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• David Gatward Creative Writing Workshop

  Wed 18 Mar 2015

  David Gatward, Winner of the Leeds Book Award in 2011 and author of Doom Rider, spent the day at Padiham Primary School on Wednesday, 18th March, hosting a Creative Writing workshop designed to inspire our Year 6 budding writers.

   

  Children from Briercliffe, Rosewood, Christ The King and Wheatley Lane also attended the event. The session was incredible fun, very interactive and really sparked the children's  imaginations so much so, that they can't wait to get writing!

• Top Engineers!

  Tue 17 Mar 2015
  Amazing news! After creating super vehicles in our DT work, two teams of budding engineers from Padiham Primary School took part in the Burnley Primary Engineer Celebration Event at Turf Moor. Tom and Molly represented the juniors and Skye and Jessica represented the infants. We are very proud to report that Skye and Jessica won their category and came away with a very shiny trophy. Their Big Bad Wolf car was well designed, really well made, travelled in a straight line and  went the furthest distance. Well done to all the children in school who worked hard and took part in the challenge this year.

• World Book Day Big Book Quiz

  Thu 05 Mar 2015
  Congratulations to the four winners of the Big Book Quiz who each received a gift token as their prize.

  Well done to all those children who took part in the quiz and better luck next year.

• World Book Day Fun Thursday, March 5th, 2015

  Thu 05 Mar 2015

  World Book Day inspired some fantastic costumes so congratulations to everyone for making such a great effort. Enjoy reading your World Book Day books and keep on reading!

   

  Book Week was packed full of exciting and memorable book related activities so that our children associate reading with enjoyment and pleasure.

   

  To celebrate World Book Day, every child dressed up as a pirate. The costumes were wonderful and Staff were thrilled by the fantastic effort made by everyone so many thanks to all our parents for supporting this event so enthusiastically.

   

  Every class throughout the school based their work for World Book Day on the theme of Pirates. Each class completed a range of lively Literacy and fun cross-curricular activities inspired by the theme. The children have loved the topic and have created some fantastic memories to mark World Book Day and their time at Padiham Primary School.

   

  On the day, each child received a World Book Day book of their choice to encourage them to read for pleasure. Two children from each class received a book prize based on the theme of Pirates and a booty bag packed with treasure.

   

  We are holding a Scholastic Book Fair next week so look out for next week's newsletter to find out more information about the event.

  Children in KS2 are once again taking part in Read for my School, a national reading competition to encourage children to develop a love of reading. Winners will be chosen from each class in the next few weeks. Keep on reading - it could be you!

• Comic Relief 2015....

  Tue 03 Mar 2015
  To help Padiham Primary School raise money for Comic Relief wear your pyjamas to school on Friday 13th March. There will be a pyjama fun run if the weather permits. Please bring a donation.

  

• World Book Day 5 March 2015

  Fri 27 Feb 2015

  World Book Day Is Coming! 

   Children's Book Week will take place in the week beginning Monday, 2nd March. Our theme this year is Pirates and children in each class will be taking part in a variety of cross-curricular activities to develop their love of reading.

   

  On World Book Day, Thursday 5th March, children are asked to come to school dressed as a pirate.  We will be presenting two children in each class with book prizes for the most interesting and original costumes.

  We look forward to seeing some wonderful costumes!

  

• Padiham's Got Talent!

  Thu 26 Feb 2015
  Well done to all the amazing children who took part in Padiham's Got Talent. The audience was entertained with singing, dancing, bell ringing, comedy and even a puppet act. You were all great, and the votes were very close. Ciara received the most votes and became our 2015 winner for her solo singing of 'A Whole New World'.

• Inclusion Event

  Wed 25 Feb 2015

  Ten pupils from Padiham Primary represented our school this week in this terms inclusion event. We were very lucky to have two community Burnley Football coaches who delivered two of the activity stations of Football dribbling and a spacial awareness activity. The final two stations involved the children playing Football whilst keeping their knees on the floor and the final station was very similar to Hockey dribbling and scoring.

  
  All the children had a fantastic time and even got to take home a certificate for their outstanding efforts during the event. Well done!
  
  
  
  

• Burnley Engineering Challenge....

  Wed 25 Feb 2015
  Children in Year 5 and 6 and Class 1/2B have been very busy this term. They are taking part in the Burnley Engineer Challenge. Apprentices from Aircell have been working alongside the older children to make vehicles that will climb a ramp. Adding the electrical components to power the vehicles has been very tricky! The younger children have designed and made vehicles for traditional story characters, and they have included a safety feature which will stop their toy from falling out of the vehicle as it travels down a ramp. We have carried out testing to see what distances the vehicles travel, and how well made they are. The children with the most successful vehicles will go to Turf Moor on the 17th March, where a celebration event is taking place with all the other Primary Schools that are taking part in the challenge.

• Youth Sport Trust Quality Mark Silver school

  Tue 24 Feb 2015
  Padiham Primary school has recently been awarded with silver status in this years Youth Sports Trusts quality mark. This means that our school demonstrates high quality outcomes in physical education,  school sport and whole school achievement. Last year we were awarded the bronze award and this year we have worked very hard to achieve silver. We are very proud to be a silver school and next year we hope to win the gold!