Combs Infant School and Nursery

A huge welcome to Combs Infant school & nursery where we will be teaching Spanish in the nursery as well as to EYFS and KS1 from September. We are really looking forward to working with you all.

👩🏻‍🎓 What a week! 👨🏻‍🎓

It has been a rollercoaster of a week, saying goodbye and good luck, to our Year 2s. It has been an absolute pleasure to have been a part of their school journey and to watch them blossom into the confident, polite, happy children, they are today. 🥰
We have celebrated their final week at Combs with a leavers lunch at The Beehive, an assembly with family and friends and a signing of shirts.

Well done Year 2s. We are sad to see you go but know that you will embrace your new chapters with enthusiasm and a smile. Keep shining like the super stars you are! 🌟

A big thank you to everyone who attended our Summer Fair!

Despite the rain, it was an amazing day, lots of fun was had and we can't thank everyone enough for the support they have given to our children and school!!

With your help we raised an amazing £1,272.21 - WOW!!!
This money will go towards the children's school trips, resources and anything the children need to help continue to make our school the best little place it can be!!🥰

We can't thank you all enough!

The weatherman must have known we had booked our sports day this morning, he kept the rain away 🥰.

The children had a fantastic morning, completing all the different activity stations in their teams before competing against each other in full class races.
We had a surprise visit from Walter, our SMILERS mascot, who was so excited to pop in to see the children and present them all with their medals!

What a super morning!🏆🏃‍♀️🏃🥇

🍕What an exciting morning!🍕

The children in early years are learning all about our big wide world. 🌍
We have spoken about what food we love to eat and which country it comes from. 🇮🇹
Everyone loves pizza so we couldn't let an opportunity of designing and making our own pizzas go a miss!
Well done our team of little chefs, they tasted delicious! 🧑‍🍳👨‍🍳

📖✨"You can find magic wherever you look, sit back, relax, all you need is a book!"✨📚

It is so wonderful to see the children enjoying their new outdoor reading area surrounded by happiness, friendship, tranquillity and nature.🥰

The Good Old Days!
KS1 and Reception had a wonderful time at the Silk Museum today. They took a step back in time, spending the day in the life of the Victorians. They explored how they lived, including how they dressed, what they ate, what their homes and toys were like and were even put to work in the mill.
What better way to learn about the past than to be immersed in it! A day we'll never forget!

The children had a fantastic afternoon in forest school yesterday, making the most of this lovely sunshine. ☀️
They worked together in groups to plan what they would create, searched for different natural and man-made resources and created transient art pictures 🥰. They then presented their work to their friends.
What a fantastic afternoon!
Super work team!

What a super surprise we had this afternoon at school.
One of our wonderful parents brought four chicks in to meet the children.🐥
The children enjoyed stroking and feeding the chicks, they were all so gentle and handled them with care.🥰

Well done superstars!✨

🌍🌱World Environment Day 🐝🌊

Yesterday was 'World Environment Day' 🌳

The children have been busy learning about all the different ways in which we can take care of our environment.
From looking after each other, all animals and respecting nature to collecting rubbish and recycling it and looking at ways to save on water and electricity.

Let’s work together to create a better environment for our future! 🌎

Chop, Slice and Mash!

KS1 have had a 'grate' time learning how to prepare different healthy foods. We talked about how to keep safe and hygienic when preparing foods and why this is important. We even learnt how to use the 'bridge' cutting technique and tested out our culinary creations, yum! 😋
Well done little chefs! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

Please come and join us for our Summer Fair, there will be lots of fun to be had for everyone.

From children's stalls of games, toys and clothes, a bouncy castle and face painting to our popular bottle stall, cake sale and refreshments.
Best start getting your raffle tickets for our main tombola - amazing gifts to be won including a Ninja Dual Foodi Air Fryer worth £180!!🤩
Raffle tickets will be available from the office and on the day of the fair.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Last week we were ever so lucky to have three beautiful planters made for us. They were built at different heights so all the children can access them comfortably.
Then, with a stroke of luck, a local plant sale was being held!!!
A few of the children went to choose some lovely flowers, bought them and brought them back to school to put in their planters.
They have made them look beautiful 😍
Great work you superstar gardeners!!👩‍🌾🧑‍🌾🌿💐🎋

Cocoa bean left for Combs primary school today. He came in on 22nd April after the lovely children rescued him after finding him stuck under a trolley in the daylight.
He had fluke and capillaria. Treatment is completed and off he goes weighing in at 760g.
So lovely that the children knew a hedgehog out in day is a bad sign. Well done Combs primary school 🦔🦔

A few weeks ago, this little friend was found at school and was not very well at all.😢
The children and staff were very worried and sought help to make him better.
We got in touch with the wonderful staff at High Peak Hedgehog Rescue who took our friend in. They christened him 'Cocoa Bean' and nursed him back to good health.
Today, we got the phone call we have been waiting for, Cocoa Bean was ready to come home!!!
He has now returned to a familiar area and has a wonderful home that has been built for him to live in (thanks to our amazing dinner man Tony and his wife).
Cocoa Bean's new home has been put right next to where we found him all those weeks ago.
Well done team Combs for helping our Wildlife!!🥰
A massive thank you to the wonderful team at High Peak Hedgehog Rescue you are superstars!🤩❤️
Enjoy your sleep Cocoa Bean, ready for your first adventure back at Combs tonight!

