Cheam Fields Win Sutton in Bloom Competition

Congratulations to Cheam Fields for winning the Sutton in Bloom Competition. this is great recognition for the all the children involved. They’ve loved planting & maintaining their amazing school garden. Imaginative design, with some beautiful plants & shrubs. Lots of upcycling too!

Held in the sunny gardens of 10 Downing Street, two teachers from Cheam Common Junior Academy , Mrs Shirley, Year 3 Leader and Lead Teacher for Technology for Learning at the Trust and Sam Hart, Special Needs Co-ordinator, were amongst just 20 teachers and school staff members from across the country invited to the event. Boris Johnson spoke to each teacher individually about their experiences teaching during the pandemic and thanked them for their incredible work supporting children through this challenging period.

The Prime Minister was keen to hear about LEO Academy Trust’s innovative Google Chromebook programme, which involves providing personal Google Chromebooks to every KS2 child to help pupils develop their digital skills.

To support families in need during the pandemic, the Trust offered an additional 1,000 devices to pupils who did not have access to a laptop or tablet at home. This free digital access ensured a smooth transition to remote education and enabled all children to continue learning with their teachers via live and pre-recorded lessons during lockdown.

The Chromebook programme particularly supported pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), who have struggled more than most with the uncertainty and shifts in routine caused by Covid-19. The accessibility features in the Chromebooks supported pupils with learning challenges to still engage and enjoy the learning experience from home. As a result, LEO Academy Trust saw 100 per cent pupil engagement with its online lessons during the January lockdown.

At the reception, Boris Johnson said, “This is just a chance for us to say a small thank you to some of the teachers and people involved in education who have made a huge difference in education. It’s been so unfair on the whole country, but it’s been particularly unfair on young kids, on pupils, students who’ve had their education interrupted because we’ve had to protect the vulnerable from Covid and the sacrifice has been absolutely enormous. Yet the teachers of this country, everybody involved in education has risen to it.”

Mrs Shirley said, “It was wonderful to be invited to the reception at Number Ten alongside my fellow teachers from across the country, and hear the kind words of thanks and appreciation from the Prime Minister. Ultimately, we’re all here to support children and equip them with the skills to thrive in life, a mission that has never been more important than now during the pandemic. Meeting with like minded teachers and sharing stories of everyone’s experiences during Covid-19 made it a very special day.”

Despite restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, local pupils who were due to visit China this year have instead been able to enjoy an amazing ‘virtual trip’ to China.

Primary-aged pupils, who attend schools that are part of LEO Academy Trust, have been taking part in a revolutionary approach to modern foreign languages. Back in 2018, Year 4 children began learning Mandarin with lessons taught online by a specialised language teacher in Beijing, well before the idea of ‘live remote lessons’ became part of a standard school day.

Over the last two years, these pupils have learnt many Mandarin phrases, including greetings, numbers, countries, food items and how to talk about their families and hobbies.

The programme goes well beyond learning the language. LEO schools hosted more than 200 children from four different sister schools in China between 2018 and 2019, and LEO pupils were due to visit China in May this year to give them the chance to practice their Mandarin vocabulary and immerse themselves in the Chinese culture. The trip would have provided 60 disadvantaged Year 6 pupils with a fully funded place on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure, as well as further places for non-disadvantaged pupils.

However, due to Covid-19 and travel restrictions, the Trust was forced to rethink the plan. Undeterred, they arranged to hold a virtual week in China from the safety of the classroom. This exciting endeavour took place from 24th to 28th May.

Throughout their virtual week in the city of Chengdu, pupils toured the sister schools and practised their Mandarin by speaking with the children there. They also visited local landmarks, learned about the history of Chengdu and took part in a series of cultural activities. These included Chinese calligraphy, cooking, Kung Fu and celebrations for the Chinese New Year.

Alongside the pupils learning Mandarin, the Trust also formed strong partnerships with the sister schools and LEO Leaders visited China in 2019 to build links and better understand how to support children’s learning of Mandarin back in school. Now, leaders and teachers regularly work with their counterparts to learn more about how they teach foreign languages and how to further develop their practice.

