OPAL: Blog items
⚽🌟 Year 2 Celebrate Sports Week in Style! 🌟⚽
Date: 26th Jun 2026 @ 9:17am
What an exciting day Year 2 have had as we came to school wearing our favourite football clothing to celebrate the end of our fantastic Sports Week! 👕⚽🥅
After surviving the sunny weather ☀️🌡️, the children proudly wore football shirts, kits, and team colours as we also celebrated the excitement of the World Cup 🌍🏆.
As well as having lots of fun, we are using this special occasion to raise money for OPAL and support the continued development of our playtimes. 🎉💙 The children have enjoyed learning how OPAL helps create exciting opportunities for active, imaginative, and inclusive play for everyone.
Throughout the day, Year 2 have been exploring the lives and achievements of some of the world's most famous footballers, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi ⭐⚽. We discussed their journeys, successes, determination, and the importance of perseverance when working towards a goal.
The children also put their creativity to work by becoming football kit designers! 🎨👕 Using their imagination, they designed their own unique football kits, carefully choosing colours, patterns, badges, and logos to create eye-catching team uniforms.
It has been a wonderful day filled with learning, creativity, teamwork, and sporting enthusiasm. We are so proud of the children for embracing the spirit of Sports Week and helping to raise money for such an important cause. 🌟🏆⚽
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 12:52pm
In Redwoods we have spent alot of time this half term develop our understanding what resilience means and sometimes that this can be difficult to achieve. Together we have also been developing our ability to self regulate and identify ways to help ourselves to cover come barriers. We have enjoyed doing this through creative, purposeful and interactive activities. We learnt about the ' The Bounce Scale' and how to use this as a regulation tool.
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 3:22pm
In Redwoods we have started to create the parts for our first playground project. We are creating a bowling alley with recylable resources. So far we have painted the tires for the barriers of our lane and some bottles which will become the skittles.
Planting Our Wild Flower Garden
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 10:02am
We have recycled some our our donated tires into planters and created two wild flower gardens. These are to help the bees, butterflies and other creatures have homes and to provide food for them over the summer season. We cant wait to see them grow and we will keep you updated.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:09pm
Our KS2 Pupils have enjoyed exploring the costumes, blankets and accessories we have out at lunch times. Pupils have really got in to character creating their own stories and adventures.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:04pm
Our Keystage One pupil have enjoyed working together, developing their communication and teamwork skills while building a boose out of loose parts. This developed into a role play activity which everyone enjoyed being part of. Super work !
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 3:44pm
We have begun to add different provisions and areas to our KS1 playground at lunch times. We are having so much fun playing all together.
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 12:03pm
This week children in year 5 have returned to the forest area. As they work towards their Forest School certificate, pupils used char-cloth to make a fire and made staues from clay. Pupils also helped to re-develop the pond area and found some tadpoles swimming around.
