Castle Mead School

🇬🇧 VE Day celebrations 🇬🇧 Yesterday, we had an assembly where each class showed off some VE Day artwork. This helped to decorate the school gates this morning as everyone arrived in ♥️, 🤍 and 💙. The children also had a special lunch in the hall thanks to our catering team!

🎾 Well done to our Y3 tennis team who took part in the King's Cup tournament today in Trowbridge Park. They finished 🥉overall! Thanks to everyone at @Active_Trow and the sports leaders from John of Gaunt for making it a fantastic day.

We've been busy over the last 2 weeks completing the @LondonMarathon Mini Marathon in school! Today was the final day with medals donated by the @AvonValleyRun and @dbmax_timing being handed out in celebration of their 2 mile run. Your donations raised £45.60 too - thank you!

🌳Forest School Friday 🌳 Today, the children enjoyed a water fight to cool off in the sun. No one was dry by the end! They also celebrated National Hedgehog Day by making clay hedgehogs, crafted stick caterpillars, dug for 'fossils', climbed trees and made smelly potions.

Year 4 had a super residential trip to Grittleton House this week!

🌳 Our Forest School has a new name and these children helped to name it! We celebrated them in assembly today. 🌳 🦇 The new sign will be added to the Bats' Roost Forest School area very soon. 🦇

Welcome back to term 5! Just in case you missed it, here is the news round up from last term. sway.cloud.microsoft/GpfEkKOaxkxjwd…

🌳 We have benefited from some new fruit trees in the school garden which were planted earlier this week. Thank you Mel Jacob! 🌳 @EQUA_Mead wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/25070598.…

Here are a few photos from Year 4's brilliant trip to the Trowbridge Library. Basil welcomed them all and read some stories (Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus was a firm favourite), and they were able to choose books to take home.

Year 3 enjoyed their trip to St James's Church on Monday. They took part in a carousel of activities where they learnt about Christian Holy Week in the lead up to Easter and why Christian's celebrate Easter.

Happy Eid to the members of our school community who have been celebrating at home today. We hope you have had a wonderful day.

Today was our 'Significant Lives' assembly where each year group learn about and then present information about a significant person from history. The children spoke clearly and confidently and everyone listened really well.

Year 1 and 2 visited Trowbridge Museum last week. Here are Leisler Bats enjoying their trip!

We're so proud of our KS2 performers today in their dress rehearsal and at the main performance at John of Gaunt School. The children have worked so hard to put on a very entertaining show of The Wizard of Oz and every single performer absolutely blew us away!

Yesterday, the Y5/6 cricket team attended a friendly festival in Melksham. 🏏 You can read Mr Collingborn's write up on our Facebook page here: facebook.com/share/p/1BXKEt…

Our Moki Steps Competition got underway last week. Brandt's Bats wore the bands for a whole week and completed 973,945 steps! Well done to the top 3 steppers: 🥇Joey 🥈William 🥉Harriet When every class has had their turn, the highest class average will win a free pasta treat!

🌳 Forest School Friday 🌳 In honour of @WorldBookDayUK, the children mixed 'medicine' from George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. Today is also 'Plant a Flower Day', so we did! They also got to roast marshmallows over the fire which was a tasty end to the week!

What a day! 📖📚 We celebrated @WorldBookDayUK with some incredible costumes from the children and staff. Everyone had the opportunity to read and share a favourite book, talk about their costume and then finish with a whole-school assembly.

These are some great, FREE Easter holiday programs running all around Wiltshire over half term for children receiving Free School Meals. Many locations are in and around Trowbridge. Booking is through the link on the original post and up to 30th March. @EQUA_Mead

🎂🍰 Have you seen these posters around school? 🧁🎂 There's a cake sale next Thursday 13th March to raise money for new books in the school library. This is the same day as our World Book Day celebrations, so why not make them book themed too?! 📖🧁