Soke Education Trust

It’s us again 🤣 This time we are looking for wheeled items - wheelchairs, trolleys and wheelbarrows

We are still on the hunt for some extra resources - can we take old tyres off your hands and recycle them for a great purpose?

We’ve now had a chance to sort through all of your OPAL donations - thank you so much! Your generosity has been incredible. These loose parts are essential for sustaining high‑quality play opportunities for our children. As time goes on, we will need to replenish resources, so please do keep us in mind during any house or garden clear‑outs.
You may have spotted our new Donation Station on the KS2 playground. Any future donations can now be placed directly in there.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be opening up even more play areas for the children. They will also begin mixing across year groups and accessing a wider range of spaces across the school site. This development will continue over the next 18 months, and as new areas open, we’ll share specific items that the community may be able to help us source.
At the moment, we are particularly in need of:
* Picnic blankets
* Teddy bears
* Teddy bear picnic items such as a plastic tea set/plates
* Large storage boxes
* A water butt for developing a water play area
If you have any of these items - or know where we might be able to source them - we would love to hear from you.
We also have a much‑loved tyre play area, which the children absolutely adore. To keep this going, we need many more tyres. Car tyres and bicycle tyres are brilliant, and tractor tyres make fantastic social spaces and sand play areas. If you are able to help us source tyres of any kind, please let us know.
Thank you, as always, for your continued support.
Mrs Watson and Miss Graham

Can you help us make playtimes fabulous?

Please contact Werrington Primary School who will welcome any donations and support.

🌟 Can you help us finish our new construction play area? We’re creating a dedicated outdoor space where children can use diggers, trucks and other construction toys - but we’re missing one final ingredient: gravel.
If you have any spare gravel at home, leftover from a garden project, or know someone who might, we’d be so grateful for a donation. Even a small bucketful helps us get the area ready for the children to enjoy.
Please drop donations at the school office or message us to arrange a time. Thank you for supporting our play and learning spaces.

Inclusive practice reduces suspensions

Internal alternative provision reduces suspensions We were surprised and delighted to open The Times yesterday to see an article featuring Alderman Jacobs as an example of how schools' are supporting increasingly complex needs but are developing the right support for it's pupils.

Today marks a special milestone for families across Peterborough as primary school offer day arrives!

We’d like to send our congratulations to all parents and carers who have received their child’s primary school place for September 2026.

Starting school is such an exciting step, and we look forward to welcoming children and families into the Soke Education Trust community this autumn.

Please remember to accept your child’s school place by 30th April 2026 to secure their place for September 2026.

For families preparing for reception, the Department for Education has some helpful advice to support the journey ahead: https://startingreception.co.uk/

Outdoor play and learning is such an important feature for us. Children, families and staff had a wonderful time together

Pre-school Opening Soon

Well done to everyone what a great achievement

A week after the visit and our Early tests children are still inspired by their session with Ellie. It has been lovely to see them using their different art skills in their independent play and learning.

Opportunities to invite experts into our schools means we can give our children amazing experiences that they love.

Years 1 and 2 were thrilled to welcome the incredible author and illustrator Ellie Sandall to Gunthorpe Primary School. The children were captivated by her stories and illustrations, and enjoyed learning about the creative process behind her wonderful books. Thank you, Ellie, for inspiring our young readers and writers!

We are recruiting for our new preschool, do you have the skills and experience we are looking for?