichment - Scrabble

Orienteering

Kestrel's Electricity Topic

Art in Kestrel Class

Dove Art

Sewing a Map of Home in Owl Class

Making Clay Porridge Bowls in Robin Class

Nightingale Construction

Nightingale Art

Girls' Football Festival

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