Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Young Voices 2026 – What a Show!
Fri 06 Feb 2026We are so proud of our Year 5 and Year 6 children who took part in Young Voices on Tuesday in a magical 30th Anniversary concert. This is the largest children’s choir concert in the world, which brings together primary schools from across the UK in a truly electrifying experience.
After months of practice, learning the words and the dances, the children headed to Wembley where they put on a truly amazing performance of vibrant mix of songs—including a "Sea Shanty Medley" and "Wicked Medley"—alongside live musicians and special guest artist Ruti.
Thanks also, to the friends and family who supported this event, by coming to watch the performance.
Well done, Swanbourne Young Voices of 2026! You were a credit to the school with your dedication, fun and enthusiasm! An unforgettable event, which I’m sure the children will talk about for years to come.
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Blast Off to Bletchley Library!
Fri 06 Feb 2026EYFS had a fantastic trip to Bletchley Library last week. Karen the librarian showed the children how the library works, shared some brilliant stories, and introduced them to lots of different types of books.
The children loved exploring the huge selection of children’s books—especially the space-themed ones—and chose a few to borrow for their classrooms. They have been enjoying them during story time ever since!
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Year 1’s Amazing Animal Adventure
Fri 16 Jan 2026Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic visit to Tring Natural History Museum where they had fun exploring the exhibits. There was lots of excitement and discussion as they walked around.
They also took part in an interactive classifying workshop session, where they thought carefully about grouping different animals from the collections into animal groups. A great day out had by all!
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Year 3 make mammoths from milk bottles!
Fri 16 Jan 2026Last term Year 3 loved exploring their English text, The First Drawing. It inspired some wonderful descriptive writing, poetry, and diary entries, highlighting the children’s amazing creativity.
The book also linked beautifully with their art and history work, prompting pupils to consider who the very first artist might have been. Inspired by the story, the children created fantastic mammoth models, bringing their learning to life.
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Walking in Roman Footsteps: A Class Adventure
Fri 05 Dec 2025Year 2 pupils from Mursley and Drayton Parslow enjoyed an exciting trip to the Verulamium Museum in St Albans. They learned all about Roman Britain, dressed in tunics, and stepped back 2,000 years to explore a bustling Roman forum. At the market stalls, the children hunted for replica artefacts found in St Albans—and one lucky pupil even dressed up as an emperor in a toga!
The children were brilliantly behaved throughout, earning several compliments from museum staff. Well done, Year 2!
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A Day of Giggles with Michael Rosen’s Poems
Fri 05 Dec 2025On Thursday 13th November, KS1 and EYFS celebrated Michael Rosen Day to inspire the children to get creative and play with poetry!
The theme for this year was Funny Food: A Feast of Poems and the children were lucky enough to join a free live ‘Poetry Party’ event, where they watched and listened to Michael perform some of his best-loved funny food poems, including ‘Chocolate Cake’!
The children took inspiration from Michael, creating funny food poems and ‘food journeys’. A great, creative, fun-filled morning.
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EYFS have fun on the farm
Fri 14 Nov 2025Both EYFS classes enjoyed busy mornings at the farm in Hoggeston this week.
They explored the fields, following footprints to badger setts and found cattle, sheep, a crop of barley and even some goldfish!
The children also saw some animals closer up - cows, pigs and a sheepdog!
The children looked at the farm machinery and silage heap and also tried grinding their own flour which was very hard work!A fantastic morning on the farm.
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Mursley’s Perfect Poppies
Fri 14 Nov 2025Well done to pupils and staff at Mursley who have produced some beautiful Poppies to commemorate Remembrance this November.
Local villagers and members of the public have taken the time to comment on the display. As you can see from the lovely comments below and the images of the poppies, the pupils have done an amazing job!
"If I went back in time over a hundred years and said to a World War 1 veteran that in our village school infants would still be commemorating the death of his mates, even in 2025, he would be astounded. The display on the school gates is beautiful."
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Bringing Stories to life for KS1
Fri 14 Nov 2025On Monday 20th October, KS1 had the privilege of meeting Mariesa Dulak and Rebecca Cobb, the author and illustrator of ‘There’s a Tiger on the Train’, at The Stables in Wavendon. Whilst Mariesa read the story to the children, they learnt some actions for each of the characters, which culminated in a fantastic dance routine at the end of the morning! The children also saw Rebecca do a live illustration of a new character!
In the afternoon we were lucky enough to have Mariesa deliver a workshop at Drayton Parslow. She read them another of her books - The Silver Shadow. She was keen to explain that it had been inspired by something that happened to her Dad when he was growing up in Barbados. The story and illustrations inspired a lot of discussion about the senses - what might be seen, heard, smelt etc at the seaside and what sea creatures might be found in a rock pool. The children then went onto drawing sea creatures and making their own little rock pools using crafting materials.
Rebecca led the workshop at Mursley, where the children had another opportunity to see her illustrate some characters they invented on the spot. She read them another one of her books, A Wild Walk to School’ (which was inspired by her own children) and the children all illustrated a fantastic way they’d like to travel to school!).
A truly enjoyable experience for all the children!
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Over £500 raised in aid of Mental Health
Fri 14 Nov 2025On Friday 10th October, the staff and children across the Three Schools enjoyed celebrating Mental Health Awareness Day 2025 by wearing Yellow and taking part in a variety of exciting activities to raise awareness of mental health.
We would like to thank parents and carers for the donations we received to support this amazing charity. We were delighted to announce that we reached our target of £500.
