Comic Relief 2025 at SAF

We celebrated Comic Relief 2025 in school by having a ‘Hop-a-thon’ on the field! Each class had a session to see how many hops they could do.  We also were selling red noses and children wore their own clothes.  Overall we raised £462 for the amazing charity.

For more information about where the money goes, please see here: What Your Money Does | Comic Relief

Safer Internet Day 2025

We marked Safer Internet Day today with a variety of activities. The theme this year is: ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘. We gathered in the hall for an assembly led by our Digital Leaders. They ‘scammed’ children into thinking they were winning some tempting prizes, but actually there were some bad consequences! The message was that if things are too good to be true…they often are!

Later on, EYFS used songs and small world play to tell the stories about being safe. KS1 took part in a variety of different activities and KS2 took part in the BBC Live Lesson where we had to identify the signs of a scam.

We even got a shout out on the BBC news feed!

Gladiator Micro:bit Competition

Lots of our children have been taking part in the BBC Micro:bit Gladiators Competition this term.

The ultimate guide to the BBC Gladiators micro:bit competition – BBC Teach

They have had to design a device which would help a Gladiator improve their skills, which uses a piece of technology called a Micro:bit. We use Micro:bits throughout school, from D&T in Year 3, as part of our Code Club and as part of our Year 6 Computing curriculum, so this was a great chance for us to explore our knowledge!

We have submitted 3 entries into the competition, and will wait to see if we have any winners!

Bebras Challenge Results

In our assembly today, we celebrated our successes in the National Bebras Challenge which all KS2 children took part in last month. The challenge tests children’s problem solving skills through a variety of questions, and all children should be proud of how they showed resilience and understanding to complete it.

All children will receive a ‘Participation’ certificate, whereas some will receive a ‘Merit’ in they finished in the top 50% in the school, or a ‘Distinction’ if they finished in the top 25%. The top performer in each age category will also receive a ‘Best in School’ certificate.

A special ‘Gold’ certificate is also awarded if they children finish in the top 10% of the country, and we were so pleased to be told that 5 of our children achieved this. They will be invited to the National Finals competition in March which we are very excited about!

Great job everybody!