At Heronswood, we strive to make the time our children spend at school as fun, exciting, engaging and as memorable as possible. We recognise that children learn best when they have an emotional connection to the activities they are participating in. We do this through a stimulating, vibrant curriculum but also by bringing in outside people and by taking the children out on trips and visits.

Please see our Facebook Page - Heronswood Primary School and Pre-School for our most recent updates since May 2025.

Click on any of the News Posts below to find out what exciting things our children have been up to.

• Year 2 Musicians

  Wed 24 Jan 2024

  As Musicians, Year 2 have been reading symbols and notes when singing to help our pulse and pitch! Can you sing the rhyme "I hear thunder" at home? We also used instruments to represent the different characters from Little Red Riding Hood (which links to our English learning!)

  

• Year 4 Physicists

  Tue 23 Jan 2024

  As Physicists, Year 4 explored how sound travels through gas, liquids and solids. We used a string telephone and a hydrophone.

  

• Year 5 Computational Thinkers

  Tue 23 Jan 2024

  As Computational thinkers, Year 5 have been learning about conditions,selection and outcomes ready to create their own quizzes using Scratch.

  

• Year 3 Healthy Diet

  Mon 22 Jan 2024

  Year 3 have been learning about carbohydrates and how they are important in a healthy diet. We had a look in our lunchboxes and the hot dinner menu to sort the foods we eat into the different food groups. Do you have a balanced lunch today? We were very impressed with Year 3's lunches!

  

• Pre-School Yoga

  Mon 22 Jan 2024
  

• Year 3 Mathematicians

  Thu 18 Jan 2024

  Year 3 have been exploring unit and proper fractions and comparing them this week in our Maths lessons.

  

• Reception Letter Exchange

  Thu 18 Jan 2024

  In Reception we have started an email / letter exchange with a Cambodian school called Happy Chandara School. We have exchanged welcome letters and the children in England and Cambodia have been busy preparing drawings to send in the post. At Heronswood we explored where Cambodia was on a map and then compared pictures of Heronswood Reception in forest school with Happy Chandara Kindergarten in their permaculture garden to see the similarities and differences. We are so excited to start receiving letters in the post from our new Cambodian friends!

  

• Year 5 Writers

  Thu 18 Jan 2024

  As Writers, Year 5 have enjoyed finding out about the octopus in preparation for writing their own 'How the Octopus Became' story. Can they tell you about any of their research?

  

• Year 1 Scientists

  Thu 18 Jan 2024

  As Scientists, Year 1 investigated which materials were waterproof.

  

• Year 6 Writers

  Thu 18 Jan 2024

  As Writers, Year 6 have been thinking about the feelings of different characters in the poem The Highwayman. They have created emotion graphs and made comparisons between the feelings of the highwayman and the meddling ostler Tim.