OUR CLUSTER SCHOOLS
Read about our schools and click on the pictures to visit each school website.
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At St Mary's our classes all have animal names; koalas, raccoons, pandas, lions and tigers, we are in the lions and tigers classes which are a mix of year 3 and year 4 children. We love our school building as it is not too big and not too small, it is also very very, old. Mrs Pike said it was built in 1896. Out side on our playground wall we have a fabulous St. Mary's mosaic which we all helped to make. All the teachers are very nice and they help us to learn lots. In year 4 you get to go to Springhead, which is a nice place with really good food. We spend 2 nights away from our families and have to walk 7 miles up Gold Hill. Every class in the school looks forward to their turn. Last year we created a magnificent tree trail, the whole school helped to plant 60 trees around the edge of our field. Our favourite tree was the cork screw hazel. We have a computer suite with 15 computers in it, we love to use them to visit the internet and make up stories. We also have some laptops that we can use in our classrooms. Each classroom has an interactive white board, these are big and colourful. The Christmas party is wicked, you get to eat hot dogs and big fat cheese rolls. There are party poppers and then a clown and Father Christmas come to visit.
by Jennifer and Alex from Lions and
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St. Ives is a great place for
learning and having fun. We have a computer suite, a adventure play
ground, a large field and a swimming pool which is cold and sometimes
warm.  St. Ives first school is a
friendly place with interactive white boards in every class. The boards
show the entire class what’s happening on the computer. There is a
projector that shows the image from the computer onto the white board.
There are special pens that we can use on the board to controls the
computer. Sometimes we get golden time to use the interactive white
board. My favourite activity is using the Education City web site. Your child will love school
at St. Ives First School. We do our best to make sure you child
makes the best of this school and enjoys it. Why don’t you get
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Oakhurst is the best school ever, we have a school council that helps the P.T.F.A. to raise money to buy new things for the school, for example the sports equipment we can use in the playground at break time. The school council has also set up a buddy bench for people who need a friend. We have a large studio, were we learn music and drama. We have drumming lessons in the studio and practise all our singing and assemblies. The teachers are really nice and they help us learn lots of things. They make our school interesting by setting up different activity days such as the Environmental day and the Book day where everyone including the staff, dresses up as a character from a children's book. This year we were all characters from Roald Dahl's books. At Oakhurst we have a gardening club, where we grow flowers to look at and vegetables to eat. On the field we planted a willow tunnel last year and are waiting for it to grow. The field has lovely flowers and trees and is very big. It is a great place to hold sports day, where we do lots of races and water challenges. The best races are the toddlers race and the teachers race. We are looking forward to having our new adventure playground finished.
By Lewis,
Jacob, Charlie and Phoebe
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Click here to see the pictures the children from Oakhurst.
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This is Three Legged Cross First School, we are in year 4 which is called Owl Base, the other classes are called Badgers, Squirrels and Hedgehogs. We like coming to school because all our friends and teachers are good fun. We have a lovely nature trail which Moors Valley are helping us to improve. It has a pond where frogs and tadpoles live. We also have lots of bird boxes. Every class has an interactive white board, on which we can learn French, Music, Maths and History. We have a new library in which there are 15 new computers and lots of new books which we have to use the junior librarian scanner to sign out the books just like a real library. Our school has lots of clubs for us to join in school and after school. There are clubs for gym, football, sewing and reading. We go swimming at Ferndown leisure centre and now all Owls and Badgers can all swim in the deep pool. We raise money for our school by having a disco, a Christmas fair and a Christmas play. We spend the money on things we need like sports equipment. We like to help raise money for our school because its fun and we enjoy the things that Mrs. Turner buys. By Marsha, Ashleigh and Daniel from the Owl Base
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Click here to see the pictures the children from Three Legged Cross. |