We are proud to announce our latest award for using restorative pathways to deal with behaviour in a way that works positively and helps to build the ongoing relationship needed for children to learn and grow. #SucceedTogether
Year 5 completed their Design and Technology unit by making their own focaccia bread. They had designed their bread using the flavours they enjoyed best and then brought in the ingredients needed to make it. They looked incredible! And smelt even better! What a success year 5! #BeYourselfAlways #DoWhatMattersMost 
On Wednesday, 4 of our Key Stage musicians, Libby, Elizabeth, Ben and Nora spent the day at Co-op’s Musician of the Year Semi-Finals Competition for Staffordshire, Stoke and the Wirral.
They took to the stage at The Mitchell Memorial Arts Centre in Hanley, rehearing and performing in the evening competition. There were 21 acts from both primary and secondary Co-op schools, with a range of singers, pianists, drummers and bands competing.
Ben, Elizabeth and Libby all performed their piano pieces with no music, so confidently and with such flare. Nora sang and played the piano beautifully.
They were enthusiastically supported by lots of their friends and family.
We are all so very proud of their resilience, musical talents and hard work!
There are two other semi-final competitions in the next few weeks in Manchester and Leeds, so we wait to hear if any of our musicians make it through to the Grand Final. Fingers crossed for a Friarswood Finalist!
Congratulations again to our Fab Four for making it through to the Semi-Finals from 270 entrants!
#DoWhatMattersMost #BeYourselfAlways
What a brilliant trip for Year 1! Visiting Peak Wildlife Park to see real penguins is the perfect way to bring their learning to life.
It is great that Patrick was there to give a talk. Hearing all those interesting facts straight from an expert will make it so much fun for the children to write their own information pages. They will have plenty of exciting things to share!
Meeting the wallabies sounds like a wonderful extra treat. Getting to stroke them and see how friendly they are is a special, hands-on memory the children will definitely treasure.
Writing about a trip they loved is a perfect way to practice their writing skills.
On Tuesday, Mrs Bebbington and Mr Linley-Simon (our Co-op Community Pioneer) took some eco-warriers to Co-op Live to attend this year’s eco conference. They were joined by many other academies in our trust to take part in different activities all aimed at increasing awareness of how we can help to look after our planet. To top this off, they had a tour around the arena to find out just how eco-friendly Co-op Live is. The children were very impressed! They are now going to plan and run a school assembly to share their findings with all of our children. #SucceedTogether
Thursday 5th of March was World Book Day. A day to celebrate reading and the enjoyment a good book can bring. This year we dressed up ready for an adventure, as many stories can take us on. The children had a great day dressing up and taking part in activities throughout the school day. We had literacy scavenger hunts, extreme reading, designing new front covers for their favourite book and plenty more! A great day had by all. #DoWhatMattersMost #BeYourselfAlways
The last week of half-term saw our Year 6 class enjoying a week's residential stay at Stanley Head. There were so many amazing outdoor activities which they absolutely loved! The activities included were target shooting, axe throwing, den building and high ropes, just to name a few! They had the best experience and as you can see from the pictures here and in our photo gallery, they had a blast! Well done Year 6. #SucceedTogether 
On Wednesday, the winners from our school in this year's GoIT competition to create an idea to help the environment had the opportunity to take their idea and compete with other primary schools in our trust, which were held in Manchester. The boys who represented us this year were so clear and confident when presenting to the other school and to 4 judges. They answered questions from the judges and seemed to really enjoy the whole experience. Their idea was to clean up the canal water with an app to join and a robot which would be programmed to go on missions. It was a wonderful, well-thought out plan. We are so proud to say that although the judges chose another idea to take the overall win, we took second place as runner up. Well done to our Year 6 team! #SucceedTogether #DoWhatMattersMost
Our choir went along to join the Young Voices concert in Birmingham, where they created one of the largest children's choirs worldwide of nearly 6000 children! For months our choir have been preparing for this evening and have been learning the songs and actions ready to be put together to make an incredible performance. They were absolutely brilliant throughout and everyone who came to watch had just such wonderful comments on what a good night they had watching and even joining in at some points. The Wicked Medley was definitely one to blow any audience away! Just fantastic! A huge thank you to our Choir lead - Mrs Elkin, who made this possible. Also a big thank you to our staff volunteers and to our parents who were able to join the audience and support this event. #SucceedTogether
Our school choir has been very busy this Christmas! Not only have they taken part in a Christmas carol service at St Giles' Church with the Delian singers, but they also had a trip to our local hospital. They sang beautifully and certainly made a lot of people having to visit the hospital smile. This was part of the NHS charity and so many visitors were donating whilst listening to our choir in the buckets around the foyer.
The organiser of this said: "We have had so many donations made whilst your choir were singing. They were wonderful. Thank you."
A massive thank you to Mrs Elkin who runs our school choir and to all the volunteers who give up their time to help. It really does make a difference. #DoWhatMattersMost
We had our annual Christmas church visit to celebrate this special time of year. Our wonderful musicians led a lovely service, playing some beautiful pieces of music on guitars, clarinets, flutes, violins and piano. We also had our Early Years children sing as well as our Key Stage 1 children. They sang with great confidence, which was wonderful to see. The school choir also took to the stage too, singing two wonderful songs. We also had our annual tradition of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, led by Mrs Elkin using British sign language, which everyone joined in with. What a great way to kick-start our festive season! Thank you to everyone who came along. We hope you had a great time! 
