Manorfield C of E Primary School

On Wednesday 10th June, our wonderful Manorfield Voices had the incredible opportunity to perform at De Montfort Hall alongside other primary schools 🙌🎶

Singing as part of a much larger choir, the pupils performed a selection of summer-themed songs to a packed auditorium. They stood with real professionalism and sang with confidence, enthusiasm and joy, their performance was an absolute pleasure to watch.

We are extremely proud of every single member of the choir. Experiences like this play such an important role in building confidence, self-esteem and teamwork, and it was clear just how much the children gained from being part of this special event.

⭐ Well done Manorfield Voices, you are all stars! ⭐

There's less than one week to go until National ! We're so proud of our incredible school staff who make a difference every day, and look forward to celebrating each one of them on the 17th June ✨💙

👉 You can do your part in saying a special thank you by sending a free e-card on the Thank a Teacher UK website to show your appreciation. Visit https://thankateacher.co.uk/thank-a-teacher/thank-a-teacher-form/

The closing date is fast approaching for the consultation regarding proposed school holidays in Leicestershire. Don’t forget to have your say if it is important to you. 👍

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We need you!!!
Claire, thank you so much for everything you’ve done leading the PTFA over the years. You’ve helped create so many brilliant experiences for the children and our families. 💙

The co-chair idea is such a great opportunity for someone to come in and learn alongside you, with all your experience and support – a perfect way to build confidence and keep things going strong.
If anyone’s been thinking about getting involved, this is a great chance – we really do need you!
Thanks again, Claire, for all you’ve done 💙

A huge thank you to the Manorfield PTFA and The Bluebell, Stoney Stanton for our invitation to support and celebrate the wonderful volunteers of Stoney Stanton. What a fantastic community event! A big thank you to all our school volunteers - our Manorfield PTFA for all their hard work and enthusiasm to fundraise and provide such memorable experiences for our children and for our parent volunteers, helping with reading, cooking, art work or supporting on trips. We couldn’t do it without you all! Thank you! 💙

🎉👘🍛 We had a truly wonderful Culture Day last month, and we are delighted to share some of the exciting learning experiences the children enjoyed across the school. Each class immersed themselves in a different culture, exploring traditions, food, music, dance and art. The enthusiasm and curiosity shown by the children made it a very special day! 🌟

🇮🇹 𝗘𝗬𝗙𝗦 chose to learn all about Italy. The children were thrilled to welcome a very special parent visitor who helped them explore Italian culture. They enjoyed tasting pizza, designing their own pizzas using paper plates, dancing the traditional Tarantella and creating beautiful Italian inspired artwork.

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🇦🇷 1AW explored Argentina, where they created a fabulous flag, tasted some delicious food and worked collaboratively to create an Argentinasaurus using paint.
🇪🇸 1BD focused on Spain, enjoying flamenco dancing, food tasting and producing artwork inspired by the architecture of Gaudí.

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🇪🇸 2SL also learned about Spain, tasting food kindly donated by a parent, discovering Spanish culture and enjoying flamenco dancing.
🇳🇿 2PC travelled to New Zealand, learning about the culture, tasting fruit and learning to perform the Haka.

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🔢 3SP focused on Kurdish culture, exploring traditional clothing, learning to write numbers in Arabic and creating Kurdish art.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 3DT learned about Scotland, designing their own tartan, learning some Scottish vocabulary, discovering what lochs are and tasting Scottish shortbread.

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🇲🇽 4ER learned about Mexico, enjoying hat dancing with Mrs Hill, discovering the Day of the Dead festival and creating beautiful Frida Kahlo inspired artwork.
🇧🇷 4CS immersed themselves in Brazilian culture, taking part in carnival ribbon dancing, making fantastic Brazilian headwear and 'carnivalling' through the school to share their learning with others.

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🇯🇵 5OW explored Japan, learning about Japanese culture, making origami bookmarks and creating stunning cherry blossom artwork.
🇮🇸 5JD linked their study of Iceland to their Violent Earth topic, completing detailed map work and creating fantastic Icelandic maps using their new knowledge.

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🇨🇳 6CK focused on China, learning all about dragons and their characteristics before
designing their own dragon and incorporating it into a story.
🇦🇺 6CJ learned about Australia, taking part in a quiz style treasure hunt, discovering
Australian culture and creating beautiful Aboriginal dot art.

It was truly a brilliant day and the children gained so much from these rich and engaging experiences. A huge thank you to the staff team who worked so hard to plan and organise the event, and to the families who inspired the cultures chosen, visited classes, or generously donated food and items to support the learning 🙌

🌍🌟 We had a wonderful World Earth Day on Friday 8th May. We chose to hold our celebration on this date so that it coincided with Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, as a way of honouring the incredible work he has done to care for our Earth and its wildlife 🙌

The children took part in a range of fabulous earth-loving activities, including litter picking, planting, and creative art and craft activities, all designed to celebrate and protect our planet. They also made birthday cards for Sir David Attenborough, which are now winging their way to him!

This special day linked beautifully with our school vision of caring, sharing and inspiring, and it was wonderful to see the children so engaged and enthusiastic. A huge thank you to Mrs K Jones for organising and coordinating such a meaningful and successful event 💙

Thank you so much to our incredible Manorfield PTFA for organising such a fantastic Scarecrow Festival (25th–26th April) 🌾✨ What an amazing weekend it was, full of fun, laughter, sunshine and community spirit.
A huge well done to all the creative residents who designed such imaginative, humorous and clever scarecrows 👏🎨 — every single one was a joy to see. Congratulations to all the winners 🏆, including Everything is Awesome on Disney Close and the brilliant runners-up across Vernon Way, Station Road, Clint Hill Drive and Howe Close — what talent we have in our community! 🌟
Thank you as well to everyone who visited, supported and helped raise an incredible amount for the children of Manorfield 💚 We are so lucky to have such a dedicated PTFA and such a warm, supportive and creative community. Already looking forward to next year! 🌻😊

We had a fantastic time celebrating this year! 📚✨

Instead of dressing as book characters, pupils came to school dressed as an exciting word. We saw everything from precipitation and archaic to camouflaged and incognito - the imagination on display was incredible! 👏🔥

A huge well done to all of our pupils, staff and families for making World Book Day such a magical celebration of reading 📚💙