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• Wednesday 13 November 2024 Final Harvest of 2024 One of our final allotment gatherings before the winter has resulted in a very impressive leek....even if we do say so ourselves. Tiny the tortoise (our school pet) enjoyed the carrots. The children can't wait to get planting next year.
• Wednesday 13 November 2024 Remembrance Day in Reception Reception have had a very busy day learning about Remembrance Day and why we wear poppies. Every child helped to create a special fingerprint picture of Flanders Fields and joined the rest of the school in a 2 minute silence at 11am. We are so proud of you all! Blakeley will remember them.
• Sunday 10 November 2024 Lest We Forget We will remember them.Thank you to Lillie who volunteered to represent Blakeley at St Benedict's Remembrance Service today. It was lovely to see so many parents and pupils from Blakeley showing their respects.
• Sunday 10 November 2024 Improved Attendance
• Friday 8 November 2024 Yr 3 Residential- Stone Age Over 50 Yr 3 pupils enjoyed a two day residential to Laches Wood for a Flint and Fire session. The children participated in numerous activities including a caveman workshop, cave painting, spear throwing, fire making and jewellery making. In the evening, they sang songs around the campfire.
• Thursday 31 October 2024 New Applications for Reception Sept 2025 Applications open on 1st November for Reception 2025.
• Thursday 24 October 2024 PTA Disco Success Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and staff who helped with the school discos this evening. The children had a wonderful time dancing, eating sweets, playing with glow sticks and getting tattoos. We raised lots of the money for the school. This money will be used to help fund the cost of coaches for school trip or for new equipment.
• Tuesday 22 October 2024 Yr 6 DT project Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed making cottage pies today. They practised the skills of following a recipe, peeling, chopping, grating, measuring and mixing. Their final dishes were delicious.
• Tuesday 22 October 2024 Yr 5 Parent Session Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Year 5 parent workshop this morning! Children spoke wonderfully about their learning from this term and then everyone took part in the rocket mice experiment
• Monday 21 October 2024 Reading Ambassadors Our Blakeley Reading Ambassadors have taken part in training today, where they have shared and discussed various ways to further promote a love of reading across school. Sarah Luty, English advisor for Staffordshire said that Blakeley was the best school she had worked with. She was so impressed by our pupils and their enthusiasm for reading. Thank you to Miss Gilbert for organising this event.
• Monday 21 October 2024 Yr 3 DT As part of Year 3s Tribal Tales topic, the children have evaluated existing products, designed, made and evaluated their own Stone Age box for an arrow head. The children demonstrated lots of perseverance and resilience with their DT project today! Well done Year 3!
• Monday 21 October 2024 School photos- Thurs 24th Oct We have our school photographer in on Thursday. If you have a child who does not attend Blakeley and wish to have them in a photo with their siblings, you may bring them to the hall from 8.15am- 9am. All other sibling photos (nursery to Yr 6) will take place during the school day. Can all children please wear their school uniform (no PE kits).
• Wednesday 16 October 2024 Tiny the Tortoise At lunchtime, some children look after Tiny, our school tortoise. They feed him, bath him and give him some exercise. Today, they set up an assault course for him. He loved it!
• Thursday 10 October 2024 Yr 4 Roman Day 2024 Year 4 have had a brilliant day today pretending to be Romans. This morning we created our own scutums (shields). Then this afternoon, we practised being centurions, marching and defending our armies. Well done year 4.
• Tuesday 8 October 2024 Autumn Disco
• Tuesday 8 October 2024 Yr 5 trip to Cosford
• Tuesday 8 October 2024 Yr 1 trip to Hoo Farm
• Thursday 3 October 2024 Yr 5 & 6 Cross Country Competition A big well done to all of our Year 5 & 6 Cross Country runners at Westfield tonight! Team results will be in soon.
• Wednesday 2 October 2024 PTA Autumn Events
• Tuesday 1 October 2024 PTA Meeting and AGM
• Thursday 26 September 2024 KS1 Board Games club At Blakeley, we pride ourselves with providing our pupils with a range of extra curriculum activities, most of which are free of charge. Tonight, the KS1 board games club had a super time, learning some new games.
• Thursday 26 September 2024 Wombourne Music Festival Today, over 70 children from Blakeley Heath performed at Wombourne Music Festival at St Benedict's church. They sang a range of songs; played recorders and glockenspiels; and used sign language with songs. We are incredibly proud of our talented children and delighted that were the largest school group for the festival. Many thanks to our staff who work so hard to teach and rehearse with our superstars.
• Wednesday 25 September 2024 First PTA meeting for this term Come and join us for our first PTA meeting at the Waggon and Horses next Tues at 7pm. We are always looking for new members and new ideas. At this meeting will discuss all the exciting events we intend to hold for our children. We can't do it without your help and support.
• Wednesday 25 September 2024 Little People, Big Dreams At Blakeley, we reinforce the importance of having a purpose and an audience with our writing. Year 5 have been working hard to create their own ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ books based on British Astronaut, Tim Peake.
• Tuesday 17 September 2024 Harvest 2024 For harvest this year, we are collecting tins to donate to Wombourne Food Bank. We will be celebrating on Mon 23rd Sept with Paul Wilmott during the whole school assembly.If you are able to donate, please send tins to the office.
• Friday 13 September 2024 Attendance Target Reached!
• Sunday 8 September 2024 First week back
• Thursday 5 September 2024 Our new nursery Time to think about nursery or reception for your little one? Come and visit our new Early Years settings. We would love to show you around.
• Thursday 5 September 2024 Our First Harvest Our allotment club were super excited for their first harvest this autumn. What a great start to the term.
• Saturday 20 July 2024 Allotment success! We are very excited that some of our allotment produce is ready! Although we are very scared to trust Miss Richards over the summer as we have heard of her reputation when it comes to plants!

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