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

As part of Year 2's Land Ahoy project they have been learning about the heroine Grace Darling and lighthouses. They designed and made lighthouses ... pictures below are of the early work - watch this space to see the finished lighthouses! - you can see them now - some great work once again from Year 2!

Year 2 also designed posters for the RNLI and sent some copies to them.

The RNLI replied and said: "We weren’t able to do our usual visit this year (fingers crossed we will be back soon) but, meantime, they’ve been very hard at work on some fantastic RNLI posters ... Awesome!"  

Year 2’s half-term project is Land Ahoy and this week the children learnt about Pirates and had a Pirate Day when the school was invaded by a group of swashbuckling Year 2 children … we believe all the teachers survived and no one had to walk the plank!

Great outfits Year 2!

The Stanley Mile Challenge organised by the Friends of Stanley Primary (FOSP) has raised an impressive £2,284 for the school.

Children in all year groups, from Reception to Year 6, including Peartree, were challenged to finish one mile per week during Spring term to complete a half marathon before Easter. The children completed their miles in lots of different ways including scooting, walking, skipping, running, roller-blading and pancake tossing! 

As well as raising money for our school, the FOSP Stanley Mile Challenge also helped to blow away the cobwebs of a difficult year, boost physical and mental health and bring everyone together while we were apart earlier this year!

A big thank you to everyone who took part and special mentions to Ava S (3T) and Eirynn S (5VW) who did an amazing 520 miles over 13 weeks and Cleo A (Maple) who raised a whopping £221. All three are pictured below.

Another fantastic effort from all our Stanley Stars and FOSP!

Year 1 were delighted to have been nominated as ‘Lockdown Heroes’ by Elias Mushrif and his family.
 

This meant that they were rewarded with 15 hot meals from Kingsgate Events and Catering.
 

The meals were delivered and enjoyed by the Year 1 team.
 

Sarah Ringland (Year 1 Leader) said: “We were delighted to have been nominated by Elias and his family for this very generous and wonderful lunch. The award was in recognition of the work we did during lockdown but we think all our children and parents deserve a reward too for the brilliant work they have done during these difficult times. We are so delighted to have the children back in school and they are working very hard … we are very proud of their achievements!”

World Book Day was on 4 March this year when a lot of children were not coming into school so we thought it would be lovely if we could all celebrate World Book Day together at school.

We did celebrate on 4 March at home and in school but we all celebrated together when we had World Book Day Take 2 on Friday 19 March.

We think you can never have too many days celebrating books ... we love them!

We are really looking forward to welcoming everyone back to school on Monday 8 March.

We've made a video that contains some brilliant self portraits done by all the children ... as we could not do our usual Arts Week this is a perfect showcase for our incredible artists. It is something to celebrate the artistic talent of our students and its creation brought us together when we were apart.

We can't wait to see your faces on Monday when we will be "Altogether Now"

CLICK HERE TO GO TO SCHOOL NEWS VIDEOS TO SEE THE VIDEO
 

Art and French lessons combined to create pictures of where you live or a favourite place in France. The pictures then had to be labelled with the colours and /or use French phrases.

Travail fantastique

It's been a colourful time for Pre-School and Reception with many Rainbow themed activities.

There are so many great rainbow pictures and rainbow fruit kebabs and rainbow bread have been made as well as loose parts rainbows with things found at home.

In science experiments the children 'grew' a rainbow and made fizzy rainbows and rainbows using prisms and torches

Well done Early Years for some brilliant colourful creations!