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Please scroll through and look at all the amazing enrichment opportunities the children have at Lady Bay Primary School.

• Growing together – OPA

  Wed 04 Jun 2025

  The OPAL team met this week to discuss all things OPAL and reflect on the successes of the half-term and the next steps for play at Lady Bay. We created a list of games that would be in the games’ zone and we will now have a different game each day. We are still exploring the options for the sand pit. It is quite expensive so we are looking at the best ways to fund it.

   

  This week, the photos were taken by children in year 6. They captured lots of fun play. We have another amazing den form a group of boys and an awesome outfit from the dress-up box.

  

• Caring for the environment – Cake sale

  Wed 04 Jun 2025

  Well done to the Eco Committee and the School Council who joined forces to run the cake sale this week. It was a great success with lots of delicious cakes on sale. Thank you to the parents who donated the cakes and for sending the children in with £1. The committees raised over £400. They all thoroughly enjoyed the morning and it was a great way to raise money for the new planters.

  

• Growing together – All Stars trip to Trent Bridge

  Wed 04 Jun 2025

  What a fantastic personal development opportunity. 30 of the All Stars spent the day at Trent Bridge yesterday and enjoyed watching England vs Zimbabwe. All the children had the opportunity to play on the pitch during lunch which was amazing. Further to this, 16 of the children were able to be flag bearers when the players entered the pitch. The children were on Sky television too. It really is amazing that we are able to offer such unique and inspiring opportunities to our children. Thank you to all the staff and parents who attended and to Ms Hewitt for her ongoing work fostering our relationship with Trent Bridge and All Stars cricket.

  

• Be Ready (Determination) – Year 1 topic work

  Wed 04 Jun 2025

  The children in year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed their topic on castles. They had a really successful trip and have done some super work. They finished the topic making shields. Super effort year 1.

  

• Be Safe – Year 6 cycle training

  Wed 04 Jun 2025

  As part of our Bright offering, we ensure the children in year are offered the opportunity to undertake their cycle proficiency. It is a really important life skill and one that the children really enjoy doing. It is another enrichment item we offer above and beyond the curriculum that makes our curriculum unique.

  

• Growing together (Collaboration) – Lady Bay Arts Trail

  Wed 04 Jun 2025

  We had an amazing weekend with so many parents contributing to a wonder ful event with their donations of cakes and time. 

   

  We had one gentleman an artist - who attended the school 65 years ago comment how lovely it was to come into the school and see it so full of life. So many people came with their stories of attending or their kids attending and love seeing the school full of life. It was fab seeing the kdis search out their hands and themselves on the Musicworks video which I streamed on the TV.

   

  Despite record donations we sold out of cakes on Saturday and put out a call for more for more donations. Many parents baked twice and a record levels. 

  

• Be ready (Determination) – Year 6 Handball festival

  Wed 04 Jun 2025

  A message from Mrs. Davie who took the group to the festival:

  This group were a joy to take to the handball festival! They were novices at the start and handball players by the end competing against teams from other schools. They were even asked to demonstrate how they communicated with each other as a team and encouraged each other! I was very proud of them all

  

• Be Ready (Reflection) – Assembly this week

  Wed 04 Jun 2025

  This week, we talked to the children about Mental Health awareness week. We discussed the children’s understanding of what physical and mental health is and how they are linked. We discussed the idea that everyone has both physical and mental health and the reasons for ensuring both were looked after. We talked about what can impact your mental health and what strategies you can employ to support your mental health. A very important message and an assembly the children were very engaged with.

  

• Be ready – Year 2 Bright Time

  Mon 19 May 2025

  As mentioned previously, we have planned Bright Time for every year. This is to give the children experiences above and beyond the curriculum which help to enhance their personal development. This week, the children in year 2 started their Xylophone lessons. The children will all have ten weeks where they learn to read some music and how to play the instrument. We felt that the learning of and playing of musical instruments is not able to be covered massively within the curriculum and felt adding this would give every child the chance to develop the love of playing an instrument.

  

• Growing together – OPAL

  Mon 19 May 2025

  We would like to say a big thank you for all the donations of the loose parts. The children are really enjoying playing with them and creating dens, beauty salons, obstacle courses and castles. We would also like to say a big thank you to Ellen (Tamsin and Jemima’s mum) who sourced us a canoe this week. We will be holding an OPAL assembly to explain what they children can do with it and will hopefully have it as part of the provision from next week. Exciting!

   

  This week, the photos show a group of girls in year 4 having lots of fun making a den with the pallets and fabulous fun in the mud kitchen. It was nice to see some older children in their too.