Wow, what a fantastic time everybody had at Whitehall this week!
The children grew more confident as the days went on.
They went stream scrambling, played ‘the woods have eyes’, went canoeing, zoomed along the zip wire and tackled the rope course.
It was a very busy but super exciting time. The children were up for all the challenges that faced them, and achieved them with a smile.
The children made us so proud, they were really polite, well mannered, and behaved fantastically.
The children who slept over were amazing! There were no tears🥰🥰 and they all nodded off to sleep, to a story.
A great time had by all and an experience they’ll remember forever. Well done Year 2!

The children had a wonderful surprise this afternoon, two beautiful lambs popped in to say 'hello'.
The children were ever so gentle and caring with their visitors and got to ask lots of questions.
Amazing!🥰

A super exciting way to finish our week - a visit from the Police!🧑‍✈️👩‍✈️
Our children thoroughly enjoyed learning all about the important roles that Police Officers and Police Community Support Officer's play in our community, to keep us all safe.
The children learnt all about their special uniform, the different pieces of equipment that is used and even got to sit in the police van and listen to the sirens!!
What an incredible experience and a huge thank you to the Derbyshire Constabulary team at Buxton for this opportunity!

TAs were actually arrested in the making of this

🐛Creep, Crawl and Wriggle!!🐛
Ten little caterpillars have arrived at school today and the children are super excited. We have learnt all about the Butterfly Life Cycle, what we need to do to look after them and we are now looking forward to watching them grow.
Our little friends are now formally known as
Colin, Chris, Curly, Charlie, Freddie, Tiddles, Flower, Nutella, Pikachu and Tinkerbell.

What an exciting morning we’ve had at school today!
The children thoroughly enjoyed meeting two wonderful veterinary nurses from Knox and Devlin Veterinary Surgery.
They spoke to the children about how to look after their pets and what vets and veterinary nurses do. The children were shown dogs and cats teeth, how to bandage their teddies at the Teddy Bear clinic, how to use a stethoscope to listen to their own heartbeats and their teddies heartbeats and weighed their teddies on the scales.
The children got to ask lots of questions too, they particularly enjoying asking questions about their own cats and dogs.
What a fantastic experience! 🥰

A wheelie good time!

KS1 have loved our DT topic Taxi!
We explored how wheels and axles are often used to transport objects. In groups, we designed and made vehicles using wheels and axles and tested our vehicles out to see if they moved.
We received a special letter from (Claude) a character in our book, asking us to make him a taxi, so that he could explore the capital cities of the UK.
We each designed, painted and assembled our own taxi. We even used saws to cut our axles to size! 🚕

Fantastic work our STEM superstars! 🌟

Who else is egg-cited for Easter? because I know we are!🥳

The children have had a wonderful last week filled with Easter crafts, made chocolate nests and learnt all about the Easter story. They rounded up the week with an Easter Egg hunt and a Easter Bonnet parade👒 - eggcellent!🐣

It was lovely that the parents could come in to see all the children's wonderful creations at the end of term.

Ears hoping you all have a hoppy Easter!🐰

Well done to all our fabulous children for raising £59.10 on Red Nose Day!!

British Science Week!

What better way to celebrate than a trip to the Science and Industry Museum!
Reception and KS1 had a wonderful time exploring and experimenting and there was a lot of information to digest as we went on a journey, travelling through the human body.
Well done, our Science Superstars! 👩🏼‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬🧪🌟

📚“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand”📖

What an absolute delight World Book Day was yesterday.
All the children came to school dressed as their favourite characters, shared their books with their friends, enthusiastically sat and listened to lots of different stories and invited their families in to share their love of reading!🥰

A magical day had by all!✨

We are super excited at the arrival of our recycling bins and new recycling stations throughout the school!
The children have been learning all about the importance of recycling and how it helps our environment. 🥰
Well done our little Eco-Warriors! 🌿

🐉Gung Hay Fat Choy! 🐉
We have had a great time learning all about Chinese and Lunar New Year. We made Chinese lanterns, painted dragons and had a go at using chopsticks to sample some Chinese food. As it is the year of the dragon, we made our own dragons and masks and continued this into our Forest School afternoon, playing instruments and doing a dragon dance around the field. What a busy but wonderful day!

Yummy Pancakes!!
The children have had a scrumptious afternoon of making pancakes.
They designed their perfect pancake, worked as a team to make the batter and then finished off by adding a delicious topping and eating them all up - yum yum!!
Super work our little chefs!🧑‍🍳👨‍🍳

We hope every one else has enjoyed their pancakes today too! 🫶

Today is Safer Internet Day.
The theme this year is ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’.

The children have been superstars at listening and learning about the importance of being safe online.

The children in EYFS have been busy listening to Buddy the Dog's internet safety story and learning to sing Buddy's "Use Your Tablet Safely" song.
The KS1 children have helped Smartie the Penguin decide what to do when being safe online, and have practiced the chant "before you tap and click, remember to stop and think and tell someone".

Great work team! 🌟

Follow the link below for advice on how to keep your child safe online.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/parental-controls/

Glitter, flour, paint and chalk!
What more could we want for a super fun week of mark making!😁