The children had a wonderful afternoon with members of the Royal Canadian Airforce in school, who talked to them about the local Second World War base, Eastmoor, and the Canadian airmen that were stationed there, on the 75th anniversary of the air base. The children were fascinated to hear about the work of the RCAF and...Read More

This week years 2 and 3 have been measuring the force it takes to move objects. We have learnt that force is measured in Newtons, named after one of our favourite scientists Isaac Newton! We worked in groups using force meters to measure the force it took to make different objects move. Many children were surprised at...Read More

Last week we were visited by Alex from Circusology who was gave us a splendid show of all his amazing circus skills, entertaining everybody during morning assembly! Later in the day we all got to take part in a circus skills workshop. In year 2 and 3 we had a go at juggling, plate spinning and...Read More

Years 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 went to the excellent science museum “Magna” and has a great time learning in the fire, earth, water and air zones. We also took part in a “Night and Day” workshop and learnt about the stars, planets and how we get day and night. Here are some photographs of...Read More

It was with much sadness that we said a fond farewell to Mrs Wheeler who has been our School Administrator for over 10 years. She has been a dedicated, hard-working member of our small school team and will be missed. A huge thank you to all those who donated to her leaving gift she received £225 to...Read More

This has to be one of the favourite Sutton on the Forest Traditions-the Eggtravaganza: Egg Decorating; Egg Jarping; Egg Rolling and Egg Throwing. Well done to all our Easter Egg Winners and a big thank-you to those children who won two eggs but very kindly gave their winnings to the runner up- there was a...Read More

As part of our topic on Evolution and Inheritance the upper juniors became fossil hunters for the afternoon. Using very delicate tools (toothpicks!) they had to extract as many fossils from the rocks as possible ( the rocks were biscuits and the fossils were chocolate chips). They then had to use gummy snakes and layers...Read More

Year two and three have been working really hard in their maths lessons this term. They have been practicing their times tables, division skills, addition and subtraction as well as investigating capacity and mass. Many children have also bought in homemade times table games which we have all enjoyed playing in ERIC time. Well done...Read More

Year 2 and 3 have learned lots about light and shadows in our “Bright Sparks” topic this term. One of our favourite experiments we have done is investigating how shadows change. We all managed to make the length of a shadow change by moving the light source closer and further away from different objects. Then...Read More

What a brilliant day!Read More