11 months ago
Posted on 17th Oct 2025 by Miss Heap

Stone Age Widget Workshop

Year 3 finished off their Stone Age topic by putting their knowledge to the test and experiencing Stone Age survival skills in our woodland area! They combed, carded, spun and wove thread from sheep’s wool, ground wheat and made butter, built homes, wattled walls and handled an array of artefacts. They even got to visit some historic Stone Age sites through the magic of VR! There’s nothing quite like hands on experience to reinforce learning and secure knowledge!

12 months ago
Posted on 01st Oct 2025 by Miss Heap

Year 3 Fire Service Visit 🔥🚒

We love our annual visit from the Fire Service to teach our year 3 children about fire safety! Despite our visit being cut short due to a real-life emergency, we still had time to learn lots of important safety tips and even got to explore the fire engine and use the hose 🚒🧯👨‍🚒

A big thank you to White Watch Crew for such an engaging and important session. 🙌

12 months ago
Posted on 01st Oct 2025 by Miss Heap

Year 3 Stone Age Museum Trip

Year 3 enjoyed a fun-filled visit to Shrewsbury Museum where they stepped back in time to explore life in the Stone Age! The children got hands on with a range of activities like making tools, creating cave art and grinding wheat just like early farmers. They explored the museum and became archaeologists, studying artefacts to deepen their historical knowledge. What a fun way to become Stone Age experts!

1 year ago
Posted on 09th Sep 2025 by Miss Heap

Belle Vue Arts Festival sponsor our artists!

Two of our year 6 pupils were excited to attend their first session at Bloom Art school this week! Their place on the ‘Big Bloomers’ course has been kindly paid for with funds raised at Belle Vue Arts Festival earlier this year. How wonderful to sponsor art in the community and inspire our young people to develop their artistic talents! Enormous thanks to Belle Vue Arts Festival and to Kerry and Liz at our wonderful neighbours Bloom Art and congratulations to our year 6 artists Eleanor and Hugh.

1 year ago
Posted on 11th Jun 2025 by Miss Heap

Staff Exhibition

At Coleham, we are proud to say, “We are all artists!” and we’re not just talking about the children! Inspired by the arty buzz generated by the Belle Vue Arts Festival, our wonderful artist in residence Mrs Caldwell organised an art lesson for the staff. What a wonderful way to promote wellbeing and bring people together. Just look at the beautiful watercolour and ink drawings the artists produced. They are now proudly displayed in our Art Gallery and the feedback from the children has been wonderful!

1 year ago
Posted on 01st Jun 2025 by Miss Heap

Window Art for Belle Vue Arts Festival

Bobby and Aurora from Year 4 present ‘Wishing in the wind’. Lovely ‘movement’ themed window art for Belle Vue Arts Festival. Huge thanks to The Allotment in Coleham for providing such a beautiful space to decorate. What a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Be sure to make a wish as you pass the dandelion seeds blowing up the street! What will you wish for?

1 year ago
Posted on 02nd Apr 2025 by Miss Heap

Veg Power Film by Year 2

Year 2 had an absolute ball filming this when Veg Power.org came to visit us! As part of the national campaign to encourage children to eat more vegetables-you have to eat them, to defeat them! We had a fun and healthy lunchtime too.

Great work behind the camera Year 2!

1 year ago
Posted on 02nd Apr 2025 by Miss Heap

Year 3 Liverpool Trip

Year 3 took a trip to Ancient Egypt during their visit to Liverpool World Museum. They were able to view genuine artefacts and real mummies in the Egyptian Gallery. Then they got some hands on experience, working together to mummify a ‘person’ in an interactive and fun workshop.

They rounded off the day with a wonder around the Walker Art Gallery, where they considered the differences between old and modern art. It was a fun and memorable experience for all!

