News Ecclesbourne Primary School

On Friday, Ms Nwosu had the pleasure of taking a small group of girl athletes to a ‘Gifted and Talented’ sports event hosted by Croydon High School. 

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

Today we held a fundraiser for the charity, Jeans for Genes.

Our new Reception children have made a fantastic start to the school year and are wasting no time getting stuck in exploring their environment.

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. 

Our nursery children and families here at Ecclesbourne enjoyed some quality time at the reading cafe, spending some time together sharing a love of stories.

On Wednesday evening, Year 6 proudly presented Robin Hood to a packed audience.

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

Last week, all the children at Ecclesbourne Primary School participated in the NSPCC’s Speak Out, Stay Safe programme. 

At Ecclesbourne, we are proud to celebrate our very own Ms Baldry who was nominated by one of our parents for a prestigious Precious Award in the category of ‘outstanding woman in the public sector’.

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!

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. 

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.