Mayflower Primary
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So, this young man couldn’t ride a bike this morning.
Now look at him!
Great job!
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Although our lovely school cook, Sue, isn't making as many lunches for the children in school these days, she is REALLY busy making lunches and weekly food parcels for families across the city!
Thank you Sue!
#KeyWorker
#OurHero
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What a wonderful morning!
Huge thanks to
@yorkshirejohn
from
@BritishCouncil
for coming all the way from that there London to help us celebrate being awarded our 2nd International School Award.
For once, it was the teachers’ turn to receive certificates for all their hard work!
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Following today’s announcement in the TES, we’re finally allowed to share with you that Mayflower has been shortlisted for this year’s TES International Award!
Thank you to all our wonderful staff, children and families!
@BritishCouncil
@eTwinningUK
#BetterTogether
#MoreInCommon
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We are so proud to have been awarded our International School Award for the second time!
Thank you to Miss Brown who travelled down to the Palace of Westminister in London today to collect the award.
Thank you to our wonderful teachers who bring the world into our classrooms!
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Look what arrived in school today!
We are very proud of our Gold Artsmark Award and the fact that the school is being recognised for all the work we do around creativity.
#BornToCreate
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Moving Day at Mayflower! Mr. Whitney, Filbert, and the team from Smith and Ford Removals have cleared Evington Community Centre and also Year 2 at the TMS. Our love and thanks to all the wonderful people at Masjid Umar who were there for us in our hour of need….
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We are very proud of our new school banner!
@BritishCouncil
@eTwinningUK
@EUErasmusPlus
#TESschoolawards
Huge thanks to
@FASTSIGNSofUK
for being utterly awesome about our signage requirements! A banner very generously delivered within a working day and with such good wishes 😃
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Our children loved watching the performance of Little Murmur produced by Aakash Odedra Company. It was AMAZING!
@thesparkarts
@AakashOdedra
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Year 6 settling in to our new home! These remarkable, resilient children are an absolute credit to their school, their families and, most importantly, to themselves. They continue to take everything in their stride and we have had a superb first day in our new setting.
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Mayflower is in The Mercury!
Thanks again to
@JonAshworth
,
@FareShareEMids
and Tesco for the fascinating day.
Thanks too to our awesome staff and children in Year 6 for all your hard work on our
@BritishCouncil
#ZeroHunger
Commecting Classrooms project.
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The chickens have landed!
Keep your eyes peeled for the Mayflower Chicken Naming Competition!
#SchoolChickens
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The children absolutely loved having
@josierones
with us today - as you can see from the photos! Such a funny and inspiring afternoon and a pleasure to perform our award-winning comedy in front of an award-winning comedian! Thank you Rosie!
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Mr Whitney and Mrs Boydon helping with our rainbow poster to go in the window!
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Class AJ listening well to our first virtual assembly.
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What a wonderful celebration of the 800 years of St Denys in Evington.
The children were delighted to share their work with the Bishop of Leicester and the congregation of St Denys, along with children from Krishna Avanti and Linden Primary.
Happy Birthday St Denys!
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WE WON!
Thanks again to Mr Archdeacon for all his hard work on the allotment!
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Year 6 had a fantastic Mindfulness session!
They were amazing!
They remembered so much of their previous learning, and we’ll be building on this over the next few weeks …
#Wellbeing
#Mindfulness
#Resilience
@dotbschools
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Mayflower teachers were up early this morning to meet our Nepalese
#ConnectingClassrooms
colleagues from Birmingham Airport.
We have arrived safely in Leicester ready to begin our action-packed week of learning and cultural exchange.
Swagatam!
@BritishCouncil
@npBritish
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So pleased to finally be able to welcome
@yorkshirejohn
to Mayflower!
It was great to be presented with our eTwinning Schools Award during our
#ZeroHunger
assembly'
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We won!
Well done to all our Year 6 children and staff for sharing the joy and raising a smile!
