Year 6 Blog
Levers and Pulleys
As well as exciting excursions outside school, Y6 have been busy building levers and pulleys in science using K'Nex. The science behind it is all to do with forces and how simple machines can multiply forces to make shifting a load easier. Next week we are looking...
Year 6 Lifesaving
As part of our work on the School Swimming and Water Safety Charter, we had a clothes/pyjama session. The children were split into three groups and completed three different activities. All the activities were designed with falling into open water in mind. After a...
Year 6 Round Up
Year 6 Round Up Mr. Bettaney, Mrs. Wilson and I would like to say thank you and well done to each and every pupil in Year six for a fantastic term of learning and, to those who took the entrance exam, congratulations on all securing a well earned place at Denstone...
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End of Term Letter
July 2020 Dear Parents, None of us could have envisaged the sort of term that we have just experienced. It has been incredibly frustrating for all of us and I was delighted to receive the government document yesterday providing guidance for the full reopening of...
Extraordinary Times
It is a very long time since I last posted a blog and no one could even have begun to imagine how our lives would have changed over the past four months. None of us will have lived through anything like this before and inevitably we have all had to make significant...
Breaking News – DCPS Announce Exciting Relocation Plans
We are delighted to announce that, following an in-depth review of all areas of the school, we have decided to invest in DCPS and relocate it from Smallwood Manor to a new site at Denstone College. The Smallwood Manor site will close at the end of the 2020/2021...