Forest School at Arnos Vale Cemetery
We are offering children the chance to attend Forest School at Arnos Vale Cemetery on Wednesday 25th June (from 9.00 am to 12.00 noon). Dropping off and collection will be at The Spielman Centre (café building) at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bath Road. Members of staff...
Children play real instruments with Bill, the ‘Music Man’
Bill Roberts ('the Music Man'), from Bristol Early Years Music Project, is running regular music sessions at school over the coming weeks. The children have already experimented with real instruments and learnt new songs. Bill has various CDs on sale here (which...
Children work with clay with Louise Block
The children recently worked with artist/designer Louise Block to create faces out of clay. The children experienced rolling, patting, moulding, cutting and 'gluing' the clay using their hands and various utensils. Louise then took their masterpieces away to fire...
Exciting Forest School opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for some children to attend 'Forest School' at Arnos Vale. As this will be a trial, we can only offer places to children who attend Nursery on a Wednesday morning or afternoon session. If the trial works well we will offer further...
Silver Catering Mark awarded to our school meal caterers
We are delighted to announce that our school meal caterers, Eden Foodservice, have been awarded the Silver Food for Life Catering Mark. Eden are the first school meal caterer to set this mark as a minimum standard across all primary schools. Eden understands that...
Well-attended Easter sing-a-longs
Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to our Easter sing-a-longs on Monday morning and Friday afternoon. The children sang the Spring-themed songs (including actions) enthusiastically, especially St Philip's favourite, 'Little Green Frog'. To see the photo...
World Book Day
It is World Book Day in March and we it celebrated it on Wednesday 5th March. We wore our pyjamas and brought a teddy to School. Thank you for your kind donations - we raised approximately £150. Your donations will be sent to buy books in some of Africa’s poorest...
Generous donation received
We would like to express our thanks and appreciation to the Quartet Community Foundation who generously donated £150 towards replacing the bikes that were stolen. We would also like to thank Brian Watts (grandfather of William in Class 3) for organising this. For...
Police van visit
There was great excitement when two Police officers brought their van to Nursery on Wednesday morning. The children were able to explore the van, try on hats and look and listen when the sirens and lights were set off. To see photos from the visit click here.
Our busy Christmas week
This week has been extremely busy at the School. Family and friends joined us on Monday and Friday for our sing-a-longs which included some of the favourite festive songs we have been learning. Thank you to the parents/carers who helped us at our Christmas parties...
Children work with clay with artist/designer Louise Block
The children recently worked with artist/designer Louise Block to create tea light holders out of clay. The children experienced rolling, patting, moulding, cutting and 'gluing' the clay using their hands and various utensils. Louise then took their...
Bikes stolen from Nursery
Sadly, several two-seater bikes (two of which were recently bought with our Sainsburys vouchers) were stolen from our school on Sunday 24th November. The Police have CCTV footage of the bikes being taken and loaded into a van. We would be very grateful if anyone has...