Mr Ansell, Mandarin Language Lead, LEO Academy Trust, said:

“We believe learning languages is very important for our pupils, giving them the physical ability to communicate with many more people and the wider understanding of culture and place. Our approach to teaching Mandarin is revolutionary and we are pleased to see how successful it has been over the last two years. Our leaders are benefiting from fantastic partnerships with Chinese schools and our pupils’ vocabulary is growing every week thanks to our wonderful teacher in Beijing. I was disappointed that our children didn’t have the opportunity to visit China this year, but thanks to our brilliant team both here and in China, we were able to provide them with the next best thing! They learned so much during their virtual trip and loved finding out more about the Chinese culture.”

Mr Hedger, CEO of LEO Academy Trust, said:

“The Mandarin programme is part of our modern foreign languages strategy and has been a huge success and our pupils are thriving. While it was disappointing that our pupils could not physically visit China this year, the series of events organised by Mr Ansell and the team were amazing and our pupils loved becoming immersed in the Chengdu lifestyle.”

The Worshipful Company of Educators are a group who provide a forum to bring together members from all parts of the education world to discuss and exchange views on matters of topical interest. The company has established Special Interest Groups to provide a way for members to share an area of expertise and interest, to learn more about an area they are unfamiliar with and to give opportunities for a topic of particular concern to a group of members to be explored in greater detail. The Special Educational Needs and Disability group recently invited LEO Academy Trust to give a talk on 'Assistive Technology' to demonstrate how using tools from Texthelp and Google for Education has helped our children grow in confidence, empowering them to take ownership of their own learning.

Staff across LEO Academies have been working with London Grid for Learning to develop a bank of literacy and computing resources using Picoh, a physical robot head that can be coded to undertake many different tasks. The children have built on their knowledge of Scratch to code their Picoh's and bring their coding skills to life. They have used sequencing to make two Picoh's talk, events to control Picoh's ability to move, speak and show emotion and variables to count down. During the pilot, the children have been thoroughly engaged and have given some great feedback about how robots like Picoh have given their computing lessons a real purpose. Listen to Ryan's explanation of the Picoh in his own words here and discover how he coded the Picoh here.

The summer term has proved to be another busy one for @LEOTraining5! Staff across the Trust have taken part in a range of external and internal training programmes and CPD sessions and thus further enhancing teaching and learning across all schools within the Trust.

During the summer term, Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) from across the Trust have taken part in several training sessions to further develop and hone their own skills. Thank you to Mrs Dallimore, Associate Principal of Wellbeing and Safeguarding for leading an interesting session on Adaptive Teaching for our NQTs. NQTs explored barriers to learning that individual children may face and how to support, encourage and scaffold the input, activity and resources to ensure the learning is accessible to all. During the session ‘Making Effective use of Assessment’, led by Mrs Carlile, Director of Training and Professional Development, NQTs explored the purpose of assessment as well as exploring key strategies to use in their own classroom including effective questioning and feedback and how to check for understanding. NQTs also took part in a session titled 'Being a Learning Professional', also led by Mrs Carlile, where they explored the following areas: creating positive relationships with staff, building effective relationships with parents & carers and working effectively with additional adults.

The summer term also saw the continuation of our LEO Recently Qualified Teacher (RQT) programme, led by Miss Briggs, Director of Extended Partnerships. This term our RQTs enjoyed attending the final session of the programme which focused on assessment and reporting. During the session, RQTs explored the following areas: Assessment for learning, Assessment of learning, The purpose of data, How to monitor data and How to analyse data. Thank you to Miss Briggs for a very informative session!

Our Middle Leaders programme also continued to run successfully and participants enjoyed a bespoke session with Phillippa Ollerhead, an external advisor. During the session, Middle Leaders developed their knowledge and understanding of current guidance from Ofsted and the DFE. They learnt what to expect during an Ofsted inspection and how to interpret the education framework and handbook in order to embrace good practice and support their teams to bring about school improvement. Thank you Phillipa for a great session. Phillipa Ollerhead also ran a session for participants on the LEO School Leaders Development Programme, which focused on leading appraisals and difficult conversations, another great session to further support the cohort in their current roles.

As our LEO training programmes come to a close at the end of this academic year, our course participants have been working hard to deliver presentations focusing on their allocated area of leadership. This year the presentations were carried out virtually and Senior Leaders across the Trust were very impressed with all of the accomplishments that our participants shared within their leadership areas. The LEO NQT programme also came to an end with an evaluation and celebration session where participants had the opportunity to share their positive experiences from their NQT Induction year and also their thoughts on how the programme can be further improved for future cohorts. We thank you all for your continued hard work to support the development of teaching and learning across our Trust.

