News Ecclesbourne Primary School

Last week, we explored different ways we can maintain a healthy body and mind.

World Maths Day is this Wednesday, the 23rd March, and pupils at EPS are ‘in training’ for a day of maths-inspired competition on Mathletics. 

Our current literacy learning is based around the works of Shakespeare with a focus on the Scottish play, ‘Macbeth’. 

In Reception, children have been reading the story ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet and learning all about the caped potato superhero who is fighting to save the world from arch-villian – Evil Pea!

This term Year 3 pupils are spending time exploring the natural materials outside in EPS grounds. 

On Saturday the 26th of February, some keen volunteers from Ecclesbourne Primary School joined with others to launch an exciting new project at the allotments. 

Last week was incredibly busy for Little Ecclesbourne.  The children were learning all about Willbee, a busy bumble bee and how he helped flowers to grow. 

Ecclesbourne have had yet another exciting Book Week! We have focused on poetry in our learning this year and thought about why poetry is so important. 

Ecclesbourne had an exciting visit from poet Kimba as part of our Book Week celebrations. 

To help us celebrate World Book Day, a member of one of our families kindly donated copies of her fantastic book to our school this week. 

With recent higher numbers of COVID cases across the UK the SLT of the Pegasus Academy Trust has put in place some new precautionary measures to keep us all safe as we enter the last weeks of term. 

This week saw the first ever clash of the Girls’ football teams from Whitehorse and Ecclesbourne. 

On Wednesday this week, lots of the children put down their pens and had a day without writing. 

Last week, Mathletics (our online maths programme) held the National Numeracy Challenge – a week long competition where pupils scored points against other pupils in a worldwide competition.

Over the last couple of weeks, Year 6 have been studying the text ‘Varmints’ by Helen War and Marc Craste.