Wilkinson Primary School

27 of our children represented our school at the Bilston Area Cross Country Championships on Thursday 13th March. The girls team took first place with the boys team finishing second. Ruby, in Year 5, finished in third place whilst Brody, also in Year 5, finished second. Well done to everyone!

Year two took part in a wonderful visit to Selly Manor in Birmingham to learn all about the Great Fire of London and to see a building of that time period.  They took part in storytelling, interactive games from the period, as well as being guided around the manor seeing all the different rooms and artefacts.  Everyone loved seeing how people would have lived and learned lots by touring the kitchen, dining room as well as the bedroom.

This week Mrs Copson's class visited the Space Centre in Leicester and had a great time learning about everything space related. They visited all parts of the centre including exploring the interactive galleries and discovering the past, present and future of space exploration.  They also  visited the amazing Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium which is the largest fulldome Planetarium in the UK!

We have really enjoyed looking after the duck eggs in EYFS over the last two weeks. The eggs had to stay in the incubator until they were ready to hatch. We watched closely and then suddenly one of the eggs cracked and a little duckling broke the shell and climbed out. He was soon joined by two more. The children have really enjoyed watching them grow and have all had the opportunity to hold a duckling carefully too. They have now left us to go back to the farm to continue growing into adult ducks.  We will miss hearing them chirp outside Nursery classroom!

Thursday saw a very special person come to visit us.  Adrian Patrick, a gold medal winning athlete, came to tell us all about his career and inspire us to believe that anything is possible if we believe we can do it. He spoke to us in an entertaining and inspirational assembly then lead us through some fun and challenging gym circuits.  We all had a great time!

This week saw the last of the 'Magical Maths' sessions in Year 2 and Year 5 after 5 weeks of mega maths fun.  Each week has had a different theme from Maths detective training to Mathletics training! Everyone agrees that they have had so much fun and can't wait to see Professor Poopenshtinken and friends return to our school next year!

This week has seen the annual book fayre return to Wilkinson Primary School. Thanks to everyone who has attended and supported the book fayre. Many hours of happy reading will follow!

Well done to our cross country team who took part in the latest race at Fordhouses cricket club on Wednesday 5th February. 17 children from Years 4, 5 and 6 represented the school and although we didn't win any medals this time, we are, as always, very proud of the effort and commitment shown. Well done Wilkinson!

7th February 2025 Last Friday was NSPCC number day and children and staff celebrated all things number related by dressing up and taking part in mathematical activities throughout the day.  As you can see from the pictures a great time was had by all! We raised an amazing total of £241.85 to go to the charity - NSPCC.

The week beginning the 3rd February saw 3 of our mathematicians take part in the bonus round of the Primary Maths Challenge, a maths competition for Gifted and Talented mathematicians.  All 3 of our pupils performed amazingly and must now wait to see if they win a medal when score thresholds are announced at the end of the month.  Well done boys -we are so proud of you.

On Friday 31st January 2025 our latest team took part in the Year 5 Maths competition at King Edwards school in Birmingham. They had a great afternoon and finished 4th out of 8 schools - well done Wilkinson!

In DSN this term we have been looking at caricatures and how to use exaggeration in order to create a comic imitation of a person. Here are some examples of our self portraits.