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  • World Book Day

    Published 13/03/26
    We celebrated World Book Day at Derry Hill.  Its was wonderful to see so many children in costume.  The children enjoyed a range of fun activities throughout the day, including an opportunity to listen to different stories read by the tea
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  • Science Day

    Published 13/03/26
    Children at Derry Hill had an exciting visit that took them into outer space, inside a volcano and back in time. This was all part of Derry Hill's Science Day. Each class had a chance to visit the planetarium where they were transported into th
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  • Hedgehog Trip to Bath

    Published 13/02/26
    On the morning of Friday 23rd January, our Hedgehogs met at the train station in Chippenham to travel together to Bath.  They carried out some important Geography fieldwork research to support their comparative study of Bath and Addis Ababa in E
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  • Internet safety Day

    Published 15/01/26

    Children in Key Stage 2 enjoyed some engaging online safety drama workshops this week.  Run by One Day Creative, the children explored the theme of being kind, which links perfectly to our Christian value of respect. 
    The children learnt the acronym KIND
    K - Kindness
    I - Inappropriate
    N - Never over share
    D - Don't hide away

     

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  • Football Tournament

    Published 12/12/25

    On 5th December our two football teams took part in a local football tournament at Stanley Park. Both teams played brilliantly and showed fantastic teamwork and sportsmanship. A huge thank you to Mr Moore who provided some amazing coaching sessions to our club.

     

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  • Wildlings

    Published 26/11/25

    Newly named Forest School
    We were incredibly lucky last week; the sun shone as the whole school gathered to watch the official opening of our newly named Forest school area. We launched a competition in term one to rename our outdoor learning area, something to reflect the fun we have and the learning that takes place.
    There was a clear winner. Elizabeth and Rebecca in Rabbit class came up with ‘Wildings’.
    Along with a new name, we wanted a sign to welcome classes and visitors. Rebecca and Elizabeth cut the ribbon to mark the start of our new ‘Wildings’ era.
    We know we will all continue to benefit from spending time outdoors learning new skills.

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  • World Book Day

    Published 21/03/25
    We were so pleased at the amazing response we had to World Book Day at Derry Hill, the children looked fantastic and the staff scrubbed up pretty well too! We had witches, footballers, action heroes and even a rather elegant character from Pride and
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  • Dance Festival

    Published 05/03/25
    A huge well done to all the children that took part in this year’s Dance Festival at the Neeld Hall. They represented the school fantastically and had an amazing time dancing on stage.
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  • Rabbit Class Learning Afternoon

    Published 28/02/25
    A huge thank you to all the parents who could make it to our Rabbit Class learning afternoon. It was lovely to see so many of you making mosaics and building electrical circuits. The children loved having you there, and they were so excited to see yo
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  • Squirrel Class Diwali Party

    Published 19/12/24

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  • Our lovely new Mud Kitchen

    Published 18/12/24
    During the flurry of snow a couple of weeks ago, we had some visitors to our Dormouse outside area. During the summer the Men Shed, Chippenham made some wooden outside play items for the EYFS outside area which included a mud kitchen, sand pit and wa
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  • Chippenham Partnership Dance Festival 2024

    Published 13/02/24

    Dance around the World

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