The whole school had great fun this afternoon at our annual whole school trip to the pantomime at Woodville Halls.  This year it was Aladdin and the children spent the afternoon enjoying the full experience including the ice cream in the interval.

 

Huge thanks to our TSA for organising the event for us.

A great time was had by the school when the children had the opportunity to watch the England v Iran World Cup match together in the hall. And what a match to enjoy together!

On Tuesday we had a visit from the National Fruit Show. They worked with all the classes and the children had a great informative time. They learnt about the life cycle of an apple tree. The children were national fruit judges and tested a variety of apples and apple products such a crisps and juice which they had made themselves.

Two of the gardening club, Lewis and Harley, help to dig a hole for a new pear tree. We are all looking forward to seeing it grow and tasting its delicious fruit. See if your child can tell them what a mouse ear is on a tree. 

The final report from our Ofsted Inspection in September has arrived and we are delighted to share it.  Please follow the link below to read the full report.

 

Ofsted Inspection September 2022

This week our Key Stage Two pupils visited an archaeological dig happening right here in the village.  They were able to walk around the remains of the excavated Roman villa and handle various artefacts that had been found during the dig.

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games Silver Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year.
 
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
 
Our physical activity and school sport achievements this year include:
whole school participation in the Daily Mile, our Netball team being runners up in the Maidstone Schools' tournament, providing clubs for cricket, tennis, football, athletics, netball and multi-sports and high quality PE being taught by qualified specialist coaches for all children.
 
 

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport.  We are committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school and to try and ensure that all our students have a positive experience and want to try out new activities beyond school too in our community.  We believe in the power of physical activity and school sport as a school and give opportunities to those young people that need it most either as a participant or volunteer.
 
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas linked to the five School Games outcomes and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
 
We look forward to applying once again in 2023!

The forecast for next week looks to be dry so the school is going to climb the mountain without even leaving Trottiscliffe!
The plan is that every child will complete a short lap of a part of the country park which includes a steep incline (as anyone who has visited the country park will be familiar with). Older children will complete more than one lap and between all the children of the school, they will have collectively travelled the distance of the height of Mount Kilimanjaro.
To ensure we have adequate adult supervision for each class, the classes will be completing their challenge on different days. The children will be transported to the start of their route by minibus to avoid having to walk up Taylors Lane, and will be brought back to school once they have completed their lap (or laps).
In class, the children are decorating flags to wave and carry as they go and the TSA have also provided large flags of their African class countries that each class will carry with them.
On your child’s walk day (shown in the calendar section of the website), they can wear t-shirts in the colours of their class flag or they may choose to decorate a plain t-shirt. They should also make sure they have trainers or walking shoes in school on that day to wear. The TSA have also provided face paints in each flag’s colours for children to have applied if they wish. If your child is not allowed to have face paints applied in school, please email the school office before the day of their walk.

As a school we are incredibly lucky to have so many children who know how to behave well, and who are kind and thoughtful to others.  We are always very proud to show visitors around our school and are often complemented by external visitors or, when we are off site, by members of the public on how well-behaved the children from Trottiscliffe are.

 

We have therefore had some Behaviour Ambassador badges made as we wanted to celebrate the children who maintain these high standards of behaviour every single day in their attitude to school and work; their behaviour in the classroom and on the playground; as well as how they treat others both adults and children, showing politeness, kindness and thoughtfulness even when they do not realise it is being noticed.   Today these badges were awarded to the first group of children who have been nominated.

 

We would like to congratulate the following children who received badges today:

• Elanur H
• Charlie S
• Harley A
• Seanna S
• Tia D
• Layla L-F
• Toby L
• Sophia P
• Evan S
• Alfie W

We shall be looking forward to awarding more of these badges later in the year.