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Hydesville News
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Nursery's Dough Disco Day
25th June 2018Nursery children had such a fun time on ‘Dough Disco Day’ when they enjoyed a party lunch and a fun-packed afternoon of activities based around play-dough.
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Celebrating World Music Day
20th June 2018In celebration of World Music Day, the School hall became a hub for some Indonesian instruments during a day of Gamelan workshops.
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A visit by Chartwells' Nutritionist
14th May 2018To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week, we had a special visit from Clare Hedderman, nutritionist from our catering company Chartwells Independent.
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Robot-tastic Year 6
4th May 2018This term we have launched an online voting platform, ‘Votes for Schools’. Year 6 have had great fun investigating this week’s question, 'are robots a danger to humans?'
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Year 6's Apprentice Challenge
30th April 2018Pupils in Year 6 rose to the Hydesville Challenge of becoming young entrepreneurs and came up with a number of business ideas that even Lord Alan Sugar would be proud of.
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Year 1’s penguin waddle!
27th March 2018A big thank you to the parents and parents and family members who came along to support us at yesterday’s sponsored penguin waddle around Walsall Arboretum to raise money to help protect wildlife at risk.
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EYFS go on an adventure
26th March 2018Nursery and Reception pupils had a fun filled day at the National Forest Adventure Farm last Thursday.
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Making beautiful Spring time music
23rd March 2018This week's Spring Concert was a wonderful occasion for us to get together as a community, and to enjoy a lovely celebration of our pupils’ musical talents
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Shakespeare Week 2018
15th March 2018We've had a great time celebrating Shakespeare Week in Prep School.
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School and weather update - Monday 5th March 2018
4th March 2018We are pleased to announce that the School will be open as usual tomorrow (Monday 5th March 2018). The site team has worked very hard to ensure the site is safe for access, and today’s rain has helped clear pavements and roads around School.
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The Big Maths Quiz 2018
28th February 2018Well done to two teams of pupils from Year 5 and 6 who took part in yesterday's Big Maths Quiz.
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Hydesville becomes member of School Notices
14th February 2018We are delighted to announce the enrolment of Hydesville Tower School in a new digital noticeboard and market place for parents: School Notices.
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Talent shines at teatime concert
14th February 2018Congratulations to the pupils from Year 3 to 11 who performed so beautifully and confidently at the Teatime Concert on Tuesday.
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Murder comes to Hydesville
23rd January 2018Staff from across the school took to the stage on Friday evening to perform ‘Who Killed the Soap Star’.
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Chartwells nutritionist offers snacking tips
12th January 2018Pupils in Prep School have been getting tips for healthier snacking.
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Pupils donate toys to Acorns Children's Hospice
30th November 2017Kind hearted brothers, Kairon in Year 1 and Reuben in Nursery, have donated several bags of toys to Acorns Children’s Hospice in Walsall.
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Who Killed the Soap Star?
22nd November 2017A star studded cast of teachers from across the school will be taking to the stage to perform ‘Who Killed the Soap Star’ on Friday, 8th December.
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Year 2 pupil stars in BBC 2 drama
13th November 2017Hydesville Tower School pupil Mehtaab Sidhu is set to see himself on the small screen, after landing a part in BBC2’s The Boy with the Topknot.
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Prep pupils strike a pose
1st November 2017The glamour of the Milan catwalk came to Hydesville as Prep School took to the runway for our ‘Creative Couture Fashion Show’.
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Celebrating Harvest at Hydesville
18th October 2017What a wonderful Harvest celebration assembly we had in School yesterday.
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Jaydeep is a star pupil
29th September 2017Pupils in Prep School are sporting brightly coloured House ‘star’ badges, thanks to Jaydeep in Year 6. Jaydeep came up with the idea when he realised it would be helpful for teachers to easily identify which pupils were in each House. He took his idea to the Pupil Voice group who were fully in support of the initiative and as a result we now have
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Hydesville pupil is a pure genius
19th September 2017A Hydesville Tower School pupil is proving he is the cream of the crop after passing a test to become the member of an exclusive club which accepts only the smartest of people.
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Summer Arts Showcase takes place in school
14th July 2017Despite the awful weather cancelling our Summer Arts Showcase on Tuesday our Prep children have been able to showcase their acts to their teachers and friends this morning.
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Teachers come top of the class in annual charity football match!
27th June 2017Our third annual Dads v Teachers charity football match took place last Friday and ended in a 3-0 win to the teachers team.
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Sports Day 2017
27th June 2017Thank you to those parents, grandparents and other family supporters who came along to cheer pupils in Upper Prep and the Senior School at their Sports Days at Wyndley Leisure Centre.
