Simmondley Primary School

And just like that the academic year is at an end!!! 22/23 has been an amazing year with more activities than we could mention. We would like to say thank you to all our staff, pupils and Simmondley community for their efforts throughout this year. To Mrs Bruce, we wish you an amazing retirement. To Miss Humphries, Miss Thackery and Mr Small we wish you all the best in your next big adventure. To Mrs Tomlinson (PA Chair) and the wonderful PA team who are moving on this year, thank you for everything you have done for our school over the years. And lastly to our amazing Year 6's, you did us so proud in your last play today. We wish you all the best for high school!! 🥰😍🤩🥳

Wishing all our children and their families a wonderful summer holiday. (Fingers crossed for the warm sunny days) See you all back at school on Wednesday 6th September 2023. ☀️😎
Here are some pictures of work done in the last term, our year 6’s and our goodbyes to some of our staff. 🥸😁😭

Our lovely Elm class made some beautiful flower sun catchers for The Risings Care Home. In turn they invited the children to come and visit them today. They had a lovely time meeting everyone and joining in with their yoga class. 🥰🧘‍♀️🧘

A huge thank you to Mr and Mrs Williams for arranging a visit for our year 6's, by some professional (and rather very tall) basketball players. The children had an amazing engaged experience.🤩🏀⛹️‍♀️⛹️

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Yesterday our Rounder’s Team took part in a competition at Glossopdale School. They only came away with the first place trophy!!! Another trophy to add to our cabinet this year. Well done to the team and to all who took part in the event. We are so proud of all our teams’ achievements this year. 🥳🏆🥇

We are supporting the Young Leaders at Dinting C of E Primary School with this excellent community project. If you have any uniform for donation to the project, please drop them off at the school office. 🤩

Time to Ride! 😎 PA Skoot and Skate Event

On Friday 7th July we will be holding a Summer Skoot and Skate event at school – weather permitting! 🛹🛼

Beech Class took on the challenge to become Sea Life Savers! They entered a competition with Sealife Education. They did an amazing display board for the school and had lots of fantastic ideas on how to save our seas.

We are so pleased to share with you that Beech Class WON the competition with this creative display board. Well done Beech!!

https://twitter.com/SEALIFE_Schools/status/1673744520045903874?s=20

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This year some of our year 1 children have been learning about the influential Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama who at 94 years old has been making art for over 70 years and in that time has earned herself the fond name of "princess of polka dots”!

Yayoi Kusama is bringing her largest-ever immersive environment called You, Me and the Balloons to Manchester. It is an exhibition of her inflatable psychedelic creations (some over 10 ft tall) which you can walk through! 👩‍🎨😯🤩

https://factoryinternational.org/whats-on/yayoi-kusama-you-me-and-the-balloons/

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WOW!! Today was the Simmondley's Got Talent finale. And all we can say is our school is full of many talents. We have thoroughly been entertained with singing, musical performances, hula hooping, gymnastics, yoyo mastery, just to mention a few. Our talented cheer leaders and choir club ended the show with some extra pizazz. Congratulations to all the winners and runner ups. Also a huge well done to everyone who auditioned in the last two weeks, you are all amazing. Lastly a huge Thank You to Mr Smith for all his hard work in making SGT what it is. 🤩😍🥳👩‍🎤💃🕺👯‍♀️🤸‍♀️

Debyshire County Council Holiday Activities. 😎

Ending another great week at school with more sports achievements!! Our Boys Cricket team competed in the High Peak Sports Cricket Final held at Chapel-en-le-frith Cricket Club. Eight schools took part and we are happy to, once again, announce that our team came in third. A fantastic well done to our boy's for all their hard work and once again representing the school so well. 🤩🏆🥉🏏

This week our wonderful girl's Cricket team took part in the High Peak Sports Cricket Final,held at Hayfield Cricket Club. Eight schools took part and we are so happy to announce that our team came way with a second place medal! A huge well done to our girl's for all their efforts and for representing the school so well. 😎🏏🥈🏆

Super Proud Alert!!! Last week our boy’s cricket team took part in the Glossop cricket competition at Dinting cricket club, they placed second out of seven schools. This week our girls also competed and placed second out of eight schools!!! Both teams will be taking part in the High Peak Finals. Then, we ended the week with our cheerleaders taking part in Cheerfest today, they did so well and showed amazing sportsmanship, that they came away with the Spirit Trophy!!! We could not prouder of all our teams and their out of this world achievements. Wishing all our families and our athletes a lovely half term. May the weather be fabulous and have a well-deserved rest. See you back in school for our final half term on Monday 5th June. 🤩🤸‍♀️🏆🏏🥈