In addition to our training programmes, we have continued to offer a comprehensive range of standalone training sessions for staff in all our schools this summer term. Sessions have either been run by experienced members of the LEO Central Team or in partnership with outside training providers, who are specialists in their fields. Thank you to all those who have led training sessions this term and to those who have taken part in those sessions. We are now busy planning lots more exciting training and professional development opportunities for 2021-2022!

Don’t forget to read our regular LEO Training and Professional Development newsletter which is emailed to all staff on a fortnightly basis, subscribe to our LEO Youtube Channel and follow us on Twitter at @LEOtraining5 to ensure that you are up to date with all the online training opportunities that are planned for 2021-2022.

Big Arts Week took place form Monday 12th July to Friday 16th July. This year our theme is The Environment and the activities were based on imagery (such as paintings and photography); books (writing and poetry), music and dance.

Imagery

We were very lucky to be able to work with a local artist, Doug Shaw, who is a visual artist working with a range of materials and surfaces – old and new. Mental health, self-care, and speaking truth to power are often reflected in his work. Music matters to him, and he uses vinyl LPs and old sheet music as canvases for his hand cut spray painted stencils, some of which take several days to make. He runs the award winning ‘We Are All Artists’ project, which encourages community engagement through workshops, pop up exhibitions, and a weekly free art drop where he hides a piece of art in his neighbourhood for people to find.

Doug worked with pupils from each school on a nature project involving paint and recycled materials. Click here to see a video clip from one of his lessons.

Books

LEO Academy Trust were excited to be working with the poet and illustrator, Mikey O’Crickey! He prepared an assembly, activities and hosted a poetry competition to win a copy of his book and a personalised illustration. Click here to find out more.

Music

We were really lucky to have Donal O’Neill, an amazing percussionist, teaching percussion in three of our schools. For Big Arts Week, he has recorded a fantastic assembly. Click here to access it. This introduces the children to an array of percussion instruments, including junk percussion, and ideas about how to make them. As the week followed an environmental theme, the children were encouraged to make an instrument from junk which they will then use during the recorded workshop.

Dance

The children took part in Dance Workshops by Lily Webb. Lily has been dancing since she was three years old; she loved it so much that she continued all through school. She recently graduated from ‘The Centre Performing Arts College’ with a Diploma in Theatre Performance and is currently a dance teacher. She loves to share her passion for dance with everyone, so she has created a fantastic workshop to ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ for LEO Academy Trust pupils to learn in school or at home. Click here to access it.

Following their amazing success last season, players, staff and the mascot, Jenny the Giraffe, from Sutton United are busy taking the Vanarama National League Trophy on a tour of local primary schools. The LEO Pupils were especially pleased to meet Jenny the Giraffe! We wish Sutton United all the best next season when they will be playing in League 2, part of the English Football League, for the first time in their 123 year history!

Between Friday 30th April and Tuesday 4th May, LEO Academy Trust schools were among the twenty primary schools across Sutton who took part in the Captain Tom 100 Challenge to raise funds to support Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Charity. As long as they reached the target of 100, the young pupils could do whatever they liked. So they hopped, skipped, walked and ran their way to raising a staggering £28,000!

The fundraising will initially help fund services and equipment which was discussed and agreed upon by children at school council meetings held via Zoom before the event. In recognition for all their hard work during the pandemic, the council chose first and foremost to support staff health and wellbeing. They also wanted to help the Magic Carpet appeal for Casey Ward’s young patients, and then they added a new bladder scanner for Urology to the list, and got to learn about why we have bladders at the same time!

To celebrate this massive achievement, forty pupils – two from each school – gathered on the Open Space in front of St Helier hospital. Collectively they handed over a huge cheque befitting the size of their fundraising to Deputy Chief Nurse Marion Louki, Hazel Gleed of the Women’s and Children’s Division, and Joanna Cooper of Urology who in turn took the opportunity to thank the children for their phenomenal efforts.

Marion Louki said: “Raising £28,000 for our hospitals is an absolutely remarkable amount! On behalf of my colleagues here today and everyone at Epsom and St Helier, we can’t thank the children enough, and all the grown-ups who no doubt gave them a helping hand! They are truly another shining example of our community, and also of the younger generation, coming together to thank and support their local NHS. They are ALL heroes.”

