News Ecclesbourne Primary School

Please see the attached posters for information about some of the activities and meal offers available for families in the school holidays.

Recently, year 3 have been studying Aesop’s fables.  We have discussed the features of a fables and what makes them different from fairy tales as well as learning about what a moral is and how the fables convey these morals. 

The cold snap brought the opportunity for the children at Ecclesbourne to get outside and play in the snow. 

Children throughout EPS have put on excellent performances in their respective Christmas shows. 

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’.

Last Friday year 2 went on a very exciting trip to Hampton Court Palace.

Following a minute’s silence at 11.00am today, we gathered for our Remembrance Assembly. 

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. 

The end of our amazing woodland adventure is finally here! Across our classes, the children ended on a high with trap making, camouflage games and survival bracelet making.

It has been a very busy full day here at Boughton Woods with year 6!

After a long drive and some coach delays, our Year 6 adventurers have settled into camp, unrolled their sleeping bags and got stuck in to woodland life!

Today, the school filled with Kings and Queens, Princes and Princesses and a sea of red, white and blue. 

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.