This week, the year 3 and 4 children stepped back in time to experience life as Stone Age hunter-gatherers on an exciting foraging walk around Rode. Armed with pots and bags and their curiosity, the children explored the local area in search of wild fruits and...
On Thursday 24th April, Elmer Class were lucky enough to have a visit from three nurses who taught us about first aid! We learnt how to call 999, how to use compresses, bandages and slings for cuts, burns and broken bones and how to put...
Thank you to Mr Searle and his fabulous team of helpers who turned out on Saturday 4th February to help plant lots of tress and hedging around the Rode wild garden. Raised beds were built, seating was painted and there was lots of digging. Thank...
Children’s Mental Health Week 2023 took place from 6-12 February 2023. This year’s theme is Let’s Connect. As part of Children's Mental Health week all classes across the federation have taken part in activities linked with making connections. We have talked about how important making connections...
Ann and Amy from the Dogs for Health charity came to visit Gruffalo Class on Thursday 9th Feb, so we could give them the donations of toys and food we collected in our reverse advent calendar. They bought Pepper and Molly with them, Molly is...
We were able to hold our first school council meeting on Friday and it was wonderful to be able to invite our Gruffalo and Elmer councillors over to Rode. We had a good first meeting where we talked about improvements we would like to make...