News Ecclesbourne Primary School

Year 6 arrived in high spirits after a quick journey into Hertfordshire.

Today, Rockets and Stars classes had a very exciting visit from ZooLab. 

The inaugural Pegasus Trust Games has taken place with Ecclesbourne crowned champions. 

On Wednesday 5th July, year 5 went to the Tower of London as part of their thematic topic on Crime and Punishment.

This week our reception children started their forest school outdoor learning and had a fantastic time.

As a result of our collaboration with the P.I.G. charity and their allotment project, some of our Year 6 pupils were lucky enough to go and visit Mrs Burney’s Bees in Frylands Wood this week. 

Over the past term, a number of our KS2 children have been taking part in an amazing Creative Wellbeing Project. 

This year Ecclesbourne have been lucky enough to be apart of the Green Project, a health and wellbeing programme which aims to teach young people about planting, growing, harvesting, cooking and eating. 

‘Gloves Not Gunz’ is working with some of our Year 6 pupils to help prepare them for the upcoming transition to secondary school.

This week is British Science Week and the theme is ‘Time’.

A group of children from Years 5 and 6 attended their first Flag American Football tournament at Archbishop Tenison’s School, Croydon.

At the end of the spring term children were invited to take part in a competition to celebrate the launch of the Figures of Black British Society (FOBBS) app.

This week we held our annual Easter egg raffle and it was a huge success!

EPS Staff beat our children’s netball teams in a pair of tightly fought battles. 

Starting next week, Ecclesbourne is bidding for a cash boost from the Tesco Stronger Starts scheme, which provides grant awards of up to £1,500 to local community projects.