Easter Competitions
As part of our Easter celebrations we had two competitions, an Easter Bonnet and Easter Egg Competition.
Do have a look at our wonderful creations.
Junior Music Festival
For those of you who managed to come to the Junior Music Festival this year I am sure you will agree that the children sang beautifully. Songs such as The Wombles, Grandfather's Clock and Football Crazy took the adults right back to their childhood. Thank you to the KS2 children who took part and your grown ups for supporting you.
Children help create borough's largest continuous woodland.
Children from years 5 and 6 got very muddy and cold during a tree planting session at the new Diamond Wood. They joined many other organisations to help create the borough's largest area of continuous woodland. The site, which is close to Nova Hreod School, will be developed into a 60-acre broadleaf woodland to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The Diamond Wood, all of which will be open to the public, will have more than 20,000 trees planted and will connect Shaw Forest Park with Moulden Hill Country Park and Purton Woods.
Peatmoor Celebrate World Cool Milk Day
Peatmoor Primary School welcomed South Swindon MP Robert Buckland to promote the benefits of milk as part of World School Milk Day.
Every pupil in the school received a carton of Cool Milk and took part in an assembly about healthy lifestyles. Headteacher Andrew Henstridge said: "We talked about milk as part of a balanced diet and a healthy alternative to sweet drinks that many children consume nowadays."
Robert added: "Milk is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals for childhood growth, excluding who have a dairy intolerance."
World School Milk Day was launched in year 2000 and is organised by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation
Children in Need
A group of our older children had a great night on Friday. They represented us all at the Children In Need event at the