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Year 2 Church Visit
1 Jul

Our Year 2s visited St Stephen's Church in Rednal as part of their holy places topic in RE. The children learnt about where and how Christian's worship and explored the significance of Christian symbols. The reverend commented on how respectful our pupils were during their visit and how well they listened. Well done Year 2!
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Year 2's Visit to Weston Super Mare
25 Jun

Last year , Mrs Young and Mr Williams found two old books kept by the first headteacher of Colmers Farm. In these books, he documented all of the key events which happened in our school. One of these events was Colmers Farm's first ever trip to Weston Super Mare in 1948. This must have been a fabulous trip for these children, who had only a few years earlier endured the traumatic events of WW2.
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Year 5's Science Lesson at Colmers Secondary School
11 Jun

Year 5 had an exciting and educational morning at Colmers Farm Secondary School, where they got hands-on with science in a series of engaging experiments. In physics, they explored electrical circuits, learning how components connect to create a working system. The chemistry activities were just as thrilling—first, they mixed different chemicals, observing fascinating reactions and changes. Then, they used flames to burn solutions and identify the solid substances within them, seeing science come to life in a colourful and dramatic way!
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Women in Maths Competition
9 Jun

To raise the profile of the contributions of women to maths, we have been running a homework competition where children had to design a fact poster about one woman who had made an outstanding contribution to the field of mathematics. Well done to everybody who took part. Some of our fabulous entries are shown below. Congratulations to our winners who were:

EYFS/KS1
Winner - Jai Jai (2L)
Runner-up - Ethan (RJ)

Years 3 and 4
Winner - Neveah (4J)
Runner-up - Hazel (3P)

Years 5 and 6
Winner - Tamid (6B)
Runner-up - Sophie (5E)

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VE Day Celebrations
8 May

To celebrate the 80 th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day the children at Colmers Farm Primary School took part in numerous activities, such as dressing in red, white and blue, learning and performing a song from the 1940s (The Dame Vera Lynn classics of The White Cliffs of Dover or We'll Meet Again), a special outdoor lunch and finding out information about individual, normal people who fought in or contributed towards the war effort. They also produced some writing based on the information about these people and made a poppy to remember them.

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Year 4's RNLI Visitor
7 May

On Wednesday, Year 4 had a visitor from the RNLI, their chosen charity for the year. Colin, represented the RNLI and taught the children in Year 4 about water safety. Each class was presented with a certificate of completion, having successfully learnt the RNLI's four key water safety messages. The focus was on the seaside, rivers, lakes and canals, and talked about the dangers of frozen bodies of water too.
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Year 6 Symphony Hall Visit
10 Feb

Year 6 were given a fantastic opportunity to listen to music through the ages at Birmingham's world famous Symphony Hall! They went on a journey around the world and listened to a variety of orchestra pieces including Hedwig's theme from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone (2001), Lord of the Dance (1996), Infernal Galoo (Can-Can) from Orpheus in the Underworld (1858) and many more! In addition to this, we explored the Birmingham Library and had a talk from a librarian. We climbed thousands of stairs to look at the stunning views at the top and learnt that there are over a million books to read here!
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Number Day 2024-2025
7 Feb

On Friday 7 th February, we enjoyed our annual celebration of NSPCC Number Day. Pupils and staff enjoyed attending school in number themed fancy dress and came prepared with a number fact to share. They completed some problem-solving activities in class and learnt about maths in the world around us, including careers in maths. KS2 pupils were invited to participate in a national Times Table Rock Star competition, which increased engagement and will support fluency.
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Big Arts Week 2024-2025
11 Nov

Before half term, all of our pupils at Colmers Farm Primary School took part in Big Arts Week. This year's focus was decided by our school's Eco Team. They chose the theme of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. All of our art work this year was therefore created using materials which had previous been used for something else, which included things like plastic bottles, toilet roll tubes and boxes.
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Condover Hall Residential
8 Nov

For this year's residential experience, pupils from Years 5 and 6 visited Condover Hall in Shropshire. It was a fabulous three days where our pupils took part in a range of activities that developed their resilience, confidence, independence, risk taking and team working skills. The activities included survival, orienteering, Jacobs Ladder, climbing wall, archery and abseiling. Our pupils were also able to showcase their dancing skills on the first evening and to devour toasted marsh mellows on the final evening around a camp fire.
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