#ChooseHappy
Congratulations to
@MayflowerPSch
who won this year's Loving Laughing with their sketch 'Posh Restaurant'!
#VoteComedy
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It was lovely to welcome our
@EUErasmusPlus
visitors to school today with songs, poems and laughter!
The children had so many questions about life in schools in France and Finland!
@Schools_British
@erasmusplusUK
#BetterTogether
#GlobalLearning
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Our Finnish contingent have arrived at school to be welcomed by parents and children!
Just waiting for the French team ...
@erasmusplusUK
@EUErasmusPlus
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What an amazing day
@CurveLeicester
with
@thesparkarts
!
Mayflower’s fantastic Creativity Consultants planned and delivered a wonderful day of fun, music, art and relaxation for all the children in the city to enjoy!
Thank you to everyone who made their dreams a reality!
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We are Mayflower Primary School.
We are taking action on climate change by growing fruit and vegetables in our school allotment to help us understand where our food comes from and to reduce our food miles.
What are you doing?
#LeicesterClimateAction
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What a wonderful afternoon!
We are all so proud of our ten Year 3 Suffragette brothers and sisters who marched through Leicester today to protest for women's right to vote in celebration of this 100th anniversary year!
Two of our passionate souls also gave a rousing speech.
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And the winner is ... Mayflower!
Well done to all the schools who took part - it was a wonderful afternoon of comedy!
@LeicsComedyFest
@KidsComedyFest
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Our MealBarrow has been delivered to Birmingham NEC today for the BBC Gardeners World Live Show this week!
The children have really enjoyed planning the meal and growing all the ingredients from seed!
Great job Team Mayflower.
@BBCGWLive
@EcoSchoolsLCC
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What a wonderful weekend introducing our Nepalese colleagues to the history and culture of our wonderful city! We found out about Richard III, visited
@newarkehouses
and were hosted by
@LCFC_Community
for the match against Newcastle!
They are excited to meet you all on Monday!
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“Congratulations!
Your school has been awarded the European Quality Label for the excellence of the work in the eTwinning project "Hands Of The World".
This means that your work, the work of your students and your school have been recognised at the highest European level.”
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Thank you to Miss Brown and Year 5 for a really thought-provoking
#GlobalGoals
Assembly this morning.
The children really enjoyed seeing the
@LyftaEd
platform and the possibilities of finding out about the lives of people in different places through the Dinnertime360 Storyworld.
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A great start to our day today making a zoom call to our partner school in Nepal!
#connectingclassrooms
@BritishCouncil
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In 1996, the children in Year 5 at Mayflower Primary School buried a Time Capsule to be dug up after 25 years.
The time has come to dig it up!
Are you in this photo?
It would be lovely if one of the people who buried it back in 1996 could be involved in finding it again!
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What a harvest from the allotment!
Keep your eyes peeled for Mayflower allotment marrow in Tuesday’s curry and Mayflower allotment cabbage with your quorn fillets on Wednesday!
#FarmToFork
@SAfoodforlife
All dug over and ready to go again …
What shall we grown next?
🌶🥕🥬🥦🥒
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Our Rainbows of Hope paintings have now dried and have been put up in the Dinner Hall - one facing in and one facing out!
Give us a wave as you walk by on your exercise outing, and make sure you put a rainbow up in your window too.
🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈🌞🌈
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We welcome a picket line from the National Education Union.
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It’s been pompomtastic in school today!
What have you all been up to? Do let us know!
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What a lovely end to our school year...Children had a lovely end of year celebrations. Thank you Class3DMV....you’ve been brilliant!
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I used my designated exercise slot today to cycle up to the school allotment and pay our annual Hose Pipe Fee!
The plot is coming along well and the pond at the top of the site is beginning to take shape.
What a lovely way to spend a sunny Sunday!
@EcoSchoolsLCC
@NSALG
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We are delighted to welcome
@NAHTnews
President, Paul Gosling, to Mayflower today.