Emerging from post lockdown, through the haze of ‘recovering the curriculum’, identifying ‘gaps’ within children’s lost learning and creating purposeful targeted interventions, the Summer Term seemed for many, to be a frenzied attempt to bring the end of the year to a close and start a fresh, come September. However, across each of our LEO Academy school’s, welcoming the children back to class brought a renewed sense of energy due to a wide range of exciting opportunities within the world of English reading and writing. Behind the scenes, our incredible English leads within each of our LEO schools, had been working behind the scenes to select purposeful and inspiring texts, plan exciting opportunities through our themed days as well as set out a range of extra-curricular activities for children to participate within upon children returning to school at the beginning of the Summer term.

Across the Summer term, LEO English has had fun organising a range of themed events and activities based around children’s reading books to much success. At the end of May, Early Years and Key Stage One celebrated all things Elma, the Colourful Elephant, as part of National Elma Day. With the theme centered around ‘spreading positivity’, children enjoyed dressing up in a variety of colourful ensembles, painting their very own ‘Elma’ masks, playing games which included ‘Pin the Tail on the Elephant’ as well as bringing to life the story of Elma through a range of fun, interactive storytelling activities. Well done to all of our fantastic EYFS and KS1 teachers and a huge thank you to Mrs Wight, Vice Principal at Cheam Park Farm, for helping organise a wonderful experience for all involved.

In Key Stage 2, children from across the LEO Academy schools participated within our very first ‘LEO Spelling Bee’, organised by our Director of English, Mr Perrott. After competing in year group heats within their classes, winning children, who were tested on a range of extremely tricky vocabulary, formed teams and competed in year groups against other children within the LEO Academy Trust. Taking place virtually, the finalists each took part in a series of Kahoot quizzes, having to identify the correct spelling of some truly mind boggling vocabulary! Congratulations to all our children who took part and well done to the winning Year 6 team at Cheam Park Farm, their talent and knowledge was exceptional! LEO Spelling Bee will be back next year bigger and better than ever, so if you are interested, start practising and look out for further information next term!

Together with members of the LEO Art team, the English Leads have also put on a fantastic ‘LEO Big Arts Week’, championing all areas of the arts, whether it be poetry, drama, music and even art itself! Teaming up with local Sutton based author, Mikey O’Crikey, a local poet who attended Cheam Fields Academy, children had fun writing, illustrating and performing their own poems, watching a special assembly featuring the poet himself as well share his work through his exciting books, Recycled Parsnips andCollective Memories. Providing children the opportunity to express their reading and writing in fun, innovative and exciting ways has led to an array of creativity and we are proud of all the hard work from our amazing children.

Continuing to drive LEO Academy Trust’s mission to provide children with a range of inclusive and diverse reading books, texts such as ‘Boy in the Back of the Class’ by Onjali Rauf, ‘Rain Player’ by David Wisniewski and ‘Journeys: the story of migration’ by Dan Lyndon-Cohen has been woven into the curriculum to much success. Children have enjoyed exploring these texts, learning of different cultures and discussing important social issues before producing a variety of writing outcomes. Children also took part in a special Globe Theatre workshop, where they were privileged enough to take part in an interactive retelling of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, as well as question a range of authors virtually as part of LGFL’s Reading Zone Live Author Visit. Looking ahead to the next academic year, we cannot wait to share our brand new text selections, each carefully handpicked to not only compliment the teaching of the wider curriculum but to further enrich and inspire our children.

Finally, a huge well done to all our exceptional children and teachers across each of our LEO schools for all their hard work during their after school activity, the Burnet News Club. Run in collaboration with The Economist, the Burnet News Club is a news platform that aims to provide children with access to issues relevant to them, where they are able to discuss, challenge and debate social issues whilst completing a range of projects to showcase their views. This term, children explored the effects of the pandemic on our environment through the eco-friendly topic, ‘Build Back Greener’ as well as explore the dangers of ‘Cancel Culture’. Each week, children from across our Trust have been fortunate to win weekly challenges and be recognised for their hard work and achievements. During this term, the Burnet News Club also held their annual awards ceremony and are pleased to announce that several children, schools and even teachers were recognised and awarded for their hard work. Congratulations to Cheam Common Junior Academy and Cheam Park Farm Academy for being one of six schools winning the ‘Outstanding School Contribution’ award as well as to Mr Perrott who was awarded the ‘Outstanding Teacher Award 2021’ for his outstanding contributions to running the club both virtually during lockdown and in school.

