Denbigh

Our annual British Science Week spectacular was once again a huge success. Pupils from all year groups had the opportunity to learn about careers in science as part of the Smash The Stereotypes theme and develop their own board project based on what they discovered. All of the pupils displayed tremendous enthusiasm, confidence and great pride for their career.

The week culminated with a fantastic science event for both staff and students. All year groups had the opportunity to learn about a specific science career,research and develop their own science fair project based on their chosen career. The careers on offer ranged from: cardiologists, vets, doctors, astronauts and even forensic scientists. With all year groups attending it is safe to say that everyone had a fantastic time.

Throughout the week, we were also running events during lunch times, lessons and even an exciting collaboration with several of the local schools that meant children had the opportunity to make connections and enhance their science knowledge further. We can’t wait to build on this next year!

For Science week, pupils across EYFS have been learning about the work doctors, dentists and nurses do to help keep us healthy. They had a visit from the dentist and learnt about keeping our teeth nice and strong. We were so lucky to all recieve a toothbrush and toothpaste from school.

They also had a visit from Nurse Nicole who showed them how a stethoscope works, what she has to do in her job everyday and why her uniform is essential. Thank you Nurse Nicole!

Pupils in EYFS also had an important visit from the Hannah at Active Luton who teaches First Aid and they learnt how to use a bandage correctly and five important things to remember when helping someone.
D- danger
R- response
A- airways
B- breathing
C- comfort

The pupils will be using their new found knowledge to teach other pupils about these important jobs during the science careers event.

At Denbigh Primary School, we love nothing more than celebrating our passion and enjoyment for reading. This week marks World Book Day but we thought why stop at one day when we can celebrate for a whole week. Book based activities are happening across the school from an exciting bear hunt in the lower school to pupils creating reading buddies to share stories with. We are only on day 2 and already we have had some great guest readers in to meet the children and share stories with them all.

We would like to express our thanks to Luton Fire Service Department, Beds Community Police team and JP Smith from Boxing Saves Lives for hosting to some excellent sessions with our pupils. Throughout the week, we will have a number of other guest readers as well as celebrating with our annual dress up day on Friday.

Young Voices is the UK’s largest singing concert for primary school children. We were delighted to once again be involved this year, and pupils from our Year 5 and 6 choir did a fantastic job representing all the Luton Schools at the concert. The choir has been practising for months to perform a selection of songs and dances for thousands of people at Wembley Arena. They were also lucky enough to perform with singer Heather Small and the World Champion Beat Boxcollective! Aleesha from Year 5 said, ” It was the best experience ever! The whole day was full of excitement and it was great performing with all my friends.”

Pupils in the choir will now begin preparations for Luton’s Singing Spectacular concert in June.

On Friday 3rd February, pupils across the school celebrated all things number! From outfits including digits to entering number competitions the pupils had a fantastic day diving into mathematics. Every class was set the loose change challenge to see who could raise the most money and also create the longest line using their change. Pupils in 6HD created the longest line measuring 3113cm but the winning class with the most amount of change was 6RG raising £59.82. This has allowed us as a school to raise over £400 for the NSPCC, the money will be used to support this amazing charity.