Hurdsfield Primary School and Nursery

Next Friday, we welcome Louise from Classworx School Uniform - Macclesfield with a pop-up stand for PE uniform at school.

We had a fantastic day having Stewart coach us at cricket!
Lots of pupils are now keen to find out about joining Cheshire & Macclesfield Cricket Club! Huge thanks to Stewart Garnett who gave his time today - we really appreciate it!
All key dates like today are shown in our school newsletter, so please check to see of upcoming events and information - more photos will be in the next newsletter! :)

Tomorrow is our special Cricket event at Hurdsfield, where pupils will be having a cricket training session!
Pupils may come to school in PE uniform and trainers for the day to help this run smoothly!

We are so proud of our Y6 Hurdsfield Heroes this week. They have all been focused and resilient in completing their KS2 SATs examinations. We thought that they deserved an ice cream to celebrate completing them all!
Well done to everyone and thank you to Miss Smith and Mrs Wales for keeping everyone calm and relaxed in a difficult week!

Forest School groups are NOT taking place this week.

🙏REQUEST FROM EYFS🙏 if anyone has any used small yoghurt pots please could you bring them in tomorrow for our green fingered EYFS children to use for their ignition day 🌱 please can you make sure the pots are clean and safe to use-thank you

📣REMINDER 📣 Hello! Happy bank holiday everyone! A quick reminder that football club is tomorrow! 3:15pm - 4:15pm. £4 MUST be paid in cash by parents/guardians at the end of the session on pick up.

Also, a reminder that our rounders club is on Thursday, Rounders club is FREE with me, Mr H! Both clubs only available to KS2 children. ⚽️⚾️ Thank you! 😁

Due to the forecast of rain over lunchtime, we have made the difficult decision to cancel our picnic on the field with parents.

Instead, pupils will have a special lunch in the hall and an afternoon assembly before leaving school at normal time.

A video recording of the pupils performing 'The Coronation Song' this afternoon will be shared.

Parents/Carers should come and collect pupils at the normal end of school time: 3:15pm.

We are really looking forward to having our families join us on Friday afternoon for our King's Coronation Celebration!
Gates open at 12pm for parents to come on to the field with their picnics and blankets.
All pupils will be provided with a Coronation Packed Lunch.
Music, games and a special performance of the Coronation song will be performed by pupils.
Let's hope the sun shines for us!
(More details will be sent out via Arbor)

A reminder for our football stars that tomorrow is our first football session...

Good afternoon, we hope you've all had a lovely bank holiday weekend? Unfortunately forest school is cancelled this week on Wednesday for year 2/3 and on Thursday for year 1. All is not lost as there will be other exciting activities planned for both classes.....watch this space! Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow morning😃

Tomorrow is our parents/carers' opportunity to meet our new headteacher, Mr Jervis.
Refreshments will be available in the school hall. For more details, please see your email invitation.

During their afternoon in forest school Year 2/3 were asked to make their own ‘natural’ welcome messages to our new headteacher Mr Jervis. They loved playing out in the sunshine! ☀️

🚨YEAR 2/3 PE🚨 tomorrow year 2/3 will need their PE kits for their afternoon PE lesson. 👟👕🩳

🚨YEAR 1 IGNITION🚨tomorrow year 1 will be heading up to Hurdsfield Hallow for forest school as part of their ignition day. Please make sure you send your child has suitable clothes and footwear to change into for their session🌿🌱🍂🌳

🚨REMINDER🚨 Can all year 5 and 6 swimmers please remember their pyjamas for their water safety swimming lesson this afternoon. Thank you 🌊

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 due to the adverse conditions up In Hurdsfield Hollow-year 3/4’s forest school session has been postponed for this week, so the children do not need their forest school clothes tomorrow 🍂

Year 5 have arrived back safely after a snowy journey home ❄️

Year 5 have set off from Magna and are due back at school at the planned time. The School App will be updated with exact times and changes.

Discovering the elements. What a fabulous day 🌏🌪️🔥💧

A wonderfully interactive workshop making paint and investigating solids, liquids and gases and their reactions when mixed this morning

We have made it safely to Magna after a beautiful journey over the snowy hills. We are now starting our ‘Solids, Liquids and Gases’ workshop before we explore!

