4 weeks ago
Posted on 08th Oct 2026 by Miss Featherston

Year 2 RE Visitors from Shrewsbury Muslim Centre

This week, Year 2 welcomed Ian and Ashan from Shrewsbury Muslim Centre to answer some of the questions the children had about Islam.

Rabbits and Owls are really enjoying learning about their current RE topic, ‘What is a Muslim and how do they live?’ Ian and Ashan talked to the children about Mecca and fasting and how Muslims pray. The children enjoyed looking at the prayer mats and traditional clothing. Ian and Ashan showed Year 2 a Qu’ran and how to be respectful when reading it.

Ian and Ashan were really impressed and said they had never met a class of children who knew so much about Islam!

Thank you so much for your visit!

5 months ago
Posted on 05th Jun 2026 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 Residential Trip to The Pioneer Centre!

This week, Year 6 spent three days at The Pioneer Centre in Cleobury Mortimer. The children took part in a series of activities to develop team building, resilience and overcome challenges.

Year 6 enjoyed raft building, abseiling, rock climbing, caving, fencing and archery. They represented Coleham brilliantly and showed real independence and maturity.

What a great few days (and nights) it was!

7 months ago
Posted on 14th Apr 2026 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 Mayan Workshop 🏺

Year 6 took part in an exciting Mayan workshop to launch their new history topic.

The children explored a range of Mayan artefacts 🗿 and traditional clothing 👘, and had great fun playing a traditional Mayan game 🎲. They also learned about the Mayan alphabet ✍️ and number system 🔢, discovering how the civilisation communicated and recorded information.

To truly bring the Mayan civilisation to life, the children used VR headsets 🥽 to visit a variety of Mayan city states 🏛️, giving them a fascinating insight into daily life and architecture.

In the afternoon, creativity took centre stage as the children made traditional worry dolls 🧸 and hand‑woven baskets 🧺, inspired by Mayan culture.

A great day was had by all!

7 months ago
Posted on 27th Mar 2026 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 visit Shrewsbury Museum for Evolution Workshop.

This week, Elephants and Giraffes visited Shrewsbury Museum to take part in an workshop about evolution, inheritance and adaptations. The workshop is part of their new science topic, where the children are learning about how living things have changed over time, understanding fossils and how plants and animals adapt to their environment.

Year 6 enjoyed looking at a range of fossils and identifying which types they were from their characteristics. The children also learnt about how Shropshire has changed over time and discussed the work of Charles Darwin. Finally, year 6 learnt about how humans have evolved and how bodies have changed.

The children thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and really impressed the facilitator, Ali, with their fossil knowledge!

11 months ago
Posted on 05th Dec 2025 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 Trip to Liverpool war bunkers

Year 6 travelled to Liverpool as part of our WW2 history topic to visit Western Approaches Museum, which is a former WW2 bunker, where undercover missions were organised. The children saw the equipment code breakers would use and got to explore a street from WW2. They also learnt about rationing, different areas of the military and how Liverpool was impacted by The Blitz.

We then explored Liverpool Docks, which was a target for bombs during WW2 and had a quick look around the Museum of Liverpool. A great day was had by all!

12 months ago
Posted on 24th Nov 2025 by Miss Featherston

Celebrating Maths Week!

Last week, Coleham celebrated maths week by taking part in lots of maths challenges!

Mr Sherred, Maths Teacher from The Priory School, came in and held a maths challenge game for some of our year 5 and 6 pupils. The children really enjoyed playing Hanabi, where they had to use probability skills.

Lots of classes held a reasoning and problem solving lesson, involving estimation, logical reasoning and following formulas. Mrs Ward’s Year 6 maths group took part in the Primary Maths Challenge – well done to everyone for taking part. We are awaiting the results to see if we have made it through to the national round!

Our House Captains held some maths games at lunchtime for KS1 and KS2, which were extremely popular! Well done to our winners.

Finally, Coleham held its first ‘House Times Tables Competition’ on Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) A huge congratulations to everyone that took part. Our winners were Quarry!

1 year ago
Posted on 18th Jul 2025 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 Leavers’ Trip to Jump In!

Year 6 had a fabulous time at Jump In to celebrate the end of their time at Coleham School!

1 year ago
Posted on 10th Jun 2025 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 trip to Crucial Crew

Year 6 visited Shrewsbury Flaxmill for a Crucial Crew safety day. This included a variety of scenarios aimed to keep young people safe, such as fire safety, railway safety, alcohol safety, water safety and exploitation.

Everyone had a great day and of course were given their infamous Crucial Crew t-shirt!

1 year ago
Posted on 22nd May 2025 by Miss Featherston

Yr 6 Bikeability

Well done to the pupils in Year 6 who took part in Bikeability this week! The children achieved their level 2 award and have learnt lots about keeping safe when cycling on the road. The instructors were really pleased with their effort and enthusiasm.

2 years ago
Posted on 11th Apr 2025 by Miss Featherston

House Competition Winners!

This week, the Year 6 House Captains have completed their lunchtime competitions, which included a skipping competition for KS1 and basketball shoot out for KS2. A big well done to the House Captains for organising and running the games.

After combining all of the scores, the winners of the games were Greyfriars, closely followed by Darwin, then Quarry and Severn.

2 years ago
Posted on 11th Apr 2025 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 Evolution Workshop at Shrewsbury Museum

Year 6 had a great trip to Shrewsbury Museum! They took part in an evolution workshop as part of their new science topic.

The children looked at fossils of trilobites, discovered how living things have adapted to their environments and learnt about the adaptations of humans.

Year 6 enjoyed sketching adaptations of birds and looked at how humans’ skulls have changed over time. A very exciting day out!

