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Beware, there’s a dragon on the loose at Farnborough! Elves have been planning to catch the dragon. Where is he? How can we trap him? Elves class have been having fun learning about  writing instructions. They’ve been very excited about working out how to trap a dragon at school; they’ve acted out the steps needed […]

The children in Reception had been working really hard at learning and then telling a story – Finding a Friend – using pictures and actions to help them. As they increased in confidence they went to ask if they could perform it to Year 2 and Mrs Matthews. The Year 2 children were a wonderful […]

We would like to say a massive thank you to the Burn family for coming to the schools rescue this weekend and laying the extension to the base floor for Receptions new shed. Also an extra special thank you to Chris Allchorne a​t Crossway’s Builders Yard who kindly provided all of the materials for the job! Here are a […]

Reception enjoyed a visit from Julia Smith, the Police Community Service Officer as part of their topic work on People Who Help Us.  Julia told them all about her job and the children took the opportunity to ask her lots of questions and to try on her hat and radio. We have a gallery of images below for you […]

On Monday 8th July our Young Science Ambassadors hosted the first ever Farnborough Science Fair. Children, parents and staff enjoyed watching demonstrations and taking part in a range of exciting Science experiments. All across the school children were investigating the answers to various scientific questions. Examples included: Where do the bubbles come from in bread? Which fizzy drink has […]

The children have all had an amazing experience on their residential to the Isle of Wight, taking part in activities that they never thought they would experience! We have captured many of those moments in a wonderful gallery below, which we hope you will enjoy. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

We had a super sunny day on Tuesday which ended with singing, stories and roasting marshmallows round the campfire.  Today, we started with dragon boat racing on the creek where the children had to race each other in teams. This was followed by abseiling, climbing and tunnel trails. The latter activity had a final task […]

Year 6 had a great start to their residential trip by spending Monday afternoon canoeing. Fortunately, the rain held off and the children had a fun time rowing in twos and threes, playing ‘it’ and finishing with a ‘bellyflop’ game. Mr Atkinson ended this with a rather epic bellyflop of his own! All that fresh […]