News Cypress Primary School

Our YR1 classes had a fabulous time today on their Moon immersion day.

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.

Friendship Week We have had a thoughtful and friendly time in Little Cypress, as it has been Friendship Week.

Fabulous Fireworks What an action-packed week we have had in Little Cypress!

This morning at the Upper School, the House Captains delivered a very emotive and personal assembly. 

Please see the photos below. Well done to our wonderful House and Vice Captains who led our assembly: Malaika, Joe, Lara, Amelia.

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

Big news from the Cypress Garden! One of our Cypress parents, Miranda Bradley, has been working tirelessly to obtain grants to help fund our garden and we have just found out we have been successfull in £1000!!  

As part of their studies on places of worship the Year 3 children visited St John the Evangelist Church in Upper Norwood. 

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. 

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. 

Works update During lockdown our landscape gardeners were busy outside at Cypress Lower continuing the work to make our woodland more accessible and useable for outdoor education. 

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement today (Wednesday 30th December) and the publication of the accompanying guidance it is now clear that Croydon schools, including our schools within the Pegasus Academy Trust, will not reopen on 5th January as planned.