🚨REMINDER🚨Tomorrow (Tuesday 14th March) year 5 will be heading to Magna science museum. We will be leaving school at 8.30am so please ensure your child arrives at school between 8-8.15am so we can set off promptly.
To make sure we get the most out of the day we won't be leaving Magna until 3pm and are expecting to be back at school between 4.30-5pm.
We will keep you updated with our journey times as we travel home.
Children are to wear FULL uniform and bring a warm coat with them.

Our Year 5 children fully embraced Hurdsfield Hollow in all its muddy glory this afternoon and were truly at one with Mother Nature! 🍃🍂🌿making mud people, using mallets, moving logs and just enjoying the great outdoors! Thank you to Baxter Bear and Mrs Conoley for braving the elements with them!

REMINDER🚨Year 5 will be going up to forest school tomorrow (Monday 13th) as part of their ‘Mother Nature Cruel or Kind?’ Enquiry.
As it is ignition day the children can come to school in their forest school clothes ALL DAY 🌿🍂🍃
They will need to wrap up warm and wear old clothes-including thick coats and waterproofs that they don't mind getting muddy.🧣👖🧦🧤
Trainers can be worn inside during the day but old boots or wellies will need to be worn when in the forest.👟🥾

Please make sure you send your children in wrapped up nice and warm today-especially year 1 who will be up in forest school this afternoon! Old, warm clothes would be best. Thank you

🍂🍃Up in Hurdsfield Hollow today Year 1 learnt how to use a mallet.
The children decided that each one of the sticks hammered into the ground was like one of them. “All sticks, just different shapes and sizes - everyone equal”.
Can you Spot the photobomber? 👀

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WORLD BOOK DAY 2023-Stories on Screen 🎬🍿🎥
Today we celebrated World Book Day with a focus on the stories that we love, that have been transformed into movies that we love.
During assembly every class showed off their fabulous costumes and in class we spent time celebrating our favourite stories through some fun, creative activities. 📚📖🐛📖📚

Lucky Year 3/4 were shown some love today by the wonderful Mrs Whittaker, who treated them all to some Valentine’s Day heart shaped treats! What a lucky bunch! 🧡🧡🧡 some of the leftovers made it into the staffroom and they were delicious 😋 thank you Mrs W!

Reception and Nursery have had a wonderful time up in Forest school this afternoon. Tree stump balancing, digging for treasure, mud pies and parachutes! 🍃🍂🍁🪵

What a lovely adventure we have had in the Lake District. A fun filled action packed three days away with memories to last a lifetime. A very special thank you must go to Mr Cartwright and Mr Berrisford for driving our mini buses all that way and to Mrs Moores for all her hard work and organisational skills. Finally big thanks to Miss Pollard for her help in the planning and behind the scenes work to make the trip run so smoothly. We are very lucky to have such a dedicated team of staff at Hurdsfield who go the extra mile! (or 103 in our case to get to Windermere)
Year 4 you have been strong, brave and fearless and have amazed us this week. We are very proud of you all.
We hope you have a lovely restful weekend and catch up on your sleep! See you all Monday for our final week before half term.

Rope course and zip line fun this morning-facing our fears!

Mrs B and Mrs M celebrating a later wake up today! Yesterday’s activities did their job 🙌 breakfast has been had and rooms are now being sorted before our last adventures before we head home!

Another delicious tea, a fun play outside with our torches in the dark, suitcases packed, pyjamas on and story time before bed. It’s been a very busy day-here’s to a good nights sleep before our morning activities 💤😴🤞

This afternoon we’ve been on a scavenger hunt and a windy walk-the views were stunning!

Scrambling part 2 🪨🧗‍♀️

A morning spent scrambling at Humphrey Head. Refuelling with KitKats and hot chocolate 🪨🧗‍♀️☕️

Good Morning from Ghyll Head! Some of our happy campers have been up a while-obviously excited to start the day! Teachers are filling up on caffeine and Mrs Moores has escaped to enjoy the view and 5mins calm before the breakfast fun begins ☕️🍃