2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Apr 2025 by Miss Featherston

Lunchtime House Competition

The Year 6 House Captains have organised a range of competitions at lunchtimes to win points for their houses! KS1 have so far enjoyed a football dribbling competition and bean bag toss, and KS2 have taken part in penalty shoot out (featuring goalie Mr Larkham) and a skipping competition.

It has been excellent to see the children supporting their team mates. The final competition will be next week!

Well done to the House Captains for hosting the games!

2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Apr 2025 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 Maya Workshop

The children had a fantastic day on Monday during the Maya workshop! Year 6 visited Chichén-Itzá through VR headsets, made traditional worry dolls, explored the meaning of their birthday, spelt their name in Mayan and learnt about traditional games and clothing. A fantastic introduction to our new topic!

2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Mar 2025 by Miss Featherston

Short Story Competition Winners

The children had a very exciting start to World Book Week this week with author Katie May Green announcing the winners of the short story competition. Children across the school handed in dozens of short stories before half term, including stories about frogs, wizards and spies to name a few!

Local author and illustrator Katie May Green read and judged the entries. She commented today about how much time, effort and creativity had gone into the pieces. Well done to everyone involved!

Due to the number of entries we had some finalists for the competition:

All of the finalists received feedback from Katie about their short stories. Our 4 winners, Sam, Fern, Reuben and Olive, will visit Waterstones with Miss Othen soon to purchase a book as their prize.

With 24 entries, Darwin House were awarded the House Cup for this competition!

A huge thank you to Katie May Green for all of your time helping us with this competition and inspiring the children to write more short stories! All of the short stories are available to read in the school library.

2 years ago
Posted on 12th Feb 2025 by Miss Featherston

KS1 House Singing Competition

KS1 took part in a singing competition in their houses yesterday. Each house sang a verse of ‘Plastic Soup’ after practising with Mrs Porrett for the past few weeks.

Each house sang beautifully and Miss Featherston had a very tricky job deciding the winners! Quarry were awarded first place, with Severn, Darwin and Greyfriars all receiving points as runners up.

Well done Quarry House and for all of KS1 for your wonderful singing.

We are looking forward to seeing who will win the next competition!

2 years ago
Posted on 27th Jan 2025 by Miss Featherston

Short Story House Competition!

The House Captains announced the latest competition in assembly today.

In the run up to World Book Day, the next House Competition is for the children to write their own short story. The story can be any fiction genre, such as adventure, sci-fi etc.

It must be 250 words or less if you are Year 2 or above and can have an image or a front cover design. For EYFS and Year 1, the children can create a story map or story mountain with their ideas and images.

Pupils can create these at home, in free time at school or in Elephants class on Thursday lunchtimes. The deadline is Friday 14th February (the last day of half term). We are hoping to get some authors to help us judge the winners!

We would like the stories to be put together and showcased in the library and as many children as possible to take part to try and win points for their House.

Entries need to be handed to Miss Featherston with the child’s full name, class and house on please.

Good luck to everyone!

2 years ago
Posted on 04th Dec 2024 by Miss Featherston

Christmas Card Competition Winners!

As part of a competition for their houses, children at Coleham have been creating designs for Christmas cards.

We received a whopping 137 entries! There were so many fantastic designs from reception all the way to year 6 that 10 runners up have been chosen alongside the 4 winners. The 4 winning designs will be made into Christmas cards, which will be delivered to local businesses in our area.

Congratulations to all of our finalists!

After looking through all of the designs, Quarry house have been crowned the winners.

2 years ago
Posted on 18th Oct 2024 by Miss Featherston

Liverpool War Tunnels

Year 6 attended Western Approaches Museum, Liverpool, following their learning around World War 2. What a cool place to visit, its set in the restored former Second World War command centre and consists of of re-opened rooms housing artefacts from when the command centre was in active use.

The children explored a former WW2 bunker and explored how people worked during WW2. They decoded messages in Morse Code and looked at the equipment used to identify enemy planes and ships. Year 6 also learnt about different aspects of the air force, military and navy, as well as life for evacuees and civilians living during WW2. This really has brought our learning to life! Now we all ready and excited for our Evacuee Day in school!

2 years ago
Posted on 18th Oct 2024 by Miss Featherston

Year 6 Careers Week!

For Careers Week, year 6 pupils had a visit from Korrey, who restores classic super cars for his job. Korrey talked about the different aspects of his job, the skills he needs and his path into his career. Year 6 asked lots of questions about the cars and got to look at different tools and parts of engines for Ferraris and Lamborghinis!

Elephants also had a visit from The Sugar Cart Cakes! The children loved hearing about how the business started and how it has grown over several years. Year 6 learnt about the processes to make these wonderful cakes and the time involved. Their favourite part was definitely getting to sample some delicious cup cakes!

Year 6 are very grateful for the visitors sharing their time to talk about their careers.

2 years ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2024 by Miss Featherston

KS2 House Singing Competition!

Years 4, 5 and 6 took part in a singing competition today in their houses. After practising for the past few weeks, each house sang a verse of ‘Something just like this’, by Coldplay.

The competition was judged by Dr Brown from Shropshire Music Service. Dr Brown was really impressed with the enthusiasm, timing and musicality of all houses. It was a tricky decision but lifting the cup this time was Greyfriars! Congratulations!

Reception and years 1, 2 and 3 will compete after half term.

2 years ago
Posted on 16th Sep 2024 by Miss Featherston

House Captains 2024-25!

We are thrilled to announce our new House Captains!

Many children across Darwin, Greyfriars, Quarry and Severn delivered speeches, explaining why they would be a fantastic House Captain, last week. The newly appointed House Captains are already working to arrange the first competition for the school year!

Well done to our new House Captains!

Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Miss Featherston