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• Gymnastics classes at Wickham Market Primary School are now available to all children outside of Avocet Academy Trust

  Fri 20 May 2022
  

• World Book Day Celebrations - Toilet Roll Book Characters

  Fri 19 Mar 2021

  As part of our World Book Day celebrations, children were invited to decorate a toilet roll centre as a favourite book character. We were so impressed with the many creative interpretations, each one unique and full of character!

  

• World Book Day Celebrations - Masked Reader

  Fri 19 Mar 2021

  As part of our World Book Day celebrations. staff have created a 'Masked Singer' inspired 'Masked Storyteller' film. Check it out and see how many members of staff can you identify reading extracts from their favourite children's storybooks?

   

  E-mail your answers to wickham.admin@avocetacademy.org. The names of families who have fifteen correct answers will be put in a hat and a winner drawn. Good luck!

   

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZScW81VJcQ

• Winter Headteacher's Assembly

  Sat 19 Dec 2020

  Yesterday the children received a virtual headteacher's assembly with two children from each class receiving a certificate.  The video is on this website and can be found below:  

   

  https://www.wickhammarketprimary.org.uk/winter-headteachers-assembly/

   

  Have a wonderful Christmas and we will see you in 2021!

• Our Fantastic Trim Trail

  Wed 03 Jun 2020

  We are pleased to announce that our PTA were able to secure a grant to replace out current Trim Trail. Our new Trim Trail has now been installed and looks fantastic! 

  The new Trim Trail includes this amazing range of equipment: 

  • Climbing Poles
  • Stepping Logs
  • Net Traverse
  • Mini Balance Beam
  • Parallel Rope Traverse
  • Swinging Log Traverse
  • Log Weaver
  • Tightrope Bridge
  • Walk and Stretch
  • Rope Swing Traverse
  • Climbing Wall

  The children now have a fantastic Trim Trail with a good range of equipment for imaginative play and physical development. Our children will be developing their key physical skills including balance, lower and upper body strength, hand strength, core stability, coordination and gross motor skills.

  For this project, we worked with Pentagon Play who design and install outdoor learning environments for schools and nurseries.

  You can visit their website here – www.pentagonplay.co.uk