Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Polebrook Eco Club launched a brand-new eco initiative

  Tue 17 Jun 2025

  This week, Polebrook Eco Club launched a brand-new eco initiative — setting up a composting wormery!

   

  Eco were fascinated as they learned how worms can help turn food waste into nutrient-rich compost.

   

  With excitement and curiosity, they explored how the wormery works and how it can make a real difference to our environment.

   

  Classroom food waste bins are now being used to collect suitable scraps, which will be fed to the worms regularly. The children are taking an active role in monitoring the process, eager to see how their leftovers can become something useful for the garden.

   

  The project has sparked great enthusiasm, with children looking forward to taking care of the worms and embracing this new eco-challenge.

   

  It’s a small step that’s making a big impact — teaching responsibility, sustainability, and the power of nature’s recyclers!

  

• SW's amazing residential trip

  Mon 16 Jun 2025

  SW class had a fantastic few days away at the Frontier centre last week.

   

  We went climbing and the children were so brave making it all the way to the top!

   

  We did some archery and canoeing - lots of us got very, very wet!

   

  We also did some bushcraft and learnt how to make fires and dens.

   

  The children also learnt that charcoal was very good for the skin and we had some very interesting charcoal facemasks!

   

  The children were great at supporting and encouraging each other, especially when bed making proved to be a lot more challenging than expected.

   

  Staff were treated to some very interesting performances for room inspection time and quite enjoyed waking all the children up on the last day!

   

  Everyone was amazing and we even got a thank you from the chef for being so polite and well mannered.

   

  A huge well done everyone! 😊

  

• Engineering Day at Oundle

  Mon 16 Jun 2025

  Members of MLK were invited to Oundle’s Engineering Day last week.

   

  The activities including programming a robot hand, constructing a bridge with little equipment and even building their own cactus!

   

  It was the first event of its kind and the staff were incredibly helpful and informative.

   

  They also praised Polebrook for their creativity, respect and working collaboratively.

   

  The team couldn’t wait to come back to school to tell us everything they had done!

  

• End of phonics party for Year 1

  Fri 13 Jun 2025

  All the children in KS1 and EYFS have just had the most wonderful party celebrating with the Year 1s who have just completed their phonics screening this week.
  
  It was decided to have an 'Alien' themed party after reading about aliens in their test.👽👽👽👽
  
  An 'alien disco 👽' followed by 'hunt the alien 👽'
  
  Well done Year 1, you have been amazing and to our super staff for organising.

  

• Fun for KS1 at the RLT athetics

  Wed 11 Jun 2025

  Last week, David Attenborough class attended the RLT Athletics event in Corby.

   

  Between the rain clouds, we took part in running races, obstacle courses (including trying to get through a cargo net) and throwing events.

   

  We had a fantastic day and enjoyed each and every session we participated in!

   

  The children were brilliant and cheered each other on.

  

• Bug hunting at Forest School

  Tue 10 Jun 2025

  SW class had an amazing forest school afternoon on Wednesday hunting and classifying bugs to link to our science topic this term.  

   

  It was a tricky job to do it before they all wriggled away but we managed it! 

  

• Year 4 to the Pentecost service

  Mon 09 Jun 2025

  Last week our Year 4 children went to the Oundle Pentecost service with other local schools.

   

  The children were brilliant at showing kindness and respect.

   

  They shared their work and sang beautifully.

   

  Well done Year 4! 

   

   

  

• A crazy colour run for Lifting Children's Hopes Charity

  Thu 05 Jun 2025

  On the final day of term, Polebrook took part in a sponsored Colour Dash in support of LCH Charity – Lifting Children’s Hopes.

   

  It was definitely an event to remember and the sunshine came out for us all to enjoy!

   

  Thank you to all our parents who took part and showered the children (and staff!) in lots of coloured powder.

   

  Everyone had an amazing time and all for a wonderful cause!

  

• A wonderful memorable May Day

  Fri 23 May 2025

  Typical English weather was not on our side yesterday for our May Day celebrations. I think it was the coldest day we have had in a while and parents were wrapped up in coats and blankets (and one even had a hot water bottle!) but at least it stayed dry!

   

  But that did not deter our hardy children in all their beautiful summer outfits from shining.

   

  They entertained us with their singing, remembered all their dances and all had a wonderful time.

   

  Huge thanks must go to our amazing families working behind the scenes with the flower decorations and sound system etc.

   

  Another wonderful memorable May day at Polebrook Primary School

  

• Success at Oundle KidLit Writing Competition 2025

  Thu 22 May 2025

  A huge well done to all our Year 5 and 6 children that entered this year's Oundle KidLit Writing Competition, this years theme was 'The Earth'

   

  The judges said they loved reading every one of the entries and judging was very difficult.

   

  The judges selected a runner up from our Year 5 class and from Year 6 we had two runners up and the overall winner.

   

  Congratulations to our winners.