Bridgnorth Endowed School recently welcomed Key Stage 2 pupils from Highley Primary for a series of hands-on design technology workshops organised over two weeks. The mixed groups of Year 3 and 4 students got the chance to experiment with computer-aided design software and were shown how a design is created on the laser cutter. The …
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BESt Boys Strengthen Primary School Links
Bridgnorth Endowed recently launched an exciting new peer-to-peer support initiative, in a bid to strengthen links with local primaries and make the transition to secondary school easier for Year 6 pupils. Based on a buddy system, the ‘BESt Boys’ programme is designed to offer primary school pupils the opportunity to work with and get to …
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Mud Run Fun for Primaries
Hundreds of students from local primary schools took part in the ‘Mud Run Challenge’ held at Bridgnorth Endowed School on Thursday 24th November. Organised by the South-East Shropshire Sports Partnership, the event saw over 260 pupils from Years 5 and 6 completing a mud run with obstacle course on the school’s Friars playing fields. The …
Primaries Welcomed for Netball Festival
Bridgnorth Endowed was delighted to welcome local primaries for an exciting inter-school netball tournament, after a last-minute change of venue, on Tuesday afternoon. The East Shropshire Primary Netball Festival marked the first invasion game competition following the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions and twelve primary schools from across the area were keen to attend. The nail-biting …
BES Hosts FA Primary Teachers’ Award
Last Friday saw Bridgnorth Endowed School welcome Tom Peevor from the Football Association’s Coach Education Programme to run the FA Primary Teachers’ Award. Seventeen delegates from across the network of East Shropshire Schools attended the all-day course, which aims to improve the delivery of directional games such as football in primary schools. The course was …