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Year 6 Symphony Hall Visit
10 Feb

Year 6 were given a fantastic opportunity to listen to music through the ages at Birmingham's world famous Symphony Hall! They went on a journey around the world and listened to a variety of orchestra pieces including Hedwig's theme from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone (2001), Lord of the Dance (1996), Infernal Galoo (Can-Can) from Orpheus in the Underworld (1858) and many more! In addition to this, we explored the Birmingham Library and had a talk from a librarian. We climbed thousands of stairs to look at the stunning views at the top and learnt that there are over a million books to read here!
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Number Day 2024-2025
7 Feb

On Friday 7 th February, we enjoyed our annual celebration of NSPCC Number Day. Pupils and staff enjoyed attending school in number themed fancy dress and came prepared with a number fact to share. They completed some problem-solving activities in class and learnt about maths in the world around us, including careers in maths. KS2 pupils were invited to participate in a national Times Table Rock Star competition, which increased engagement and will support fluency.
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Big Arts Week 2024-2025
11 Nov

Before half term, all of our pupils at Colmers Farm Primary School took part in Big Arts Week. This year's focus was decided by our school's Eco Team. They chose the theme of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. All of our art work this year was therefore created using materials which had previous been used for something else, which included things like plastic bottles, toilet roll tubes and boxes.
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Condover Hall Residential
8 Nov

For this year's residential experience, pupils from Years 5 and 6 visited Condover Hall in Shropshire. It was a fabulous three days where our pupils took part in a range of activities that developed their resilience, confidence, independence, risk taking and team working skills. The activities included survival, orienteering, Jacobs Ladder, climbing wall, archery and abseiling. Our pupils were also able to showcase their dancing skills on the first evening and to devour toasted marsh mellows on the final evening around a camp fire.
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School Parliament's Visit to London
21 Sep

As part of being elected to their new role, our school councillors had a special visit to London. Each year at Colmers Farm Primary School, this visit occurs. It is always a very early start (6:40 a.m.) and is a very long day, but it is always an amazing visit. This year we joined on this trip by the school parliaments from Turves Green Primary School and Green Meadow (two school's from our Multi-Academy Trust) The purpose of this trip is to teach the children about democracy and their role as school councillors/parliamentarians.
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Chess Competition
18 Jul

At Colmers Farm, we have been running a very successful chess club before school each Thursday led by Coach Anthony. As part of this, we were invited to a chess competition at Rednal Hill Infant School where our chess team competed against players from Rednal Hill Infant School and Cofton. Our team was fantastic. They demonstrated great sportsmanship throughout and I was very impressed with their ability and skill at playing chess, particularly as they have been playing less than a year.
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Year 2's Visit to the Sealife Centre
9 Jul

Year 2 visited the Sea Life Centre in Birmingham on Tuesday as part of their Under the Sea topic. They saw lots and lots of different sea creatures, including otters, penguins and seahorses! It was a great day and the children were impeccably behaved and represented Colmers Farm extremely well. Well done Year 2!
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Year 3's Cadbury World Visit
8 Jul

Year 3 took the train to Cadbury World as part of their history and geography topic learning about Birmingham. Our pupils learnt some more about the history of Cadburys and Bournville and some had the chance to dress up as workers. The staff were really impressed with the knowledge our pupils already had. Year 3 got to experience the 4D cinema, a tour of the factory and they even got to taste some delicious chocolate (and bring some back home).
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Rags 2 Riches Collection
17 Apr

Thank you to everybody who donated clothes to our Rags 2 Riches collection. We managed to collect an amazing 340kg of clothes which raised £171.85 for school funds. We very much appreciate your support and generosity with this. Thank you also to Miss Freemantle’s Eco Club for their help with this.
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Super League Netball Visit
7 Apr

Miss Rudge and Mr Williams took a group of 7 pupils (who go to our netball club each week) to a professional Super League netball game at the University of Worcester, between Severn Stars and Surrey Storm. At the end of the game, our pupils got to meet some of the Severn Stars players and get their autographs. All of our pupils were impeccably well-behaved and they enjoyed this trip. Hopefully they also picked up a few tricks and skills which they can use in their future netball games.
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