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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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  • 02/03/23

    World Book Day

    What fantastic World Book Day masks were on show today – so many wonderful designs and fabulous book characters. You could see how much effort you had all made, we hope you found it fun. To celebrate this special day, we had a fun morning reading to each other and sharing our books. Year gr...
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  • 30/01/23

    Great Bowden Academy Adopt Trees in Hursley Park

    On Friday, Mrs Bishop and six pupils planted two Oak trees in the village park. And what muddy fun was had! As part of Great Bowden’s Hursley Park ‘Adopt a Tree’ scheme, Great Bowden Academy has committed to adopt two trees in the park. The Hursley Park RMC reached out to the vi...
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  • 30/01/23

    GBA Basketball Team Win 'Spirit of the Games' Award

    Last week the Great Bowden Academy basketball team travelled to Robert Smyth Academy to take part in a local schools tournament. The competition was extremely competitive with many teams fielding very strong teams. We had several close games with only had a point between the two teams. Unfortun...
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  • 09/01/23

    GBA Win Silver 'Active October' Awards

    16th December: It’s a huge congratulations to all the children for their efforts in the recent South Leicestershire Schools Sports Partnership ‘Active October’. All the activity the children did back October saw us achieve the silver place award – a fantastic effort for the s...
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  • 09/12/22

    Panto Magic and Advent Window Fun

    The Christmas excitement builds this week as we had a host of Christmsa activity, from pantos, advent window reveals and even a visit from Father Christmas himself! The fantastic Chaplins Mini Pantos performed ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ today and the whole school was thoroughly ent...
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