Priory Common School

We had lots of fun on Friday when we had some very special visitors to Priory Common. A string quintet - Toscana Strings and a professional ballet dancer Laura Tye visited us to perform ‘Monkey Puzzle’ and ‘Wind and the Willows’. Pupils had a wonderful time and learnt a lot about string instruments as well as how music can be used to tell a story. Pupils at Priory Common were truly inspired and I think we have some new budding musicians and dancers amongst us.

This week at school we have been learning about Rememberance Day. We have been busy with various art activities including making poppies, window art and poppy wreaths.

Reminders for the upcoming week.

Monday - the school photographer will be in to take individual school photos. If your child wears PE kit on this day can you ensure that they come in their school uniform.

Monday will also see the start of the children being provided with breakfast (Bagels or vanilla cheerio’s) upon arrival to school.

We are well into the new term now and all the children have settled well and working super hard in all their learning. We started the term off with learning about the Zones Of Regulation which is an approach that helps children recognise their emotions and develop self regulation strategies - the children and adults use this regularly throught the day. Please ask your child to tell you about it!

What an end of term it has been!

We have continued to work really hard, to be resilient learners and make the most of everyday in school.

We have had sports day, sponsored event, a picnic with family and friends and even a theatre production to entertain us all!

We have said hello to lots of our new Reception children, but also some goodbyes to our Year 2's. We will miss you all but we know you are more than ready for your new adventure and are going to thrive in your new schools.

Thank you to everyone for making our last term so spectacular!

Have a lovely summer break and we will see you all for more learning and adventures in September!

We have been nominated for the Milton Keynes Education Awards and are finalists for 3 categories.

Primary school of the year.
Headteacher of the year.
Lifetime achievement award.

A huge thank you to all of our families for your continued support!

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated money, brought raffle tickets and came to our 75 years of the NHS charity picnic this afternoon. It was lovely to see so many people there. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all our dads, grandfathers, pops, uncles and father figures.

This week we had a very special delivery of five duckling eggs. After patiently waiting, three ducklings hatched over night on Thursday. The children were so excited to meet them on Friday morning. During the day, the last two additional ducklings also hatched. We hope some of you managed to get to a glimpse of them at home time.

Last week, Priory Common School enjoyed various coronation related activities throughout the week. Friday afternoon the whole school celebrating the coronation of King Charles III together with a variety of activities including crafts and maypole dancing. Here are just a few pictures and videos of some of the things that we enjoyed.

We’ve had a busy start to the summer term across the school.
Reception children have started looking that their theme for the term - Sunshine and sun flowers. They have enjoyed planting sunflower, marigolds and cucumbers. In literacy, they’ve begun to write simple sentences.

Year 1 have been sculpting hands using salt dough inspired by Mark Quinn. During PE, they had fun participating in relays. They have been counting in 2s, using the class shoes to help them. They have also enjoyed looking at and describing the signs of spring during a walk around the school grounds .

Year 2 enjoyed looking at biomes, they have made their own greenhouse to house a bean plant and are going to observe whether their plants grow quicker than the teachers plant not in a greenhouse. Some great predictions have been made. During art, they were inspired by Jill Townsley and created a collaborative spoon sculpture.

💐 Happy Mother’s Day 💐 we hope you enjoy your special day. We can now share how creative the children have been with their cards, made just for you.

It was another busy week last week for everyone at Priory Common School.

Reception children enjoyed work related to animals around the world which was inspired by the story "A Twist and a Tale"
In maths, the children were looking at one more of a number.

Year one used their inference skills during English. In maths, they were working on place value, identifying tens and ones of a number. The children also enjoyed continuing their weaving, this week saw them weaving different materials.

Year 2 continued to look at The Great Fire of London, they become reporters in English, creating their own newspaper stories. In maths, they looked at money and time. During science, they continued their work on habitats and this week they looked at micro habits of a variety of insects.

It was lovely to see so many children (and staff) dressing up for World Book Day. We had a fun filled day, enjoying various activities throughout the day linked to the books Monkey Puzzle, Room on the Broom and the Gruffalo all written by Julia Donaldson.

We had a super busy week last week. During the week we celebrated Childrens Mental Health, we looked at connections and how these are vital for our well-being. On Tuesday, we celebrated Safer internet day, looking at best practices in order to protect our safety online. On Wednesday, It was lovely to see so many of you being able to join us on for our reading morning followed by a RWI talk. On Friday, we celebrated faith day looking at Buddhism. Over the day we learnt about the religion, listened to stories and worked on various activities. We hope you enjoy looking at the pictures of things that we created over the day.

This week, the children in reception have been working on the theme snowflakes. They’ve created some lovely artwork, created snowflake dances in PE. In maths they have been learning 2d shapes and looking at repeated patterns.

Year 1 have written diary’s about Princess Eliza linked the the book, The princess and the wizard written by Julia Donaldson (our author of the half term).
In maths they have been learning about multiples. During science they have looked at different materials and their properties. They have been inspired by Monet in art and are currently creating some wonderful pictures.

Year 2 have written stories inspired by the story The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson. They have continued with learning about plants. In geography we have been learning about the weather and and have been keeping a weather diary, today they became weather reporters and recorded their own videos.

At Priory Common School - we take Pride, we Care and we are Successful. The students certainly showed this during the last couple of weeks of term when they created Christmas cards for people who are on their own and would be spending their Christmas at Milton Keynes University Hospital. Approximately 240 cards were delivered to the hospital on the Thursday before we broke up. We hope they put a smile on the face of their recipients.

What an amazing week we've had. We had our first Christmas Production since covid, 'Baarmy Bethlehem', what an amazing show. We hope everyone who joined us to watch the shows enjoyed it as much as we did. All the children worked super hard with learning the songs and their lines we are super proud of each and everyone.

What a super start we’ve had to the new term. We started the week with our Halloween event, we hope you had as much fun as we did.

Reception children this week have been learning about Autumn and colours, they have created some marvellous pictures of fireworks and bonfires.

Year 1 have been looking at instructional writing and have created a poster with instruction to keep people and animals on bonfire night.

Year 2 have been artists and have created their own abstract drip painting inspired by Jackson Po***ck.

Thank you all for your kind generosity to this year's harvest festival. This will be donated to the local food bank.

What a super busy week we've had at school.
Reception children have been learning about how to keeping healthy. They thoroughly enjoyed making soup and learning about making healthy choices.
Year 1 have been busy learning how to make our writing more interesting by adding adjectives and in History, they learnt about a real life superhero Grace Darling.
Year 2 have been making fantastic moving pictures with pullys and leavers.
On top of the learning we had our own mini marathon today, which everyone enjoyed taking part. A video of our event is available to view on the school website.

Events for the week:

Wednesday 12th October
Please join us for our reading moring 9am - 9.15. If your child is just starting out on their reading journey stay a while to hear Miss Geyton’s talk in the school hall. 9.20am – 9.35am.

Friday 14th October
We are holding our own ‘mini-marathon’ event. All children (and staff) will be encouraged to walk or run 2.6miles throughout the
day. Please ensure your child is dressed in their PE kit for this day.

We have had a super busy week in School.

We welcomed the parks trust into school during our assembly where we learnt about hedgehogs. Did you know hedgehogs have over 6000 spines?

Reception children have been busy learning about people who have help us and have created some amazing art - handprint firefighters.
In science, Year 1 have been looking at animals and their diets and grouping animals into carnivores, herbivore and omnivores.
In computing, Year 2 have been looking at algorithms, they enjoyed programming a Beebot to move in different directions.