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On Wednesday the 12th of June, Year 3 were lucky enough to have a visit from the Rainbow Theatre, who helped the children to perform some scenes about Ancient Greek life, as well as some classic Greek myths. It was a wonderful morning and all of the children were engaged in the activities and animated […]

On Tuesday 11th June, 15 girls from across Years 8, 9 and 10 represented the Quest Academy against Royal Russell in a couple of friendly football matches. There were two 7 a-side matches which allowed the Quest girls to experience competitive football matches against two strong Royal Russell teams, which featured players from numerous professional […]

Big Pedal 2019 The school had a special assembly on Tuesday 5th June presented by Bike it! Patrick and a very special visitor Councillor Geraint Thomas, who is a Labour Cabinet Member for Environmental Services and Sustainability. Patrick had some exciting results to share with us. Out of the 784 large primary schools that entered […]

Thank you to all of the parents and carers who are listening to, or reading with, their child each week and recording this on their child’s Buster Bookmark on a Wednesday. Remember to bring the bookmarks into school on a Thursday, otherwise the reading won’t be included in the class total. This week, the most improved […]

On 13 March, a record-breaking number of singers from around the world celebrated the power of singing together and working together by taking part in Sing Up Day 2019. We are very proud that the whole of Gossops Green Primary took part and a snippet of our singing is included in the official Sing Up […]

This week, the school were paid a visit by Sublime Science. We were shown the properties of dry ice and scientific terminology such as condensation, evaporation and sublimation were explained. We observed a range of experiments using dry ice in a variety of containers, demonstrating the effect of temperature and catalysts on the rate reaction. Each class […]

“On Monday 20th May we went to K2 to represent Waterfield School in a football tournament. We were all very excited but nervous, because some of us had never played football before. We arrived early with time to warm up and watch the others teams.  There were teams from all over Crawley. Our first game […]

On Saturday 1st of June the Courtwood street dance crews participated at the 2019 Allstar games competition held at Crystal Palace Sports Centre . The Allstar games saw over 350 children competing to a 500+ strong audience in-front of 3 top professional industry judges . Courtwood street dance crew were fantastic and really did us […]

Our staff have been working hard to ensure that the richness of our curriculum here at Courtwood is communicated through our curriculum aim and intent. We have looked at our Courtwood curriculum offer, thought about what makes Courtwood unique, and written our intent statements around each aspect of our unique curriculum. We believe the aspects […]

Wednesday 5th June is a Buster’s Book Club Challenge Day – one class from either Gossops Green or Waterfield Primary will win vouchers for a free child swim at K2 with Everyone Active. Please encourage your child to read (or even exceed!) their minutes on Wednesday and bring in their bookmark on Thursday.

On Thursday 22nd May, KS2 children were visited by Olaf Falafel. Olaf is an extremely funny comedian who said jokes like “What is white and fluffy like an owl? A towel.” He is also a heart-warming dad, author and a very creative illustrator. Olaf’s presentation was funny and educational at the same time. He talked […]