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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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Easter Bonnet and Egg Diorama Day
21 Mar

This week, we held two of the most popular events on our school calendar, our Reception/Key Stage 1 Easter Bonnet Parade and our Key Stage 2 Egg Diorama event. Yet again, both events demonstrated just how imaginative and creative our parents and children are. Hopefully you had a lot of fun creating these together. The standard of creations was eggspecially eggseptional this year.
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Year 6 Trip to Symphony Hall
6 Feb

As part of our Colmers Farm Primary Guarantee, which aims to broaden our pupils’ experiences, Year 6 visited Birmingham’s world-famous Symphony Hall to see the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in action. The music performed ranged from a compilation of music from Harry Potter, to the Angry Birds theme to Ravel’s Bolero. These school concerts are designed to inspire children to explore the world of live music. Our Year 6s thoroughly enjoyed their visit and they represented our school very well indeed.
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MAT School Parliament Meeting
29 Jan

Pupils across the Excelsior schools participated in the third session of the Bright Leaders Initiative. Pupils engaged in many fun and interactive activities which enabled them to work in pairs and teams to solve problems and to initiate solutions to demanding tasks. The program enabled pupils to improve their oracy skills and become more resilient individuals. Well done to our School Parliamentarians who represented us so well during this day.
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