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  • 21/03/25

    Literary Characters Come to Life for World Book Day

    Children across the Academy had great fun dressing up as their favourite fictional characters for World Book Day.  We also had lots of reading-related activities going on throughout the day.  See our individual school websites for plenty of photos!
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  • 11/02/25

    Egg-citing News From Early Years

    Our Early Years classes are proud to announce the arrival of their chicks! Their eggs have hatched and the children will be looking after the chicks and studying their progress. See the class pages on our school websites for updates!
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  • 10/02/25

    Academy Children Rock on NSPCC's Number Day

    Friday 7th February was the NSPCC's Number Day fundraiser.  Everyone was encouraged to come in dressed as rock stars as the children's maths online platform, Times Tables Rockstars, is based around this theme.  Throughout the day, the children took part in lots of maths rel...
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  • 07/01/25

    History Comes to Life for Year 3 at Canterbury Cathedral

    Year 3's current topic is the Anglo-Saxons and to bring their learning alive, they recently visited Canterbury Cathedral.  They had an exciting train journey to Canterbury and made their way through the city to the Cathedral. There, they took part in various workshop activities, i...
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  • 07/01/25

    Year 6 Experience WW1 Trenches

    Year 6 have been learning about WW1 and to help them understand the reality of the soldiers' lives, they visited Hawthorne Trenches at Elham.  At Hawthorne, both British and German trench systems have been re-created, complete with dug-outs and no-man's land areas, which the childr...
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  • 25/09/24

    Reception Open Days

    Come for a tour to see what we have to offer!
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  • 25/04/24

    Local Artist's Visit

    Local Artist, Shane Record, came to do a live demonstration for the children at Priory Fields and St Martin's. 
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  • 30/04/23

    Our Latest Wall Art

    We had our second round of wall art installed at each school!
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  • 29/11/22

    Whinless Down Football Tournament

    On Tuesday 29th November 2022 the year 6 football teams from Whinless Down Academy attended an exciting academy football tournament. The year 6 football teams from Vale View, St Martin’s and Priory Fields all had the chance to play in the Whinless Down Academy football tournament.
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  • 21/11/22

    SEND Parent Workshop

    Thank you to all those who attended our recent SEND parent workshop based on the Zones of Regulation. This is a great emotional regulation tool that has been introduced across all our academy school and by supporting our children at home, it will be even more effective.  Look out for ou...
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  • 07/11/22

    Early Years Open Days

    Is your child due to start school next September? Come and visit us!
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  • 01/11/22

    Children Learn Life Saving Lesson

    Children at Vale View took part in a very informative session about the Community Defibrillator.
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