Tenacres First School
Tenacres First School

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Reception Reading meeting

On Wednesday 25th September Mrs Hirst (EYFS lead) and Mrs Purkess (English lead) will be hosting a reading meeting for Reception parents at 9am in the school hall.  They will be explaining how phonics is taught at Tenacres, which reading books will be sent home and...

Reading at Tenacres

  To enable your child to excel at reading, they will have school reading books to share with you at home. Their main reading book will be allocated via Phonics Bug; log in details can be found inside the front cover of your child’s home-school diary. This book...

Beauty and the Beast

We have some of our families involved in this production and we wish them all the best for the performances.  Please see the flyer for details of tickets.

This Survey Needs You!

Please see the following from Sholfins Swim School.  We continue to value the impact they have made on the swimming abilities amongst other aspects of development for our children at Tenacres.  They are passionate about increasing the limited opportunities for...

Summer Fete Raffle

Summer Fete Raffle

Thank you for the support already shown for the Tenacres Summer Fete due to be held on the school grounds -  Saturday July 6th 12pm-3pm.  Back by popular demand is the raffle.  Please see the photo for just some of the prizes on offer.  Our Year 4 children will be...

Sports Days

Sports Days for this year (2024) are as follows: Reception - Tuesday 2nd July @ 10am followed by picnic (more details to follow) Yrs 1 & 2 - Monday 8th July @ 9.30am Yrs 3 & 4 - Friday 5th July @ 9.30am

Mumps Symptoms

Following our message to Reception parents regarding a confirmed case of mumps please see list of symptoms below: Overview (Link:www.nhs.uk/conditions/mumps/) The symptoms of mumps usually develop 12 to 25 days after becoming infected with the mumps virus (this delay...

PHSE Meeting

Mrs Hirst will be holding a PHSE meeting on Wednesday 22nd May at 2.15pm in the school hall. The meeting is to inform parents/carers what will be taught during PHSE lessons next half term. This will cover the RSE curriculum to include body parts, gender stereotypes,...

Blackwell – One Final Blog

Blackwell – One Final Blog

Well there we have it… our time at Blackwell has come to an end and after 3 days of activities from 8am until 8pm, we are all ready for our beds. The children have tried 14 new activities and have amazed us in every single one. Their behaviour has been incredible and...

Good Morning from Blackwell

Good Morning from Blackwell

Good Morning! We're all packed up and enjoying pancakes for breakfast. The children were incredible last night, with not a single sound between 9.30pm and 6.30am! We had to wake up nearly 20 children at 7.30 this morning! Will blog again at lunch.  

Day 2 – Evening

Day 2 – Evening

Our evening started with a trip to the shop where children picked some souvenirs! We then went to a very lively campfire with children joining in with a range of songs and actions. We toasted marshmallows too! All children were in bed and quiet by half 9

Day 2 pm

Day 2 pm

We have been climbing, shooting, swinging, descending and zip wiring this afternoon! Some really challenging activities but the year 4s have  been amazing! We’ve enjoyed pasta for tea with chocolate brownie and we’re all excited about campfire later!

Day 2 am

Day 2 am

The sun is shining and we have had an action packed morning! Children have really enjoyed themselves and we're now having lunch.

Good Morning from Blackwell

Good Morning from Blackwell

We are up and enjoying breakfast after a night of surprisingly good sleep! Everybody was so exhausted last night that lights out was 9pm with children asleep by half 10. We even had to wake one group up at half 7 this morning! We are all really looking forward to a...