🎄Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

19th December 2025Mrs Ogle

As we come to the end of the autumn term, we want to say a big thank you to our school community for your ongoing support.

To our children, families, wider community and staff, thank you for the energy, dedication, and teamwork you’ve brought throughout the year. It’s been a busy and positive start to the year, and we’re proud of everything that’s been achieved.

Take a look at the first edition of the Plover Press to see some of the term’s highlights!

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We wish everyone a happy, restful Christmas break and look forward to welcoming you back in the new year.

The Plover Crew xx

Giving back to our community and supporting our Crew charity- the RSPCA

18th December 2025Miss Blackham

We are so thankful for all of your support and generous donations towards our whole school Crew charity the RSPCA. Nelly, Darcy and Riley were honoured to take the donations to the centre today and they even managed to meet Sunny and Rain- two beautiful puppies- who have recently found their forever homes. With your continued support, we aim to help all animals at the RSPCA find their forever homes!

There are going to be some very happy animals on Christmas morning thanks to all of you!

-Miss Blackham

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A lovely local walk..

7th January 2026Rebecca Bubb

Today, we followed our maps around our local area. We turned right, crossed the road, past the shops, along to the roundabout, turned left and left again, past the church, left at the end, past the post office, over the road, back past the shops and around the corner back to school. We spotted different buildings, we counted, we waddled like penguins…we had a really lovely morning! Thank you to all the grown-ups who came to help.

Plover Maps It Out!

6th January 2026Joshua Meade

We read Martha Maps It Out in expedition. This allowed us to share our background knowledge of maps. We then looked at our local community on Google maps and created our own provision map. We practised the route that we will follow tomorrow on our fieldwork study. Outside children created their own obstacle courses, maps and vehicles! #LovePlover

Rocksteady Concert

6th January 2026Stuart Longley


Last half term, we were lucky to enjoy the first Rocksteady concert of the year

.The children thoroughly enjoyed performing the music they have learned in their Rocksteady lessons, confidently sharing their skills with the audience. It was wonderful to see how far they have come, playing with enthusiasm and growing confidence. We are incredibly proud of the children for the fantastic progress they have made and the effort they continue to put into their music learning.

A big thank you to Jack for the hard work this year!

Mapping out our route

6th January 2026Rebecca Bubb

Today, we used the big Map to move the characters around the roads of our local area. Tomorrow we will do it for real and follow our own small maps.
We also helped beebot navigate around his picture maps.

We are crew!

6th January 2026Miss Blackham

We are kick starting our new term with team building in crew. We are focusing on the character trait respect this term. The children had to work in teams to build the biggest tower. They had to listen to one another’s ideas, whilst showing respect to try and build the biggest tower with their shoes!
-Miss Blackham

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Student Led Conferences in Years 3 and 4

5th January 2026Mrs Haycock

Thank you to all parents and carers who have booked an SLC appointment so we can share the progress your children have made during the autumn term. Your children have been busy preparing for these and they look forward to sharing some of their amazing learning with you which they all feel so proud of.

If you haven’t yet booked, please scan the appropriate QR code for your child’s class from those below to do so.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Haycock

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New expedition launch in Years 3 and 4!

5th January 2026Mrs Haycock

We have had a great first day back in Years 3 and 4. Our new expedition title is: From Bean to Bar. The guiding question our children will be answering is: What’s the cost of a bar of chocolate? Instead of simply considering the financial cost of a bar of chocolate, we will be working closely around ‘Fairtrade’ and looking at how farmers in equatorial countries are supported by the ‘Fairtrade’ foundation.

The children played a ‘Catchphrase’ style of game to work out the expedition title and guiding question – well done to Alec in 4H who used the clues on the screen to solve our conundrum first!

This afternoon we became chocolate connoisseurs by tasting a range of different ‘Fairtrade’ chocolate products. We have been considering the appearance, aroma, taste and texture of these different chocolates so that we can produce our own chocolate ‘bark’ later in the term.

Mrs Haycock

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We can find factors and factor pairs!

5th January 2026Mrs Haycock

Year 4 have been busy exploring the factors and factor pairs of different values today. Well done every one. When using the manipulatives as modelled and instructed, you all managed to succeed today!

Be ready to find more factors and factor pairs of more challenging values tomorrow, folks!

Mrs Haycock

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Super scientists!

5th January 2026Miss Blackham

6B kick started their first case study today and became scientists. They predicted if solids would dissolve in liquids and if the temperature would impact the final results. They further developed their prior knowledge of states of matter. We are looking forward to even more science experiments tomorrow!

-Miss Blackham

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Year 5&6 SLC appointments

5th January 2026Miss Blackham

Thank you so much to all parents and carers who have already booked student led conference appointments. The children have been working hard preparing for these appointments and so we would appreciate your support in attending to listen to not only all of the beautiful work the children have engaged in but also their character growth and academic success so far this year. Please scan the QR code if you have not already to book the last few appointments.

Thank you in advance,

Miss Blackham

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