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Kingfishers Class Assembly

Kingfishers Class Assembly

The Kingfishers performed their end of year class assembly. The children were confident to stand up and perform to the audience. The children told the audience about seasides in the past, acted out the story ‘The Train Ride’ and sang songs. A great assembly...

PE – Tennis

PE – Tennis

In PE last half term, the children in Kingfishers Class have been learning the skills to play tennis. The children have learned how to hold the racket correctly, how to stand in the ready position and using their hand eye coordination when controlling the ball. The...

World Bee Day Forest Schools

World Bee Day Forest Schools

The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session.. The children sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children they were going to play the bee pollen game. The aim of the game was for each nest to collect as much pollen as possible before the...

Samba

This week, the Owls are learning about samba music. Today they got the chance to experiment with some samba-style instruments. Later in the week, we hope to perform a samba batucada as a group.

Immersion Afternoon – Water / Seas and Coasts

Immersion Afternoon – Water / Seas and Coasts

The children in Kingfishers Class were introduced to their new topic - Water / Seas and Coasts. The children received a letter from Dillon - A deep sea diver and a bag of plastic bottles. Miss Jones read the letter to the class. Dillon asked the children if they could...

Forest Fun Bees

Forest Fun Bees

The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session and sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children they were going to play the butterfly game. The aim of the game was to find the over half of their butterfly. Miss Jones told the children they...

Computing Beebots

Computing Beebots

The children have been exploring the unit Programming Beebot in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we explore a new device? Mrs Clark showed the children a Beebot and explained to them that Beebots follow instructions but that she was not...

Science Club: Bridge Challenge

Science Club: Bridge Challenge

Last week, in Science Club, we did a bridge building challenge. The children had to work in groups to make a paper bridge that would support as much weight as possible. The winners were the Year 3 team, who made a bridge that held almost 4kg! [gallery...

Walk To School Week

Walk To School Week

The JRSOs challenged the children, parents and staff were all asked to join in 'Walk to School Week' so we could have a car free zone in Strickmere. They were reminded of the benefits of walking to school: it keeps us healthy and it helps to protect the environment....

HTML

HTML

This week, in Computing, Owls class are learning about HTML. Today, we learnt how to inspect the HTML on a website. We noted down the different HTML tags we spotted.

Computing

Computing

The children in Reception have been exploring hardware in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we explore and tinker with hardware to develop familiarity? The children explored the tinker tray of objects. The children were asked to match...

Harvesting Potatoes

Harvesting Potatoes

The children in Reception were very excited about digging up the potatoes and seeing how many they got. The children dug through the soil with their hands collecting the potatoes. The children had to look carefully to make sure they hadn’t left any. They also weighed...

Rainbow Salad

Rainbow Salad

The Reception children were asked if they knew the differences between fruits and vegetables and why it is important to eat fruits and vegetables? Mrs Clark talked about what it means to have a balanced diet and the importance of healthy eating (so that we are able to...

Forest Fun – Mini Creatures

Forest Fun – Mini Creatures

The children in Kingfishers Class had another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Miss Jones. They sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children they were going to play Kim’s Game. The children had to remember the items Miss Jones had on...

RHS School Gardening Awards

RHS School Gardening Awards

We have achieved our Level One The Royal Horticultural Society School Gardening Award. We have shown that we understand the benefits of gardening, our growing space is accessible and we have started gardening. We are now working towards Level Two. [gallery...

Year R – Ice Cream Kiosk

Year R – Ice Cream Kiosk

The Reception children worked together to create an ice cream kiosk. They made balls of ice cream and helped put the signs up. They took turns to be the ice cream seller and the customers. Lovely turn taking Kingfishers.   [gallery...

Year 5 Trip to Kinetic Adventure

Year 5 Trip to Kinetic Adventure

On Thursday 8th May, the Year 5s visited Kinetic Adventure. The day began with a workshop about the solar system where we used playdough to represent the relative sizes of the planets. Later in the day, we had a fascinating talk about life on the International Space...

Heart Dissection Year 6

Heart Dissection Year 6

The Swans have been learning about the function of the heart. They were extremely lucky to receive a dissection lesson from Mrs Harvey who is a trained high school Science teacher. Every single child took part and this really helped embed their learning about  the...

Kinetic Adventure

Kinetic Adventure

On Monday we went to Kinetic Adventure in Claydon (near Ipswich). We learnt all about the sizes of planets, the International Space Station and even had a go at a few science experiments. We had a lovely day and would recommend everyone to look out for the offers they...

Astronaut Bags!

Astronaut Bags!

In a recent Woodpeckers computing lesson, we looked at Sketchpad on the Chromebooks. This is a free website that allows you to draw, write and colour. We thought about what astronauts might take onto the International Space Station and then drew our pictures of items...

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