As we reach the end of our first term, I would like to thank our children, staff and families for helping to make it such a purposeful and productive start to the school year. It has been a term full of learning, growth and opportunity, and it has been wonderful to see our school community working together so positively. A particular thank you to everyone who attended our Harvest Service at St Mary's Church. The children represented the school beautifully, sharing songs, ambi

This week, the children enjoyed playing a variety of maths games and solving puzzles, encouraging lots of mathematical talk, teamwork and creativity.  On our final day of term, Oak Class had fun with a day of pumpkin themed activities. The children explored sensory writing during Author's Hour and had great fun creating stop-motion animations with plasticine models. It was a wonderful way to end a busy and enjoyable term.

What a lovely way to finish the term! Hazel Class produced some fantastic, published versions of their innovated Leon and the Place Between stories. The children showed wonderful imagination and creativity, using expanded noun phrases, repetition and conjunctions to bring their own magical ‘Places Between’ to life. Well done, Hazel Class!

This week has been a fun week. In reception the children had fun making stick puppets and acting out the story The Three Little Pigs. They continued to do activities around the theme of the rainforest. The children did a fantastic job at creating a home for animals using the bricks. In Maths they have been learning to recognise and find the value of numbers up to 5. They did an amazing job of collecting different amounts of objects and matching them to the correct numeral. W

It has been another wonderful week at Swainswick Church School, filled with exciting learning opportunities. From tag rugby and autumn poetry to the many fantastic activities taking place across the school, it has been a pleasure to see our children engaging so enthusiastically in their learning. Following our Values Assembly on Wednesday, which focused on Harvest, charity and supporting those less fortunate than ourselves, we have been delighted by the generous donations rec

This week reception has been having lots of fun. We have been developing our fine motor skills by threading beads and making patterns with on the peg boards. In English we have been using the Pink Panther story as a focus to develop our writing skills. In the outdoor area the children have got creative by role playing with the dinosaurs and painting pictures of the rainforest. They did an amazing collaborative piece of artwork! In Year 1 and 2 we have been writing our own ver

Hazel Class have had another magical week! In English, we have been letting our imaginations run wild as we created wonderfully descriptive and persuasive writing all about visiting the mysterious Place Between. We have also been working hard on our times tables, with some fantastic effort and progress on TTRS. Well done, Hazel Class!

This week in Oak Class, we have been exploring the beauty of autumn through our senses and using our experiences as inspiration for our writing. The children have written wonderful free verse poems about the Swainswick Valley, filled with vivid imagery and thoughtful observations of the season around us. We are very much looking forward to sharing some of our poetry at our Harvest Service next week. In Science, we investigated how changing the distance between a light source

This week we have been getting into the Autumn spirit during our singing assemblies, rehearsing some classic autumnal songs in preparation for our upcoming Harvest Service. We look forward to sharing our singing with families — please see the dates below for more information. Continuing our focus on our school value of ‘Respect’, we have been exploring the idea of faith in action. In assembly, the children learned about pilgrimages and special journeys that are important with

In reception this week, the children have had great fun in Drawing club exploring The Three Little Pigs story. They did some fantastic acting and created pictures showing different parts of the story. I was very impressed to see the children using their phonics knowledge to write different sounds. In Maths they enjoyed making patterns using different objects. In Year 1 and 2 the children used rhyming words to create their own fabulous poems based on the story There’s a Rang t

Red Kites - Celebrating Kindness, Reading and Rugby! This week, we wished Miss Hitchcock lots of luck as she prepared to welcome her new baby. The children created beautiful cards filled with pictures of babies, teddies and warm wishes. Thank you to everyone for the thoughtful gifts; they meant a great deal to her. There was great excitement in Red Kites and Oak Class when we opened four huge boxes and discovered some extra-large beanbags for our classroom and library. The

It has been a busy and rewarding week at Swainswick Church School, with the children enjoying a wide range of learning opportunities both in and out of the classroom. We are delighted to share some of this week's highlights and celebrate the achievements of our pupils. Red Kites and Robins enjoyed a visit to the Guildhall in Bath to attend the Bath Literature festival, joining sessions with different authors. We were incredibly proud of the children, who represented the schoo

This week, the children have finished their insect shadow puppets, created fact files about animals that live in the rainforest and wrote some fantastic setting descriptions about the rainforest, based on our class text 'There's a rang-tan in my bedroom'. Reception have been exploring how much liquid different types of containers can hold. Robins also enjoyed a visit to the Guildhall in Bath to attend a session with children's author Kes Gray, who shared some of his poems and

Last week was full of exciting learning experiences across the curriculum. In Maths, the children enjoyed taking their learning outdoors, working with a partner to solve negative number calculations. In Science, the children had great fun making their own periscopes. They put their understanding of light into practice by exploring how light travels in straight lines and reflects off mirrors to allow us to see objects from different angles. We also had an excellent time at the