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 3 World Book Day

  Thu 02 Mar 2023

  Year 3 have been enjoying reading their favourite books in their PJs today ! Happy World Book Day! #worldbookday2023

  

• Year 4 World Book Day

  Thu 02 Mar 2023

  As Readers, Year 4 children all got together, with their teddies and shared their favourite stories. They thoroughly enjoyed the session. There were lots of giggles as they were reading. The teddies (especially Yoda) enjoyed the reading as much as the children.

  

• Year 5 World Book Day

  Thu 02 Mar 2023

  Year 5 enjoyed reading Year 1's favourite books to them

  

• Pre-School World Book Day

  Thu 02 Mar 2023

  As readers and to celebrate World Book Day, the children in Pre-School loved coming in in their pyjamas and enjoyed many different stories being read to them!

  

• Year 1 World Book Day

  Thu 02 Mar 2023

  As Readers, Year One shared their favourite books with their peers in Year 5.

  

• Reception Readers

  Mon 27 Feb 2023

  This week in Reception we introduced our new key text in

  Literacy: The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler.

  We discussed new vocabulary from the text, learned BSL signs to help us retell the story and even got a special video visit from Axel & Julia Donaldson as part of this weeks World Book Day celebrations!

  We heard Julia's new story and even saw Axel Scheffler creating some of his illustrations.

  

• Year 1 Historians

  Fri 17 Feb 2023

  As Historians, Year 1 explored the life of Florence Nightingale.

  

• Year 3 Mental Health Week

  Fri 17 Feb 2023

  During Children's Mental Health Week, Year 3 have been exploring this year's theme 'Let's Connect' . We looked at who we make connections with and activites we enjoy with these people. #childrensmentalhealthweek2023 #letsconnect #PSHE

  

• Pre-School Concept Cat

  Fri 17 Feb 2023
  

• Reception Authors and Illustrators

  Fri 17 Feb 2023

  This week the authors and illustrators in Reception have been innovating our key text 'Mr Gumpy's Outing'. We have also shared 'Mr Gumpy's Motor Car' and started to think about the structure of John Burningham's stories.

  We mind mapped other types of transport Mr Gumpy could use and started to create our own story sequences. We recognised Mr Gumpy always gets into some kind of trouble so we added that to our story sequences.

  We have been really impressed witht the children's ideas.

  Have a lovely half term

  Miss Manning & Mrs Rhodes