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It was wonderful to see so many smiles, laughter, fun, and fantastic dance moves from everyone involved.

We are delighted to announce that Edward the Elder Primary School has achieved the Gold School Games Award for the fourth consecutive year. The School Games Award recognises schools for their commitment to developing competition, participation, and healthy lifestyles through sport and physical activity. Achieving Gold status once again is a fantastic accomplishment and reflects the hard work, enthusiasm, and dedication of our children, staff, and wider school community.

We’re really pleased to share that our Year 3 and Year 4 children recently took part in the Bikeability course in Wolverhampton. Year 3 had a great time in the “Learn to Ride” sessions, building their confidence and getting to grips with the basics, while Year 4 completed Level 1, practising control, balance and safe riding skills. It was lovely to see how much their confidence grew over the sessions and how much they enjoyed it too!

Year 3 had a fantastic afternoon learning traditional dances: the Scottish Reel, the Brazilian Capoeira and the Fijian Meke! We took part in dance tutorials for each dance to learn some specific movements and then worked in pairs to create a short performance piece in the style of one of the dances!

Our Spotlight Dance Club has been running weekly throughout the spring term, and to showcase their learning the children gave a fantastic performance to families and staff. It was wonderful to see pupils from Reception all the way up to Year 6 working together so confidently and enthusiastically. Their hard work and dedication truly shone through in their performance. Congratulations to all of our amazing dancers – you did a brilliant job! A special thank you to Spotlight Dan

A fantastic team effort from our Cross Countey team who took part in a long distance race at Rakegate primary school. The boys ran first, with Finley (Year 6) and Callum (Year 4) leading the way, followed closely by Ryley and Tomiwa (both Year 6) a fantastic team and supportive team run! The girls ran second with Shareen leading the way followed by Neve, Olivia, Bella and Jess (All Year 6). Clear determination shown by our five girls. Thanks for the parents that came to watc

What a fantastic turn out for our first afterschool Dance club sessions. All the children, ranging from Reception all the way through to Year 6, have enjoyed expressing themselves through dance and beginning to learn a routine to the infectious song 'Golden'. The club is being run by Spotlight Dance Company who have already been impressed with the enthusiasm and confidence of the children so far. We have also had many heads pop up at the door after hearing the infectious soun

What a term it has been for our club! Rain, wind and frost – we haven’t let anything stop us reaching our goal! We have seen a variety of faces throughout the course of the club, but there were seven faces that have show clear commitment and persistence. From Year 6 – Jordie B-S, Oliver N and Neve C. From Year 4 – Oscar N and from Year 3 – Matty M, Jaxson J and Cason B. They knew their goal and managed to achieve it. It may have been heavily raining, but we used our positive

We have been stretching and creating different shapes with our bodies, including spelling out our names. Taking some inspiration to...

KS1 have been exploring the outdoors during their Wild Tribe learning. We used the book Stickman as a hook; we then collected, counted and organised sticks; explored a variety of vocabulary for description and also discussed who, why and how we respect this exciting area. We also found some great ways of playing a variety of games in our safe outdoor space.