Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations

The school and local community are still talking about the celebrations we held to mark The Queen’s 90th Birthday on the Friday 10th June. Every pupil was presented with a booklet of ‘The Servant Queen and the King She Serves’ as a commemorative gift from the school. A big luncheon […]

School Open Afternoon

On Friday 27th May we held a School Open Afternoon and welcomed parents and family friends into the school to view it as a ‘working school.’  The whole school had spent the day focusing on RE and considering a big question: ‘Do angels exist?

Big questions don’t have an easy answer […]

Stratford upon Avon and the Royal Shakespeare Company

At 8.00am on Wednesday 25th May the whole school departed for the Stratford upon Avon for the day! We had organised a very special trip which linked with the celebration of 400 years of Shakespeare’s legacy and our summer term’s topic of ‘All the World’s a Stage.’ Each class took […]

Ascension Service

We held our Ascension Day service at St Faith’s church on Thursday 5 May.  Pupils in Year 4 led the service with the help of the Reverend Jeremy Gouslton.  A special candle called the Paschal or Easter Candle was lit to remind us that Jesus had risen and was amongst […]

Storytelling Workshop

We are a storytelling school and as part of our learning we invited a local dramatist and storyteller, Roger Day, to work with the school.  Roger spent the whole day working intensively with each class developing the children’s storytelling and drama skills. The whole school was captivated with Roger’s stories […]

Easter Service

Our Easter Service was led by our youngest pupils in the school. Children from Classes 1 and 2 helped us to understand the significance of the Easter through songs, Bible readings and prayers. Parents and family friends also joined us in our end of term worship.

Sponsored Fun Run

We had a wonderful time on the day of our sponsored run on Tuesday 22nd March and the weather was just perfect! All the children give their best effort towards trying to achieve the Golden Mile and some children exceeded this distance. The total raised to date was an incredible […]

Poetry Recital

Mrs Marsh organised our annual Poetry Recital on Friday 11 March. Each class performed a poem to an audience of parents and governors. Groups of pupils and individual children were also invited to participate by choosing a favourite poem to rehearse at home and perform at the Poetry Recital. Some […]

Problem Solving and Singapore Maths: School Open Afternoon

On the 12th February we held a whole school Open Afternoon and opened our doors to parents and family friends to view the school as a ‘working school.’ The whole school had spent the day focusing on problem-solving using the Singapore Maths approach to learning. The children were incredibly proud […]

Music Serenade – Friday 22nd January 2016

After the huge success of last year’s workshop, we were thrilled to welcome back Marcel Pusey and his colleagues from the award winning ‘Bassistry Music’.   Each class worked with Bassistry Music throughout the day in a series of interactive, energetic and fun workshops using body rhythms, movement and dance.  The children […]

‘A Miracle in Town’

Our Nativity Play ‘A Miracle in Town was a delight to watch and lead by our youngest recruits in Class 1. The children sang and performed beautifully! We raised £200.43 in donations for Crisis a charity for single homeless people. FoSS provided us with savouries and hot soup, mulled wine […]

Act of Remembrance

Our Act of Remembrance and Dedication held at St Faith’s Church is always a very special service for the school. The service helps the children understand the significance of honouring those who have died in service of our country and this year our service was led by the Reverend Jeremy […]

Science and Technology Workshop and School Open Afternoon

On the 22nd October we held a whole school Science and Technology workshop in our ‘Family (mixed aged) Groups.’ The children spent the morning exploring and investigating technology and scientific challenges.

Two of our parents led activities: Mr Long ran a Robotics workshop in which children had to control and manoeuvre […]

Harvest celebrations

Thank you for your generous donations of food for the Faringdon Food Pantry. Thank you also for supporting Emmaus Oxford; donations to date total £46.75. It was encouraging to see so many parents attend our first church service of the year and to join us in our harvest celebrations.

Year 5 and 6 Yenworthy Residential

Our annual Year 5 and 6 residential to Yenworthy Lodge in Devon took place in September. The children and staff had another fantastic and fun-filled week of rock climbing, surfing, and kayaking as well as a number of other challenging outdoor and adventurous activities. We were yet again very […]

FoSS Family Fun Day

The Friends of Shellingford School held their annual Family Fun Day on Saturday 11 July and raised over £1715!  The day included fun and games for all the family, including various stalls and games, archery, face-painting and a bouncy castle.  The children also joined in sports activities and a mini-assault course […]

Archie Dobson’s War

The Summer Production this year was ‘Archie Dobson’s War’.  This is a play commemorating World War 1 that has been specially written for children for performance in schools.  The play combines singing, dance and a wide range of small spoken parts which meant there was something for all the children […]

Open Afternoon

The school opened their doors on Friday 22nd May from 2.00pm – 3.00pm and invited families into the classrooms to see the school as a ‘working’ school and to give parents an opportunity to engage with their children’s learning.

We had activities involving scientific experiments led by our oldest pupils in […]

Poetry Workshop and Recital

On Friday 8th May the whole school was involved in a day of poetry workshops. We were visited by the poet James Carter who inspired us all to get creative and to have some fun with words.

The day involved wordplay and music to enthuse the children to feel confident in […]

Sponsored Fun Run (and beyond!)

The last Wednesday of the spring term saw pupils taking part in our second annual ‘Sponsored Fun Run’. We were very lucky with the weather, with light cloud cover and the spring sunshine just breaking through.

The pupils showed fantastic levels of stamina with most, even our youngest, running the 15 […]

Music Serenade

We held a whole school ‘Music Serenade’ event in the Community Hall during the afternoon of Friday 23rd January. Individual pupils had the opportunity to play their instrument and pianists, recorder players, guitarists and cornet players performed to the school and in front of an audience of parents and family […]

The Nativity

Our Christmas Play was a real delight and once again the children thoroughly enjoyed performing to an audience! The community hall was packed with parents and family relatives for both the afternoon and evening performance.  The mince pies, savouries, hot soup and mulled wine added to the festive spirit and […]

Open Afternoon

We are holding an Open Afternoon on Friday 28th November, from 2.30-4.30pm.  Come and join us for an early Celebration Assembly, followed by an opportunity to view the classrooms, meet the Friends of Shellingford School (FoSS) committee and enjoy some refreshments.

Act of Remembrance

Our Act of Remembrance and Dedication held at St Faith’s Church was very special indeed for us at Shellingford. We have received many comments from parents and the local community commending the school on such a memorable and moving service. Two Year 6 pupils read beautifully during the service, and […]

Harvest Celebrations

Our school Harvest Service took place on Friday 3rd October at 2.00pm at St Faith’s church and was led by the children in Class 3 and the Benefice Ministry Team. It was encouraging to see so many parents attend our first church service of the year and to join us […]