We had an amazing day yesterday during our whole school visit to Auckland Castle. The day consisted of the children having a tour of the castle and seeing all of the wonderful things that they are in the process of completing. The children took part in a range of crafts, had some free time on the bowling field with the beautiful Auckland Castle in the background and finally a whole school challenge with our Year 6 children as team leaders, the teams had to design a castle wall that was strong enough to hold off an attack! The children were well-behaved during the whole day, they had excellent manners and also asked some fantastic questions. The children loved the ice cream van back at school which was a surprise! We want to say a huge thank you to Believe Housing and West Auckland Parish Council for making the whole day possible.

Some of our pupils were chosen to represent the school at the annual VEX GO Competition at NISSAN on 19th June 2024.

The children demonstrated all of our GEM POWERS during the day, especially teamwork, collaboration and resilience! The children had to make improvements to their robot, drive their robot around a field, code their robot around a field whilst collecting points for various challenges. Their behaviour was brilliant throughout the day and we definitely saw qualities in the children for a future career in engineering. We were second during the afternoon but finished third which was still a fantastic effort.

The children had an exciting opportunity when they got to meet the author of ‘The Book Dragon’.

The author Wayne D Kramer, American author of the ‘Penny Pangolin’ and ‘Heroes Of Time’ novel series visited the school to share his experiences of writing, as well as signing copies of the book and answering questions from students. The children came up with some fantastic questions and as always were extremely polite!