News Whitehorse Manor – Brigstock Site

The JTA’s (Junior Travel Ambassadors) are encouraging all staff, pupils and carers to dispense with their cars on Friday 29th September and explore other modes of transportation to and from school that day. 

EPS and Brigstock clashed in their opening football match this week, with both teams showing fantastic potential. 

Today, both staff and children came dressed to school in as much denim as possible in order to raise awareness and money for the charity ‘Jeans for Genes’.

It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that our lovely Teaching Assistant, Sharon Thomas, sadly died during the summer holidays. 

Parents and carers will have become aware of the current issue with some schools in the UK that have buildings made of RAAC – Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete. 

This term we had another successful trip to the beach with year 2. 

It was a real pleasure to watch Ms Hall’s send off from Brigstock today. 

Yesterday, children enjoyed playing in the snow.  Snowmen were made, snowballs were thrown and fun was had by all!

This term junior children at Whitehorse will get to take home a free book donated by the Children’s Book Project. 

You may be aware from the media that the UK is seeing a high number of Group A strep cases this year.  

This term, children were excited to receive their Mini London Marathon badges. 

Today, staff and children took part in a moving remembrance assembly and observed a two minutes silence. 

There have been sixty one Kings and Queens of England in the last 1200 years but none has been monarch longer than Queen Elizabeth II, who died yesterday at the age of 96. 

It has been a very busy full day here at Boughton Woods with year 6!

The children had fun today celebrating the up coming Queen’s Jubilee.