Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school.

• Engineering trip to Crabtrees Factory in Manchester

  Thu 21 Nov 2019

  A big thank you to Darren Garbett from Crabtree's who kindly gave the opportunity to 8 Blackwood children to visit the Crabtree factory in Manchester. They met the design team in the offices and learnt the process from concept through to design and manufacture. They had a tour of the factory learning about just in time production.  They watched laboratory testing of electrical components exploding!

   

  The children also took part in a Lord Sugar apprentice style task.

  We can't thank Crabtree's enough for this amazing opportunity they have given these children. It is an experience they will never forget.

   

  Please take a look at our photo's from today's visit.

  

• The SUN Books For School

  Wed 20 Nov 2019

  Dear Parents and the wider community,

   

  The Sun is launching it's books for schools campaign. The school needs to collect 3500 tokens in order to get £600 of books for free. The tokens will be in the Sun newspaper from 23rd November until 18th January. Please can you ask friends, family and clubs that you belong to, to collect the tokens on behalf of Blackwood School. Please retweet this post, and share it with friends so that we can hit our target.

   

   

   

   

• 2 Learning Support Teaching Assistant Vacancies

  Wed 20 Nov 2019

  2 Learning Support Teaching Assistant Vacancies- have been posted on the school website today. If you are interested in applying please click on the link below which will take you to the application pack which will give you more information on the candidates we are looking for.

   

  https://www.blackwood-school.co.uk/vacancies/

• Apply now for a September 2020 nursery place

  Mon 18 Nov 2019

  The application round is open for September 2020 nursery places. If you have any friends or family with little ones that will be three years old by 31st August 2020 they will be eligible to join nursery from September 2020.

   

  We offer 30 and 15 hour funded places. The 30 hour funded places are full days and the 15 hours places are either 8:45-11:45 or 12:25-3:25. Everyone is entitled to a 15 hour place and most working parents are eligible for a 30 hour place. Please go to www.gov.uk for more information. For those not eligible for 30 hours we also offer the option for you to pay for the additional hours.

   

  We also offer before and after school care from 7:30 am through to 6pm to help our working parents. The children are supervised in a dedicated early years room.

   

  In the holidays our nursery children are also eligible to attend our holiday club. Our holiday clubs take place four weeks of the year, February half term, one week at Easter, and two weeks usually at the start of the summer holiday. 

   

  We hold open days during the year, please see the school website for dates. Please contact the school if you would like to attend a tour.

   

  Nursery application forms are on our website. Please download and complete this and return to school for the attention of Mrs Round.

   

  The application round closes on 10th February 2020 but i would strongly recommend you apply well before the deadline.

  

• Walsall Engineers Past, Present, Future

  Thu 07 Nov 2019

  The Insitute of Mechanical Engineers who funded our project Walsall Engineers, Past, Present Future sent a videographer and photographer to our prize giving event

  Please take a look at the lovely video they have created celebrating this project.

  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsai3fnPH2EnoG2WoTXK0gISJ1sViAGV

  We are also featured on imeche's homepage.

   (www.imeche.org)

   

  Thank you to all the children, staff and engineers who made this project such a success!

• Engineering Prize Giving - Wendy Morton

  Wed 06 Nov 2019

  Thank you to all the children who took part in the engineering project Walsall Engineers, Past, Present, Future. The project has been very successful and many of our children are now aspiring to be engineers of the future.

   

  Wendy Morton MP came to our prize giving as well as the engineers that had supported the children to design and make their projects.

   

  A selection of the winning projects are now on show at the central library in Walsall.

   

  Please take the time to look through some of these lovely photographs