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Please scroll through and look at all the amazing enrichment opportunities the children have at Lady Bay Primary School.
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Growing together – OPAL
Mon 24 Nov 2025Although it has been very cold this week, it has been lovely to have a full week of OPAL without any interruptions. All the leadership roles are up and running and it has been great ot see the librarians and litter pickers hard at work. I have included a picture of the set up on the upper school playground this week. I just wanted to thank Mr. Dearnley for all he does and the children who support him getting everything ready for OPAL. It runs really smoothly because of their hard work. There is loads that needs setting up on the lower school playground too and their hard work does not go unnoticed.
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Be Ready – Year 4 work on circuits
Mon 24 Nov 2025The children in year 4 have been busy working out how to create circuits in science this week. They have been learning about electricity and electrical safety and how to create a circuit. They learnt the different symbols and how to draw a circuit then created this using the correct equipment. It took a bit of trial and error but they all managed to get the lamp working. They will be using this knowledge to complete their D and T projects at Christmas – exciting. Well done year 4
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Be Safe and Caring for each other – Year 4 and Foundation Bright time
Thu 20 Nov 2025This week, the children in Year 4 took part in their ‘Bright time’. All the children became mini-first aiders and learnt the skills needed to save someone’s life. They learnt about DR ABC and how to resuscitate someone. Although it is not part of the curriculum, we have made it part of our bespoke offering as we believe it so important that we teach this to our children as they may need to save a life one day. We also introduce it to the children in foundation as a starting point on how to keep safe and what to do in an emergency which also makes part of their ‘Bright time’. A fantastic day and a really important one too.
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Be Ready – year 5 visitors from the Holocaust centre
Thu 20 Nov 2025To support their learning about World War 2, we welcomed visitors from the National Holocaust centre this week. The children in year 5 learnt about the Kindertransport and how Jewish people were treated in Nazi Germany. They listened to different stories about what happened to different people and also heard some survivor stories too. The work also reinforced their understanding of what discrimination is and tired to get them to reflect on what it must have been like to life during that period of time. A really thought-provoking day and one that truly enriches their topic work.
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Be Ready – Year 1 topic work
Thu 20 Nov 2025To enrich this half term’s topic work on toys, we were delighted to invite some of our grandparents in to talk to the children about toys they played with when they were the same age. Leah and Maeve’s Grandmas talked to the children about the different toys they had and showed them some too. The children enjoyed looking at the toys and had the chance to handle the toys carefully. The children learnt lots of interesting facts. Thanks to Leah and Maeve’s grandmas for giving up their time.
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Growing together – Remembrance Day
Thu 20 Nov 2025Thank you again for supporting us with raising money for Remembrance Day. We have talked to the children this week about their understanding of Remembrance Day and why it is important that we think about those that lost their lives for our country. As Roxanne in year 5 stated, “They gave their tomorrow for our today”. We all took part in a 2-minute silence on Tuesday to think about what we had learnt and why the day was important.
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Be Ready – year 6 dodgeball festival
Thu 20 Nov 2025Well done to all the children who attended the dodgeball festival this week – a great time was had by all. The children played matches against 4 other primary school. They were competitive and gained so much experience about tactical play. Ms Davie said it was so lovely to see the teams thank each other at the end of the game. Great teamwork and great respect shown.
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Be Kind – Assembly this week
Thu 20 Nov 2025In our assembly this week, we talked to the children about Anti-Bullying week. We asked the children to unpick what bullying is and how they would describe it. We talked about the Anti-bullying alliance and their definition having 4 aspects – hurtful, intentional, repetitive and an imbalance of power. We explored each of these and what this might look like in a school. We also talked about a few different scenarios and whether we would describe them as bullying. It was a really interesting assembly and sparked a lot of discussion. We finished by talking about how we can use our ‘Power for Good’ in school. A really thought-provoking assembly.
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Growing together – Remembrance Day and poppy selling
Mon 10 Nov 2025Thank you to the children in year 6 who helped to sell poppies this week. 22 year 6 children gave up their time and we really appreciate their efforts. We haven’t yet sent the donation boxes back as we will still be selling them on Monday before the 11th November. We will be talking to the children about Remembrance Day next week and the whole school will be taking part in a 2-minute silence on Tuesday.
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Growing together – OPAL
Mon 10 Nov 2025We are really looking forward to having the full playground back for OPAL on Monday. It has been a challenge with the reduced space but all the children have managed really well.
Our players have now begun their roles in school. We have 15 or 16 children who are acting as play leaders every day. The play leaders have set roles including supporting on the sports zone and scooter area, setting up and running the game of the day, acting as play buddies for the younger children and ticking off the dinner register. They are already making a positive contribution to school life. The librarians and litter pickers will also start their roles next week too. These roles, alongside our Young Interpreters, Eco and school council representatives, behaviour and curriculum leaders, Spanish ambassadors and digital leaders, make up our comprehensive children’s leadership opportunities. This week’s pictures show a birthday cake being made in the mud kitchen for Olive’s birthday and our play leaders playing ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ with some of the younger children.
