News Ecclesbourne Primary School

Well done to our parents and carers who have been attending our family learning course ‘Once Upon a Time.’ 

Ecclesbourne made it three wins out of three following a stunning 7-0 victory against South Norwood Primary school. 

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.

Ecclesbourne’s fantastic start to the netball season continued with a stunning 5-3 win for the A team.

Ecclesbourne began their netball season with a pair of stunning victories. 

At Ecclesbourne today, we are kicking off our Friendship Week by celebrating Odd Socks Day in support of the Anti-Bullying Alliance.

On Friday 10th November, Ecclesbourne’s house captains were invited to represent our school at Whitehorse Manor Junior School’s Remembrance service.

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

This week, both our year two classes took part in an exciting workshop with RedSTART. 

​We are delighted to be working with the Pamper, Indulge and Give Charity again this year. 

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. 

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.