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18/09/26

The sunflower competition spread plenty of summer joy last term! Here are the winners with their sunflowers and prizes. 🌻🌻🌞🌞

11/09/26

Matilda had a brilliant time performing in a dance show with her friends at Stage Coach recently - Well done Matilda!

11/09/26

Well done to Raluka in Pine. Lass this week for her incredible swimming achievements. 2 gold medals and a bronze medal in front crawl, back stroke and even butterfly. An impressive achievement!

11/09/26

A HUGE shoutout to Austin in Pine Class this week for completing a scoot, run and bike Triathlon in Brighton. He demonstrated determination and resilience to complete the event and really rose to the challenge! Well done Austin :)

10/09/26

Elder class investigated Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in science this week, exploring how he noticed that birds had adapted their beaks to their environment.

04/09/26

Elder class thoroughly enjoyed their geography learning launch today learning all about life in ‘The Americas’

02/09/26

Pine class had a great first Spanish lesson yesterday introducing ourselves using puppets! 🇪🇸

10/07/26

Elm Class showed their moves in their class party!

03/07/26

Year 1 had a great time running their sprints for Sports Day!

03/07/26

Elm Class enjoyed Sports day and thank parents for all their support.

03/07/26

Year 4 in their hockey workshop earlier this week! Thank you @KingsHillHC for putting on the fantastic sessions.

03/07/26

Year 4 loved the fitness circuit led by @jamesdasaolu. Thank you for visiting our school and giving our children a memorable experience. Video

02/07/26

A huge thank you to Maidstone Warriors for a fantastic basketball workshop this week.

02/07/26

Our year 4, 5 and 6 girls had a brilliant time at the VIAT Girls’ Sports Festival this week.

02/07/26

Year 6 had a wonderful time at PGL!

29/06/26

Year 6 enjoyed their martial Arts session run by Matt Fiddes.

29/06/26

Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their Mixed Martial Arts workshop led by Matt Fiddes. Thank you for the engaging session, the children loved it!

26/06/26

Elm Class have become very knowledgable about pirates and enjoyed reading their facts aloud.

25/06/26

Willow Class loved sharing their writing about our story The Pirates Next Door with the rest of the class. They made sure to use their storyteller voices!

24/06/26

Elder class have worked so hard creating their Kusama inspired sculptures.

19/06/26

Thank you to Miss Scott for arranging a cricket workshop for Year 3 to align with our PE topic this term. It was a brilliant and very sweaty morning!

19/06/26

What a fantastic morning we had at @SSTMaidstone for the VIPS Sports Day Finals. Congratulations to everyone who competed in the various events!

18/06/26

Congratulations to the KS2 boys football team who ended a fine season with an impressive run in the SITC tournament today, finishing runners up! Well done boys!

18/06/26

Well done to the KS2 girls football team who represented the school brilliantly at the SITC tournament on Wednesday. Despite the hot weather, the girls kept going and secured an impressive victory in their final match.

18/06/26

A huge thank you to Dr Crouch from @invictagrammar who delivered a brilliant science workshop to our year six classes about genetics.

Getting ready for school

Starting school means your child will encounter a range of new activities and routines to get used to. Some of these will require them to do things more independently than they have before.

Studies show that the relationship between parents and children is the most important influence on a child’s development, and there’s plenty you can do at home to support this. While your child is with you or another caregiver, you can practise the skills shown in this booklet together.

Some skills may take time to develop, so it is helpful to introduce them gradually into their daily routine.

Our Getting Ready For School booklet is designed to help you and your child prepare for the start of their educational journey. It includes information about what your child should be able to do before they start school and words they should know and be able to use. You will receive a hard copy of this booklet with all your transition information, but you can also find it here.

At the bottom of this page you can find links to a series of videos we have made which reflect parts of the booklet, which you can watch with your child.

Additionally, below, you can find a list of useful links to other information that will help your child get ready for school.

https://eric.org.uk/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people

https://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/kent-family-hub

https://local.kent.gov.uk/kb5/kent/directory/service.page?id=eMN69FEGp5w

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09g447t

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/z6bgnrd

https://storylineonline.net/

https://www.youtube.com/@CosmicKidsYoga

https://www.youtube.com/@GoNoodle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zhhf92p