News Atwood Primary School

This half term our topic is ‘Beastly Beasts!’ The children have used information books to learn how to identify different types of minibeasts. 

In Nursery we have been learning about space.  We read the story Whatever Next!

Mr Veale’s welcome ‘It ain’t half hot, mum.’ With the mercury reaching around 26% consistently this week, with a very, very humid day on Monday, we have all enjoyed some warmer weather. 

Atwood continues to raise funds for diabetes research This weekend saw Atwood pupils past, present and future come together with their families in aid of JDRF.  

Mr Veale’s welcome Welcome Back to the final half term of the academic year.

On Monday five eggs arrived at Atwood’s Reception classes.  The children were not told about what was in the egg, but after researching animals that do lay eggs, the children made their prediction of what they thought would hatch out. 

This week in Reception our topic book has been ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. 

Mr Veale’s welcome Tennis News On Wednesday 24th May Atwood took part in the Croydon Schools Tennis Finals.

Tents and Tubes during lunchtime play With the warmer weather, we have brought out the canvas once again.

Year 3 solve the riddle of the missing Mammoth! Our Year 3 children received a message last week  to say that a mother mammoth had lost her baby and the children needed to find the clues to find it!​

Over the last few weeks in Nursery, the children have been very busy. 

Over the past two weeks, the children in Atwood Reception classes have been looking at the stories ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and ‘the Princess and the Pea’. 

Mr Veale’s welcome This week has been SATs week for KS1 and this will be the last year the government expects 7 year olds to sit more formal test papers and I think this is long overdue. 

Whole Class Reading in Year 5 I visited Lavender Class this morning to join in with their Whole Class Reading session, in which the children were focussing on ‘When the Sky Falls‘ by Phil Earl.

Mr Veale’s welcome This week has been SATs week for KS2.