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7 June 2023

Art at The Bridge

On Wednesday, 20 children from Years 4 and 5 were chosen to represent our school. The children were invited to help paint a mural of a beautiful meadow at our Trust’s headquarters – The Bridge. The children did a truly...

19 May 2023

Girls on Track event

On Wednesday 17th May, a group of girls from Years 3, 5 and 6 attended the Girls On Track event held at Monkton Senior School. Organised by British Motorsport, the one -day workshop was designed to engage and inform girls about mo...

10 March 2023

Book Week - You are a Reader!

We had a wonderful book week last week with plenty of memorable moments to celebrate and an eye-catching new display in the library (if you haven’t seen it yet, it is definitely worth a visit!). Kicking off the week o...

10 February 2023

Year 6 Swimming Gala Report

On Monday 6th February, fourteen year sixes from our school attended a swimming gala held at the Leisure Centre to compete against eleven other schools, in a variety of races. We swam relays, races, medleys, and a cannon.&nb...

6 January 2023

Author of the month

This January we will be celebrating two fantastic authors. The KS2 Author of the Month is Kwame Alexander. Kwame, originally from the USA, lives in London and has written over 30 books, both prose and poetry, fo...

18 November 2022

This Week's News!

From Mrs Gascoigne: It has been great to see the value of compassion in action again this week. The collective worship session led by Mrs Bird focusing on parking is just one example. Another was the exploration of stories from o...

11 November 2022

This Week's News!

From Mrs Gascoigne: What a wet week it has been, however, on Wednesday morning the sun shone as we showed another large group of prospective parents around our wonderful school. The pupils in year 6 were amazing ambassadors...

4 November 2022

Remembrance Day, 11th November 2022

On Friday 11th November the children will spend time in school thinking about and reflecting on Remembrance Day. The children in Reception and Years 1,3 and 4 will mark this in school with a short Remembrance Day assembly and ob...

4 November 2022

This Week's News!

Welcome back to the new term. I hope you all had a good half-term break. This term we will be focusing on the value of compassion. The children have already been exploring this in collective worship and class sessions. Having loo...

21 October 2022

Absence during Term Time from Term 2 2022

From the start of Term 2, and in line with the Trust Attendance and Punctuality Policy, absence during term time will not be authorised unless there are very exceptional circumstances and never at the following times: KS1 and K...

21 October 2022

This Week's News!

So much has happened this term; the sadness of the death of Queen Elizabeth, harvest services, school visits, explorer dome, discos, open days, sporting events, mental health day activities culminating in singing to everyone. It w...

14 October 2022

Congratulations!

We have great news! Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Bibby on the safe arrival of Noah and George. The twins were born on Wednesday morning weighing 6lbs 3oz and 5lbs 8oz! Mum, Dad and the twins are doing very well.

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November 14th 2024

Children from across the school have been planting winter bulbs in our Secret Prayer garden! We can't wait to see them bloom! @htcdchurch @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/YZobLbneip

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November 13th 2024

Year 4 enjoyed learning about contour lines on a map today, using potatoes! @PalladianTrust https://t.co/dnG2RGSeD1

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November 13th 2024

A fantastic first @PalladianTrust Education Review at @combe_down this morning looking at the impact of factual fluency in mathematics. @DonnaT1630 and I even appeared in one of the activities. Thank you to all who were part of it. #Courage #Curiosity pic.twitter.com/Sofj5jRXBW

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November 12th 2024

Exciting developments @combe_down as part of FLOURISH. You can read more here:https://t.co/1TzQ9Hup2X @mrawolfe @lucybmoore @catwalmsley @stephen_beamond @CofE_Education @CofE_EduLead https://t.co/CDR2FYMBq9

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November 12th 2024

Inter Faith Day today! The children and staff explored the use of light in different faiths after reading the wonderful book ‘Little Glow’. #curiosity #diversity #inclusion #respect @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/DyH3kEXct3

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November 11th 2024

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November 11th 2024

We love Maths! Here is Mrs Bird and Miss Gander launching our Road to Recall approach to Maths fluency this morning. @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/fsjFeHBdsU

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November 11th 2024

The renovation of our secret prayer garden is progressing nicely. We will be planting bulbs here on Thursday and Friday lunchtime! Any donations will be gladly received. @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/iZ10nYpfnq

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November 11th 2024

This morning, our entire school joined the local community to remember the soldiers who have given their lives for our country. We laid a wreath, sang a song, read a poem and recited the Kohima Lines. We will always remember them. @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/00lpngVYih

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November 7th 2024

Voice 21 is at the heart of our curriculum here at CDPS! We are excited to be in Bristol today reflecting on our curriculum design! @PalladianTrust @voice21oracy pic.twitter.com/89vawswpxh

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November 6th 2024

This evenings PDM is focused on our whole school approach to developing all children’s mathematical fluency. #ncetm #highstandardsforall @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/SkcKM8adfR

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November 5th 2024

An amazing event

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November 5th 2024

Today the children were incredibly inspired by their visit to our careers fair! They loved hearing from hairdressers, nurses, events planners, builders, firemen, policemen, electricians, florists, writers and more. What a memorable experience! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/CYsn4yQF9G

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November 4th 2024

Today year 5 have been introduced to negative numbers by using them to represent change. We played a game with tokens and worked out how much the total number of tokens in a bag had increased or reduced by in different scenarios. @PalladianTrust @NCETM pic.twitter.com/EEfNPo9u5c

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October 24th 2024

Year 5 have been learning about how our brains work over the past few weeks! We have discussed growth mindset, neural pathways and the importance of mistakes and practise to strengthen our understanding. We have loved exploring this neuroscience physically! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/Sy4MuQDxe2

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October 24th 2024

Year 6 loved taking part in the Palladian Tag Tails Festival at Glasshouse yesterday morning. Lots of skills, sportsmanship and smiles on show! @PalladianTrust pic.twitter.com/PKlLIjkBuM

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October 23rd 2024

Could you be our newest @PalladianTrust Headteacher? We are looking for an experienced deputy or current headteacher with relentless drive & high expectations, who puts the community at heart, to lead @SMGPBath on the next leg of the improvement journey. https://t.co/OYepPcl673 pic.twitter.com/pFMf4awJrr

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October 21st 2024

Do you want to join our amazing team? Combe Down CE Primary school are looking for someone to cover a maternity leave vacancy. Click on the link to find out more. https://t.co/pNrwj6GjtP

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October 19th 2024

Huge thanks to Mrs pollard too!

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October 18th 2024

Eating delicious pastries and trying our hand at bread making in Boulangerie Escoeuilles. #trust #curiosity @OPJS_Bath @combe_down @PalladianTrust @HeatherTall123. pic.twitter.com/L4tTjfG7EC

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