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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!
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Saturday 12 July 2025 Stars of the Week- Week ending Friday 11th July Reception- Bonnie
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Thursday 10 July 2025 Visitor from Islamic Centre
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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!
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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.
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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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Tuesday 8 July 2025 Year 3 River trip Year 3 recently visited the River Ver in St. Albans. They were met by 4 volunteers from the Ver River Children's Chalk Streams Project in Verulamium Park. Splitting into groups, the children analysed and enjoyed looking at invertebrates collected from the river to include Cray fish, Blood worms and Bullhead fish.
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Tuesday 8 July 2025 Year 3 Skyswood Bake-off Year 3 enjoyed a wonderful morning of baking last week, producing bakes to be proud of! From sourcing their recipe and ingredients, to designing and evaluating their cupcakes - the whole class were very successful. Well done!
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Sunday 6 July 2025 Summer Fair
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Sunday 6 July 2025 Summer Fair Success! Our Skyswood Summer Fair was as successful as ever, with a fantastic turn out and just a couple of short showers over the course of the afternoon that certainly didn't dampen our spirits. Our children and families enjoyed the class stalls (based on this year's theme of Fabulous Films) along with the Bucking Bronco, Bouncy castle, Tombola, face painting and so much more! A real highlight was the Showtime Circus (linked to the Year 6 film theme of The Greatest Showman). Several children tried out a whole range of new skills and it proved to be a key attraction. The music played, Beatz Dance performed some fabulous routines, and the fun continued long into the evening. A number of children came in fancy dress and congratulations must go to all those who entered the Fabulous Film Cake Competition or the Make a Minion Competition. A big thank you to all of those parents (and children) who helped to set up, run the stalls, and clear up on the Sunday. It was a wonderful day and is always such
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Friday 4 July 2025 From Pit to Porcelain Pottery Exhibition Our Year 6 children would like to offer a warm invite to everybody in our school community for their Pottery exhibition in the school hall. Next Friday (11th July) between 5.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m.
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Friday 4 July 2025 Stars of the week- Week ending Friday 4th July We were delighted this week to have our Stars of the Week certificates for reception up to Year 5 presented by two former Skyswood pupils, Sam and Lexi. We are incredibly proud of these two former students who are in the sixth form at Sandringham and have proudly represented the school as Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl over the course of the year. We are equally proud that another two former Skyswood pupils, Natalie and Eliana, have been made Head Girl and Deputy Head girl for next year. There was not a Year 6 certificate this week as the Year 6 pupils were out at a Dance Festival and a Gaelic Football tournament.
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Friday 4 July 2025 Year 6 - Recycling Machine Dance at Celebration Event Year 6 performed their Recycling Machine Dance at the Hertfordshire School Games Celebration Event which took place at Oaklands College today. The day started with an opening ceremony which included Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, one of Team GB's most decorated sprinters and a triple Commonwealth Games gold medallist. We also watched a performance by a top freestyle footballer.
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Friday 4 July 2025 Nursery Sports Day!
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Friday 4 July 2025 Year 2 Chiltern Open Air Museum! Year 2 Chiltern Air Museum!
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Saturday 28 June 2025 Sun Shines for Skyswood Sports Day The weather was perfect for this year's Sports Day and our children enjoyed a fabulous 'carousel' of activities in the morning, followed by a range of athletics activities and sprint races (including relays) in the afternoon. Everybody gave their absolute best and Dolphin were the overall winners in a really close finish. Falcon accumulated the most points for the carousel activities in the morning, and won the Carousel Trophy, with Dolphin a close second. Lion shone in the afternoon; gaining most points for the races, relays and athletics activities, and Wolf won the Sportsmanship Trophy. The boys relay team defeated the staff team in the relay and there were some fantastic moments throughout the course of the day; including a great finish to the girls' long distance race, where Iris and Catherine came in together. As always, there was a tremendous level of support from parents and a great number of mums and dads who also showed great speed in their respective races. Well done to all
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Friday 20 June 2025 Year 1 Inter School Sports Competition 20th June 2025
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Thursday 19 June 2025 Year 2's Microhabitat Pictograms! Our summer term science lessons have begun with lots of outdoor learning! We've been exploring microhabitats and the minibeasts that live in them. We visited two areas of the school: the environmental area and the stick area and observed what we could find. The children completed tally charts to record how many minibeasts they spotted in each microhabitat and luckily, they're already tally chart experts thanks to our current maths unit on statistics!
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Thursday 19 June 2025 Nadia Finer Author Visit The school enjoyed a special visit from the author Nadia Finer in today's assembly (Thursday 19th June). Nadia is on a softly spoken mission to support shy people (as she was extremely shy when she was at school, and in adulthood). Her wonderful book, Quiet Riot, showcases the stories of many famous people who happened to also be very shy... and there were a few surprises! Beyonce, Lionel Messi, Albert Einstein and Ed Sheeran all overcame their shyness to achieve great success in their fields. The children thoroughly enjoyed the assembly, listened carefully and asked some thoughtful questions. Many of the children have also bought signed copies of Nadia's book!
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Thursday 19 June 2025 Skyswood win District Sports Athletics Championship Our Skyswood athletics team can be truly proud of themselves after winning the District Sports Athletics Championship at Westminster Lodge. The girls' team also won the Girls' Trophy in an exciting finish where only two points separated the top three teams.