When LEO English returns in September, we are pleased and excited to continue providing children with a wealth of opportunities celebrating and championing all things reading and writing. In the meantime, children can continue the fun through the Summer Reading Challenge which is taking place at your nearest library! Good luck and enjoy!

During the week beginning Monday 28th June, LEO schools took part Maths Week London. Maths Subject Leaders from across the Trust put together a whole host of activities which were then shared with schools from all over London. The theme for the week was ‘Maths is Everywhere!’ which really illustrated that we can really find Maths in everything that we do and see. We had a tremendous week with so much excellent learning going on throughout all of the LEO schools.

Each pair of year groups had a Maths picture book that all of their learning for the week was based around. This included a variety of Maths lessons and a menu of cross curricular lessons for teachers to choose from.

Nursery and Reception - 'Spinderella'

Year 1 and 2 - 'One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab'

Year 3 and 4 - 'Spaghetti and Meatballs for all'

Year 5 and 6 - 'Tangram Cat'

Alongside the curriculum lessons, there were other activities to enhance the week. A firm favourite at LEO is the 24 Game. Children were able to take part in different levels of the 24 Game which were suitable for all abilities. It began with adding two numbers together to reach the target number and progressed to adding two fractions or using the four operations to reach the target number. The children had great fun competing in their classes and developing their fluency skills.

One of the main highlights of the week was where children took part in the online competition ‘London Rocks’ from Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS). The children loved the competition and enjoyed competing against each other and other schools.

The children were able to take part in a symbols challenge which combined London landmarks and algebra. Children had to work out what the different symbols stood for by using their maths skills. There were 5 levels to choose from which got progressively harder. Well done to everyone who gave it a go!

Thank you to everyone who took part in LEO Maths Week! We hope you enjoyed all of the activities that were planned.

Thank you to our LEO Maths Leads who planned some fantastic activities for not just our LEO children but other children across London who were also able to access the materials.

Count on Us - Finals!

We were very proud of our Count on Us: Primary Maths Challenge teams who competed in the heats for a place in the final.

The children had four rounds:

• Tangrams

• Pentominoes

• The 24 game

• Code breaking

All of our teams worked incredibly well together and showed great determination skills. Everyone worked really hard and the teachers who had trained them up were very impressed indeed. We were very pleased that two teams, Manor Park and Cheam Park Farm, got through to the finals which were held at Church House, Westminster.

The two teams travelled up to Westminster by minibus and competed against other finalists. They competed tremendously well in a superb venue. We were very impressed and proud of their talents!

We have had another excellent mathematical year and we are very much looking forward to what the future holds for Maths at LEO Academy Trust!

On Friday 25th June children from Cheam Common Junior Academy visited Whitehall in Cheam Village to take part in ‘Kids in Museums’ Digital Takeover Day. They explored the house and completed a wildlife trail as well as took part in a workshop to explore how the Biodiversity of the area has changed since the house was built in Tudor times and the reasons for this change. They then moved onto creating some wildlife habitats in Whitehall’s garden. They helped to write social media posts telling people what they have been learning and doing as part of the national 'Kids in Museums Digital Takeover Day'. You can find out more by visiting their website.

Over the past year, Sutton Music Service has been working hard to keep children and young people singing, despite the ongoing challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic. With the return to schools on 8th March came the welcome return of music-making and, in particular, singing.

This term, we are thrilled to be working with one of our National Singing Partners, Friday Afternoons. We will be offering a brand new collaborative singing and signing project delivered by Friday Afternoons Ambassador Charlotte Brosnan and experienced practitioner Dr Paul Whittaker. The joint project will see over 900 Year 5 & 6 pupils from the LEO Academy Trust exploring some of Friday Afternoon’s new songs that have been composed by Russell Hepplewhite with lyrics by Michael Rosen. These songs are designed to fire up children’s imaginations with a healthy dose of fun, humour, playfulness, and heart.

The weekly virtual workshops will take place on Google Meet, allowing the pupils to participate in a Covid-secure way by singing in their class bubbles. We hope to record each class doing a mini-performance during the last workshop that we will then share on our social media platforms to help promote singing in Sutton. This project promises to be an inspiring way to revive singing, and we hope that it will encourage all of our Sutton schools to keep singing!

