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Federation Day

On Wednesday 19th July, just before term finished, all the children and
staff from the three schools in the St Mary Federation (Brancaster,
Docking and Sedgeford) gathered together on Brancaster Beach for
their latest Federation Day.
As small schools, this is an excellent opportunity for the children to
widen their social circle, and it also gave them the chance to try out a
range of activities including beach volley ball, rounders, sandcastle
building competitions, beach science and Pirate Philosophy.
It was good to see everyone mixing during activities, getting on well
and helping each other.
The beach sports were part of our drive to be active, healthy schools
and the volleyball, in particular, appealed to both our sporty and non-
sporty children and everyone has asked to have more opportunity to
play this again.
The Pirate philosophy was also very popular, with a range of
disasters to be coped with – and some children walking the plank!

strength in each of these children. As Mia, Erin, Sabine, Phoebe, Toby,
Noah, Rhys, Elise and Megan get ready to move on to APHS and Lily,
Brooke and Ashlie move on to Smithdon, their family at Brancaster
School wish them the very best of luck and hope that they continue
being the kind, caring individuals that they all are.

News from Sedgeford Primary School

As we are now on our summer break we thought it would be a good
idea to tell you all a little about our lovely school.
Brancaster CE VA Primary School Sedgeford Primary School is a small village primary school we
News – Goodbye Year 6 really are like a big family. The school is part of the St Mary Federation
and as such the children have lots of opportunity both within the
curriculum and for extracurricular activities. Some ‘joint ventures,’
Our term finished really well with a fantastic trip to the Theatre Royal have included: a drumming work shop, taking part in an orchestra and
to see Gangsta Granny which the PFA and friends from our an in depth study of New Zealand.
Community contributed to paying for tickets and coach travel (a We have a lovely school field that lends itself both for playing on
massive thank you to all), the children all loved this experience, and for sporting activities. Our school dinners are all cooked on the
especially the sound effects after Granny eating cabbage! We took part premises with the children eating together in the dining hall.
in the Reflections project with Rev’d Susan and produced some Every Friday we have a special curriculum, one that is very practical.
amazing work. We joined with Sedgeford and Docking schools for a Interspersed with English and mathematics the children take part in
Federation Beach day which was brilliantly organised by Mrs yoga, gardening in our onsite allotment and cookery.
Lavender, the Year 6’s went bowling and out for a meal at the Jolly If you would like to visit our school please get in touch with us on
Sailors as a special moving on treat. On the last Friday we had our 01485 570997, we would love to meet you.
leaver’s service where we welcomed parents, family members and We share our site and work closely with the Pre-School
friends from the community to share our celebration of the last year. Sedgeford Pre-School is a small family friendly pre-school on the
As always it was a time for very mixed emotions. We said goodbye to school's site and has access to their facilities enhancing the children's
staff - Mrs Osborne, Judy Shaw, Angie Mansell and Megan Able who experiences. The Pre-School was judged 'Good' by Ofsted in April
we will all miss very much. Our Year 6’s performed brilliantly and it 2016 and take funding for all age groups. There are a total of 26 places.
was lovely to watch a presentation of all they had achieved during their They are open in term time only and run the following sessions.
time with us. We said goodbye to 12 fantastic children who were a Monday to Friday 08.45 to 11.45
very talented bunch with some amazing singers/musicians (I am Monday to Friday wraparound 11.45 to 12.30
keeping my eyes firmly on the X Factor in the future), some fantastic Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 12.30 to 15.30
artists and some brilliant sports men/women. This group of children Pre-School can provide a hot lunch in the school canteen and along
have loved being part of the family that we are at Brancaster School with the use of the school facilities find that this benefits the children
and this really showed during our Reflections work, they all in transitioning to school.
commented in different ways how they liked being at our school as it Pre-School offers nursery and sessional day care on a not for profit
didn’t matter how different you were you were accepted and liked for basis. The age range is from two to five years.
just being you and everyone supported and helped you no matter what. If you would like to visit Pre- School ring on 01485 579489 or e-
The words kind and caring came up so many times and this is a real mail to: sedgefordpreschool@btconnect.com