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  • 26/05/23

    Great Bowden Academy to become a UNICEF UK Rights Respecting School

    We have some news about a project we will be getting involved with over the next half term and coming years - We are becoming a ‘UNICEF UK Rights Respecting School’. Great Bowden Academy’s vision and aim is to be a school where children’s rights are at the heart of ou...
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  • 22/05/23

    Help Us Plant Our Sensory Garden

    Our Sensory Garden ground works are complete and we are delighted with the results. A big thanks to the landscaping team for all their hard work. It's amazing to see the garden transform and we are all eager to use this space. With the ground works complete it means we are ready for the final...
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  • 17/05/23

    Fun Run

    Saturday’s Fun Run Day was a great day. We had a brilliant turn out and loads of fun was had. Thanks to everyone who entered the run. 2.5k isn’t a short distance and we were impressed by each of you who entered and completed the course. Whether you ran or walked it, you were all fanta...
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  • 05/05/23

    Coronation ‘Street Party’

    What a fantastic Coronation celebration we had today. The children looked fantastic in their party clothes and many made crowns in class. We started the day with a Coronation special collective worship where the children sand their Coronation song. We also announced the winner of the Coronation p...
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  • 28/04/23

    Super Sports Week

    We are really proud of all our sports teams after yet another fantastic sporting week . We started with our GB Swim team on Wednesday. After the teams amazing efforts the other week, we made it through to the regional finals where we competed against other top performing schools in the area. We c...
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  • 23/03/23

    Work Starts on Sensory Garden ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    A hug thank you goes out to all the wonderful volunteers who came along to our clearance morning on Saturday, getting the area ready for work to start on our exciting new Sensory Garden. We had a great turn out, and a fun morning. Everyone from the Heads, teachers and staff, parents, pupils and e...
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  • 22/03/23

    Fairwell Tiger

    We had the very sad news this week that Tiger, one of our wonderful therapy dogs, passed away on Saturday morning. We had the pleasure of Tiger visiting the school to listen to the children read for many years. Accompanied by Linda, Tiger was loved by us all. Children loved to cuddle or to stroke...
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  • 18/03/23

    STEM Quiz Winners

      A huge well done to our quiz team who entered the annual STEM Quiz this week, organised by the Rotary club. Bringing together 6 other primary schools in the area, teams were quizzed on all things Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. The quiz was a fantastic event and so much fun...
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  • 17/03/23

    Thank You Quinns Pop-Up Shop

    A big thank you to Quinns the Bookshop who, after having to rearrange the date due to the snow last week, ran an amazing pop-up shop for us today. During the afternoon the children enjoyed browsing the books and using their World Book Day voucher to exchange for a free World Book Day book. We hop...
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  • 13/03/23

    Sensory Garden Volunteer Morning: Saturday 18th March between 9am-2pm

    You may have seen we shared with you last week our Sensory Garden plan, designed by Langrick, of the Gardening Companion. Her background in teaching before retraining as a gardener and garden designer made her the idea fit for understanding our requirements and designing the perfect garden for our n...
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  • 06/03/23

    Sensory Garden Update

    We’re delighted to share with you an update on the sensory garden. You may remember last year we had a big fundraising drive to raise money for a new sensory garden within the school playground. A space where children could feel grounded, calm and interact with nature. Used by the whole of the...
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  • 03/03/23

    Gymnastics Team Win Gold!

    Huge congratulations to our Key Stage 2 Gymnastics teams for not only competing in the South Leicestershire School Sports Partnership Gymnastics Tournament brilliantly, but for also bringing home some silverware! Within the tournament, our 2 teams of gymnasts (a Yr 3/4 team and a Yr 5/6 team) wer...
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