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Gallery of Recent Events
80th Anniversary of VE Day
In May, the children learnt about the meaning of VE Day and about life during the World War Two that came to an end in Europe on 8th May 2025. Mrs Dean led a History assembly, including Churchill's famous end of war announcement, and showed the children photographs provided by members of Queensbury History Society of the celebrations and commemorations which took place in Queensbury in 1945. At lunchtime, we enjoyed a street party-style picnic lunch (with wartime musical accompaniment!) In classes, children recorded what they had learnt in writing, art and even tried some war time dances!
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Parent Lunches
Every term, we invite our parents to school to spend lunchtime with their child and eat together. Parents are treated to a freshly cooked school lunch, from our wonderful Kitchen team. It's a lovely social occasion for children and parents to share during the School day.
Black Dyke Brass Band Concert
We were very lucky this Christmas to have a visit from the famous Black Dyke Brass Band who performed a Christmas concert for us. They introduced the instruments from the band, explained their relative pitches and our Foxhill brass Band even had the opportunity to play alongide them! We are their closest neighbouring band after all! Huge thanks to instrumentalists and conductor, Professor Nicholas Childs.
Colour Run!
What a wonderful end of year we had this July, racing and raising money to extend our KS1 outdoor provision on our very first Colour Run!
Thanks to the amazing PTA, the whole school enjoyed a colour run around our local park, whilst being speckled (or splattered!) with colours by parents and friends! Mrs Thomason warmed up the classes and couldn't resist joining Teachers in running around the track with their classes.
The event raised £1300 for a canopy to make our KS1 wooded area usable in all weathers for outdoor learning.
E-Safety Competition
Well done to our winners of the 'design a screensaver' competition and thank you to all who entered. We hope the winners enjoy their prizes!
Our themes were:
Reception/Year 1 - Tell a grown up if something worries you online
Year 2 - Keep your personal details private
Year 3 - Don't open messages from people you don't know
Year 4 - Never arrange to meet strangers
Year 5 - Consider your actions online
Year 6 - Maintain a healthy balance of screen time & off-screen activities
Gallery of Recent Events
There is always plenty going on at Foxhill Primary School.
Plummer Drummer
Key Stage 2 children were treated to a concert from the Plummer Drummer recently. Nathan explained how he made his instrument from guttering pipes and how the different notes were produced from the different lengths of pipe and the vibrations of the air. We enjoyed many of his up-beat pieces and he explained the layers within his music that built up the final piece. Nathan entertained us with his original compositions and popular tunes that we could sing along to!
Thank you to all the parents who attended our Bookworm reading sessions to enjoying reading with their child in our library.
Parents and children from the youngest in Nursery, to eldest in Year 6, attended a breakfast library session to share the pleasure of reading.
Bookworm Library sessions
Music festival
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CUSP Music Festival
Well done to all our classes learning their performance pieces for our first CUSP Music Festival. The youngest to the eldest took part in video sessions to learn songs, percussion parts glockenspiel and recorder parts all on the theme of Winter, sharing our sucesses with the partnership as the week went on. We also learnt a collaborative piece to sing along with other children form our curriculum partnership.
CUSP Arts Festival
Every class enjoyed learning new techniques and producing amazing, creative art work as part of our CUSP Arts Festival. We joined with other school and Artists from our curriculum partnership for live lessons and projects, sharing our successes at each step, culminating in an individual and a collaborative piece. It is now proudly on display at School.
Birds of Prey Visit
Feathered friends in the form of a Kestrel, Barn owl, Little Owl and Tawny Owl came to visit us in Science week. We learnt about the features of the birds that help them survie in the wild, their habitats and diets. Brave volunteers put on the handler's glove to hold the birds! The whole School gathered for a flying demonstration to see the birds in action! We were delighted with the comical Little Owl, the Kestrel who flew a lap of the hall and the somewhat lazy Barn owl, who would only show off for his treat!
Jenny York, Author in School
What fun we had with Author, Jenny York! Younger children enjoyed very engaging workshops where they dressed as her book characters and retold the plots to peers.
Lucky children bought signed copies of her stories, That's Rubbish, Prince Charm-bin, Tinselpants and Nuts!, to enjoy at home!
Poet Matt Goodfellow visits Foxhill
What a super day we had with professional poet, Matt Goodfellow. After funny and interactive assemblies learning and performing some of his poems, Matt worked in Years 1 - 6 creating poetry with the children , using their ideas and introducing us to further ideas of rhythm, structure and intonation.
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