As part of the KS2 ‘Food, Glorious Food ‘ topic, children have been learning about Shrove Tuesday and eating delicious pancakes with a choice of topping. All the children in school had an opportunity to try a pancake. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Kingfishers (Class 3)
Children had a great time at the Autumn disco. Here are some photos of the creative designs for the pumpkin competition. There were some amazing ideas including unicorns,a panda,an owl, beef burger, pirate ship and autumn scenes as well as … Continue reading
Thank you to Chris from the Derbyshire Fire Rescue Service, who visited school on Tuesday 2 October to lead workshops with the whole school about Fire Safety. Woodpeckers watched a demonstration video about fire safety at home and learnt lots … Continue reading
The children had a fantastic time at the Zoolab workshops on Tuesday 9th July. Woodpeckers learnt all about exotic pets and KS2 had a virtual journey through the layers of the rainforest. The children were able to handle and stroke many of … Continue reading
The Kwik Cricket team did an incredible job finishing runners up in the whole tournament. The team won their group winning all three matches, beating Ashover A by 91 runs, Deer Park B by 40 runs and Sharley Park by … Continue reading
As part of the KS2 ‘Rotten Romans’ topic, children developed their Enterprise skills by working in mixed age groups to design, make and evaluate Roman catapults. They went outside to test the catapults for distance, height and accuracy. Here are … Continue reading
Children worked in family groups and rotated round a series of egg-citing Easter workshops, egg-sploring the Easter Story: designing an Easter garden; making unleavened bread; creating Easter crosses and Palm leaves and learning about Easter Week. They enjoyed an Easter … Continue reading
An alternative sport proved to be very successful for our school as we came runners up in the Cluster School water Polo tournament at Queen’s Park Sport and Leisure Centre on Wednesday. The event was organised and run by Qualitas … Continue reading
On a beautiful sunny spring afternoon (Wednesday 20th March), the Stretton Handley team travelled to Grassmoor for their first league match after the winter break. Stretton started very well and within 4 minutes took the lead through a wonderful strike … Continue reading
KS2 ‘Rotten Romans’ – Partake History workshop This term Peregrines and Kingfishers are taking part in an exciting topic ‘Rotten Romans’ – all about life in Britain in Roman times and the impact of the Roman invasions and settlement. Children … Continue reading
INSET Dates (School closed for pupils) Monday 3 June Monday 17 June Monday 22 July Last day of summer term Friday 19 July. Year 6 Leavers’s service at 1.30 pm. Polling Day – school closed Thursday 2 May May Day … Continue reading
On Wednesday 14th November 2018, Stretton Handley CE Primary School took park in the Y5 and Y6 Futsal tournament at Queen’s Park Sport and Leisure Centre in Chesterfield. With a much smaller and heavier ball than a normal football and … Continue reading
On Monday 15th October the Stretton Handley team had their third game of the season and their first away from home. It was a very wet breezy day so the conditions weren’t the best. Stretton kicked off the game and … Continue reading
On Monday 1st October, Stretton Handley started their league campaign in a home match against Tupton. After a thorough warm up led by captain LR the team were ready and it showed, as Stretton took early control in the game, … Continue reading
We are very proud that Stretton Handley Primary has, for the fourth year running been awarded School Games Mark Gold Award! Well done everyone and a special thank you to Mr Cooke for leading our school PE/sport programme and for his work coordinating … Continue reading