Dragonflies have had great fun today in our fantastic cooking room decorating their pumpkin biscuits. They used orange icing and then added sprinkles and spooky eyes; they look delicious!

The children in Dragonflies showed great imagination and creativity whilst recreating a 'real life' experience through their play yesterday. Together they built a McDonald's drive through window using the large foam bricks. See our post on Facebook.

Today, Dragonflies visited Spital Chapel, where they were met by Reverend Dyson who kindly showed them around. The children were able to identify similarities and differences between the Chapel and St Editha's.

Dragonflies have had a very busy and exciting day to mark our first Pancake Day together. This morning, the children were joined by Reverend Sue Rowley, who led an assembly about the importance of Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) and Ash Wednesday in the Christian calendar.

This afternoon, we invited parents to join us for some pancake themed fun starting with a delicious pancake in the hall. After this, the parents joined Dragonflies in their classroom where they were able to complete some pancake and St David's day themed activities together.

We held our first ever set of Pancake Races, each child raced for points for their house team and then it was the turn of the mummies and daddies too! Our winning team for our first Pancake Race was Avon - Congratulations Avon! Who will be the Pancake Race Champions next year?

Reading is such an important part of our curriculum at Anker Valley and we are very lucky to be able to visit Tamworth Library once a fortnight for the children to borrow books and to further help foster a love of reading.

Fostering the love of reading in action.

Gold School Games Mark Congratulations to Edge Hill Academy PE on achieving your gold award. Well done on your leadership opportunities, active minutes, the range of sports you offer alongside the inter and intra competition participation. School Games #SchoolGamesMark #StaffsSG