News Ecclesbourne Primary School

As you are hopefully aware, the deadline for applying for a secondary school for your child to attend in September 2023 is fast approaching. 

This week in Nursery we have been learning about the story ‘Rainbow Fish’.

Last week, Year 3 were studying the fantastically evocative poem called ‘From a Railway Carriage’ by Robert Louis Stevenson. 

Many thanks to everyone who donated cakes, treats and money to our Macmillan Coffee morning today. 

Our Year 1 parents were invited in to school this morning to hear all about what they children will be learning this year and how they can help at home.

Mars Class enjoyed creating their own computer games in computing today.

We are delighted that this year we are able to run our family learning again. 

It was lovely to see parents joining us today in our new Willows Family Centre for our Nursery curriculum meeting. 

Little Ecclesbourne children have settled well into their new nursery routines and have loved exploring the learning inside and outside, despite the showery and windy days. 

Author and storyteller, Chitra Soundar, is hosting an interactive session this Saturday at 2pm at the Salvation Army in Thornton Heath.

Yesterday was an exciting day for the Year 4 pupils at EPS as they took part in their first cricket coaching session.

It was a full house tonight for the  Year 4 team as they held a meeting to tell parents all about the Multiplication Tables Check that their children will be taking in the summer. 

Our current Thematic topic in Year 3 is a local area study about Crystal Palace. 

Our new year 3 cohort has had a fantastic start to their Key Stage 2 career. 

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.