A huge well done to all the y5 and y6 children who took part in the Rushcliffe Schools cross-country race today - you were all fantastic! Millie, George, Ethan and Finlay have now been selected to represent Rushcliffe in the County Championships. We are proud of you! [...]
This afternoon we have been very busy. We began our session by taking our history outside and recapping what we have learnt about the mysterious Stonehenge. We discussed how we thought people in the Stone Age moved such large stones all the way from Wales to Salisbury. Lots of children agreed using logs to [...]
The Abbey Road School and Wellbeing Council would like to take this opportunity to say a big THANK YOU for all your generous donations for The Great Notts Christmas Toy Appeal. We felt so proud to turn up to the drop off zone with a car full of gifts, set to put smiles on [...]
Year 5 had a great morning orienteering (and then playing in the park) at Rushcliffe Country Park. There are 21 orienteering checkpoints spread all around the park. The children had an hour and forty five minutes to try and find as many of them as possible and many of the children found them all! [...]
In science lessons this half term Year 5 have been learning about the properties of different materials. This week's challenge was to separate a mixture of pasta, salt, paperclips, rice and sand.
In today's Forest School session we travelled back in time to the Stone Age. We took part in 3 different activities; whittling sticks to create spears, hunting some Stone Age animals and gathering some found objects to create Stone Age art. We finished the session with some vegetable Stone Age stew that we warmed [...]
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” — Walt Disney. Today 3M visited the library and thoroughly enjoyed listening to stories read aloud, sharing books with friends and choosing books to read for pleasure at home. It was so lovely to see all of the children [...]
To start our new topic "How have these wonder women changed the world?", we invited the children to dress up as a hero. Someone they admire from the past - a historical person or someone from their families history. The children were asked to research their person and be able to explain why they [...]
During Anti-Bulling week, 2MT and 4P met each other and became school buddies. We found out about our new friends by introducing ourselves and asking questions.
On Thursday 24th November, 2MT walked down to West Bridgford Library. We were met by Louise and Camilla who explained Book Bingo to us. We had to find a range of different books - one about an interesting animal, a joke book, a poetry book and an actiovity you would like to try to [...]
