The Great British Spring Clean

On Friday 21st April the children at Swallowfield Lower School took part in cleaning and litter picking both around our school and in the local area. Along with the rest of the country, we took our litter pickers, gloves and refuse sacks to pick up any litter we could find. Children in Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 were busy collecting litter around our school, while Year 3 and Year 4 walked to the park in Station Road and around the Parklands area. Many thanks to the children and to all the adults involved. We were all showing our commitment to upholding our values!

Community Smiles – The People’s Projects

Swallowfield will be on TV!

Anglia Television (west) are currently offering you the opportunity to vote for community projects to receive additional funding.

One of the projects you may choose is Love Woburn Sands – Community Smiles. The Love Woburn Sands group support lots of the projects at Swallowfield and in the local area. The campaign will be on ITV1 at 6pm this evening and you may see some familiar faces!

Find out more here….

https://www.thepeoplesprojects.org.uk/projects/view/community-smiles-love-woburn-sands-and-area

Science Week

Science Week at Swallowfield is always a big occasion and this week was no exception! A Balloon and Bubbles assembly really started our Science Week off with a bang! Then on Thursday and Friday mornings, the children worked in House teams to solve Science challenges.

Year One challenged the teams to build the best paper aeroplane that would travel the furthest distance. Year Two had the children building Balloon Cars, again testing to see which team would get their car to travel the furthest. In Year Three, the teams were challenged to make a Secret Science Agent Gadget that would help our friend Agent James Boffin be able to see up into a tree house to rescue Agent Squidee. Finally, Year 4 challenged the teams to make Balloon Rockets and race them to see which was the fastest. The teams scored points for their houses and overall winners were announced in assembly.

Foundation:   Woodpeckers

Key Stage 1:    Kingfishers

Key Stage 2:   Woodpeckers

The scores were incredibly close, so we are very happy to have such talented Scientists at Swallowfield!

Each teacher nominated someone that had stood out to them over the 2 days as Science Superstars. The children that were chosen were given certificates in assembly:  Sam Barr, Ben Amexheta, Florence Anstee, Sophia Hardley, Harry Apps, Sam Powell, Isha Gandhi-Patel, Archie Harvard, Mary Barr and Robin Scholfield. Congratulations to our budding Scientists of the future 🙂