After School Club

After School Clubs

Please click the link to share videos from our Ks1 and Reception Nativity ‘Prickly Hay’ script by Mary Cliff and Kelly Fort, and eight catchy songs from Kelly Fort. The Prickly Hay story begins with Sam, a hardworking young stable girl, trying to keep the stable clean and the hay fresh for all the animals in her stable – a very smelly job! No one seems to notice her hard work and it’s making Sam feel very insignificant. Her ever-faithful friend, Shrew, tries to keep her spirits up, but Sam is finding it hard to feel important at all.
However, as crowds gather in Bethlehem for the census and the inns fill up, some very special visitors are shown to Sam’s stable. Gradually, as the miraculous events of the night unfold, Sam starts to realise her worth – with a little help from her friend Shrew!

We have signed up for the Young Leaders Award.

Our Young Leaders: Jonathan, Poppy, Orla, Kai, Molly P and Sophie decided to gift our visitors from Richmond Villages Harvest postcards and asked Mrs Neveu to buy flowers.

During the Winter term our Young Leaders: Jonathan, Poppy, Orla, Kai, Molly P and Sophie shared our Charity bags to Matson Redwell Centre with Rev. Jenny.

Home School Values

Biblical links with Vision and Values

Biblical Links with Vision

Science PSQM

What is PSQM?

The Primary Science Quality Mark (PSQM) enables schools across the UK to evaluate, strengthen and celebrate their science provision. We began our year-long journey in March 2022 with the aim of achieving PSQM by March 2023. You can read about our journey below.

Vision and Principles for Science

One of the first things we did as a school was to consider what our vision for science teaching was and the principles behind that vision. This involved lots of discussions with staff and children until we all came to a final agreement which was turned into a poster. This poster is now on display in all of our classrooms.

Meet Our Science Leaders!

Jonathan, Imogen, Sonny, Ellis, Ella and George have all been chosen as our Science Leaders for this year. They are going to help their class teachers to set up and put away science resources; take responsibility for keeping the class ‘Science in the News’ books up to date; take photographs during science lessons for our Science in Our School portfolio; talk to teachers about science in their classes and support any science events we have in school.

Thank you all so much for volunteering to undertake this very important role in school.

School Financial Benchmarking

https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/School?urn=115619

Easter Fun

Living our Vision through Music and Art

Eco Committee

Eco-Committee

Learning and living as children of God

(Ephesians5:1) (You are God’s children whom he loves. Try to be like God)

We serve our community by providing the highest quality education, encouraging understanding of faith and promoting Christian values. All children can express curiosity, explore big questions about our world, share socially and spiritually with freedom to make good choices underpinned by our values. Respect, Friendship, Perseverance, Thankfulness, Trust and Truthfulness. Eco-Schools is a key example of how our school vision permeates through all we do by looking after one another and the world around us. Eco-Schools creates the intrigue of curiosity about how we can help and become more aware of what we do and the impact it has.

In September 2021 Deerhurst and Apperley set up our own Eco-Schools Committee. This committee is made up of 12 children from across the whole school. In Eco-Committee we talk about how we can help make our school more eco-friendly and have created an action plan explaining what we would like to achieve in the acidemic year.

What is Eco-Schools?

They are a charity passionate about engaging young people in environmental education and action. Eco-Schools do this by providing a simple, seven-step framework that guides, empowers and motivates pupils to drive change and improve environmental awareness in their school, local community and beyond.

After completing the seven step process, schools can then apply for Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation, which recognises, rewards and celebrates the environmental achievements of young people.

Eco-Schools was founded in 1994, operates in 70 countries and engages 19.5 million young people globally. This makes Eco-Schools the largest educational programme on the planet.

The Seven Eco-Schools steps are designed to make environmental actions pupil-led. Working through each of the seven steps and achieving Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation is designed to be done in a single academic year. Several of the steps, for example Step 5: Informing and Involving, naturally overlap and this is encouraged – our process is designed to be holistic.

Below, is a brief summary of each step, but further details, examples, criteria and resources can be found on the Eco-Schools website.

Eco-Committee, a group of students and adults responsible for all things Eco-Schools.
Environmental Review, a free-to-download resource which has been designed to review learning environments and provide inspiration to Eco-Committees.
Action Plan, a plan for environmental actions in your school, college or nursery.
Curriculum Links, including environmental issues in your school’s, college’s, or nursery’s learning.
Informing and Involving, including all pupils, staff members and your local community in Eco-Schools work.
Monitoring and Evaluation, measuring the impact of the projects in your Action Plan.
Eco-Code, a rallying call that everyone can get behind!

