Eaton Primary School

We are delighted to share some exciting news with you...

From next week, we will be welcoming a very special new member to our school community—our school dog, Digby (also known as Mr Barker!), a friendly chocolate Labrador. Digby has already had his first visit to the school, where he settled in beautifully and even spent some time listening to children read—much to everyone’s delight! His calm and gentle nature made a very positive impression on both pupils and staff.

From next week, Digby will be in school every Tuesday. His role will be to support pupils’ wellbeing, confidence, and engagement, particularly in activities such as reading and nurturing positive relationships. Research and experience show that school dogs can have a wonderful impact on children’s emotional wellbeing, motivation, and confidence.

Please be assured that:
🌟Digby is well-trained, friendly, and used to working with children. In fact, he lives with Mrs Barker and her family.
🌟His time and interactions in school will be carefully managed and always supervised.
🌟We will ensure high standards of hygiene and safety are maintained.
🌟Children will always be taught how to behave safely and respectfully around him

We are very much looking forward to the many benefits Digby will bring to our school community—and we hope the children are just as excited to meet him!

Year 5 delivered their parent assembly on the theme of 'Freedom' having been inspired by two fantastic texts covered in our writing units. Freedom Bird by Jerdine Nolan allowed the year 5s to understand the hardships enslaved people had to go through around the time of the American Civil War. The children wrote poems titled 'Freedom is to Fly' and studied the underground railroad - the secret society for getting enslaved people to freedom. The first song is inspired by this movement as 'Sweet Low Sweet Chariot' references someone coming to take the people away from slavery. We sang this alongside two other traditional American songs, 'Oh When the Saints' and 'I Wanna Sing'.

The children thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Space Race through reading the book Hidden Figures which covered the four Black, inspirational women who helped to make NASA successful in their mission to the moon. Children looked at life lived in segregation and discussed what freedom meant to them. We had a fantastic visit from the Star Dome mobile planetarium to link to our science and space unit; we then rounded the assembly off with our second song about The Planets.

This June, we will be encouraging our pupils to connect with nature! In our increasingly busy lives it can be easy to become detached and distant from the amazing natural world which surrounds us. That's why we want to encourage you all to take part in the Wildlife Trusts 30 days wild. Follow the link to find out more and sign up for FREE to receive more information and resources to support you on your journey to become more wild!
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30dayswild

We would love to see how you are all taking part in 30 Days Wild - if you wish to share with us or send us photos of anything you do at home such as birdwatching, walks through the woodland etc.. please email these through to the School Office 🌟

30 Days Wild | The Wildlife Trusts The UK's biggest nature challenge with The Wildlife Trusts is taking place throughout June 2026. An opportunity for everyone to connect with nature.

Goodbye PGL Caythorpe Court 👋🏼
The children are very excited to be reunited with you all.

Current ETA - 16:30

We have thoroughly enjoyed all of our PGL activities. Such memorable experiences for our children who have shown their kindness, collaboration and responsibility throughout the trip.
We are so proud of them!

All children slept really well. We have enjoyed breakfast and are off to our final 2 activities - archery tag and abseiling for most of us this morning.

Please keep eyes peeled for an email regarding our arrival information which should be landing with you soon.

Afternoon activity groups - we had such a lot of fun at survival, problem solving, abseiling and raft building.

All children refuelled after lunch time. Off to our afternoon activities 🍔

As promised earlier, some more group shots from this morning’s activities!

Good morning from PGL 🌥️🌧️ All children have enjoyed breakfast and we have a selection of raft building, Jacob’s ladder, survivor and problem solving activities today. Here are a few of our activity groups - more photos to follow.