Walk to School Week

10th - 14th October 2022

• Book Fair

  Mon 20 Jun 2022

  Book Fair- from Monday to Friday

  Come and buy a book in the hall from a wide selection of books You can also order books - See Mr. Slaney.

• Summer Fair

  Fri 17 Jun 2022

  Come and join us at our Summer fair from 3.30 pm. Lots of fun to be had and many things to buy.

• Fitness Day

  Fri 27 May 2022

  Fitness Day

  Come and join us on the Tough Runner and get wet!!

• Queen's Jubilee Day

  Wed 25 May 2022

  Queen's Jubilee Celebration Day

  Join us at 2.30 pm and watch our dances, songs and art work

• Ground force Working Party

  Tue 03 May 2022

  Saturday 7th May - Groundforce working party

  10.30 am - 12.20 pm

• Holy Week 4-8th April 2022

  Mon 04 Apr 2022

  Collective Worship in school this week will reflect on the events of Holy Week. This will lead us into our creative outdoor journey following in the steps Jesus made through the week. Each class will be taking part in Easter crafts to celebrate new life and the hope we can have in the future.

   

  Children are being asked to decorate an egg and/or make an Easter bonnet for the competitions on Friday. Make your creations as bright and cheerful as you can!

   

  Please bring your bonnets and eggs to school on Friday and take them to the library.

   

  (Remember to pop your name on them!)

   

   

  Wednesday 6^th April

  Year 3 & 4 Easter Concert at 2:00pm at the church.

   

  Thursday 7^th April

  Year 3 & 4 Easter Concert at 6:00pm at the church.

   

  Please note: The Easter Concerts are ticket only events, for 1 parent per child to ensure we adhere to the church’s Risk Assessment regarding numbers in church. Please do not bring any other children to the performances. The rest of the school will have an opportunity to watch the concert during the school day.

   

  Friday 8^th April

  The children will be taking parents on a journey through the Easter story which will take place outside from 9:30am. All parents are welcome. The Friends will then serve refreshments from 10:15am onwards.

   

  The children will all have their Hot Cross Buns at breaktime.

   

  In the afternoon, the children will be parading their Easter bonnets and the judging of these and the decorated eggs will take place. (Please note: this is not a parent event.)

• Book Week at Denby Free

  Fri 04 Mar 2022 Mr. Slaney

  An amazing week at Denby Free primary School. The children have been hard at work creating their amazing things from the book the class opened at the start of the day.

   

  Tuesday was a focus the book called 'A Child's Garden'. 

  Wednesday saw us focus on an book about ecology,

  Thursday was a focus about diversity. 

  Friday's work was on a book by Jackie Morris. 

   

  We have been so proud at the art and creative work each class has produced. 

  

• Book Week 1st - 4th March 2022

  Tue 01 Mar 2022

  We are very pleased to announce that we will be hosting our Book Week from Tuesday 1st to Friday 4^th March 2022.  There will be a daily theme based around different picture books starting with Tuesday being a surprise theme chosen by Mrs Bell, Wednesday will be a nature theme, Thursday we will do activities around diversity and Friday will be a focus on books by Jackie Morris.

  There will be lots of activities running over the week that will help your child develop a love of books, storytelling and reading.  Here is what is happening over the week:

   

  Drop Everything and Read

  We will be holding a “DEAR” – (Drop Everything and Read) – at 1.00pm every day when ‘EVERYONE’ in school has to read their own book brought in from home – we will ensure the children look after them in school!

   

  Sponsored Read

  Each class will have a Reading Challenge that can be sponsored. Children should gain sponsorship for each box of the challenges they complete.

  For example, if the children are sponsored 50p for each box (challenge) and they complete 10 challenges, that sponsor would give £5. Children can have as many sponsors as they like to raise as much money as possible. Each child will have an electronic or paper version (in their red home reading book) of the challenges where they can record the number of challenges they complete. Sponsor money must be paid through ParentPay for the whole amount collected. With this letter is a sponsor form for the children to fill in to keep track of who has sponsored them.

  The money will be used by our School Council who will vote for the best use of the money for the benefit of the children. Each council member will collate ideas from their class.

  The reading challenge will run until March 31^st 2022.

   

  Wacky reading

  Send in a picture of your child reading in a wacky place, to a pet or to a soft toy. They can be dressed up and looking as relaxed as they can. You can send that via Seesaw or Evidence Me. These will look great on a display so that we can share where we have been reading.

   

  Decorate a door

  Each class will be decorating their classroom door linked to a book. The pictures will be put on the website for everyone to see they children’s hard work.

   

  Dress up Day

  On Friday 4^th March we invite all children and staff to come into school dressed as their favourite book character or author, for a donation of £1. Donations can be paid on Parentpay please.  All money raised will be used towards purchasing new reading resources to boost our fabulous book collection across the school.

  (Please make sure that your child will be warm and wears suitable shoes for playtime.)

  There will be a prize for the most creative costume in each class.

   

  Home Challenge

  At home the children can use recycling or crafting materials to create a puppet from a picture book. They can then use the puppet to tell a story. Bring them in to share with the class. There will be a prize for the most creative in each class.  

   

  Book Sale

  Due to the recent high numbers of Covid cases in school, we have decided to delay holding our Book Fayre in school until week commencing 13^th June 2022. Further details will be sent nearer the time.

   

   

                                                          

                          We are looking forward to a busy and enjoyable week!

• Children's Mental Health Week 7-13 February

  Mon 07 Feb 2022

  It is Children's Mental Health Week. The theme this year is 'Growing Together'. This is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibility and potential. However, emotional growth is often a gradual process that happens over time, and sometimes we might feel a bit ‘stuck’.
  We will be having a particularly mindful week in school and you can share some of the activities with your children at home.
  Please see the Reflection Space page on the school website:
  denbyfree.derbyshire.sch.uk/reflection-space

• Pumpkin Party

  Tue 05 Oct 2021 Mrs Bell

  It was brilliant to be able to invite everyone to our harvest celebration outside on Friday 1st October. Everyone enjoyed homemade pumpkin and vegetable soup, homemade cakes and jams. There as also lots of games to be played - pumpkin hoopla; pumpkin treasure hunt around the field and raffle.

  We raised an amazing £810 so thank you everyone, especially Friends for all their hard work organizing the event.