2023 – 2024

In our committee this year we have; Evelyn, Ethan, Imogen, Rose, Perdi, Zahara, Thomas, Ellis, Sophie, Gretel, Ella, Nancy, George and Alex. They all had to fill in forms to explain why they would like to be on the committee and all put forward great aplications.

Notice Board:

Donation of compost
Donations of seeds and bulbs
Donations of small pots to plant seeds into

Summer Term:

Bulbs planted in lots of different locations around school
Great Big Green week planned
Walking bus to start in Summer 2 and last for 4 weeks.
Fruit, Veg and plant swap with donations from Waitrose
Flower sale

Spring Term:

Prep the flower beds for the flower garden they want.
Bulb and plant donations for their flower beds.
Cake Sale planned and money will be used to help with Great Big Green Week.

Autumn Term:

Eco-Committee have been chosen. They will represent the committe for this year.
Environmental Review completed by the children over a couple of meetings. They have looked assessed the areas we scored well and not so well in.
Action Plan Completed for the rest of the year.

Pictures from this year:

2022 – 2023

In our committee this year we have; Sonny, Gabriel, Ben, Isla, Orla, Alexander, Molly, Este, Ella, Hugo, Flynn and Molly. They all had to fill in forms to explain why they would like to be on the committee and all put forward great aplications.

Notice Board:

Any donations of plant pots, compost, seeds, vegetable plants and other plants would be wonderful.

Summer Term:

Friday 23rd June – Sunflower seed planting at 3pm. Please come and join us to plant some seeds with your children.
Tuesday 20th June – plant, homegrown veg and fruit swap at 3.15pm
W/B: 19th June will be Deerhurst and Apperley Green Week. During this week there will be different activities for the children and parents to join in with.
Every Tuesday in June there will be a walking bus from the village hall at 8.30am
Forest school was made bigger. Class 2 planted wild flower seeds round the borders and created a willow fence round the edge.

Spring Term:

They planned to change the area of forest school and make it larger. They discussed how they would do this.
Seed donations to school for our wild flower boarder around forest school
Eco-Committee have brought lots of new eco awareness books from the money they raised.
Eco-Committee planted the tree which were donated to school.

Autumn Term:

Thursday 24th November – Cake Sale
Meeting – decided on a cake sale to raise money for books, seeds, bulbs and plants for the school
Environmental Review completed by the children over a couple of meetings. They have looked assessed the areas we scored well and not so well in.
Eco-Committee have been chosen. They will represent the committe for this year.
Friday 16th December – Eco-Committe application deadline

Facts, Top Tips and Recipies:

Fact: One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators like bees. Top Tip: Remember to turn the lights off when you’re not in the room. Recipe: https://www.mobkitchen.co.uk/recipes/wintery-leek-and-potato-eggs

Fact: The Sun could provide us with a year’s worth of energy in just one hour (if we could harness it all).
Top Tip: Remember to turn the tap off when you don’t need it.
Recipe: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/bean-enchiladas

Fact: Every year 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans, that’s the equivalent of one rubbish truck every minute.
Top Tip: Don’t waste food as it adds to the amount of CO2 in landfills.
Recipie: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/veggie-shepherds-pie-sweet-potato-mash

Forest School

Forest School

Learning and living as children of God

(Ephesians5:1) (You are God’s children whom he loves. Try to be like God)

We serve our community by providing the highest quality education, encouraging understanding of faith and promoting Christian values. All children can express curiosity, explore big questions, share socially and spiritually with freedom to make good choices underpinned by our values. Respect, Friendship, Perseverance, Thankfulness, Trust and Truthfulness. Forest School is a key example of how our school vision permeates through all we do. Forest school creates the value of awe and wonder, the intrigue of curiosity, exploring big questions through learning and the appreciation of God’s creation.

Forest School originated in Scandinavia and began its journey in the UK in 1993, growing ever since. Forest School involves being outdoors in a natural setting and is child-led, providing opportunities for children to develop holistically.

We are thrilled to have our very own Forest School within the grounds of Deerhurst and Apperley and our aim is to use the outdoor environment to support the children’s learning and enhance their outdoor experiences, so that they can transfer their skills to their indoor learning and everyday life.

The Forest School ethos that we promote and adhere to at Deerhurst and Apperley is based on six key principles. These principles are defined by The Forest School Association as:

It is a long-term process of regular sessions. The cycle of planning, observation, adaptation and review are combined into each session.
It takes place in a woodland or natural environment to support the development of the learner and the natural world.
It aims to promote the holistic development of the children which includes creativity, resilience, independence and confidence.
It offers opportunities for the children to take supported risks appropriate to the environment and to themselves.
Forest School is run by qualified Level 3 Forest School practitioners.
Forest School is learner-centred.