Our grounds are full of interesting things to investigate!
How many creatures can we find?
A blackberry picking challenge in our woods.
Lots of competition to find the biggest blackberry!
Counting blackberries.
Comparing sizes of blackberries.
'I got these by myself!'
There's always a helping hand.
The hunt is on to find the most blackberries!
Competition is fierce to find the most blackberries!
Fabulous finds including an 18th century piece of stoneware.
Working together to dig for rocks.
Problem solving to extract fluorspar.
Nobody is ever left behind.
The Juniors love helping the little ones.
Woodland crafts.
Making a star and a wish.
There are lots of opportunities for free play and exploration.
Big and small children learn and play together.
We love a challenge!
Climbing skills are developed by all.
We are very proud of our creations (see the spider below).
Our creations are shared, discussed and treasured.
'Look what I have made!'
We carefully observe and look after our woodland creatures.
Drawing skills are carefully developed.
'I made a tree!'
'This is my spider and he lives in a web.'
Finding animal homes in our woods.
Welcome to the gallery where you can see examples of our enriched curriculum.
World Book Day
Carbon Monoxide Workshop
Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club
Matlock Farm Park
Waiting for Christmas lunch
Comparing weights
So do the teaching assistants!
Children enjoy making a snowman
Raising money at our bake sale
Our fabulous Nativity play
Mary had a baby
Staff cake competition
Dressing up for World Book Day
The staff join in the fun!
Mates!
Making breakfast for Comic Relief
Looking angelic
Watch out Little Red Riding Hood!
Reception children learning their numbers
Loving playing football against other local school
We get a visit from springtime chicks
Drawing during our visit to Tideswell Church
Making Easter nests on RE day
Learning about Islam in the mosque
Wearing our Easter bonnets at the church service
Hearing about the many Hindu gods
Baking bread to sell at our Harvest auction
Learning about fruit & veg at our Harvest festival
Listen to our glockenspiel ensemble
Learning to skip
Clambering through hoops with Mr Wallace
Woodland games
Y5 & Y6 dancing for Children in Need
Our cake sale raised lots of money
Writing numbers
Making faces
Exploring 3D shapes in the classroom
...and again in the woods
Infant sports festival at Lady Manners
Harvest Festival
matching numbers and objects
Ghosties in the woods!
Look what I can do!
Cutting the ribbon to our new goalposts
Our Nativity play
The wisemen look for the star
The angels visit the shepherds
Musical chairs on party day
Everyone loves a party tea!
Learning about island life from Terry
Cross country running at LMS
Practising rugby drills
And they're off!
Creating structures
Catching the hare!
Amazing woodland art
Dressing up at Peveril Castle
Enjoying The Tempest
Inside the castle
Determination
Companionship
Infants sports day at HVC
Everyone joining in with Sign2Sing
Excitement in the dorm at our residential
Ahoy me hearties!
Action shot
Enjoying a treasure hunt in our woods
Diving for the line!
Learning about yoga on RE day
Our cycling star!
A joint enterprise
Pirates of the Curry Bean
Enjoying the cake sale in aid of Children in Need
Pass it on...
Admiral Hornhonker here
Eee eee
Class 2 enjoying the five/60 programme
Celebrating our sporting life!
Scrub the deck
Enjoying the interval refreshments
Learning about our ears
Limbo, limbo, limbo
Our picnic at Chatsworth
Making our school out of boxes
Making our school in clay tiles
Spider monkeys
Visiting Mompesson's Well in Eyam
Improving our woodworking skills
Experiencing new foods
It's Harvest time again
Parents enjoy a delicious school dinner
A woodland gathering
There's wild animals in our woods
The infant nativity play
The 2014 leavers' race
Forces at work
The winning team - our basketball champions!
Finding out how we are all connected
Making our amazing islands
The rugby team do us proud!
Selling jumble to raise even more money
Welcoming our visitors from Litton
Learning about people who keep us safe
Japanese visitors lead the dancing
Learning origami from the experts
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
Infant children enjoying their singing workshops
"Look at the park I made!"
Heave Ho!
The dads get a soaking
After the leavers' race
It's the egg and spoon race next
It's a photo finish!
Maypole dancing
Country dancing in the summer sunshine
Playing violin at our concert
Cooling off in the cascades
Enjoying our picnic at Chatsworth
Scared? - I don't think so!
No problem!
Happy boys enjoying the residential
Climbing to the top at Whitehall
Performing Alice in Wonderland
It's teatime with the Mad Hatter
Enjoying summer sports
Look at my mud pie!
Hungry baby birds in their nest
Warming up for small schools cross country
Pelting toward the finish line
Making a home for a woodland gonk
In my nest
Gathering important data
Climbing at HVC
Observational drawings in the sunshine
Ravenstor residential
Learning about capacity
Learning how to make a paddleboat at HVC
Showing off the finished product
Telling the story of 'The Lost Sheep' in assembly
Wearing pyjamas to school on Red Nose Day
Musical fun in aid of Comic Relief
This is the way we wash our hands
Washing the babies
Even the big ones joined in!
Learning about Judaism - eating 'forbidden food'
Decorating with playdough
Wearing my Easter hat
Making an amazing birthday cake
Having fun in the snowy woodland
Making Victorian houses
Meeting Father Christmas
Getting creative in the woodland
Snuggling up to a lamb
Junk modelling
Learning about Christian weddings
Making sound
Being buried
Mixing fairy perfume
Making beds at Styal Mill
Brewing and baking for Macmillan
Performing 'A Wind in the Willows'
Risking life and limb with the Great Lorenzo
Eagerly hunting for treasure on our walk
Aiming the javelin at EIS Sheffield
Dancing Russian style at HVC
Hill walking at the Castleton residential
Enjoying a night away from home
Learning about capacity
Running through our woodland for cross country
Enjoying the medal ceremony afterwards
Making rockets with Hope Valley College
Launching the rockets
Proudly exhibiting their art work at the Dome
The Olympic torch travels in style
Creating stained glass windows during RE day
Marking Lent by making pancakes
Baking Easter nests
Parents and children enjoying the beetle drive
Making a staff to celebrate the leap year
On your marks...
...get set.....
Go! (in aid of Unicef)
Young Shakespeare perform Hamlet
Making Indian sweets
Learning about Sikhism
Singing at our carol concert 2011
Mary and Joseph welcome their visitors
Our infant nativity 2011
Enjoying refreshments during the live nativity
Re-enacting the Christmas story
Racing for the winning line during cross country
Celebrating the opening of our new classroom
Shading during the Indian summer weather
Loving the mud during woodland learning
Singing at our harvest festival
Enjoying sports day
Relaxing at the summer fair
Skipping around the maypole
Getting soaked on a sunny day
Making music at our summer concert
Busy during rural craft day
Enjoying a picnic at Chatsworth
Getting buried in leaves in the woods
Climbing at Whitehall
Making a woodland shelter
Taking part in a Shakespeare play
Canoeing at Cromford Canal
Juniors in Cinderella
The infant nativity 2010
Finding out about the police force
Taking part in walk/cycle/horse-ride to school
Taking part in the K'nex challenge
Meeting the local llamas
Painting a cloth bag on Green Day
Getting ready to race at EIS
Having fun raising money for Comic Relief
Our Christmas carol service 2010
Practising climbing
Learning about biodiversity
Meeting a bearded dragon
Re-telling an African story
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