Sports Days

Despite the forcast of heavy rain, both Key Stage 1 and 2 held fantastic sports days once again. The children had a great time and, as ever, took part with enthusiam and good spirit. Thank you to all the parents who turned up to support and encourage the children.Thanks also to Mrs Lowe, Mrs Young and Miss Gallagher for training the children and Tom Gerrard for his help on the day. This year saw France and Swizerland joint winners of Key Stage 2, with Switzerland also taking 1st place for Key Stage 1! Special mention to our 'Performance of the Day' pupils....Alana (blue class), Daniel (red class), Max (1R), Layton (1T), Emmanuel (2RM), Isobel (2F), ?(3/4F), Samuel (3/4C),Kacey (3/4L), Lauren (5/6W), Ismail (5/6O) and Jamie (5/6P).

Egg Competition

Well done to everyone who took part in our decorate an egg competition. There were some 'eggcellent' ideas and we clearly have some 'eggstreemly' talented pupils in school! Winners all received an Easter egg, runners up received a Cadburys cream egg and all children had a mini egg for taking part. Our winners this year were...

Reception winners; Red class Carl's dinosaur Egg and Blue class Archie's tennis game.

Year 1 and 2 winners; 1R Ffion's Royal wedding and 1T Amy's sunbather 2F George's beach scene and 2RM Aysha's Eggspelliarmos!

Year 3/4 winners; 3/4C Angelina's mermaid, 3/4LH Imogen's basket of chicks and 3/4FW Millie's deep sea divers

Year 5/6 winners; 5/6O Abbie's London 2012 swimming, 5/6W Callum's ET and 5/6P's Tamara's £10 note.

Ladies Night

Thank you to all the Mums, Grand Mothers, Aunts, neighbours and friends who supported the PTFA ladies night to make it such a wonderful success. From cup cakes to painted nails, belly dancing to eye-brow shaping a fabulous evening was had by all, helping to raise funds for the next PTFA project.

Supporting Earth Hour

At Silverhill we actively encourage children and parents to engage with environmental issues. Many iconic landmarks will be turning off their lights for Earth Hour, including Big Ben, Wembly,the Albert Hall and the BT tower. Why not turn off the lights and do something different for an hour? Have a late supper by candle light, play hide and seek in the dark, read a book in bed by torch light? Turn of your lights for an hour on Saturday 26th March at 8.30 in support of Earth Hour and tell us next week what you did with your hour!

For more information go to http://www.wwf.org.uk/earthhour

Gymnastics win

Silverhill took part in the Derby Year 1 and 2 Gymnastics Competition at SPringwood Leisure Centre on Thursday 10th March. The team of 6 performed a floor routine, a body management routine and a vault. All the children have been practising on a Thursday at Gym Club as well as in their living rooms at home. Mrs Brundish was incredibly proud of all the gymnasts that took part and the team won the bronze award for third place out of 18 schools. The competition also included individual prizes and Anna won the Silver prize for second place. Well done girls!

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Number Day

At 11am on 3 December 2010 Silverhill Primary joined other schools across the UK to join in the NSPCC Number Day in their attempt to set the Guinness World Record™ for the largest maths lesson in the world and to raise money for vulnerable children across the UK. Thank you to all who supported this event - we raised a total of £117.28p and the 290 pupils who took part will be added to the World Record.