Royal Albert Hall-On Sunday April 30th 2023 the Chamber Choir went to the Royal Albert Hall for a Hertfordshire Gala concert. This was very important as all the schools in our county sang together. There was also a brilliant orchestra and dancers at the front of the stage. We were all singing with the Hertfordshire symphony orchestra …
Green Group – Plastic Free Week-Green Group arranged a Plastic Free Week! The rules were that you had to come into school with a single-use plastic free lunchbox. Each plastic free lunchbox earned points and if the points of every student in the school was over 100 plastic free lunches, we would gain extra play. This is better for the …
School Games – Gold Award-We are thrilled to have received retained the School Games gold award for 2022/2023. A huge well done to Mrs Southall for making this happen.
Year 5 Dance Festival-On Tuesday 21st March year 5 went to the Dance Festival at Campus West in Welwyn Garden City. The dance festival contained four different schools, Welwyn St Marys, Temple wood, Oaklands and Harwood Hill. The theme for this year was ‘to infinity and beyond’. The first class to do a dance was A5 who danced …
The Speakers Cup 2023-Speakers Cup 2023 On Friday 10th March at 9am, our school held the Speakers’ Cup competition. Eight children said a speech on multiple topics including: medicines through the ages, football and Florence Nightingale. They were all really interesting but my favourite was Evie’s speech about secondary school. She came first! Francesca spoke about frogs and …
Thinking day-We supported Girlguiding in celebrating Thinking Day on Wednesday 22nd February by inviting all our children who are part of our local Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Cubs, Beavers and Scouts units to wear their Girlguiding or Scouting uniform to school. Thank you to all the children for taking part – they look very smart in their …
£230 raised for the Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal-Bracelet sale “Thank you to everyone who bought a bracelet from us. We had a great time making and selling them. We raised an amazing £230 for the Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal. We thank our parents for helping us to sell the bracelets.” – Alex, Annabelle, Evie and Poppy
Girls Football District Competition – 1st Place-Congratulations to our fantastic girl’s football team for coming 1st in the district. Thank you to Darren & Mr Gauden. “Just to say a big congratulations to all of the girls involved in today’s incredible win! They were fantastic in every game, I was very proud of them. Onwards and upwards to the County!” – …
Table tennis tournament-On Thursday 10th November at Ridgeway Academy the year 4,5 and 6 table tennis team went to a table tennis tournament and we won 29 games out of 32. We got 90 points out of a possible 96 points. We played against Applecroft, Waterside, St John’s and Creswick. We are now through to the county …
Tree Planting-In 2019 we began a project to plant a small wood at the back of the school playing field. Since then, we have planted approximately 500 trees and 700 hedge saplings, all native to English woods and hedges. We have also begun the erection of a dead head, made out of posts recycled from school …
Year 6 Multisports-We had a brilliant time at the multisports and did some really fun activities. The people who participated were Shay, Leo, Ethan S, Ethan R, Jenson, Ruben, Dylan, Memmy, Calum, Daniel H, Nicholas and Jonathan. Our first activity was golf. There was a target in the middle of the field and we had to hit …
Year 3 Multisports- All of year 3 went to an event on Wednesday 28th September 2022 on our school field. The Monk’s Walk Sports Leaders planned and led the activities. We did rugby, hurdles, golf, football, handball, capture the flag, baseball practise, hounds and foxes, stuck in the mud and throwing bean …
“This Girl Can” Golf - Year 6 girls at Mill Green Golf Club.
Years 5 and 6 Cricket - Cricket coaching by Chance to Shine.