The children are so excited to share their learning with him.
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Year 6 had a wonderful live link up this morning with one of our partner schools which is in Butwal, Nepal.
This is part of our
@BritishCouncil
Connecting Classrooms Project which has involved using our critical thinking skills to address issues around hunger.
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What a great way to recycle all the pencil sharpenings!
Fantastic artwork from Year 6!
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4CR + very first ukulele lesson = a very happy and excited class!
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More good news today:
“Your School Games Mark application has now been finalised. This year, your school achieved the Gold award.”
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Congratulations to all the children who were involved in these two eTwinning projects - they both won National Awards at the eTwinning UK Annual Awards last night!
Please click on the links and see what we’ve been getting up to!
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Five "children" from this photograph have already contacted the school today! 😊👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I wonder how many more we can find? 🧑🏾🤝🧑🏼
Are you in this photo? 👇🏾
Do you recognise any of your old school friends?
Do please get in touch with the School Office and let us know.
In 1996, the children in Year 5 at Mayflower Primary School buried a Time Capsule to be dug up after 25 years.
The time has come to dig it up!
Are you in this photo?
It would be lovely if one of the people who buried it back in 1996 could be involved in finding it again!
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Our Young Consultants are having a very productive meeting with
@EcoSchoolsLCC
to get our Action Plan sorted for renewing our
@EcoSchools
Green Flag.
#GlobalCitizenship
#Transport
#Marine
#Litter
#SchoolGrounds
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Excitement levels are through the roof for our first
#SpaceCamp
!
All our Space Cadets are getting registered and ready for their training to begin!
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Mayflower Primary School are proud to announce that we have been awarded a reaccreditation of the International School Award 😀 Thank you to all the children and staff for working so hard to achieve this!
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A colourful morning of cultural contrasts for our visiting French and Finnish teachers!
Coffee with the Lord Mayor, followed by a tour of the
#BringThePaint
graffiti in the
#CulturalQuarter
.
@EUErasmusPlus
@erasmusplusUK
@leicester_news
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Today was class AP’s turn to visit the allotment! We dug, planted, listened to ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and played matching games! We even found some wiggle worms!
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Wet play at lunchtime.
Deputation of Year 5 children.
“Come upstairs!”
“Why? What’s happening?”
“Just come ... and you must close your eyes!”
Well - we did not expect that!
What a wonderful scene to be greeted with!
Thank you Year 5 for being so utterly awesome!
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Our Connecting Classroom Cluster have won the Global Learning Champion award!
Well done everyone!
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And this young man also couldn’t ride a bike this morning.
Now look at him!
Great job!
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No “oppressive solemnity” here at Mayflower - the Funniest School in Leicester and Leicestershire!
@KidsComedyFest
@LeicsComedyFest
@MichaelRosenYes
Michael Rosen condemns UK education system's 'fear of laughter' | Books | The Guardian
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Year 3 and 4 laughed their way through the afternoon with Same Same But Different from
@SoniaSabriCo
The performance gave us lots of food for thought - all the ways we are the same and all the ways we are different ...
Thank you
@thesparkarts
#CelebrateDiversity
#BetterTogether
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We dug potatoes, picked green beans and cut some broccoli!
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Huge congratulations to The Observatory School in Wirral who won the International Award at the
#TESAwards2019
.
They work wth schools in more than 21 countries to give their pupils amazing opportunities to meet children from all over the world. Well done! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Incredible scenes today as Year 2 recreate the Great Fire of London!
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One of our pumpkins, picked by the children from the allotment, has been turned into Pumpkin Soup to warm staff on these chilly autumn days!
The children have already enjoyed pumpkin curry and cake from the school kitchen!
@RHSSchools
@EcoSchoolsLCC
@TCVleicester
#bigsoupshare
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A bit of bird drama after school today!
A sparrow hawk chased a sparrow into school.
