This week, Year 4 had a brilliant afternoon with Colin from the RNLI 🚤. The children chose the RNLI as our charity this year, and had a wonderful time learning and sharing their knowledge about water safety and the impact the charity have. It was fantastic! ExcelsiorMAT

Yesterday, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE day, the children learnt and performed war time songs and dedicated poppies to people who'd lost their lives throughout the war. It was a fantastic day full of history and oracy - a great success! Voice 21 Oracy ExcelsiorMAT

What a fantastic achievement @ParkfieldSchool 🤩🏆

Parents - we are working to achieve our latest TIAAS Award and we need your help! Please could you complete the questionnaire. You can do this by clicking on the link here. The class with the most responses will win a prize! Thanks in advance. forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

A huge well done to all pupils who entered the Women in Maths Day competition! The results will be announced to pupils tomorrow. Here is a little snippet of the fantastic entries that we received ExcelsiorMAT

Ahead of their fundraiser for the RNLI next week, Lily W in Y4 has made this incredible poster about why people should donate to the charity! Fabulous work, Lily!

With all this sun, it's been hard to stay cool. Children in Reception have been having a great time cooling off! 😎 ExcelsiorMAT #ExcelsiorMATentitlement

It’s Drowning Prevention Day.Floating can save your life by helping you stay calm, above water, and safe. If you’re in trouble: ✅Tilt your head back ✅Keep calm and breathe slowly ✅Spread your arms and legs like a star ✅It’s ok if your legs sink, everyone floats differently!

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We are loving the Live Lesson for BBC Live Lessons #500words some brilliant ideas being generated ready for some fantastic stories! 🤩 ExcelsiorMAT

Happy walk to school month! Will you increase your steps and active travel time this month? Let your teachers know how you get to school! #gettingactive ExcelsiorMAT

Amazing donations bought in today to mark our learning about Harvest Festival. A big thank you to The Birmingham Mission for their incredible assembly to Key Stage 2. Thank you to everyone who donated to the food bank.

Rockets Community team & first team player Ron Blain loved joining ExcelsiorMAT for a fantastic Year 5 & 6 basketball event today! So much energy, teamwork & smiles- exactly what basketball’s all about ❤️ Big thanks to Mr. Latham & everyone who made it such a special day 🚀

🚀 It was a real pleasure for ExcelsiorMAT to be part of such an amazing experience. 🏀 A huge thank you to Robert J Palmer and the Rockets Community team for their time, passion, and commitment to growing the game at a grassroots level. Sport Birmingham Youth Sport Trust

Year 3 are really enjoying their art project based on Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest.

Year 3 had a busy art lesson this week creating lots of relief prints of leaves using polystyrene. Looking forward to seeing these prints added to their final piece of work!

Year 5 ‘Around the world’ art projects are developing nicely with a combination of mono prints and observational drawings.

So proud of Year 5 for the effort and enthusiasm they have shown throughout this art project inspired by the architect and illustrator Anna Gibb. Well done Year 5!

Year 3 have really developed their colour mixing skills with this art project inspired by the French artist Henri Rousseau. So many tints and shades of green! Well done Year 3!

Year 1 have been busy learning about primary colours and expressive mark making in art. They enjoyed exploring different marks with different tools and learnt that by layering primary colours, you can make secondary colours!