Wilf MacLean had a brilliant weekend competing for Ashford Valley Pony Club and he won South Garth Pony Club's tetrathlon for his age group with his amazing pony Sienna. He got 2nd in the riding, best run, best throw and a great PB in the swim.

Tetrathlons are swimming, running, bean bag throwing (next year he'll start air pistol shooting) and showjumping.  Well done Wilf, we are so proud of you!

Finley, Elijah and their family went to Italy during the half term break.

The boys wanted to commemorate and remember the actions of our local war hero Captain John Brunt.  He is buried in Faenza war cemetery. 

Emily has earned her Nature Interest badge, all the work was completed at home, including, talking and drawing about the different seasons and she had to grow a plant. Emily has planted and grown, sunflowers, and MANY vegetables, all of which are doing really well in the garden and she can't wait to eat them!

For her Stage 1 First Aid badge, she had to show how she would help a friend who had a small cut or graze and practice washing hands so she can kill germs.

She has enjoyed working on these badges and has already started on the next ones!

Edan has now completed Stage 1 in his swimming lessons.  He is now starting on Stage 2.  Well done Edan, we are so proud of you.

Charlotte will be doing the Moonlight Walk for Hospice in the Weald on her birthday, 17th June, in memory of her Mummy. 

She is raising money for Hospice in the Weald via JustGiving, and is currently the top fundraiser for the whole event!  Please speak to the school office if you would like details of how you can donate via Charlotte's JustGiving page.  Well done Charlotte, we are so proud of you and can't wait to hear how much you have raised!

George has completed Stage 2 in his swimming lessons.  He has already started Stage 3 and is doing really well. Well done George, we are so proud of you!

Children in Years 3, 4 and 5 thoroughly enjoyed creating canvas art for the King's Coronation. The children had free rein to design their art work and they used a range of materials. They were provided with pictures associated with the King for inspiration. They all worked really hard and their beautiful artwork is now up in the small hall for all of us to enjoy!  Well done  to all the children who were involved.

Pupils from years 5 and 6 took part in a swimming gala at Tonbridge School just before half and returned to school with a huge haul of medals. There were individual golds for Josh and Amelie, a gold for the year 6 girls relay and a silver for Oliver in the backstroke. 

Overall the pupils did incredibly and we finished in third place, netting everyone a bronze medal. You are all awesome!

For working cooperatively and with an excellent application of your knowledge in Maths. Well done to both of you!

For being awesome in our first practice for the leavers assembly songs. You sang your heart out and are certainly front row material! Great job Valentino.

Whilst at Go Ape, you were such encouraging communicators. You were enthusiastic and supportive when cheerleading nervous members of the class. It helped other people to conquer their fears; what wonderful sportsmanship you all displayed. 

For showing her thinking skills in Maths this week, working to translate shapes and solve difficult problems involving coordinates. I'm very impressed Martha, Keep it up!

Emily was knowledgeable when doing Art/DT this week where she designed and completed her weaving task. Emily managed to work independently and focused on the task to ensure that her work was accurate. She was also a great team member for helping those around her. Well done, Emily - keep up the good work.

For being a great communicator. You produce work which is varied, highly artistic and has a flair and style all of its own. Well done! :-)

Archie has been very knowledgeable about the different layers of the rainforests, making an excellent set of notes and producing a careful piece of work.

For being a great communicator and showing his understanding of the different layers of the rainforest in his work.

For being a critical thinker able to think about the work he has done and to improve it with changes - well done Riza! 

For being our class science professor! Wilf is very knowledgeable in all areas of Science and has impressed us this week with his understanding about light sources. 

Being a risk-taker this week. You have worked hard on your writing and I can really see the effort you are putting in. Your handwriting has improved and you are taking greater care when spelling more challenging words.

Well done!

For Improved focus in Maths this term.  You have listened carefully and participated well in our lessons.   A great start to our new term - Keep it up!  

Well done!. 

You have been a risk taker in Maths this week. You have been determined to tell the time. You now can confidently identify quarter past and quarter to. Well done!

For always being a principled and knowledgeable member of the class. You try your best in every area of learning and show your enthusiasm all the time with your attitude in class. You also showed us all how fast you can be in your race yesterday!

For being so knowledgeable about time this week! She has been super speedy with showing the time using her clock and solved some tricky reasoning problems. Superstar!

For being a knowledgeable risk-taker in our Maths and Art lessons this week. You have shown a wonderful understanding of place value by finding one more and one less than a given number and partitioning numbers into tens and ones. You have also created some wonderful drawings focussing on a variety of lines and shadings.     

For displaying a plethora of learner attributes! Some of our pupils showed they were risk takers, some pupils showed caring traits empathising with others, some pupils were reflective on why they found something tricky and communicated how they felt about it afterwards. Well done to everyone!

For being resilient risk takers on Sports Day. You are all determined and principled children who always try their best.

For leading a class project, using many of the skills that we have learned in class this year.  She was very inclusive of others and worked diligently!

For being incredibly knowledgeable in Maths this week, he has worked his socks off and we are all very proud of you Kai.

For being a principled who always perseveres in her learning. Arya always gives her best!

This term Year 2 will be building a greenhouse using 2L plastic bottles.

We need everyone's help to save our seas. Every bottle you recycle will be used in creating a new greenhouse for our school garden.

A collection point will be placed by the gate entrances, please place your clean bottles in there. 

Thank you from all of Year 2.