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National Poetry Day 2025

National Poetry Day 2025

Today was National Poetry Day and we celebrated it through lots of different activities all themed around ‘Play’. Our younger pupils were either practising their Autumnal poem ready for our Harvest Festivals next week or they were inspired to do some skipping after...
Accelerated Reader Monthly Winners

Accelerated Reader Monthly Winners

Reading is such an important skill to develop and we put a high emphasis on this at Red Rose. One thing that we do in school at the end of every month is to celebrate the reading that has taken place in school during that month. We use a scheme called Accelerated...
House Captain Elections

House Captain Elections

One of the British Values that we promote at Red Rose is Democracy. Every year, we hold House Captain and Vice Captain elections for the honour of pupils representing their house for the last year of their time at Red Rose. The four houses are linked to local castles:...
Modelling blood cells using Scratch coding

Modelling blood cells using Scratch coding

In science, year 6 are learning about the different blood cells and what their functions are. To help with their understanding, they also used the coding platform, Scratch, to model what the blood cells do. In particular, looking at the white blood cells...
Minpins Storyboarding

Minpins Storyboarding

This week in Starlight Class, our young storytellers have been busy planning their very own magical adventures inspired by Roald Dahl’s ‘The Minpins’.  Using storyboards as a planning tool, the children explored how to structure their stories,...