Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Free Fruit for Kids

  Thu 30 Apr 2026

  Tesco will be offering Free Fruit for Kids in store from 27th April to 31st May 2026 and then will continue the initiative across school holidays for the rest of 2026 (excluding December). The scheme builds on Tesco's commitment to making healthier choices easier for families, encouraging children to enjoy fruit as part of their day while shopping with their parents or carers. By providing access to free fruit beyond term time, Tesco aims to support families during school holidays, when routines change and access to healthy food can be more challenging.

• Tesco Grant - nearing completion

  Wed 29 Apr 2026

  We have been very lucky to have secured a TESCO Stronger Starts grant this year to support the development of Club provision. Our children have been lucky enough to have the extra equipment bought with this grant and had chance to take part in Crochet Club, Girls Football, Junk Modelling Club, Magazine Club, Yoga Club - please see pictures. Yoga has been a particular success with girls in year 4 and 5 taking part in warm ups, Yoga and meditation. Both Boys and girls joined in Crochet Club and found out its not as easy as they thought it was going to be! However we had some success and some children had their own crochet sets brought for Christmas! Girls football have been able to use the new footballs and really improved their skills - the competition was fierce with girls torn between attending two Clubs!

  Junk modelling has been a great success with children really excited about using the new Chompsaws! So popular we had to ask for approval to buy an extra Chompsaw - all the children thought they were so good. Magazine Club has encouraged staff to bring in any copies of old children's magazines they had at home, so as well as the ones purchased through our Tesco grant we now have a back stock of old magazines. 

  We have also purchased games and toys that are being used in Lunch Clubs - from giant Jenga to ball shooting, from wobble boards and fancy walking frames. Card games are going to be used in Lunch Clubs - Uno to Quokka, magnetic tiles to dominoes, classic card games to Dog Man Hot Dog card games.

  This equipment should provide many happy hours of play for our children, both now and in the future. We need to look after it and make sure it is a legacy to hand on to future groups of children. We cannot thank Tesco enough for the grant and support they have given to us. Wea re already thinking about the next project, so we can apply again!

  

• Sweet tubs collection - a thank you for joining in!

  Wed 11 Mar 2026

  A parent has asked today about our contribution towards the community initiative - collecting sweet tubs. It is a whole country initiative so they are still busy sorting out all the tubs but i have found this on their website, saying they will share an update when they can. 

  Thank you to everyone who brought in sweet tubs, hopefully we have made a difference!

   

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• Girls Yoga Club launched!

  Thu 26 Feb 2026

  Sixteen girls and four staff members started our new Yoga Club today! 

  Supported by funding from a Tesco grant, we bought yoga mats to enable all the girls to have a mat. We did a warm up video and then a 20mins yoga, with a short meditation to cool down. Everyone had a great time, we particularly enjoyed the warm up video! We are going to try different yoga videos but come back to the one we started with today, in the last session so we can see if we have proved! 

  Thank you to Tesco Stronger Starts grant! 

  

• Start of our World Book Day Activities

  Thu 26 Feb 2026

  We got off to a flying start on Wednesday 25th Feb, when specially selected children visited Mansfield Library and TGJones. We looked around the library and some children chose a book to take home. It costs nothing to borrow a book from the library!

  We then went to TGJones who had a good display of the £1 World Book Day books. All the children chose theirs and we also got a few for school! 

  World Book Day is Thursday 5th March - we have times when parents can come into school to share a book with their child and also a chance to get involved in a Poetry Performance!

  

• Ruby's Worry - brought to life!

  Wed 11 Feb 2026

  Thanks to Mansfield Palace Theatre and Mish Mash Productions who brough the book Ruby's Worry to life in our very own Sports Hall. Children from Nursery to year 3/4, enjoyed the 40 mins performance through the day on Friday 6th Feb. 

  There was a great deal of excitement as the story unfolded, the children were so excited to see everything unfold. 

  Our heartfelt thanks to both organisations for giving our children this opportunity for free, though funding secured by the Palace Theatre team. We hope they will select our school for future performances. 

  

• Sweet Tub Collection!

  Wed 03 Dec 2025

  Tubs to Pubs, an initiative run by Green King to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, raised £10,916 last year. They collected 240,000 tubs from across the country. Last year we were part of that initiative and starting in January 2026, we will be again. Due to the building works we will not be able to store them all for a big photo finish but every week we will take them to the Oak Tree pub and work in partnership with them again.

   

  For more information - TUB2PUB

   

  The sweet, cracker and biscuit tubs we all buy for Christmas cannot go in your blue recycling bin – so this is an excellent way to improve your recycling rate as well as support Macmillan Cancer Support.

  Save your tubs over the Christmas period and bring them into school when we return in January. Take them to the front office where they will be collected together by the office team – thank you to Mrs Cox and Ms Kelly!

   

  If you have eaten all your chocolate before Christmas then bring your tub into school, Mrs B will store them somewhere until January!

• Local Co-op Supports Our School!

  Thu 06 Nov 2025

  Just before the start of the summer holidays we heard that our local Co-op store had secured funding for our school to support our encouragement and love of reading. We had worked together to make an application to the national pot of money that the Co-op gives to the local community. The Store Manager supported our application and we secured the maximum amount of £250. 

  Every child in school was encourage to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge, through the local library. We welcomed Chris Jones from Inspire, who delivered an assembly to the whole school about the Summer Reading Challenge. Years 2,3 and 4 also walked to Forest Town library too and many joined the library and were given a library card.

  Six of our children took part in the Summer Reading Challenge and brought in their certificates to show us that they had red six books over the holidays and they were given a round of applause in the Special Mentions Assembly.

  We had took a bit of time to purchase their prizes, (sorry about that!), a £10 Book Token each. We hope they enjoy spending their Book Token and choosing their next book to read. Well done. Hopefully more children will join in next year!

• Harvest Festival Donation

  Fri 10 Oct 2025

  Well our Harvest Festival went very well yesterday! Mr Darrington from a local Methodist Church delivered the assembly. He was supported by many children, who read out poems written by other children, some showed the pictures they had drawn and lots of singing took place. 

   

  We had an amazing response from the school community, with lots of food and toiletry items donated. All of this donation is being collected by the Sherwood Forest Food Bank on Monday morning to provide welcome food packages over the next few months to families and people who are in need. 

   

  The Food Bank have already had a donation dropped off in the school's name, so who ever that was - thank you! 

   

  A few School Parliament members helped to pack up the food, ready to be collected on Monday. Team work, all around!

• Year 2 and 4B visit Forest Town Library

  Tue 08 Jul 2025

  We had great time today at Forest Town Library. Thank you to the library that hosted our visit, how lovely were the staff?

  We heard all about the library, the clubs and craft activities that they do plus the Summer Reading Challenge. Some children were able to borrow books, more are getting a library card soon! 

  Thank you to all the parents who came with us today to join in library joy!! We hope you all enjoyed it! 

  The Library is free so make the most of it over the summer! You can go to any library in Nottinghamshire and borrow books, or join in their crafts and clubs. 

  Looking forward to next week's visits now with classes 3S and 3/4A.