The PA Disco is upon us. Tomorrow we get to see all latest dance moves. Can you remember what was all the rage, back in your school disco days? One that springs to mind was the Macarena. 🤩💃🕺

We have been very busy at school today. Some of our year 6's took part in The High Peak School & Sports Partnership Cyclocross Competition. We hosted four other local schools and placed a very nice Second Place overall. Well done to our excellent cyclists!! 🚵‍♀️🚵🥈🏆

Don't forget next week we dance our cares away. Last weekend to wash and iron those special outifts required for a good boogie out. 😎💃🕺🤳

Another short week under our belts. But what a week it has been for our year 6's, they celebrated their fantastic achievements today with a chippy lunch! Now that is how to start a weekend. 😍😋😎

Save The Date! Dust off those dancing shoes and ready the hair gel. It is time to dance the term away. 🥰🤩😎💃🕺

Although it has been a short week, we ended it with some great fun! To celebrate the King's Coronation, our children across school had fun with the King himself and various activities. From reception having an in class street party, to fun at with the History Van, Musical Beasts, fun and games in classes. We hope you all have a fabulous long weekend and look forward to hearing all about what you did this weekend on Tuesday 9th May. 🥳🤩😍🤣

Wishing Mrs Glover the happiest of retirements, after 15years of cleaning in our classes. She will be missed by us all. Happy Retirement Mrs G! 🥰🥳🤩

Today we have danced our way into the long weekend, with another fun filled dance workshop. It has been an action packed week of learning and fun all round. We wish all our Simmondley Families a lovely weekend and look forward to hearing about your adventures on Tuesday. 🥰🥳💃🕺

ROLL UP, ROLL UP. Come and join the PA for a whiz around the playground and a treat to go with it. 😍👩‍🦽🛼🛹

On Wednesday our Reception and year 1's had an exciting time learning all about fire engines and what fire fighters do. Needless to say turning the corner to a full size Fire Engine in the school was met with lots of "Ooooo's and Aaaaaa's" We had some very thrilled children, with one or two claiming their future jobs. 👩‍🚒🧑‍🚒👨‍🚒

What a start to the Summer Term! We all jumped right back in there with our Skipping Event by Dan the Skipping Man. Thank you to all those who have supported the event, your awesome contributions enable us to continue to bring the children these amazing activities. Here are some of our Happy Hoppers in action! 🤩🤾‍♀️🤾🤸🤸‍♂️

We made it through winter and are officially in spring. Hard to believe that we are this far into another fabulous school year! We wish you all a Happy Easter break and we will see you back in, on Monday 17th April. Here are some photos of the marvellous works around school this term. 🥳🤩💖

Today our KS1 took part in a dance workshop, based on the Colour Monster book. The children explored expressing their emotions through movements. They stopped for anger, jumped for happiness and travelled in slow pathways for sadness. Thank you Celeste. 💃🕺🎼 Celeste Chadwick Dance

🚨**Warning More Proud Announcements Incoming**🚨 we would like to share with you all, the amazing achievement of our Touch Rugby Team!!! They won every match and came away the undefeated champions of the day, bringing the Trophy to its new resting place. See if you can spot it when you nip in.🤩🥳🏈🏆

Some FREE family events. 🤩👫

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On World Book day we were very pleased to welcome Johanne Lee, a local poet and author, into school to talk to the children about her poems and creating picture books. Johanne read some of her poetry and all the children listened beautifully and asked some excellent questions. Some of our KS1 children were asked to do a colouring competition and to state what their dream for life was. Today Johanne had the difficult task of picking three winners from the large pile of amazing art work we had. But here they are... our amazing dreamers with their signed copies of Johanne's books and their art work. 😁🤓🥰🎨📔📒📘Johanne Lee Author

Our PA Easter Tea was a huge success! The children did such an amazing job with their Easter bonnets and egg displays, it was very difficult to pick the winners from so much crafty talent. A big thank you to everyone who supported the event and to the wonderful PA volunteers for all their efforts. 🥳🫶🐰🥚👒

We are very proud of a group of year 1 and 2 dancers who took to the stage on Monday evening in the Making Space Dance Festival. After 6 weeks of learning our dance routine, on a Tuesday lunchtime. The children performed with such confidence and with the biggest smiles. They were a pleasure to take and represented our school beautifully. 🤩💃🕺🌟

We would like to thank our incredible Year 6's for their amazing efforts in putting on a Bake Sale to raise funds for Red Nose Day. They worked extremely well together organising the event, took on board what would be needed to run a successful sale and learnt about Natasha's Law. They raised a whooping £205.56. The school also had fun with crazy hair/hat day and raised £259.50. Thank you to everyone who supported this event. We have an amazing community around us. 😍🥳🤡🧁🍰🍮

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