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

• 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

  

• Nursery September 2020 Application Round

  Mon 14 Oct 2019

  Blackwood is now receiving applications for children to join our Nursery in September 2020. The application forms can be downloaded from the school website. Once completed please send into school for the attention of Mrs Round. Please note if you have previously registered your interest in Nursery you will still need to complete a separate application form to apply for a September 2020 place.

  Places are limited so don't delay in submiting your forms

• ALDI Stickers

  Mon 14 Oct 2019
  Well done Blackwood. Our second poster of ALDI stickers has been completed. We have one more poster to fill up. Please remind friends and family to collect the stickers. The last day to hand these in will be Monday 2nd November. 

• Woodpecker Holiday Club - Book Now for 2020

  Tue 17 Sep 2019

  The Woodpecker booking form for holiday childcare is now available to download from the schools website, please click on the following link to take you directly to the afterschool club page. Book now to ensure your place.

   

  https://www.blackwood-school.co.uk/after-school-club/

• ALDI Stickers

  Mon 16 Sep 2019

  We are collecting ALDI stickers. For every £30 you spend in store you receive a sticker (if they don't automatically give you one please ask). Once we collect 300 stickers we will receive a free sports kit, we will also be in the draw to win £20,000.

   

  Please ask your friends, family,neighbours and work colleagues to collect them. Please pass them to your children to bring into school, or hand them in at the school office.

   

  This promotion is only running until the end of October so please get your stickers into school.

   

  We've only collected 23 stickers so far.

   

  Come on Blackwood you can do better!

   

  

• Walsall Engineers Past, Present, Future

  Mon 16 Sep 2019

  Walsall Engineers, Past, Present, Future

   

  Blackwood School have been successful in gaining a grant of £3,750 from the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers for our project Walsall Engineers, Past, Present, Future.

   

  The purpose of the project is to promote engineering to primary aged children. I came up with the idea because many Walsall children only see the deprivation of Walsall when shopping in the town centre, they don't see the engineering that takes place in and around the back streets of Walsall.  Also when you ask children what they want to be, their reponse is a reality TV star a vlogger or social media influencer as they earn lots of money.

   

  I wanted to show these children that being an engineer can open many opportunities to them and can be a very well paid job.

   

  Over the summer the children have researched past engineers and engineering in Walsall, looking at the leather trade, structural engineering (T Partridge & Co Limited) , electrical engineering (Crabtree) and foundry works Chamberlin & Hill Casting.

   

  The launch event on Friday 13th September is the 'present' element of our project.  Engineers that either live or work in the Walsall area together with STEM (science, technology, Engineering & Maths) ambassadors  each gave a short presentation to the KS2 chikdren (aged 7-11) about how they became an engineer, what they do as an engineer and any interesting projects they have worked on. We had engineers from the aircraft industry, automotive industry, plumbers, electrical engineers, and even an engineer who makes parts for navy submarines. We had engineers from a range of muticultural backgrounds, social backgrouds, men and women.This is to show anyone can be an engineer!

   

  After school there was exhibition in the school hall where parents and children from our school and St Annes Catholic Primary school were invited to look round the exhibition and learn more about what engineers do. We had engineers from Crabtrees ,J C Payne, Homeserve, Assa Abloy, Concept Education Services, British Engineering Services and IMI and Moog Aircraft Group. We want to thank them all for coming to our event and inspiring the next generation of engineers!