2 years ago
Posted on 25th Feb 2025 by Miss Heap

Flaxmill Maltings Collaborative Art Project

Year 3 had a fun-filled visit from storyteller Jake Evans and his artist mum Sarah Evans. We heard wild tales of mountains, thunderstorms, clouds and bird kings followed by a creative drawing workshop. Our drawings will contribute towards a collaborative local area project to go on display at the Flaxmill Maltings. We can’t wait to see our work featured in the huge outdoor mural that also includes work created by many other artists and children from around Shropshire. How exciting!

2 years ago
Posted on 22nd Jan 2025 by Miss Heap

Sandwich Tasting in Year 3

Year 3 have been working out what makes a good sandwich in preparation for our next DT project… by eating sandwiches! Huge thanks goes to our local Asda store who were kind enough to provide us with a variety of pre-made sandwiches to taste. Lots of the children tasted flavours they had never tried before. Our next step is to design a healthy tasty sandwich that we will be making in class. We can’t wait!

2 years ago
Posted on 16th Oct 2024 by Miss Heap

Yr 3 visitors for careers week

Year 3 have really enjoyed hearing from some of our Coleham parents about the varied and interesting jobs they do. Katie (and Ned) from Puppy and Friends Academy popped in to tell us about careers in dog training. Katie talked passionately about her job and Ned impressed us all with his incredible searching skills! Mr Hunt popped in to talk to us about music production, property development and the skills involved in setting up your own business. We all had a good think about what we might like to do when we grow up!

2 years ago
Posted on 18th Sep 2024 by Miss Heap

Stone Age Bone Age for Year 3

Year 3 had a fantastic time handling artefacts and experiencing what life was like in the Stone Age at our workshop at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. We almost managed to catch some mammoths!

2 years ago
Posted on 12th Jul 2024 by Miss Heap

Year 3 Art trip

Turtles and Starfish had a lovely time at the museum this morning exploring this year’s Shrewsbury Arts Trail exhibition. We were really excited to see the community art project that we had contributed to in a workshop a few weeks ago. We are all artists and now we can say that our art has been exhibited alongside works by the likes of Salvador Dali, Damien Hurst and David Hockney! It really is worth a trip in the holidays to see the exhibition. Starfish went on to draw flowers in the Dingle afterwards as inspiration for our next art project!

2 years ago
Posted on 09th Jul 2024 by Miss Heap

Year 3 Recorder Concert

Year 3 have spent all year learning to play the recorder and their hard work culminated in an excellent recorder concert this morning! Well done to Mrs Porrett for helping the children to make the recorder sound ever so beautiful. We really enjoyed the show.

2 years ago
Posted on 13th Jun 2024 by Miss Heap

Sandwich Tasting

Year 3 have been trying to work out what makes a good sandwich in preparation for our next DT project. Huge thanks to Craig from our local supermarket Asda, who provided us with a variety of sandwiches to taste! Lots of the children tasted new flavours they’d never tried before. We then thought like professionals and designed and made our own healthy, tasty sandwiches to make and eat!

2 years ago
Posted on 10th Jun 2024 by Miss Heap

Shrewsbury Arts Trail Community Project

Year 3 had such fun contributing towards an exciting collaborative art installation that will be on display at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery next month. They took part in a mark making workshop run by artist Clare Scarlett, in which they threw, rolled, printed, splattered, stamped, squeegeed and squished paint onto paper! Lots of messy fun was had by all for the wonderful Shrewsbury Arts Trail. The children’s mark making work will be chopped up and then sewn together with lots of other pieces created by members of the community. We can’t wait to see the final results on display!

3 years ago
Posted on 07th Feb 2024 by Miss Heap

Yr 3 Class Assemblies

Both Year 3 classes really enjoyed the opportunity to share some of their recent class work with their parents in their class assemblies this week, and they put on a great show. There was dancing, singing, writing, art, science, geography, audience participation and more!

Well done, Year 3!

We showed our wonderful self-portraits

After our trip to the Sea Life Centre and workshop on ‘plastic pollution, we were compelled to write to them regarding the ‘plastic’ in the gift shop.

