In Year 1 we have been learning about our bodies and our senses. To deepen our knowledge about our bodies we had a visit from one of our pupil’s parents who is a radiographer.

Tia’s mum taught us how different machines can take pictures of the inside of our bodies. We had fun learning about x-rays, CT scans and MRI machines and got to see pictures that these machines can take.

Parents attending workshops and coffee morning, running clubs and wanting to be involved in the children’s learning enhances the pupils’ education and makes Saracens Bell Lane a truly wonderful community to belong to. Thank you to Tia’s mum and to all of our lovely families.

It’s been wonderful having 30 sixth formers from Saracens High School coming to read with 1:1 with our pupils on Wednesday afternoons.

The sixth form volunteers were trained by Mrs Tudorache and have shown much patience and maturity in helping our pupils progress with reading. It has also been wonderful to see how well our pupils have responded, as they look forward to reading with the ‘big kids’ in the hall each week.

Initiatives like these are one of the many benefits of belonging to the Saracens family and we look forward to exploring more ways to work together in the future.

We love welcoming parents into our school! This week we invited parents to a reading workshop led by Ms Zekiri.

Ms Zekiri introduced parents to ‘Reading Eggs,’ an award-winning online literacy platform for children aged 2–13 that blends game-based learning with proven instructional design. It teaches reading skills in a highly structured, step-by-step sequence, incorporating phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. After taking a placement test, each child works at their own level through interactive lessons, quizzes and decodable books. Progress is tracked via a parent/teacher dashboard, and children earn rewards along the way to keep them motivated. It’s a wonderful tool for helping children develop a lifelong love of reading.

During our session, the adults and the children had the opportunity to log on and use the platform. We will continue to champion reading in school and we’re thrilled that families are joining us by also championing reading at home.

Our Year 5 girls and boys football teams attended Bishop Douglass High School to participate in a day of football tournaments.

Despite there being over 20 schools, our boys made it all the way to the semi-finals!

A big well done to everyone for their dedication, teamwork and sportsmanship.