Gold Medal and Overall Winner for our garden
We are delighted to announce that we were the overall winners in the Bristol in Bloom's School Garden Competition. The judge had the following to say about our garden: "The Commitment of the Head Teacher is reflected in his members of staff; parents are kept up to...
Bristol Post’s ‘win a minibus’ competition
We have entered the Bristol Post's 'win a minibus' competition. The minibus will be won by a group drawn at random from all completed entries. We will need to collect 100 tokens per entry. The more tokens we collect, the more entries we can make and therefore the...
Releasing our butterflies
To fit in with our themes of ‘changes’ and ‘patterns’, the children learnt about the life cycle of the butterfly. The children observed them grow from tiny caterpillars to large caterpillars and change into pupa (chrysallis). At this stage we transferred them to...
Our exciting first adventure to Forest School
On Wednesday 25th June we had our first adventure to Forest School. On arrival the children were able to do butterfly drawings as registration took place. We then had a 'welcome time' of songs and a game, followed by the important head count and 'buddy allocation'....
Photo competition draws high standard of entries
Thank you to all the children, parent/carers and staff who entered this year's photo competition. This year's categories were patterns, colour and light and celebration. We had some amazing entries. This year's photography competition was judged by Dr Shawn...
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...