A huge congratulations to years 3 and 4 for their performances of Plastic Pirates - a wonderful finale to their topic. They were brilliant! Thank you to the Nottingham Playhouse for helping produce wonderful scenery and thank you to the parents for their support throughout.

Year 4 had a very successful trip to Ilam Hall last week - two nights away and three jam-packed days of activities, including orienteering, walking to the Stepping Stones, fossil hunting and team building games. The children were brilliant - we are really proud of them.

Just some of the artwork that was produced as part of the year 4 residential to Ilam Hall: ojos de dios and environmental art.

EYFS had a roarsome visit from Teach Rex this morning!

Thank to everyone that came along to support the Fairtrade and Plant sale. We managed to sell a lot of fairtrade goods and plants grown by gardening club. Money raised to help gardening club, eco club and the Fairtrade Foundation

Had another successful food forum this week run by Nottinghamshire County Council The food ambassadors got to taste some the recipes that they had brought in. They were very popular and might even be appearing on the school menu in the future.

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay. Great to see some our children and families looking after their environment. Over 500 pieces of litter picked in half an hour! #litter #youthaction

What a fabulous day! A huge thank you to Andy Seed for inspiring our children with his wise and entertaining words. We all loved the assembly and workshops.

We had a wonderful #WorldOceanDay last week in school. Lots of children dressed in blue clothes, plant-based food at dinner, no single-use plastic in lunch boxes and some tasty samples from Nottinghamshire County Council Thank you for all the fishy entries. We'll keep you posted on the winners.

Our year 4s are really looking forward to this!

45 tickets are available to watch NCCC vs Kent at Trent Bridge 26th June free of charge. Collect from the school office tomorrow and you're interested and would like one.

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As part of #InternationalDemocracyDay some of our eco team visited Gedling Borough Council council chambers. They put forward a proposal to plant more trees to help the council become carbon net zero by 2030 and were pleased to say the vote was unanimously in favour! #youthaction

The first food forum of the year was today and our ambassadors got to try lots of delicious fruit and vegetables. Thanks to Nottinghamshire County Council for supporting this in our school.

A huge thank you to Co-op and the local Mapperley community for raising the fantastic sum of £2705.46. The money will be spent on Forest Schools and Gardening Club. If you want to find out more, members of staff will be outside the Coop in Mapperley on Saturday 18th November.💚

Great morning at Breckhill park. 🌳Gardening club and the eco team managed to plant 97 trees and shrubs for a hedge, under the supervision of the Friends of Breckhill committee. Thanks for inviting us!

School gardening club was back on today. The theme was recycling. We made labels for some of the seeds that we're going to be planting and used scrap paper to make paper pots to plant them in. Very excited to be embarking on the The Children's Gardening Coach School Gardening Success prog!

Straight into it! New to School Gardening Success Success MapperleyPlainsPS have got stuck into planning for what we will be growing towards the Pizza Party later in the year! Love seeing these updates!

Another success gardening club making our compost containers. Looking forward to adding lots of home made compost to our school garden in a few months! Children and staff are loving the #schoolgardeningsuccess programme The Children's Gardening Coach