🎄✨ Christmas 2025 ✨🎄

What a magical time we’ve had celebrating with our wonderful children - from festive parties packed with laughter, games and Christmas cheer, to smiles all around as everyone tucked into their Christmas dinners. 

We were also extremely lucky to meet Santa's reindeers! When the reindeers started getting wet outside, we simply brought them in - safe to say, not much work got done after that! 

Our amazing Year 6 children impressed us all by planning, preparing and serving a Community Christmas Dinner as part of their Design and Technology learning. Their guests left full, happy, and with an extra helper ready for Christmas Day - well done, Year 6! 

Reception also got into the festive spirit by decorating the hall Christmas tree with their beautiful baubles.

A huge thank you to all our families who kindly contributed to make these celebrations so special. Your generosity and support are truly appreciated.

Nightingales visited Failsworth Cenotaph to commemorate Remembrance Day ❤️

The children sang songs, laid tributes on behalf of the school, and took a quiet moment to pay their respects to all those who served and sacrificed.

Newtons trip to Jodrell Bank 🌌

The children explored the Lovell Telescope, learnt about the solar system and other galaxies millions of lightyears away as part of their Science learning on Earth and Space ✨

🌈 Elmer Day 🐘✨

This week, our Reception children explored Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and celebrated what makes each of us special and unique. Through art, song, dance and circle-time, they embraced differences and the importance of being yourself.

A joyful celebration of creativity, confidence and kindness! 

✨ Curriculum Enrichment Day ✨

The children took part in our Curriculum Enrichment Day, where the focus was on developing their writing through audience, purpose and creativity.

Each class worked together to create their very own programme for Propps Radio. Children first crafted a script and then recorded their episode, giving them a real sense of writing for a purpose and sharing their ideas with an authentic audience.

To spark their imagination, teachers launched the day with exciting hooks -from mysterious playground ‘incidents’ to investigate, to lively debates and creative performances designed to inspire curiosity and enthusiasm.

We were incredibly proud of the creativity, flair and confidence the children showed throughout the day. 🎙️✨

🔥 Year 4, 5 & 6 Fire Safety Visit 🔥

Huge thanks to the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service for visiting us! 

The children learned all about a firefighter’s role and how to stay safe around fire, fireworks and bonfires. 

Some of our Year 5s and 6s proudly represented the school at a basketball competition.
They played brilliantly throughout, showing great teamwork and determination - and finished with an impressive 4 wins out of 5 matches!
Well done to our amazing players, we’re so proud of you all!

🔬✨We are proud to announce that our school has been awarded the PSQM Gilt Award! 🔬✨

Having previously achieved the Primary Science Quality Mark (PSQM), we are thrilled to have moved one level up to the prestigious Gilt Award.  This recognises our continued dedication to delivering exceptional science teaching and nurturing a love of science across the school. Valid 2025 – 2028, this achievement reflects the commitment of our staff, the enthusiasm of our young scientists , and the support of our whole school community.

A special thank you to Mrs Lee , our fantastic Science Leader, whose hard work, passion, and leadership have been key to achieving this award.

Here’s to even more exciting scientific learning ahead! 

Drakes had a very important visitor last week to talk about rules, safety and their role in the community as part of their learning on ‘people who help us’.

A group of our KS1 children visited Oasis Academy to take part in a range of exciting track and field events, including long jump and triple jump.

They all performed amazingly and were brilliant ambassadors for our school -  showing teamwork, determination, and big smiles throughout! 

📚✨ Congratulations to Our Reading Raffle Winners! ✨📚

Well done to these children for winning the reading raffle and earning the exciting opportunity to be the first to try out our brand new reading vending machine! 

Our KS2 guitarists and harpist bought lots of festive cheer to the Salvation Army and played a selection of their favourite Christmas songs 🎶✨

Newtons bought lots of festive cheer to Hubron as part of their community project.

Spooky smiles and frightfully good manners!

Captains Table enjoyed a fang-tastic Halloween treat-themed lunch with Miss Kay! 