At long last Summer 2021 has brought the very welcomed reintroduction of inter-school sport. We have been able to continue our very successful partnership with the ECB and Surrey Cricket, bringing the national All Stars and Dynamos cricket programs back to our LEO schools. All Stars Cricket provides a fantastic first experience for all children aged 5-8 years old where they’re guaranteed 8 weeks of jam-packed fun, activity and skills development. The programme is designed to introduce children to the sport, teaching them new skills, helping them make new friends and have a great time doing so. Dynamos Cricket provides a fantastic next step for all those graduating from All Stars Cricket and the perfect introduction for all 8-11 year olds new to the sport!

Our Summer of cricket has also included events put together by Sutton Sports Partnership at Beddington CC with competitions for our Year 4 & 5 Cricket teams. To accompany this LEO Academy Trust has worked with Sutton Cricket Club to provide hardball cricket net sessions and Kwik Cricket matches for our Year 6 teams, to help promote the game of cricket even more within the community.

With pupils being inspired to get out and play football watching our national team this Summer, we have finally seen the return of school football. Cheam Park Farm Primary have hosted a series of brilliant LEO friendly events for our Year 4, 5 and 6 boys and girls football teams. Congratulations to all LEO pupils for taking part in all of the events put on this term, to see our pupils playing sport together with a smile on their faces was a joy to see for all of the LEO sports staff, and we cannot wait for the return of spectators and a more normal sports calendar for the next academic year!

This Term we took part in 'My Money Week', a national activity week that aims to get young people excited and interested in financial matters. At LEO Academy Trust, we celebrated the financial learning our pupils have developed this year, fostered meaningful discussions through a range of activities, all with an aim to further boost the financial capability of our pupils. Our pupils took part in age-appropriate lessons ranging from how to keep our money safe and budgeting, to paying tax and job salaries. We also had some fantastic Money Mascot competition entries and so many wonderful meals budgeted and cooked for under £5 as part of our home learning competition. We are now looking to compile these recipes into a LEO family recipe book for our school community! The planned lessons and activities that were delivered were engaging and purposeful, with fantastic feedback shared from staff and parents. Our pupils are now actively debating money matters and developing their cultural capital and financial literacy skills at all LEO schools. Next year, we are looking to further enhance our Financial Education curriculum by utlising trips, experiences and workshops across the Trust, to further bring money matters to life for our pupils.

Lyfta’s immersive storyworlds provide an ideal basis for planning assemblies that inspire pupils with meaningful discussion around positive values. As part of their series looking at impact in Lyfta global education schools, Brookfield Primary Academy delivered an assembly on perseverance using the storyworlds platform! Click here to read the full article. Meanwhile, Cheam Fields have been using Lyfta to teach values through sport; they even featured in the TES Magazine. Click here to read the full article.

Alongside this, Manor Park's Leanne Milligen spoke to co-CEO or Lyfta Serdar Ferit for the latest episode of Education on Fire's podcast! On here, they discussed nurturing resilience, empathy, and global citizenship through immersive stories! Click here to listen to the podcast.

The Summer finally arrived at Forest School. The children enjoy the freedom of the warmer weather; we have been planting seeds and potatoes and watching them grow. So far, we have had a bumper crop of potatoes, and we hope to get some beetroot, radishes, spinach, raspberries and strawberries this year.

The school ponds have been a hub of activity; we studied the newts and tadpoles for changes the children have experienced holding the newts, which is a favourite activity for most.

At Cheam Fields, we have entered the Sutton Bloom school gardening competition; the children have worked hard planting, watering, weeding as well as the whole school decorating pebbles for the garden. We have build a new den, put up some new bird boxes and bug houses fingers crossed for the judge's results.

The whole of the LEO Academy Trust came together to celebrate Outdoor Classroom Day in May; Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to inspire and celebrate outdoor play and to learn at home or school. We celebrated with a fun day packed full of different activities for the children to enjoy; some of the activities included a Welly Wang tournament, art classes, role-playing and den building, to name but a few. We are all looking forward to the next one.

The majority of our schools have now achieved their level one and level two RHS school gardening awards; well done to all the children for their hard work completing these awards.

We have some exciting news as from September, the children at Manor Park will also get to experience Forest School with a new area been developed over the summer; we are looking forward to meeting you all.

Have a fun summer, and don’t forget to keep exploring outdoors and tweet us (@LEOforestschool) with any pictures of adventures you have been on.