Then they got stuck and had to be rescued!
Both birds flew off happily after their ordeal!
Mayflower - where everyone is welcome!
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We have had a really lovely week with Madame Rose visiting us from Lille, France.
This is her third
@erasmusplusUK
visit to our school over the last 5 years and she feels like part of the Mayflower family.
This visit, she was focusing on wellbeing - Mindfulness, Yoga and P4C.
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We found out today that we have achieved eTwinning School status for the the second consecutive year!
Wonderful news and well done to all the children and staff for all their hard work and commitment.
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Getting ready for the Queen's official birthday tomorrow!
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We tried Sarah McIntyre’s online art and writing lesson today - with fabulous results!
Thanks
@jabberworks
for keeping us creative!
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A lovely time was had in the school garden for our key worker children today!
Lots of tidying up and seed planting - we’ll keep you posted about how the crop is coming along!
@RHSSchools
@EcoSchoolsLCC
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Hey - remember Beat the Street?
Remember tagging all those Beat Boxes?
Remember how we said you had to be in it to win it?
WELL DONE MAYFLOWER PRIMARY!
Your school has finished third in the Leicester beat the street south schools total points leaderboard.
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We are showcasing our
@eTwinningUK
SNOPP project at the
@EcoSchools
celebration at
@dmuleicester
today.
The children have been collaborating all year with schools in the USA, Poland, Germany and France and are now sharing their learning about plastic pollution.
@pynchonic
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First visit to our partner school today - and what an amazing welcome!
National anthems sung with thousands of children lined up to welcome the Leicester cluster.
Principal Pathak and the team at Kalika loved their
@LCFC
flags!
@Schools_British
#ConnectingClassrooms
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Today in school we thought about what we’d LIKE to see through the window, then we painted it.
Why don’t you have a go at home and share your pictures with us?
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“Congratulations!
Your school has been awarded the European Quality Label for the excellence of the work in the eTwinning project "Pass the Picture".
This means that your work, the work of your students and your school have been recognised at the highest European level.”
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1
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What a fantastic start to the day! Our residential adventure at Beaumanor has begun with a treasure hunt, leaf fights and a well deserved lunch break! Enjoying the glorious Autumnal sunshine now before heading off for climbing and bridge building...
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Year 2 showed wonderful creativity to build some fantastic Tudor houses to recreate our own version of Pudding Lane in 1666. We set them alight, encouraging children to consider how they felt and how the residents of Pudding Lane might have felt.
#empathy
#compassion
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Mayflower is getting ready for one of our favourite days of the year - European Day of Languages!
Through learning language, we learn about culture
Through learning about culture, we learn respect for others
Through learning respect for others, we can hope for peace
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Year 5 have LOVED their first ever visit to Forest School today!
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We’re recycling pens!
If you have any broken pens at home and don’t know what to do with them - just bring them in!
#ecofriendly
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Our Nursery children are loving their
@eTwinningUK
#TravellingTed
project!
They’ve had an emergency message asking them to name the bear! So many suggestions - Polar, Grizzly, Sparkly, Teddy, Goa and TearyBear to name but a few! We’ll keep you posted!
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Applications have been received and today was the inaugural meeting of our new Creativity Council!
We’ve been exploring what creativity means and what our roles might be this year.
@Artsmarkaward
@thesparkarts
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A very warm welcome back to Mayflower for the BikeAbility crew who will be upskilling our Year 6 children over the next 2 weeks.
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Good morning from our Year 6 team at Beaumanor Hall! We are ready for the day.
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Mayflower's Year 5 and 6 staff had a wonderful online meeting with our
@BritishCouncil
Connecting Classrooms cluster of 10 schools in Leicester and 10 in Nepal.
We celebrated the work the children have done in September, and planned our October activities.
@Schools_British
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1
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Celebrating Leicester's Grow Your Own Grub results online!
@EcoSchoolsLCC
@SoilAssociation
@FFLLeics
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