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

• Pupil visit to Parliament

  Tue 24 Sep 2024

  Recently three of our Year 6 children were chosen to represent our school as young governors on the annual RLT Trip to Parliament.
  
  They were lucky enough to go to the Houses of Commons and watched a real-life debate with MPs!
  
  In the afternoon, they went to a huge room where Henry VIII used to play tennis, as historians had found a mouldy tennis ball high in the roof (what an amazing fact!).
  
  The children said the tour was really impressive and they felt very important walking round.
  
  They hope to return one day especially if they can write their own laws!

  

• MLK nature walk

  Mon 23 Sep 2024

  MLK were inspired by the methods of Charles Darwin and embarked on a nature walk last week, observing the living things around them – just like Darwin did at his home in Kent, hundreds of years ago.

   

  The children then carefully sketched all they could see in fine detail in their art books ready to continue learning all about the theory of Evolution.

  

• Science Ambassador Day

  Fri 20 Sep 2024

  Two of our Year 6 children were chosen as Science Ambassadors for Polebrook School and attended a challenge day at Kings Cliffe Primary School.

  Here the children could earn tokens for showing collaboration, respect and creativity – all key values in Science. I am so pleased to say that Polebrook earned over 20 tokens throughout the day! We also successfully made a cat flap with working alarm, completed an experiment to show opposite forces and worked together to organise a timeline of important scientific events.

  Our children earned their Science Ambassador badges and received them in Celebration Assembly.

  We cannot wait for you to inspire others and promote Science across our school!

  

• MLK day out in Cambridge

  Fri 20 Sep 2024

  MLK had such a jam-packed day last week looking around two museums!

  They started with the museum of Zoology which brought their evolution learning to life where they saw real specimens from Darwin’s journey on the HMS Beagle and so much more!

  They then made their way to the Fitzwilliam where they looked at artefacts from Ancient Egypt including a real mummy!

  Overall, Polebrook were incredible ambassadors and we are so proud of all the children.

  They had such a wonderful time and can’t wait for our next adventure!

  

• Polebrook School achieve the School Games Gold Mark Award

  Fri 20 Sep 2024
  

• A Monday morning treat for David Attenborough class

  Tue 17 Sep 2024

  David Attenborough class had a fantastic visit from 'Raptorxotics'!

   

  He brought with him a variety of strange and exotic animals which included an African Owl, a Blue Tongue Skink, a Blue Beauty Snake, a Madagascan Hissing Cockroach, a huge Toad and a blind Hedgehog!

   

  The children were wonderful with all of the animals and showed great bravery when giving the snake a stroke!

   

  They were fascinated by the facts that they were told and were able to recall lots of these afterwards.

   

  Mr Sharpe was very impressed with our knowledge of animal groups and thought we lived up to our class's name- Well done DA!

  

• Open visits for prospective parents 2025

  Mon 16 Sep 2024

  No sooner have our new Reception class started, the application page is now open on the North Northants website to apply for a place for September 2025.
  
  We would love to welcome prospective families to visit our school so please contact the office to arrange a tour on either 01832 272319 or polebrookoffice@rltschools.com

   

  Apply for a primary school place | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)

   

  

• The Great Fire of London in DA Class

  Thu 11 Jul 2024

  This week in David Attenborough class we finished our fabulous learning on 'The Great Fire of London'!

  We have all loved this history inspired topic and have found out so much about this famous period. The children (and parents) created the most fantastic houses inspired by the 1666 timber-framed homes as part of a homework project and on Tuesday Angus helped to pack those houses tightly together to create Pudding Lane. It was really exciting and whilst the houses were burning the children sang ‘London’s Burning’. We watched as the flames started at Thomas Farriner's Bakery, before spreading along the street... Luckily Samuel Pepys' house survived (along with his cheese and wine!). What a brilliant day we had!

  

• The magic of Science for our KS2!

  Mon 08 Jul 2024

  On Friday, Year 3, 4 and 5 were treated to an amazing science show as part of the Oundle stem week.
  We were amazed at how static electricity could make an object levitate, how chemical reactions could make containers fly into the air and we learnt about the science behind how aeroplanes fly using a toilet roll!
  We also had a sneaky peek into some magic tricks and how they worked using science.
  It was a wonderful and inspiring morning!

  

• Anglo-Saxon day for SW class

  Wed 03 Jul 2024

  Stevie Wonder class had a fantastic day yesterday when they met Arthur the Anglo-Saxon.

  He taught them battle tactics and they got to hold and explore real weapons.

  They played Anglo-Saxon board games and experienced being archaeologists.  

  The end of the day finished with a Witan which is where they had to make some important decisions to protect their people. Unfortunately, we made some really bad ones and would have ended up fleeing to the marshes while the Vikings invaded!

  It was a great way to bring the children’s learning to life and one we will all remember!