Monthly Archives: April 2019

Despite the weather not being on their side, congratulations to all our Year 5 and some of our Year 6 pupils who have this week completed their Bikeability Combined Level 1 and 2!
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We have been delighted to hear about the successes of many of our past pupils. Over this summer of particular note are: Joshua Lay wins a Silver for England HUGE congratulations to Joshua Lay, who won a silver medal in the 1500 metres at the Junior Commonwealth Games in the Bahamas earlier in the summer. Joshua is currently studying for his  ‘A’ levels 
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Well done to all Junior children who took part in the Cross Country races at Chenderit on Thursday 20th September. 17 St Loys children from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 attended. The Year 3/4 children had to run 800m and the Year 5/6 children ran 1000m. Special congratulations to Dan who came 7th in the boys race and to 
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Thank you to everybody who came along to the Macmillan/Welcome new parents tea and cake sale on Friday. We hope you all enjoyed it. Thank you to all those parents that provided cakes and to our lovely ‘Friends of St Loys’ for organising and hosting this event. We will let you know how much we raised in due course.
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Andrea Leadsom visited our school on Monday morning and received a tour from Joe and Carly, our Head boy and Head girl. She spoke to all the children in a special assembly about her job as an MP and talked to them about the Houses of Parliament. We were so proud of our beautifully behaved children. They asked her some 
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St Loys Pre School has now become part of the Academy. The Department for Education have agreed the change with effect from the 1st September 2017. With the retirement of the fantastic business owner, Nicky Carpenter, the Pre School will now be open for five days a week (Monday to Friday) with wrap-around care available too! The same staff who 
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This week the children have been working on intricate models of Shackleton’s boat The Endurance, the resulting models show great skill and variety, proving that much planning and plenty of ‘trial and error’ thinking (we love this type of thinking) has gone into their creating and building. Their next step is to show how the ship listed as it became 
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The inspiration for our project was the motif from the front of the book ‘Shackleton’s Journey’ by William Grill. We used scale enlargement to each enlarge a piece of the drawing by a scale factor of 4. We worked as a team to make sure our piece matched up to its neighbour as well as possible. The finished pieces were re-assembled 
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Our Igloo is in its final stages. Thank you very much for all the contributions of milk bottles. Watch this space for final photos when it is complete. Feel free to come in to Year 1&2 to see it. Thank you to Mrs Rowland for all her hard work. Alison Watts
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Please take a moment to view details of our exciting new Spring term Topic; this is an example of the ethos behind our Creative Curriculum at St Loys. Don’t forget to have a look at our Galleries to see some of our Frozen Lands and Polar Day photos. Frozen Lands We believe learning is a journey  shaped by a string of amazing  adventures: to distant lands, other  periods of time, new places within  ourselves. We want our adventurers  to write without reluctance and to  see books as irresistible windows to  other worlds. Our desire is that their  love of journeying gives them a  ravenous appetite for learning.  
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