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This morning, we spent time with Nursery children and parents as they enjoyed a picnic on the playing field, serving cake and squash in between the fun and games. We then made our way up to the Keystage 2 playground and helped out with their street party style lunch. It has been such a lovely occasion, and we wanted all the children to have a special memento to take away with them. Over the past few weeks, we have been busily creating the below commemorative Jubilee keyrings which we today handed out to every child. We hope that these will…

Happy Easter from all of us here at Friends of Bloxwich! Today has been fabulous! We have spent the morning hopping around from class to class, delivering chocolate eggs to all the children at Bloxwich Academy Primary. As you can see from the pictures, we had a fantastic reception from the children who were really excited to see the Easter Bunny and helpers; we can’t tell you how much we love seeing the children smile! We have also had an incredible response to our ‘Guess the Eggs’ competition and the chocolate hamper raffle. Overall, our Easter activities have raised over…

Year 2 have had a brilliant couple of weeks. The children have been working very hard on their reading skills and it has been a pleasure for us to see them improving so much. As the final week of the half term has arrived, the children have been completing their newest writing unit – persuasive postcards. We have used the book, Meerkat Mail, as an inspiration for this unit and the children have impressed us greatly with their creativity. This week, the children have written their own postcard persuading the reader to visit Bloxwich Academy. Mrs Watkins’ maths group have…

What a great week Year 4 have had! After the break, Year 4 started their new states of matter topic during their Science lessons. They have looked at how solids can turn into liquids and the melting point each object requires and they have also looked at how solids can turn into a gas. They have been classifying materials into the 3 groups. It was an interesting investigation as some children were unsure which group slime would be put into as it fills the container but is easy to hold. Year 4 have also been writing up their explanations of…