3 years ago
Posted on 19th Jan 2024 by Miss Heap

Photography Exhibition

Year 3 saw so many incredible, inspiring images of nature on their visit to Shrewsbury Museum today! We recommend you visit this excellent photography exhibition

before it heads back to the Natural History Museum next month.

3 years ago
Posted on 08th Nov 2023 by Miss Heap

Year 3 Stone Age Workshop

Year 3 had a great time learning about the Stone Age! They mastered many skills that would have been very useful in the Stone Age, such as grinding wheat, making butter, turning sheep’s wool into thread, building shelters, weaving willow and even using sticks to make fire! Widget Workshop brought along lots of interesting artefacts to handle and investigate. The VR headsets provided an opportunity to visit lots of historic places of interest too! So much fun and lots and lots of hands on learning!

3 years ago
Posted on 23rd Oct 2023 by Miss Heap

Year 3 Fire Safety Training

This morning, Year 3 had a visit from a fire engine! The children looked at the inside and outside of the fire truck and even got to use the hose. The firefighters also delivered a talk about fire safety in the home.
We are very grateful to Shropshire Fire and Rescue education team for providing this hands on learning experience. They even returned to school to finish their visit after they received an emergency call and had to attend an incident in the middle of the morning!

3 years ago
Posted on 20th Oct 2023 by Miss Heap

Careers Talks in Year 3

Year 3 have had lots of chat about what we want to be when we grow up this week as we had visits from two Coleham parents to tell us about their careers. On Thursday, Mrs Renshaw told us about life as a restorer, guilder and decorative artist. We loved handling some of her beautifully crafted work including dolls house furniture she made as a child!
This morning, Mr Slogrove spoke to us about being an engineer for Wales Air Ambulance. We were fascinated to learn how helicopters stay in the air and how they take off and land safely. The children engaged really well with both talks and asked lots of interesting questions.

3 years ago
Posted on 11th Oct 2023 by Miss Heap

Stone Age Museum Trip

Year 3 had a great time on their visit to the museum this morning. They hunted mammoths, handled artefacts and had a go at learning some essential Stone Age skills such as grinding corn, making spears and weaving willow to make a wall. A big thank you to Shrewsbury Museum who provided this workshop in exchange for feedback from the children. They said it was “AWESOME!”

3 years ago
Posted on 20th Jul 2023 by Miss Heap

Starfish visit Arts Trail Exhibition

We had such a lovely trip to Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery this morning. What a fantastic display of work by some world famous artists such as Matisse, Banks, Damien Hurst, Salvador Dali and many more! How lucky are we to have this world famous art in Shrewsbury! The children were inspired to do some art of their own. We recommend you visit in the school holidays!

A massive thank you to SM&AG for opening early for us!

3 years ago
Posted on 12th Jul 2023 by Miss Heap

Year 3 Recorder Concert

Well done to the Year 3 children who gave a brilliant performance to their parents this afternoon. The children have been learning to play the recorder in their music lessons with Mrs Porrett and they got the audience’s feet tapping and hands clapping as they showed off their skills with four fantastic musical pieces.

3 years ago
Posted on 10th Jul 2023 by Miss Heap

Starfish visit to Messy Vintage

The children from Starfish class spent a lovely hour playing games and chatting with some older members of the community at their recent get-together at the United Reform Church. They were also joined by Mrs Porrett, who helped them to perform a cheerful song that was enjoyed by all. It was great to see two different generations come together and connect so well.

3 years ago
Posted on 09th Jun 2023 by Miss Heap

Year 3 visit to Liverpool Museum

Year 3 had a fantastic time exploring the World Museum in Liverpool. They journeyed along the Nile and through the Ancient Egyptian display, where they explored various aspects of life in ancient Egypt and even saw some real Egyptian mummies! In their workshop, they were able to study and handle genuine artefacts. They also took the opportunity to visit the Walker Gallery just around the corner, where they viewed a wide range of art from classical to modern.