We now have a fantastic new outdoor learning garden for the children with a log seating area, canopy, planting beds and new steps and fencing.

This impressive new garden is the result of a lot of hard work by a wonderful group of volunteers who worked tirelessly on Saturday 18^th June to turn a piece of “overgrown waste land” into a great new addition to the learning spaces at Stanley.

The project, which was Stanley’s version of The Big Build or Groundforce, was project managed by Tim Jones (one of our Year 1 parents) using his vast knowledge, skill and contacts to source the things that we needed.

Simon Hawley (Headteacher), who was a labourer for the day, said: “The volume of support that we achieved through parents was fantastic and I think everyone involved had a real sense of achievement. I’m sure that there were a few achy muscles on Sunday morning. Seriously though, this sort of project and achievement shows what a wonderful community we have at our school and also what can be achieved if we pull together with a bit of specialist direction!”

Thank you so much Tim and all the volunteers!

Year 2 have had some scooter training and made some seriously scary gargoyles.

Year 6 have been practising Spanish and German in preparation for secondary school.

We said “Hola”,  ¿Cómo te llamas? , and “ Wie heists du? “. We also did a survey of pets and favourite colours! Azul, (blue), blau, blue was most popular!  We compared which languages would help us read in Spanish too! 

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We were tempted to do “We’ll beat you on penalties” in German and “We’ll see you in the final” in Spanish!

Year 6 are having great fun in their last term at Stanley!

Although the usual week away could not go ahead due to Covid the range of events organised are more than making up for this.

A sleepover with a BBQ, silent disco and an outdoor film on the field, on a lovely warm evening, followed by a few hours sleep and a breakfast was great fun.  

Thames Young Mariners at Ham have had regular visits from groups of Year 6 pupils who went out in canoes and tackled obstacle courses and climbing walls on dry land!

More exciting activities are planned before the end of term to say goodbye to a brilliant year group who are off to “Big School” in September

A mysterious object....probably a spaceship....crash landed in the living classroom earlier this week. Year 1 police investigators rushed to the scene, viewed the evidence and came up with some interesting theories. Tom found evidence of a small fire where 'they had cooked a full English breakfast then run off to hide'. Evie suggested that as the aliens would be green they were probably hiding in the trees where they would be camouflaged whilst Nate spotted a plastic object that could have been a parachute that was used when the aliens escaped before the spaceship crash landed.

These creatures are still at large.

Please report any sightings to a member of Year 1.

School Street has a new volunteer! 

Also, Richmond Council are really keen to get your feedback on the School Street – please follow the link below to take part in the survey. All responses will help with deciding the future of the scheme.

Link: https://sustrans.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/richmond-school-streets-perception-survey

Thank you