Each week, lunchtime staff choose children for the Captains Table to celebrate those who show great manners, respect, and helpfulness in the dining hall. 

 The Halloween Tuck Shop organised by the School Councillors was a huge success 👻

 Children grabbed Boo-nanas, bit into Bat Boo-Biscuits, and dared to try the Toast of Terror!

Every treat was spooktacularly tasty and hauntingly good .

 It was truly un-boo-lievable! 

What an unforgettable French adventure for our Year 6s! From setting sail at Dover to crêpe making, town trails, market exploring, axe throwing, frisbee golf, buggy building and swimming — every day was packed with excitement. Highlights included the magic of Disneyland Paris (even in the rain!), Paris adventures at the Eiffel Tower and along the River Seine, plus a silent disco, trying escargot, reflecting at Vimy Ridge and relaxing by a campfire.

The children were amazing throughout - full of energy, resilience and smiles. Truly a wonderful experience from start to finish.

Merci, France - until next time!

The school councillors had a fantastic time visiting the mayoral chambers.

They were invited into the mayoral parlour, questioned the Mayor, shared their views, talked proudly about their home town and developed their knowledge about their roles and responsibilities as school councillors.

📚✨ Book Swap Bonanza! ✨📚
Our children had a fantastic time at the book swap! It was wonderful to see so many children excited to discover new stories and share their old favourites with friends. 💛📖

Michael Rosen Day

Propps Hall had an amazing time celebrating Michael Rosen Day, with the hilarious theme of ‘Funny Food!’

The highlight of our day was joining a live call with Michael Rosen himself - what an incredible experience! The children loved listening to him perform some of his famous poems, full of fun, rhythm and laughter.

Inspired by his creativity, our children then took part in their own activities, creating fantastic pieces of writing and poetry all about funny food and imaginative meals!

A huge thank you to Michael Rosen for inspiring our young writers and reminding us all how joyful and playful language can be! 

A group of our children had the opportunity to visit Manchester University’s Makerspace, where they explored the exciting world of coding, debugging, programming, and algorithms! 💡

They even created their own codes using microbits on iPads and Chromebooks - tech wizards in the making! We can’t wait to see how they bring these creative ideas and digital skills back to school ✨

💛🌞 Hello Yellow Day 🌞💛

Our school was shining bright today as everyone wears a splash of yellow for Hello Yellow Day! 

To celebrate, our amazing Wellbeing Champions organised fun activities to boost happiness and mental health awareness - from a mindful movement trail and lively dance party to yoga and a wellbeing scavenger hunt.

⚔️🛡️Churchills trip to Castleshaw🛡️⚔️

The children stepped back in time to learn all about Roman forts and what life was like for a Roman soldier. They had the chance to handle and sort Roman artefacts, discovering fascinating clues about the past. The children even tested their teamwork skills by experimenting with different Roman army formations - including the famous Testudo formation.

Everyone showed great enthusiasm, curiosity and teamwork throughout the day - what an amazing way to bring history to life!

Fun Run Raises £310 for Great Ormond Street Hospital

On Monday 6th October, children from across the school took part in a fantastic Fun Run to raise money for the new Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Each class completed their own 2k route, with the focus on taking part, trying their best, and having fun. The event was filled with energy, smiles, and determination as pupils showed wonderful enthusiasm and teamwork throughout the day.

Thanks to everyone’s generosity and support, we are thrilled to announce that we raised an amazing £310! Every penny will go towards helping GOSH continue its incredible work caring for children with the hardest-to-treat cancers.

A huge thank you to all children, staff, and families for your encouragement, donations, and enthusiasm in making this such a memorable and meaningful event.

Some of our Year 5 children have taken part in Bikeability training, learning how to ride safely and confidently on the road. We are so proud of the skills they’ve developed - from signalling clearly to understanding how to stay safe in traffic.

☕💚 THANK YOU! 💚☕

A huge thank you to everyone who joined our Macmillan Coffee Morning! We’re so grateful to our school community for making it such a special morning - full of kindness, cuppas, and cake.