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Monday 15 September 2025 Skyswood Elect School Council for 2025/26 Congratulations to over a hundred children who stood for election in this year's School Council. We are so proud of all of our children, and believe that pupil voice is an essential part of any school's development. The School Council will meet once a month, usually on a Thursday. Their first meeting this year will be this Thursday (18th September) at 1.30 p.m.
Friday 12 September 2025 Welcome to Year 4 Autumn Welcome Letter
Friday 12 September 2025 Stars of the Week- Week ending Friday 12th September Nursery- Theo
Wednesday 10 September 2025 Year 5 - Autumn Welcome Letter Year 5 - welcome letter
Friday 5 September 2025 Stars of the Week- Week ending Friday 5th September
Thursday 4 September 2025 Welcome to Year One
Wednesday 3 September 2025 Welcome to Year 2!
Wednesday 3 September 2025 Welcome to Year 6
Friday 18 July 2025 Year 4 Chocolate Boxes Year 4 DT
Friday 18 July 2025 Stars of the week- Week ending Friday 18th July Reception- Archie
Friday 18 July 2025 'Wicked' Performances in the Wizard of Oz! Congratulations to all of our children in Year 5 & 6, along with a fabulous four from Year 4, who performed superbly over the last two evening at the Sandpit Theatre. The children really brought the Wizard of Oz to life with their animated performances and beautiful singing. The main characters were all amazing, and backed up by an incredible group of munchkins, winged monkeys, guards, mice... and even mushrooms&quest; (Or was it toadstools!)
Wednesday 16 July 2025 Year 2's Whipsnade Poems! Following our fantastic trip to Whipsnade, the children were tasked with creating simile poems to describe the animals they saw. As we have been learning how to use the possessive apostrophe, they were encouraged to include this in their writing, along with interesting adjectives to bring their poems to life!
Tuesday 15 July 2025 Year 2's Day at Whipsnade! Yesterday, we headed off to Whipsnade Zoo for a whole school trip and what fun we had! We saw all sorts of animals as we explored the zoo and ended the day watching the fantastic bird show.
Saturday 12 July 2025 Pottery Club Exhibition Congratulations to all of the children in Pottery Club, who exhibited their work on Friday 11th July. The children have all produced some magnificent pieces; from Raku firings and using clay dug out of the Skyswood grounds, right through to the use of decoration methods on slip-cast pots (using resin resist and Jackson Pollock style spattering!). The children's work also featured slab-based totem pole pots, Henry Moore style sculptures, leaf-resist pots, coil pots, cylindrical trinket boxes and even clay models of bearded dragons!
Saturday 12 July 2025 Stars of the Week- Week ending Friday 11th July Reception- Bonnie
Thursday 10 July 2025 Year 4 Exploring Habitats Year 4 Science - Living Things and their Habitats
Thursday 10 July 2025 Visitor from Islamic Centre
Wednesday 9 July 2025 Year 2 Make Roly Poly Vehicles! This term in DT, the children have been busy creating their very own roly poly vehicles and they've all turned out brilliantly!
Tuesday 8 July 2025 Year 4 Visit from the St Albans Islamic Centre Year 4 welcomed Akhtar from St Albans Islamic Centre to school earlier this week. He gave an insightful talk about the Qur'an as part of this term's unit about the importance of sacred books and how they are used by different religions.
Tuesday 8 July 2025 Year 1 trip to Chiltern Open Air Museum On Thursday 3rd July, Year One had their school trip!

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