Month: June 2020

Annie ‘Happy Little Hero’ reaches her goal!!

Back at the start of the month, Annie from Year 1, took on the challenge to cover 75 miles, the equivalent distance from Derby to Manchester, by walking, scooting, cycling and running! This was all in aid of collecting funds for the Burton and Derby Hospitals. Annie has now completed her challenge and has raised...

29/6/20

Special Mentions W/E 26th June 2020

This weeks special mentions have been awarded to: Special Mentions Class Year Pupil Special Mention Nursery Rose For showing great focus and concentration with a rhyming activity this week Kindergarten Jack For choosing and introducing an amazing topic this week! Year 1 Georgia For producing beautiful photographs in Art. Year 2 Rebekah For creating a...

26/6/20

Returning To Nursery

As of 17th June, we have welcomed back our nursery children into school. They were all extremely happy to see each other and Ms Haynes as well! For those of you that are returning to school, please follow the new guidelines and nursery rules. These are outlined in the video, as well as the document...

26/6/20

Operation Bletchley!

Operation Bletchley is your Virtual Codebreaking Challenge. Your mission is to cover either 50 or 100 miles on foot and crack the codes as you go. With brand new codes to crack for 2020. Have you got what it takes to deliver your final message before time runs out? Alongside the original 50 mile codebreaking...

22/6/20

Special Mentions W/E 19th June 2020

This weeks special mentions have been awarded to: Special Mentions Class Year Pupil Special Mention Nursery Florence For her fantastic rhyming work. Nursery Evie For her super-duper drawings! Kindergarten Gabriel For working super hard on everything this week. Year 1 Olive For her amazing letter. Year 2 Ben For a superb newspaper report. Year 3...

18/6/20

Miles in May!

Oliver (Y3) and Jack (KG) , have been keeping themselves busy throughout May and June! They have decided to set themselves a big challenge! “We have been very active since lockdown and at the start of May we decided to track our ‘Miles in May’. Using mummy’s Fitbit we have added them all up and...

16/6/20

Special Mentions W/E 12th June 2020

This weeks special mentions have been awarded to: Special Mentions Class Year Pupil Special Mention Nursery Elbe For being so enthusiastic with different home learning activities – and joining in with her brothers’ learning too! Nursery Henry For showing great persistence with practising writing his name. Kindergarten Rone For working so hard and making...

15/6/20

Hold Still 2020, Photography Competition

Hold Still, a portrait of our nation in 2020, is an ambitious community project to create a unique photographic portrait which captures the spirit, mood, hopes, fears and feelings of the nation as we continue to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak. It has been spearheaded by the Duchess of Cambridge, and she invites you to...

11/6/20

Special Mentions W/E 5th June 2020

This weeks special mentions have been awarded to: Special Mentions Class Year Pupil Special Mention Nursery Esme For doing some very creative home learning activities. Nursery Jasmine For doing some fantastic counting and number work at home. Kindergarten Olivia For always working hard and trying her best. Year 1 Imogen For a super animation on...

10/6/20

Returning back to School & Nursery

We have had a fantastic response from the St Wystan’s community with the remote learning provisions provided by our staff members. This is fantastic to hear, as they all put so much effort into creating these and at such short notice. It has been great to see how the children have adapted to their changed...