Apple class have put on the most wonderful performance for everyone this week. There has been singing, dancing, party sheep- it's been a blast! We are so proud of how well the children have done learning all of their words and sharing these in front of an audience in the church- it really was a magical experience for everyone. Well done Apple class!

Apple class have fully embraced the start of the Christmas season and had lots of fun decorating our Christmas tree.  We have also been very busy practising for our Nativity this week. The children  are doing a wonderful job- it is wonderful to see how confident they are with their parts and cresting action s fir the songs. It's going to be amazing!

On Friday, Swainswick joined a very special event, a once-in-a-lifetime live broadcast from Antarctica with Robert Swan OBE, and Jenny Cooke, co-founder of the 2041 School charity. Streaming 600 miles from the South Pole (in -20 degree temperatures), Rob shared stories from the ice, discussed the importance of protecting our planet’s frozen continent, and talked about why the 2041 School charity is important. The video can be watched here . We were one of 5,000 schools from a

Swainswick is really getting into the festive spirit! On Saturday, Friends of Swainswick school organised and ran the most wonderful Christmas Fair. The atmosphere was so festive, and everyone had a great time. Santa even made an appearance, chatting with some children in his beautiful grotto. Click here to see pictures of Santa’s special grotto. Huge thanks to everyone who helped to organise the fair, supported on the day or attended the event. The children have also been l

Friends of Swainswick put on a wonderful Christmas Fair on Saturday. There was a popcorn machine, bric-a-brac, a teddy tombola and Santa even set up a beautiful grotto! Lots of children were able to chat with Santa about the big day! Thank you to everyone who arranged, supported and attended this event - it was lots of fun.

It’s been great to welcome families into school this week for our parents evenings, and share with you the brilliant learning the children have been doing this term. Thank you for joining us. This week in assembly, we continued our discussions about this term’s value of thankfulness. We thought about things which gifts or items which are precious to us and how we might feel if we lost them. We then watched a video retelling of the Bible story, ‘The Lost Coin’, and considered

Apple class have been creating algorithms using J2code. We have learnt that algorithms are a set of instructions which we can use to make a 'sprite' move around. We used different templates for our algorithms and began to learn  how to debug our codes. Our next change will be to add more sprites and try the advances mode!

Apple class have had a super exciting week!  We started off with a visit from David, who came to speak to us about his experience of climbing mountains! He very kindly brought in some equipment for us to look at and spoke about how equipment had changed from when he first started climbing compared to today. The children loved it. Reception have had fun this week sorting shapes, thinking about how many sides shapes have and the different ways we could group them. Finally, you