News

On Monday, we announced the winners of our Extreme Reading competition at the Lower School! 

An amazing book-filled week at Cypress! Brilliant Book Week 2026!  What an incredibly fun-packed week we have had at Cypress to celebrate all things books!

Wow!  What an exciting start to our Book Week 2026!  Margaret Bateson-Hill led a wonderful assembly on Monday for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 to officially launch Book Week 2026. 

We were thrilled to welcome author James Sellick to Cypress as part of our Book Week celebrations. 

At the Lower School we learnt about joy this week in assembly. 

Thank you to everyone who attended our MHST Coffee Morning on Tuesday.

As part of our Spring 1 topic “Watch out, watch out there’s a monster about” Reception had a wonderful time making monstrous slime during a workshop with Professor Bubbleworks last week.

Happy New Year to everyone at Cypress Primary School!  We hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas break and found some time to rest and recharge. 

Our KS1 Nativity was incredible!  Aliens descended on Ecclesbourne to narrate the Christmas story. 

Our newly formed Ecclesbourne PTFA have had an incredible year and we are so grateful for their hard work. 

This week our Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 classes dazzled audiences with their Christmas variety show. 

On Friday 21st November, primary and secondary schools across Croydon have joined together to fundraise for The Hurricane Melissa Appeal.

Did you hear the out-of-this-world news? Year 1 went to the moon!

We have been celebrating Friendship Week at EPS and exploring the theme for this year, ‘Power for Good’. 

In our Year 2 classes—Satellites and Shuttles—we’ve been diving into Roald Dahl’s hilarious and grossly entertaining book, The Twits.