News Year 1

What an incredibly fun-packed day we have had at Ecclesbourne celebrating World Book Day 2026 and all things books!

Ecclesbourne were luckily enough to have author Michael DeSouza visit this week. 

Chants of ‘Take it off, take if off!’ echoed down the corridors at Ecclesbourne Primary School as children tried to guess who the masked reader was.

An amazing book-filled week at Cypress! Brilliant Book Week 2026!  What an incredibly fun-packed week we have had at Cypress to celebrate all things books!

What a huge treat it was for us today to welcome the poet Steve Sobolewski to share the Friday of Book Week with us!

We were thrilled to welcome author James Sellick to Cypress as part of our Book Week celebrations. 

This week in Year 1 we have been very lucky to have two fantastic toy workshops!

On Thursday, Year 1 enjoyed an exciting visit from ‘Fizz Pop Science’ who delivered a fantastic hands-on workshop packed with fun investigations.

It was so lovely to share all the children’s fantastic work with parents today. 

Our Year 2 classes had some fantastic fun this week, taking part in their interactive drama workshop about the Great Fire of London.

On Friday, schools across the trust participated in an interschool poetry competition.

There is lots of fun and fantastic learning happening in Year 1 as the children truly play hard and work hard at Beulah.

The children were thrilled today that Santa took time out of his busy Schedule, particularly this close to Christmas, to come and visit our school. 

Here We Are! This autumn term came to an exciting close as our Year 1 class wrapped up their space topic with a blast off adventure.

Following our recent ‘How to Help Your Child with Reading at Home’ workshop, please find below a recording of the session for those who could not make it in person.