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Early Years monkey around for charity
22nd June 2017A huge thank you to everyone involved for their support during our EYFS Cheeky Monkey Marathon Challenge this week – completing one lap of the lake in Walsall Arboretum to raise money for the UK’s leading national children’s charity, ‘Children with Cancer UK’.
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Lower Prep Sports Day
16th June 2017Pupils in Year 1 and Year 2 took part in Lower Prep Sports Day.
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France comes to Hydesville!
16th June 2017Nursery children took part in a French Day, to celebrate and coincide with our extra-curricular French club which children are able to take part in Nursery.
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Key Stage 1 pair up for writing
16th June 2017Pupils in Key Stage 1 enjoyed a morning of ‘Sports Day’ themed English and maths lessons.
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Year 2 become A stars!
16th June 2017As part of the A* Stars programme, Year 2 to part in a quiz about road safety.
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Smoothie making fun
15th June 2017Thank you to our catering provider, Chartwells, for helping our children to eat vibrantly with a little help from a smoothie bike! Hydesville catering manager Gareth Long was joined by Chartwell’s nutritionist Clare Hedderman to hold healthy workshops for children in Prep School, encouraging them to eat more fruit. As part of the sessions the children selected fruit they wanted to include in a smoothie,
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Pupils and parents put on their dancing shoes!
23rd May 2017Last Friday we welcomed James & Francesca Moorcroft from Studio1 dance studio in Walsall. The duo are also former number 1 ranked Latin and 10 dance (combined ballroom and Latin) in the under 21 age group in England and the UK.
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Times Tables success
8th May 2017Well done to pupils in Prep School who received awards for their success in the Hydesville Times Tables Challenge!
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Lower Prep's Maths Challenge
8th May 2017Congratulations to pupils in Lower Prep who received awards for their success in a recent Maths Challenge. An impressive ten pupils received a Rainbow Award, for answering seven questions in 20 seconds. Well done to Nandika, Kairon, Avnie Mae, Maaya, Anoop, Aryan, Ibrahim, Ryan, Tandip and Narian. Viren, Adiel and Shivam answered an outstanding 17 questions in 30 seconds and were awarded the Moon
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Year 6’s Apprentice Challenge
4th May 2017Pupils in Year 6 rose to the Hydesville Challenge of becoming young entrepreneurs and came up with a number of business ideas that even Lord Alan Sugar would be proud of. The children were each given £1 and asked to set up a mini enterprises over the Easter school holidays in a challenge designed to give the youngsters an insight into business. The project is
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Shaan's royal delivery
4th May 2017Shaan in Reception was excited when he received an extra special delivery this week….a letter from the Queen!
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Safe scooting by Year 2
27th April 2017On the final day of last term, Year 2 took part in the Scooterbility training, led by the Year 2 teachers.
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Prep School extravaganza raises the roof!
7th April 2017Our Prep School performing arts extravaganza raised the school roof .
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Nursery children go on Egg-cellent hunt
5th April 2017Nursery Children had great fun on their Easter Egg hunt.
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Delivering road safety lessons to reception pupils
31st March 2017As part of the A* Stars programme (delivered in conjunction with Walsall Council) Reception pupils have taken part in a road safety walk
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Year 2 visit West Midlands Safari Park
30th March 2017Year 2 had a wonderful day visiting West Midlands Safari Park.
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Special visit by Ellie Simmonds
29th March 2017What an amazing morning we've had - former Hydesville pupil and Paralympic medalist Ellie Simmonds has paid us a special visit. Ellie held two assemblies, speaking to our pupils in both Prep and Senior Schools about her achievements and experiences and she bought in three of her Olympic medals that children had the chance to hold! She also coached a special swimming lesson to
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Spring Concert raises the roof!
28th March 2017Our annual concert raised the roof at St Matthew’s Church in Walsall.
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Tiaras and tea for Nursery pupils
27th March 2017Nursery children came to school dressed as princes and princesses when we hosted a British Values tea party and invited parents to join the fun.
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No added sugar day
21st March 2017We’ve been raising awareness of low sugar diets in school today, thanks to a visit from Chartwells nutritionist, Clare Hedderman.
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Flyday fun in Prep School
21st March 2017We renamed last Friday as ‘Flyday’ when Pupil Voice reps ran a paper plane competition for the Prep school.
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Where there's a Will there's a play....
21st March 2017Last Friday we kicked off the Shakespeare Week celebrations in school with pupils in Years 1 and 2 taking us back to a time when men wore tights and children were to be seen and not heard.
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Talented young writers
21st March 2017A big well done to a group of promising young writers in Year 3 who are celebrating after their work has been published in a book of poetry after entering a national competition.
