News Ecclesbourne Primary School

We had a very festive Friday at Ecclesbourne today. Children enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch with all the trimmings and wowed us with their very best Christmas jumpers.

This week, the year 3 children from Brigstock, Whitehorse Manor Junior and Ecclesbourne schools went on a trip to the Crystal Palace park.

On Wednesday, our Year 6 children were invited to Fairfield Halls to watch the Whitgift autumn show.

Our aptly-named Year 1 classes – Shooting Stars and Astronauts – had a wonderful time learning about space at the Science Museum yesterday.

If you look around EPS, you’ll see some strange looking moustaches.

Nursery children at Little Ecclesbourne have been busy working as scientists.

Well done to our parents and carers who have been attending our family learning course ‘Once Upon a Time.’ 

Ecclesbourne made it three wins out of three following a stunning 7-0 victory against South Norwood Primary school. 

Last week, as part of our RE learning about Hinduism, Year 4 visited the Sakthy Ghanapathy Temple in Thornton Heath.

Our Trust Staff Meeting at Cypress on Handwriting in the Early Years, for our Early Years and Year 1 practitioners, was a fantastic opportunity for the adults to have some fun, as well as learning some important pedagogy and practical ideas to teach this crucial life skill.

Ecclesbourne’s fantastic start to the netball season continued with a stunning 5-3 win for the A team.

Ecclesbourne began their netball season with a pair of stunning victories. 

At Ecclesbourne today, we are kicking off our Friendship Week by celebrating Odd Socks Day in support of the Anti-Bullying Alliance.

On Friday 10th November, Ecclesbourne’s house captains were invited to represent our school at Whitehorse Manor Junior School’s Remembrance service.

Year 3 have been really enjoying learning about dinosaurs in reading, literacy and thematic.