Time for some scientific fun!

Young and older pupils, joined by their parents, had the school buzzing with scientific fun for British Science Week. Under the theme ‘Time’, teachers invited families to take part in a range of entertaining and educational activities.
Whoops of delight were heard from our Galaxy class as children investigated the chemical reaction between acid and bicarbonate of soda. They also held a competition to see who could make the biggest bubble tower. At the end of a great day, children took home the pots of sunflower seeds they had planted to keep a diary of how plants grow.
In our DSP unit, children learned about lifecycles, studying how humans get older and finding out how eggs transform into larvae which in turn transform into pupae which finally transform into adult butterflies.
Nursery and Reception children observed the lifecycle of a butterfly too, with parents being invited for the great flight-off when the newly hatched butterflies were set free. Reception children also enjoyed a great day out at Leicester Botanic Garden where they explored exotic plants in the hothouse and took a dip in a pond to observe the types of minibeast that lurk beneath the surface.
Year 1 children and their parents took part in a number of activities to celebrate British Science Week:  pupils did a magic flower experiment where they folded flowers on water and watched them open up again on their own; they made cornflour slime to observe what happened when they moved their hands through the slime quickly and slowly; and they used the Funnybones storybook to build a skeleton.
By making a seasons wheel, Year 2 pupils had the opportunity to explore the cyclical nature of how their environment changes with each passing season. This activity invited our budding meteorologists to consider seasonal and daily weather patterns and how the passing seasons affect our daily lives.  
The children In Year 3 examined the lifecycle of a sunflower and set up an observational experiment to monitor the growth of their sunflower over a four-week period. Parents were invited to help children plant their seeds. Pupils then took their plant pots home for the sunflowers to start growing over the holiday and for them to continue their observations.
In Year 4, some wobbly wonderkids made and tested jelly recipes. They learned that jelly sets over time and investigated different methods for preparing jelly that slows down the setting process.
Meanwhile, next door in Year 5, pupils were investigating reversible and irreversible reactions by making a glove inflate from the gas produced by a chemical reaction.
In Year 6, pupils were left in the dark as they experimented with the length of shadows. By moving the light source closer to and farther away from the object, in a fair-test investigation, they observed how the length of the shadow changed.

Click on photo to watch a slideshow of the activities done for Science Week

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Family Event May 2024

70 children and family members attended the mini beast family event. They enjoyed searching for live mini beasts in the forest school, hunting for pictures of mini beasts in the woodland walk, making art and craft mini beasts and litter picking of course! Everyone enjoyed hot dogs and cake afterwards.    

Easter Assembly

Four Year 4 pupils performed a simple but poignant role play of the Easter story and then children from each class presented their Easter messages of Peace, love, serving, care and forgiveness. The children and staff send these messages out to the whole world , especially where there is so much suffering due to war, hunger and sadness.
Click on the links to see the videos.

Easter Assembly 2024 link

Our Easter messages for you

Leicester Wombles Litter in Education

Stokes Wood Primary School won a new litter picking kit which was presented to the children by Geoff Walker in assembly. We will make good use of it.

Ice Skating

It was a really great session. It was just our school with plenty of space and lots of adults to help. All the children improved in front of eyes!! So did the adults! Lots of falling over, lots of laughing and lots of fun!

Rock Steady Christmas Show

5 pupil bands and 1 staff band entertained us all at the end of term. They were all amazing and the there was plenty of audience participation too. Mums and dads were invited to the performance and really enjoyed it.

Christmas Fayre

We held a wonderful family event on Friday 1st December to begin Christmas 2023 at Stokes Wood Primary School. The Year 6 pupils and staff organised games and stalls and raised £484 for school enrichment funds. Children brought in items they had finished with at home for the Year 6 team to sell. As you can see Father Christmas made an early visit and the 2 Pete’s from our Community policing force also joined in the fun.

Open Evening 2023

What an amazing event this was. Thank you to everyone, pupils, staff, governors, families, the police, NHS and anyone else who contributed. There were hundreds of people present on the evening, taking part in the many curriculum and enrichment activities : Diwali dancing, a Song for Peace, an anti-bullying presentation, science, phonics, music, art, maths, table tennis and gymnastics. It certainly showed our school off in a very positive light 😊

Anti-Bullying week

This week was Anti-bullying Week where we were stressing the importance of making a noise about bullying so that if someone is being bullied, a trusted adult or friend can help to sort it out. Don’t suffer bullying in silence… tell someone and STOP bullying happening. KS2 worked with a drama company on the practical application of anti-bullying strategies. Year 5 also took part in some workshops after the excellent performance.

Harvest Festival

The house captains and Y6 school councillors led the assembly in KS2 on the last day of the half term. As you can see the children generously donated food for the local food bank. The assembly emphasised the importance of being thankful for what we have and ensuring that we say thank you frequently. The Y2 councillors and special guests helped Mrs Gadsby with the younger pupils’ assembly.
Thank you to everyone for their contributions.

Energy in Mind - Fuel Poverty

Dean From National Energy Action has been working with children in KS2                                                                                                                                         

The aims of the sessions have been to:

•    Help the children understand the difference between non-renewable energy and renewable energy.

•    To look at how energy is used in different ways.

•    To understand how you can insulate homes to keep warm.

•    To understand the impact of energy use on our environment.

•    Know how to save energy so that they can be kind to the environment.

Family Outdoor Activity Event

Well done to all the families who braved the rain and completed all the activities. They collected loads of litter, despite the fact children litter pick every week!
They all had great fun in the Forest School, building shelters.
Mr Sorby organised a great orienteering course and Mrs Ciftci got soaked organising basketball and other fun games on the playground.
It was well worth it though and everyone enjoyed hot dogs and cake afterwards…. Well deserved. 😊

Family Fun Day

The annual family fun day was, as its title suggests, a great family fun day. I think we had the most families joining us for the picnic on the field this year. We had the usual bouncy castles, Mr Twister the entertainer and circus skills coach, hands-on animals, and in addition this year Rock Steady and their pupil and staff bands entertained us too.
Well done to all those who raised the money to fund it through our sponsored walk.

British Values/DT/6Rs

On Wednesday 7th June 2023, staff and children combined Design Technology ( DT), British Values and the 6Rs in a range of activities. If you have ever designed and made models and machines, cooked recipes for the first time, sewn your own clothes etc, you will know that it can be very hard work, it can be very challenging and frustrating. Often you also need to work with others, ask for advice and certainly be resilient. Therefore, we thought we would all need to use our learning character muscles to be successful in our DT projects. If you ask the Year 6 about making bird boxes, they will tell you this is very true!!
However, when completed, we all felt very proud of our successes.
Mrs Gadsby linked assemblies to the British Values and the 6Rs. We all discussed how the learning character muscles are so important if we are to be successful and they are not just for school, but for all areas of our lives.
We know what British Values are, but we decided that  British Values could be called Everyone’s Values, or just Values, or Stokes Wood Values, or Good Values. We discussed how we use the Values at school and at home and elsewhere and how important they are.
The videos on the British Values tab and 6Rs tab will give you some more information. We also discussed equality later in the week and how everyone should have the opportunity to try and succeed in anything, how we should embrace difference and diversity and demonstrate respect for all.

Family Activity event

6 families enjoyed some time together. They made shelters in the forest school with Mr Laverick, toasted marshmallows with Mrs Furborough and Mrs Wakeling and helped keep the school grounds tidy by litter picking with Miss Stone.

Coronation of King Charles Celebrations

The whole school dressed in red, white and blue or as Kings and Queens and celebrated the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla.