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Risk Assessment
Our Risk Assessment has been updated . Read the Risk Assessment from 15th January 2021.
Home Schooling Videos for Primary Aged Children
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The Jungle Book
Please find below the audio tracks and words for Act 1 and Act 2 of The Jungle Book. Please encourage your child to practice at home so they know the melody and movements really well.
Shapes in the environment
Bees and Butterflies have been exploring shapes in the environment by going on a shape walk around school. We spotted lots of different shapes and talked about the properties of the shapes we found.
Young Voices 2020
90 children from both the Hilperton and Wingfield sites travelled to take part in the 'Young Voices' event in Birmingham. Children sang with over 6000 other children and performed with a live band. Two of their favourites were the medley of...
Fundraising for The Grand Appeal
A big thank you from The Mead Community Primary School. With your help, we have raised an amazing £2,283.85 for The Grand Appeal through our fantastic fundraising at School Performances and the Charity Quiz.The money raised has gone direct to The...
September 2020 Teaching Vacancies
The Mead Academy Trust is now recruiting teachers for a September 2020 start; there is an opening for a creative and dedicated Resource Base teacher, based at Castle Mead School. Additionally, the Trust is recruiting for class teachers (school placement to be...
Our special visitor and his ambulance
Butterflies and Bees enjoyed a visit from a paramedic and his ambulance this week. The children were able to go in the ambulance and look at all the equipment. Wayne, the paramedic, showed us a heart monitor, a blood sugar monitor and an oxygen...
Land Ahoy!
Pine Martens are really enjoying their topic, Land Ahoy!, learning all about pirates and sea explorers. We have been singing some traditional sea shanties and using the role play props to Hot Seat as pirates. They are even talking like pirates!...
Wiltshire Times – Top rating for Primary School
Staff and children at The Mead Community Primary School in Trowbridge are celebrating after being rated Good in all areas.Following a two-day assessment across both Hilperton and Wingfield sites, The Mead School in Trowbridge has received a Good in all...
Solar System Models
In Hedgehogs, we have been learning about the Solar System. We compared the sizes of the planets by creating accurate scale models using play-dough. We discovered that the sizes of the planets vary massively and that Jupiter is larger than all...
Christmas Performances
We are starting to plan our Christmas Events and wanted to share dates with you as soon as possible. We hope that many of you will be able top join us as we celebrate as a school. Please click on the link below to view our performance dates and details for each site....
Hares Multisports trip to Clarendon
On Thursday, Hares travelled to Clarendon Academy to take part in a multisports event. Schools from across Trowbridge took part in activities led by Clarendon's Young Leaders. They enjoyed Tag Rugby,Football Shoot Out, Cricket, Bowling and many...
30:30 Champions
On Monday, members of our sports committee went to Westbury Leigh School to take part in a Health and Wellbeing project. They have been trained up as 30:30 Champions by a former British triple jumper. They will use their new leadership skills to lead activities which...
Trowbridge Lantern Festival
On Friday, Ospreys had the chance to make lanterns for Trowbridge Lantern Festival. We used willow sticks and tissue paper, and the finished products look fantastic!
Fun with Science
Pine Martens have been learning about the properties of materials in Science. They had an exciting lesson sorting materials into different groups according to their properties. It was a very interesting investigation and the children used...
Trip to Westonbirt Arboretum
On Friday, Pine Martens went on a trip to Westonbirt Arboretum to enhance their vocabulary and learning for their topic, 'Why do things change?' Their exploration of nature first-hand led to some fabulous adjectives, poetry, living art work and...
Signs of Autumn
Year 2 have had amazing start to our new topic ‘How do things change’. We spent the whole morning exploring the school grounds looking for signs of Autumn and collecting leaves and twigs. We then created our own Autumn sculptures which varied...
PE with Mr Potter
We are enjoying our PE lessons with Mr Potter. We have been jumping, skipping, hopping and moving with bean bags
Has Beegu landed at the Mead?
Something mysterious has landed in our playground. We were sent a news report asking us to investigate. We asked lots of questions and had lots of ideas about what it might be. Come and visit our classrooms to find out what we thought had...
Hero sister draws up fundraising plan
A budding young artist from The Mead School has designed Christmas cards to raise money for her brother. You can read the full article on the Wiltshire Times’ website here.
Open Day at The Mead 14th November
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Wingfield Toddler Group
This week in Toddler Group we did a nature scavenger hunt around the grounds. We looked for sticks, leaves, fallen apples, seeds and little creatures. We also did some sensory play with pumpkins. We felt their sticky insides and their seeds-...
Building Houses
This week Year 1 invited their grown ups in for an afternoon to build a model house for the Three Little Pigs. The children designed their house first. It needed a door that opened and windows you could see through. Then we built our house with...
Music Making at the Mead
We have had a busy term in Music with lots of fantastic music making. Year 3 have enjoyed a brass workshop at the start of the term as well as learning the recorder. Year 4 are beginning to develop their skills on the Ukulele. Both Year 5 and 6...
Slimbridge
This term, Hedgehogs visited Slimbridge Wetlands Centre. We had an amazing time! We had a member of staff give us an 'otter talk' about their 3 North American otters, we visited a model Arctic research centre, took part in a workshop on the...
Wingfield Toddler Group
What a great time we had this week in Wingfield Toddler Group. We were outside discovering bugs, playing in the water and sand and enjoying stories in Wingfield's new forest area.
Rosa Parks
Pine Martens have been learning about the activist Rosa Parks and watched an interesting dramatisation to help them understand the impact of her actions. The children have been talking about how Rosa refused to give up her seat on a bus to a...
Mental Heath Awareness Day
On Thursday, as part of Mental Heath Awareness Day, Hares Class took part in a live BBC lesson. We learned different ways to expressing our emotions, about growth mind set and practised some mindfulness which found really useful. In a follow up...
Fantastic Beasts
Year 6 have been exploring myths in English and have been learning and acting out Theseus and The Monotaur this week. The children can't wait to design their own 'fantastic beasts' next week and begin planning their myths. They are working on...
Tractor Man
So far this term Year 2 have had lots of fun learning the story of ‘Traction Man’. We wrote our own Superhero comic strips. We have also been very excited about our History learning where we have found out lots of interested facts about Rosa...
Year 3 have fun with reptiles
Year 3 really enjoyed their visit from Jonathon Jungle. We loved meeting a giant African millipede, three different stick insects, two geckos and a rainbow boa snake. We were particularly fascinated by the reptiles' scales and loved seeing them...
Chalk Writing
We are having fun learning our sounds. We have been practising to write them outside with chalk
Mental Health and Wellbeing
On Thursday afternoon Year 4 followed an interactive BBC lesson on Mental Health and Wellbeing. We were keen to learn some new techniques to help with mindfulness and focusing, and you can see the concentration on the faces of the children in Ospreys! We...
Slimbridge Wetlands Centre
This week, Year 5 went on a trip to Slimbridge Wetlands Centre to learn all about the water cycle and how wetlands help to keep our water clean. We thoroughly enjoyed investigating how polluted the water was and how to help keep water healthy...
Wingfield Toddlers Group
With another fantastic turn out, the children at the Wingfield Toddler Group enjoyed some autumn art. We painted with conkers, leaves and sticks!
Wingfield Toddler Group
On Monday we held our session of the Wingfield toddler group. We had a fantastic turn out with over 20 families. We explored the grounds, collecting interesting nature items and meeting the chickens. Inside, we enjoyed a snack and some singing!...
Open Days
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Gravity in Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs took part in a fantastic live web feed with Richard Browning from Gravity. He discussed many areas of his amazing jet suit and we even got to see some of his out take video clips where the jet suit didn’t go to plan! Richard truly inspired the...
Water Cycle
In hedgehogs, we have been learning about the water cycle and created a miniature version of it in our classroom. We poured a small amount of hot water into an old fish tank and covered it with cling film. We then put ice blocks over the top....
Trip to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Last Thursday, Hares class travelled to Bristol to visit the Museum and Art Gallery to support our learning about the Egyptians. We visited the Egyptian exhibit and were amazed by the artefacts among which were sarcophagus, amulets and Ancient Egyptian...
New outdoor activities
Pine Martens now have some lovely new activities in their outdoor area behind the classroom. They have spent the week exploring and have had an exciting time outside learning with each other in the wonderful weather. They really look forward to...
International School Award
Pupils and staff at the Mead Primary School are celebrating having their International School Award re accredited until 2022.The school's approach towards international work such as their no plastic project which links with an Australian school in Vietnam...
Mysterious Parcel in Year 4
Year 4 have had a fantastic yet mysterious start to the school year! A package from a museum containing an object all the way from Egypt has arrived in school. The museum has heard we're studying the Ancient Egyptians and so have asked for our...
International School Award
The Mead Primary School has been praised for an ‘Outstanding’ International School Award Application We are delighted to have had our International School Award re accredited until 2022 and this time, our approach has been recommended to the Award...
Success for Grant Funding
We are delighted to inform you that once again The Mead has been successful in obtaining grant funding in the latest round of Condition Improvement Funding. This funding has been awarded for heating replacement / upgrade at both The Hilperton and Wingfield sites and...
Year 6 Leavers show Paws and Claws
Children from Year 6 put on an outstanding performance of the musical 'Paws and Claws' at the Arc Theatre. The story was based on two rival gangs; cats and dogs. Children performed with confidence and sang with amazing enthusiasm.The show...
Trip to Brokerswood
We had a fantastic day at Brokerswood. We arrived in high spirits! After a quick pit stop we were straight into challenging ourselves with one of the four exciting activities: zip line, archery, climbing and canoeing. The children all used a...
CSL Music Festival – Civic Centre Trowbridge
Children from both the Hilperton and Wingfield site took part in the annual local schools music festival at the Civic Centre. Wearing costumes from the show 'Pantastic' they sang the song 'We Know Peter Pan is Missing'. Children from Years 3- 6...
Mice in the Zoo
Mice loved their visit to Bristol Zoo. We saw gorillas, monkeys, seals, penguins, red pandas and many more amazing creatures. We learned about different habitats and what different animals need to live.
Wingfield will be welcoming a new head of site from September
THE Mead at Wingfield will be welcoming a new head of site from September. Neil Griffiths has been promoted from a leadership post at the school’s Hilperton site, to head of site at Wingfield. You can read the full article on the Wiltshire...
3D Sculptures
In Term 6, Pine Martens have been making a 3-D sculpture of a sea creature. They each had a ball of clay and used techniques with their hands to mould the clay into the sea creature that they have chosen to create a fact file for. They had a...
Inspired Art
We have had a fantastic fortnight in Year Three. A visit from the author CS Clifford has inspired our reading and writing. What an insight in to how his ideas became books! We have begun exploring lines and emotion with mixed media in our Art...
Water Sports
Year 5 had a fantastic day taking part in a range of water sport activities in South Cerney. We built and raced rafts, learnt to canoe and paddle board. Generally had an awesome, if not a little wet, time!
Paper Helicopters
In Year 4, we have been putting our investigative skills to the test by experimenting how wing length affects how a paper spinner will fall. Conclusions and analysis to follow next week.
Light and Shadows
This week in Year 6 we've been investigating how light travels and conducting our own investigations into the relationship between light and shadows.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Ensemble players take part in an inspirational project working with the 'Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment' Musicians who play in The Mead's two music ensembles took part in an inspirational workshop and performance at the Wiltshire Music...
Kensuke’s Kingdom
It's been another busy and exciting week in Year 3. The Otters and Ravens have continued their adventure in to Kensuke's Kingdom, we spent a morning figuring out what we might need to survive on a desert island! We even followed a map of the school to find food, water...
Girl of Ink and Stars
Last week, Year 6 had an amazing opportunity to watch a theatre version of the book we studied in term 1: Girl of Ink and Stars. The University students of Bath, directed by Barra Collins, performed the 90 minute show. The children had the...
Schoolboy Daniel chosen as future star Formula One driver
Schoolboy Daniel chosen as future star Formula One driver. You can read the full article on the Wiltshire Times’ website here. Congratulations to Dan! What an incredible achievement and exciting opportunity - we are all very proud of...
The Birdman debate
In our class, we had a debate about one of Why the Whales Came's main characters: The Birdman. Half of our class were in favour of including him in life on the island of Bryher and half of us were in favour of keeping away from him....
Smashing Saxons
This week in Year 4, we have started learning about the Anglo-Saxons. Some of us designed and made our own Saxon shields which we shared in class.
Composing Music
Mice have been composing music using the percussion instruments. We enjoyed making music about animals.
Equality
To start the term off year 5 spent the day exploring, learning and discussing the topic of inequality. We learnt about well-known figures who fought for equality and discussed ways we could eliminate it.
Trip to Bristol Aquarium
Year 1 went on an amazing trip to Bristol Aquarium! We were lucky enough to have a guided tour around the aquarium and learnt lots of interesting facts about the fish. One of our favourite facts is that octopuses are true escape artists – they...
Growing Plants
Year 3 at Hilperton had an exciting start back to the summer term, looking at plants. We have designed investigations to see if we can prove exactly what plants need to survive and grow. We are creating our own bean graph too where each day we...
Musical Maths
Children in Year 3 have been increasing their mathematical skills by using the programme Mathewhackits. This involves playing Boomwhackers whilst saying the timetables accompanied by a backing track. Their skills are really improving and they are having fun as they...
Day of free fun at community fest
Families enjoyed a day of free fun and entertainment at the Trowbridge community festival which was put on by staff and children at The Mead School in Trowbridge over the weekend. You can read the full article on the Wiltshire Times’...
Potions
Mice have been creating potions this week. They had a range of ingredients to use including flour, water, food colouring and bubbles to create their weird and wonderful coloured potions.
Wiltshire Times – School hosts free community festival
Families from all over Trowbridge are being encouraged to attend a free community event arranged by The Mead Primary School. You can read the full article on the Wiltshire Times’ website here.
Non-Chronological Reports
This week we have been finishing and editing our non-chronological reports. We have begun publishing them in handwriting pen. We can't wait to show them to our grown-ups next week.
Roman Shields
Year 3 have begun an exciting investigation into testing, designing and creating their own Roman shield that will offer them the best protection in a battle. Did you know that the Roman word for a shield is Scutum? We began by testing which...
Run the World School Event
Year 4 took part in the 'Run the World' event which was organised by the friends of The Mead. We had 10 minutes to run as many laps of the school as we could to raise money. We put in a huge amount of effort and completed over 300 laps of the...
Handa’s Surprise Fruit Salad
We have been inspired to make delicious fruit salads by all the delicious fruits in Handa's Surprise!
Year 5 Run the World
Year 5 really enjoyed the sponsored event at the beginning of the term. As a year group we love getting active and they loved the opportunity to 'Run the world.'
Sharing Stories with Parents
We have loved having our parents into share our favourite stories with us this term.
Ducklings and Moles Trip to Old Wardour Castle
This term Year 1 have been learning about castles. We visited Old Wardour castle this week to learn about life within a castle. We had a great time touring the ruins of the castle, playing historical games, retelling our castle story and...
Trowbridge Community Festival
Pine Martens Trip to Old Wardour Castle
Pine Martens went on a lovely trip to Old Wardour Castle as part of our topic 'The Sword in the Stone' this term. They took their sketch books to sketch the castle and played games from medieval times such as skipping, rolling hoops and chase....
Parade Art & Craft Workshop
Talent Show Auditions
Blitz Day
Hedgehogs were immersed straight into 1940s England at the beginning of this term with our 'Blitz Day'. We had evacuees, soldiers, doctors and nurses ready for action, learning all about life as a child during the war. The air raid warning kept...
Building Bridges
We have been building bridges using the playpod this week. We had to work together to make it balance so we could safety cross. We talked to each to each other about it being safe and checked if it was too risky!
Investigating Electrical Circuits in DT
In Year 6 this week, the children have been investigating electrical circuits. They have also been trying out different ways of creating strong joins between pieces of wood. Both these activities are leading up to them making their own electric...
Stonehenge Visit
Year 3 had a fantastic day out at Stonehenge. The weather was cold and windy but we didn’t get wet! We experienced Neolithic life and attempted to build Stonehenge, by working out how to transport and stand up the stones. We also had a go at grinding corn,...
King and Queen Day
On Friday Year 1 had their Super Starter – a King and Queen Day! We came dressed up as kings, queens, dragons, knights, horses and jesters. We learnt a medieval dance in the hall which involved clapping and dancing in a circle holding hands. It...
Visit to Upper Row Farm
Last week Foxes and Robins visited Upper-Row Farm. Whilst there, we got to look at and meet lots of different animals; pigs, cows, chickens, rabbits, horses, goats and lambs. We all really enjoyed our day and particularly liked when we got to...
Fantastic Pantastic
Over a hundred children took part in a performance of 'Pantastic' at The Wiltshire Music Centre. The musical was based on the story of 'Peter Pan' and included singing, dancing and acting. Children performed with incredible confidence, sang...
Run The World Sponsored Event
Fabulous Finish Tea Party
On Thursday 4th April, Pine Martens had their Fabulous Finish in the school hall for this term's topic 'The Papaya That Spoke'. The children made scones for a tea party with their grown-ups and designed posters to decorate the tables. They also...
Year 2 have fun with Measuring
Year 2 have been having lots of fun measuring in centimetres and metres. First, we measured objects that we found indoors, such as books and chairs. Then, we went outside and measured how far our friends could run in 3 seconds. We had so much fun! ...
Drawing Giants
Mice class have been drawing giants with the help of Year 5. They drew round each other and then designed their own giant for story writing. They had great fun working in teams with the older children supporting the younger ones. ...
School Music Ensembles
We now have a music ensemble on both the Wingfield and Hilperton sites, when our talented musicians can enjoy playing music together. This term we have been playing a number of pieces including 'Saturday Matinee', 'Fridays Foxtrot' and 'Sunshine Skiffle'....
3D Shapes in Maths
This week, Year 6 have been drawing nets of 3D shapes in Maths. To help us draw in missing patterns on a net, we folded the nets of shapes to check our original answers; it was fiddly work but good fun!
Visit to Green Lanes Woods
We recently visited Green Lane Woods. Whilst there, we looked for 'portals' into magical words. We then built houses for a creature that may have lived in our magical land- we had a party house for sting insects and a football pitch for unicorns!
All fingers and thumbs
This term our art inspiration comes from the sketches of Quentin Blake. We have looked at how to draw a person using the correct proportions using our thumb and finger as a guide to measure the head. We then evaluated our pictures afterwards to...
A Magical Land
Something very strange happened in Year 2. A magical chair appeared in the classroom and when we sat down, we were transported to a magical land. We saw tiny animals, dragons and were flying high above castles. It was fantastic! What a...
Trowbridge in Bloom Public Speaking Competition
On Wednesday 20th three of our Year 5’s went to compete in the Trowbridge in Bloom public speaking competition. The team of three had to speak for two minutes each on a subject chosen from two options. The team chose to talk about; Schools produce all...
Year 4 science – why does bread have holes in it?
This week, Year 4 learnt about a micro-organism called yeast that likes to eat sugary foods. When it does this, it makes a gas called carbon dioxide. This is what causes bread to have holes it in. We investigated which types of sugary foods...