Year 6 were visited by Nigel Vardy (aka Mr Frostbite), who shared his incredible story of being one of three people rescued from Mount Denali in one of the highest helicopter rescues ever to take place in North America. His story was a brilliant introduction to our next topic: Extreme Environments

Well done to these girls who went to play a friendly game of netball against St Marie’s today. They made fabulous progress throughout the afternoon and look forward to playing more games in the future.

Eco Club are holding their Christmas Bring and Buy sale on Wednesday 3rd December from 3.15pm to 4pm in the Y5 bases. Donations of clothes, games, books and good quality bric a brac can be brought into school before the sale and given to Mrs Holden in Nuthatch or Miss Lee in Mayfly. There will also be lots of beautiful Christmas decorations for sale made by our Eco Club children

The children enjoyed the run up to the elections and placing their vote. Welcome to our new Rights Respecting Council. We are looking forward to working with you all. Thank you Mrs Holden for running the School Council.

Our amazing athletics team are through to the next round of this competition ( the area finals) in December.  The support and encouragement they gave each other throughout the event was as wonderful as their performance. Well done team.

We collected an amazing £1,365.47 fundraising for Children in Need through cash on the day & online via parentpay. Such a fabulous, generous fundraising effort from the school community! Well done to all who supported this fantastic fundraiser.

We enjoyed a fun science lesson about electricity.

We are delighted to share that we have been awarded The Music Mark from The Sheffield Music Hub (SCC).  

Oak represented Lydgate brilliantly on the trip the the National Holocaust Centre. We heard powerful survival stories and learnt about life for a Jewish child in 1930s Germany.